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Getting students to see the connections between what they study and what they do as members of their communities can often be two different things, which is the reason IU has connected institutionally with the American Democracy Project (ADP), sponsored by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities and the New York Times.
ADP is a national initiative that hopes to provide strategies for better integration of academic and student life programs so that undergraduates understand the clear connections between what they study and how they function in their communities—voting, social advocacy and volunteerism, for example.
Jim Perry, who has served the IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) as associate dean of Indianapolis programs, has taken on the task of directing the IU American Democracy Project as a senior scholar at IUPUI‘s Center for Service Learning. His most recent research on public service motivation, community and national service, and government reform will serve him well.
SPEA’s Greg Lindsey was appointed to the associate deanship on the Indianapolis campus earlier this month. His research projects have focused on water infrastructure finance, greenway use, annexation policy, and erosion and sediment control programs. In 1999, he was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Viet Nam.
Carnegie Foundation scholar Anne Colby kicked off discussion on IU’s involvement in ADP when faculty and staff from all eight IU campuses met at IU Kokomo in November. Perry said a Web site identity for IU’s democracy project will be completed at the end of January.
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