About Home Pages

Background: IU Home Pages, a bi-weekly newspaper for faculty and staff on the eight campuses of Indiana University, begins its fifth year of publication on line and in print with the 2000-2001 fall semester. Some editorial and photographic coverage is provided by Media Relations, External Relations and Community Relations staffs on all campuses.

IU Home Pages was launched the fall semester of 1996 by IU's Office of Public Affairs and Government Relations and replaced the former IU Newspaper. Home Pages is distributed to 17,000 employees of the university in print form and is read on line by approximately 10,000 readers a month.

Awards: IU Home Pages received the 1997 Clarion Award from the national Association for Women in Communications (AWC) for most improved non-profit internal newsletter. The AWC awarded three Clarion Awards to IU Home Pages in 1998 for best non-profit internal newsletter; best non-profit on-line publication and best ongoing public relations campaign.

In 1999, Home Pages received the Clarion Award for best on-line, non-profit publication, and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) awarded a bronze medal in the communications category of internal periodicals in its annual Circle of Excellence competition.

Location: IU Home Pagesis headquartered at the Poplars 721, 400 East Seventh St., Bloomington, IN 47405. Telephone: 812-855-6494 or 812-855-3911 Fax: 812-855-7984

E-mail IU Home Pages
homepgs@indiana.edu

IU Home Pages on line
http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/homepages