Indiana University South Bend

Indiana University South Bend is the third largest campus of the Indiana University system. It is popularly known as IUSB or "IU South Bend." It is located in South Bend, Indiana, in Saint Joseph County, Indiana. IU South Bend is most famous for its world-renowned Alexander Toradze Piano Studio.

History

Indiana University began offering classes in South Bend in 1916 as an extension of the main campus of Indiana University Bloomington. In the 1961 the first IUSB building was constructed on newly acquired land.

Campus

IU South Bend is centered around a large green pedestrian mall and located along the St. Joseph River. When the campus officially opened in the early 1960s, the campus featured two buildings: Northside Hall and Greenlawn Hall, a former tool and die factory. Growing steadily over the last 40 years, the campus now consists of 12 buildings, including the Franklin D. Schurz Library. The most recent addition is the 100,000 square foot (9,000 m²) Student Activity Center featuring basketball, volleyball, and racquetball courts, a walking track, a fitness and wellness center, a café, a student lounge, and student activity offices.

College, schools, and divisions

The schools listed here are degree-granting units made up of smaller departments or programs.

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences^*
- containing the Departments of: Biological Sciences • Chemistry • Computer and Information Sciences • English • History • Mathematical Sciences • Philosophy • Physics and Astronomy • Political Science • Psychology • Sociology and Anthropology • World Language Studies
Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts^*
School of Business and Economics^*
School of Education^*
School of Public and Environmental Affairs^*
School of Social Work^*
Division of Labor Studies^*
Division of Nursing and Health Professions^*
Division of Extended Learning Services
- containing the Office of Continuing Education^*

Indiana University South Bend hosts a branch of the Indiana University Bloomington School of Informatics as well as a branch of the Purdue University College of Technology.

Student body

IU South Bend's enrollment in the fall semester of 2005 was 7,459 students, of whom 3,869 (52%) were full time. Undergraduates accounted for 6,324 students.

Most IU South Bend students are white Indiana residents. Of students enrolled in fall 2005, 486 were African-American, 221 were Hispanic, 97 were Asian, and 32 were Native American. More women, 4,673 attended IU South Bend than men, 2,786. Despite IU South Bend's proximity to the state of Michigan, 7,052 of its students in the fall semester of 2005 were Hoosiers.

The Student Government Association president is Michael Renfrow.^*

The IU South Bend student newspaper is The Preface, a weekly that varies from 8-12 pages in length. The editor for the 2004/05 school year was Stacy Logan. The editor for the 2005/06 school year is Jed Walls. The Preface has received more local attention due to controversial articles from the Kinsey Institute and its Bill O'Reilly-styled news analyst, Chuck Norton.

Athletics

The NAIA Division I Women's Basketball team qualified for the national tournament in 2005, winning the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference (CCAC). Head Coach Mary Wisniewski (214-135, .630) has been voted CCAC Coach of the Year for the sixth time in 10 years by her peers. Wisniewski won the award in 94-95, 96-97, 97-98, 98-99, 00-01, and 04-05. Seniors Jamie Bonner and Emily Ladd earned 1st Team All-CCAC honors for the second straight year and freshmen Jessica Hass and Jennifer VanderZanden earned Honorable Mention All-CCAC honors.

The IU South Bend Dodgeball Club are the 2005 National Indoor Dodgeball Champions, Men’s C Division.

The IU South Bend Bowling Club beat the University of Notre Dame by 60 pins at the 2005 Blue and Gold Classic.

Faculty

IU South Bend reported in fall 2004 that it employed 281 full-time faculty, lecturers, and academic administrators. Of the full-time faculty, 57% were tenured.

Like the student body, IU South Bend's faculty is predominantly white. Of full-time administrators, faculty, and lecturers, 24 (8.5%) were Asian, 12 (4.3%) were African-American, 6 (2.1%) were Hispanic, and 239 (85.1%) were "other." More women (51.6%) than men held academic appointments at the university.

For Fall 2003, professors at IU South Bend were near the mid range in pay when compared to their counterparts in the Indiana University system. A full-time professor earned an average of $97,700 (3rd), an associate professor $74,400 (6th), and an assistant professor $62,800 (5th).

Notable faculty

Notable faculty of IU South Bend include Alexander Toradze, the celebrated concert pianist and master teacher, who with George Vatchnadze, performs for world audiences to critical acclaim. Tuck Langland, who recently retired, is one of the premier sculptors in this country.

In addition, recent examples of IU South Bend faculty scholarship receiving international recognition include Fred Naffziger’s extensive commentary on the BBC, NBC, NPR, Wall Street Journal, NY Times, and USA Today regarding the Catholic Church's bankruptcy crises; Ilan Levine’s cutting-edge research on astroparticle physics; Rolf Schimmrigk and Monika Lynker whose name is associated with the discovery of mirror symmetry in string theory among other works; Andrew Schnabel’s work with pollen in an East African community; and the groundbreaking discoveries about methane gas by a team of distinguished scientists led by Henry Scott.

External links

References

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