<![CDATA[The IUSB Preface - Academics RSS]]> http://www.iusbpreface.com/se/the-iusb-preface-academics-rss-1.458833 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:53:09 -0400 en <![CDATA[Alternative for spring break]]> http://www.iusbpreface.com/academics/alternative-for-spring-break-1.1220002

By: KRYSTAL VIVIAN


If devoting four days to bettering your community, helping to break the cycle of poverty, and possibly earning school credit sounds memorable and exciting, then check out the Alternative Spring Break program....

]]> 1.1220002 Wed, 3 Mar 2010 10:49:28 -0500 <![CDATA[The study abroad advantage]]> http://www.iusbpreface.com/academics/the-study-abroad-advantage-1.1219990

By: JEFF TATAY



IU South Bend offers many study abroad programs that give students the opportunity to experience the world from a different perspective and develop an arsenal of employable skills and attributes for success in the competitive job market and the school of ...

]]> 1.1219990 Wed, 3 Mar 2010 10:43:54 -0500 <![CDATA[Online classes not so scary]]> http://www.iusbpreface.com/academics/online-classes-not-so-scary-1.1087292

By: DANIELLE MOLNAR



Online classes are becoming more and more popular with technology popping up everywhere....

]]> 1.1087292 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:19:02 -0500 <![CDATA['The Urban and the Rural' events planned for March]]> http://www.iusbpreface.com/academics/the-urban-and-the-rural-events-planned-for-march-1.1087289

By: ANDREW SHENEMAN


Every year IUSB selects a new ‘theme’ for the campus in an effort to focus the campus and the community on a single topic that can reach across various disciplines and inspire dialogues. This is done through a series of lectures and special ev...

]]> 1.1087289 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:16:23 -0500 <![CDATA[New dance minor to start in the spring]]> http://www.iusbpreface.com/academics/new-dance-minor-to-start-in-the-spring-1.949706

By: TERRIE PHILLIPS


Beginning spring 2010 students will be able to graduate with a minor in dance.  The new minor includes two new classes, choreography and dance history....

]]> 1.949706 Wed, 2 Dec 2009 17:17:38 -0500 <![CDATA[Publishing course to be offered]]> http://www.iusbpreface.com/academics/publishing-course-to-be-offered-1.949695

By: MATTHEW HOLLOWAY


The English department will be offering the course titled Literary Editing and Publishing (ENG-W 280) beginning in January 2010. The class is designed to educate students about contemporary writing as it goes through the process from writer submission...

]]> 1.949695 Wed, 2 Dec 2009 17:14:09 -0500 <![CDATA[Turn research into cash]]> http://www.iusbpreface.com/academics/turn-research-into-cash-1.949608

By: JEFF TATAY


The library prize offers students a chance to be recognized for their work during their college care

The Franklin D. Schurz Library is now accepting submissions for the Library Prize for Undergraduate Research. The prize awards undergraduate students for excellence in skillfully conducted research projects....

]]> 1.949608 Wed, 2 Dec 2009 16:49:40 -0500 <![CDATA[What IUSB’s School of Business and Economics has to offer ]]> http://www.iusbpreface.com/academics/what-iusb-s-school-of-business-and-economics-has-to-offer-1.933844

By: APRIL BUCK


If you are considering a graduate degree in business, you may not need to look any further than IU South Bend’s School of Business and Economics....

]]> 1.933844 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:07:25 -0500 <![CDATA[How to get through IUSB in four years]]> http://www.iusbpreface.com/academics/how-to-get-through-iusb-in-four-years-1.860693

By: REBECCA GIBSON

A student’s guide for CLAS undergrads

Now halfway through the fall semester, undergraduates’ minds turn to thoughts of advising for next semester....

]]> 1.860693 Wed, 4 Nov 2009 16:01:09 -0500 <![CDATA[Dean of Library Services to retire in June]]> http://www.iusbpreface.com/academics/dean-of-library-services-to-retire-in-june-1.794896

By: TERRIE PHILLIPS



Michele Russo, Dean of Library Services, will be retiring in June.  Russo has been an employee at IU South Bend since October 1982....

]]> 1.794896 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:02:35 -0400 <![CDATA[IUSB’s own Michiana Chronicles]]> http://www.iusbpreface.com/academics/iusb-s-own-michiana-chronicles-1.794895

By: DANIELLE MOLNAR


In 1999 Jonathan Nashel, Associate Professor of History at IU South Bend, teamed up with WVPE to do a set of commentaries called “Millennium Moments” in which he discussed the world in the 20th century....

]]> 1.794895 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:56:25 -0400 <![CDATA[Plagiarism: Just don’t do it]]> http://www.iusbpreface.com/academics/plagiarism-just-don-t-do-it-1.794891

By: APRIL BUCK


According to dictionary.com, plagiarism is “the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one’s own original work.”...

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