• Laurie Sullivan, director of University Information Systems, has been re-elected to serve on the board of the Higher Education User Group. Read about it in today's @ Work column.

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• The Division of Recreational Sports' marketing media won five Creative Excellence Awards at the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA) annual conference in Orlando, Fla.

IU Recreational Sports' RS Guide fall 2004 and spring 2005, and RS Magazine, fall 2004 and spring 2005 won first places. Its intramural sports pocket schedule card, student employment video and IU Recreational Sports Campaign won second places.

This is the third year that IU Recreational Sports has won Creative Excellence Awards at NIRSA. The organization received 139 entries from 46 schools this year, said Pat McCord, NIRSA's marketing assistant. These winning entries serve as an educational opportunity for NIRSA members on the quality and opportunity for creative marketing ideas. Each entry was judged on the quality, creativeness and design of the information presented and how well the publication accomplished its goal. IU Recreational Sports had previously won nine Creative Excellence Awards in 2003 and 2004.

Laura Wee, creative manager of IU Recreational Sports, attributes the success of the division's marketing campaign to the significant contributions of the student employees and volunteers.

"Our marketing department has only two full-time professional staff. We depend on the dedication, skills and creativity of our part-time student employees like Ryan Hunley and John Paul Biciunas to be integral members of the marketing team," she said.

Hunley, an IU junior majoring in journalism and advertising, took on the role of art director for the magazine and printed campaign. Biciunas, who graduated with a degree in telecommunications 2004, filmed, directed and edited the RS employment video.

Wee adds that working on such "real" projects helps the students develop their leadership skills while getting relevant experience for their chosen professional fields. "It's a perfect win-win situation for us and for the students, especially in a college setting," she said.

"I am very grateful that I had this opportunity to develop and execute the campaign for the 2004-2005 school year," Hunley said. "I was able to plan an entire campaign, which will be an invaluable experience for me in my future endeavors. It was a pleasure to work with my colleagues and peers and I look forward to continued success with the upcoming campaign."
http://recsports.indiana.edu.

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• Leadership of IU's Supplier Diversity Program has been strengthened with the appointment of a senior administrator to oversee policy development, procurement goals and accountability.

Hunt

Linda Hunt, assistant vice president for administration, will make oversight of this program one of her key duties. Effective July 1, her new title will be assistant vice president for administration and business diversity.

With respect to this program, Hunt will report to both Terry Clapacs, vice president for administration, and Charlie Nelms, vice president for institutional development and student affairs.

"Linda is a very effective administrator who will work with all IU campuses to provide guidance and accountability in this important program," Clapacs said.

Last year, IU established a university-wide Supplier Diversity Program that engages in a variety of activities to identify and encourage these businesses to participate in the university procurement process. LaTricia Hill-Chandler was hired to join the university purchasing staff as director of supplier diversity and compliance reporting. See story:http://www.homepages.indiana.edu/092404/text/work.shtml

Each year, IU purchases more than $400 million in goods and services from private vendors. "We want to establish partnerships with businesses that represent the makeup of the communities we serve," Nelms said. "Linda will ensure continued visibility of this program at the most senior levels of administration. She will develop the policy, communicate it to all campuses, establish procurement goals and put in place reporting and accountability systems."

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• IU students will welcome 40 children, ages 6-13, to Camp Kesem next month at Bradford Woods in Martinsville. The camp was completely envisioned, organized and developed by IU students for children who have or had a parent with cancer. Camp Kesem ("kesem" is the Hebrew word for "miracle") hopes to build self-esteem and develop a solid peer support network among its campers.

Project coordinator Sigall Rave is assisted by eight student committee coordinators and 20 volunteer student counselors. For more information, call 812-322-1671 or E-mail Indiana@campkesemnational.org

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• The College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of History have awarded endowed professorships to IUB historians Michael Grossberg and Michael McGerr. Grossberg is the Sally M. Reahard Professor of American History to 1865; McGerr is the Paul V. McNutt Professor of American History since 1865.

The professorships were made possible through the estates of the late Sally M. Reahard and Louise McNutt. Reahard was a long-time Indianapolis philanthropist interested in projects associated with early American history. McNutt named her gift in honor of her father, who served as governor of Indiana in the 1930s and in the wartime cabinet of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Grossberg is an expert in the history of American law with a particular interest in family relations and has edited the American Historical Review for the past decade. Currently, he is completing a book on the law and the treatment of children over the course of American history. McGerr has published widely on the history of American politics. His 2003 book, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920, was a selection of the History Book Club. Currently, he is writing a history of the Vanderbilt family, at one time the richest family in the world.

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• Diana Hoffman, an instructor in the professional development program of IU Bloomington Continuing Studies, is the recipient of the 2005 Teaching Excellence Award from IU's School of Continuing Studies. Hoffman was formally recognized at a luncheon during the Robert W. Richey Symposium in Indianapolis on July 19.

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Grinstead

• Donald Grinstead has been named chief information officer at the IU Foundation.   Formerly a key member of University Information Technology Services, Grinstead assumed his new duties on July 1. At the foundation, he will be responsible for developing a strategic plan for technology and overseeing its implementation, including decision support systems, hardware, software, security, maintenance and upgrades, and information and records management.