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Read the Feb. 1 issue of IU Home Pages, the faculty and staff newspaper for Indiana University.
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IU Jazz Ensemble to perform in New Albany
Feb. 16, 7:30 p.m., Ogle Cultural and Community Center, 4201 Grant Line Rd., New Albany -- The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music continues IU's Moveable Feast of the Arts Series with the final of three performances this season at the Ogle Center. The Indiana University Jazz Ensemble is led by Professor Patrick Harbison. This 25-piece ensemble presents sizzling performances of virtually all styles and eras of jazz and continues the legacy of one of the top programs of its kind. Internationally renowned saxophonist Jamey Aebersold will join the ensemble as a featured alto sax soloist.
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Individualized Major Program taps growing student idealism
An increasing number of students are designing their own majors through the Individualized Major Program in the College of Arts and Sciences. And according to Ray Hedin, the director of IMP, these students are turning to the program for socially conscious or civic-minded courses of study.
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If efforts to curb substance abuse and illegal drug use in Indiana are to succeed, they need to start with a realistic view of the problem. That's the thinking behind a recent 200-page report published by the Indiana University Center for Health Policy, which pulls together statewide and county-by-county data about the use and abuse of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs.
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Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs is well on its way to naming the fourth dean in its 36-year history. Four finalists for the position have visited the Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses and met with faculty, staff and students. The next step is for the SPEA dean search committee to make further recommendations on the appointment to Charles Bantz, the chancellor of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
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What is sustainability, and how can it be accomplished? On the IU South Bend campus -- which carries a long and successful tradition of mixing an annual campus theme with the curriculum of its general education program -- part of those questions have been answered in an annual exercise that starts at the beginning of the fall semester.
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Public managers increasingly make decisions and address problems as part of networks of agencies and organizations. As a result, they need to develop skills that are essential to collaborative problem-solving, says a report co-authored by Lisa Blomgren Bingham, the Keller-Runden Professor of Public Service at the IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs.
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"Politics and the Arts" is the theme of the 24th annual ArtsWeek, a collaboration by IU and the City of Bloomington that actually stretches for 11 days -- Feb. 20 to March 1. The election-year celebration includes dozens of exhibitions, performances, discussions and family-friendly events spread across city and campus and using many modes of artistic expression.
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The Jan. 15, 2008, issue of Perspectives on Policy highlighted a story on local government reform. Also featured in this issue were stories about an annual survey that shows Hoosiers are slightly more pessimistic about school quality; details on SPEA students who are applying what they learned in the classroom to real-world issues; information on why serial killers may kill more victims than once previously thought; highlights from a book by an IU researcher who examined air traffic management; and a column by an IU professor and a consultant who examined Congress, carbon and the Chicago Climate Exchange.
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Don't miss this year's Mini University on the IU Bloomington campus, June 15-20, celebrating 37 years of lifelong learning. Choose from nearly 100 noncredit classes taught by IU's finest faculty at this award-winning weeklong learning vacation for adults.
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