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• IU Kokomo’s Staff Council raised significant funds for scholarships this semester: its 12th annual Arts and Crafts Show on Nov. 8 garnered $2,800 to fund an employee/student scholarship next fall; and a wreath silent auction brought in $1,355 for a new, one-time scholarship award. Hats (and mortarboards) off to IU Kokomo employees!
• The IU School of Optometry provides eye care to the citizens of Indiana through three main clinics: the Atwater Eye Care Center at IUB, the Community Eye Care Center on Bloomington’s westside and the Indianapolis Eye Care Center near the IUPUI campus in Indianapolis. IU optometry students, faculty and staff provide year-round eye care to approximately 7,000 patients in Guanajuato, Mexico, and the student Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity conducts an annual visit. Donate old eyeglasses (or a check payable to IU) for the project; drop them by (or send them to the Eyewear Center, Optometry Building, 800 E. Atwater Ave., Bloomington, Ind. 47405 or the Indianapolis Eye Care Center, 501 Indiana Ave., Suite 100, Indianapolis, Ind.46202). Contact Doug Horner at E-mail: hornerdg@indiana.edu with questions.
http://www.opt.indiana.edu/clinics/index.htm
• IU has a strong history of Slavic studies that began post-WWII. The Department of Russian Studies was founded in 1947, which in 1958 became the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. The Russian and East European Institute was founded that year as well. IU’s Digital Library Program has a new version of Letopis’ Zhurnal’ nykh Statei (1956-1975), an index of Russian periodicals akin to the Readers’ Guide; it’s searchable in Cyrillic and provides access to literature that begins with the period of the Nikita Khrushchev “thaw” and continues through the first half of the so-called Leonid Brezhnev “Period of Stagnation.”
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/letopis/index.jsp
• The IU School of Continuing Studies (SCS) is offering certification in distance education; the course will explore ways to use technology as an enhancement for student learning, employee development or customer service.
The Certificate in Distance Education Program was created for people in business and industry, elementary and secondary education, higher education, health care and government. The program’s modules include readings, multimedia support materials and individual projects that apply distance education concepts to real-world situations. Participants will interact with the course instructor and other program participants via the Internet. The eight-week program runs from Jan. 20–March 15 and again in the summer.
For information, call 1-800-933-9330 or go to this Web site:
http://scs.indiana.edu/nc/decert.html
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