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The Winter '09 edition of Chalkboard, the IU School of Education alumni magazine, is now online. Read about African American Scholars in the mid-20th Century.
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Cendrillon brings a fairy tale classic to stage
Feb. 13-14, various times, Musical Arts Center, Bloomington -- Unlike the Rossini version, the carriage and the glass slipper are back in this famous romantic fantasy based on the Cinderella fairy tale. After much beautiful music, magical developments and all the elements that make up such tales, the lovers are reunited and all live happily ever after. The opera is sung in French with English supertitles.
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Advice for President Obama: IU faculty members have their say
Imagine you're sharing an elevator ride with President Barack Obama, and he asks your advice -- about something you've spent your professional career studying. In this issue of Perspectives on Policy, almost 30 Indiana University experts in health care, energy, education, technology, tax policy and other fields write with passion and thoughtfulness about what they would tell the new president of the most powerful nation in the world.
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In order to address climate change, we must take leadership in a global cooperative effort, according to IU professors. To effectively do so, we must listen to the innovations and warnings of our scientific community. We can achieve this by pursuing energe efficiency and investing in energy technologies for accessable and sustainable domestic energy.
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IU faculty members in computer science, law, applied health science, public affairs and medicine make suggestions for using technology to empower people for better health, focusing on the "process" of health care reform, shoring up the nation's public health (and not just health care), making contraceptives available through insurance, and looking to Indiana as a model for electronic health information.
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Faculty from the Indiana University School of Education offer their views on improving student access and success in postsecondary education, supporting urban schools, helping English-as-second-language teachers and learners, and improving the nation's state-based system of K-12 education.
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President Obama has set clear priorities in improving government efficiency and effectiveness as well as a desire to expand both national service and participation. In response, three distinguished IU professors offer their perspectives on: improving government performance, public participation in government, and implementing a more effective national service program.
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According to President Obama, "Our nation's creativity has filled the world's libraries, museums, recital halls, movie houses, and marketplaces with works of genius. The arts embody the American spirit of self-definition." Four IU faculty members offer very different perspectives on how best to continue this tradition of excellence, ranging from nationalized service to leadership by example.
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This section includes "elevator speeches" from Indiana University experts on technology policies, criminal justice policy and tax policies.
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The Jan. 13, 2009, issue of Perspectives on Policy featured a story about the Indiana University Public Policy Institute's role in developing proposals for reforming local government in Indiana. It also included stories on an American Humanics leadership institute in Indianapolis, a survey of Hoosier attitudes about K-12 education, an IU Northwest professor's book on religion and political tolerance, and IU faculty involvement in recent elections in Ghana and a humans rights conference in Atlanta.
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Get your Indiana University on the go -- listen to IU podcasts ranging from Jacobs School of Music clips to the Kelley School of Business' MBA Program series. Visit the site today to find out more about podcasting at IU.
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