Sociology News and Features
IU Southeast trains Indiana teachers on STEM concepts
February 7, 2023
By 2025, Indiana’s Department of Education will require all students in Indiana K-12 schools to have daily teaching in STEM topics. Through a unique collaboration, Indiana University Southeast has paired with schools, community, foundation, and business partners to prepare local teachers for teaching computer programming and robotics by integrating fun, interactive exercises with math or ...
Campus community recognizes recipients of 2022 distinguished teaching, research, and service awards
September 19, 2022
New Albany, Ind. (September 19, 2022) — As part of the 2022 State of the Campus ceremony, IU Southeast leaders presented the 2022 Distinguished Teaching, Research and Service Awards. Recipients were introduced by Interim Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Dr. Uric Dufrene, Director of Staff Equity and Diversity and Title IX Deputy, James Wilkerson, ...
IU Southeast Faculty Dominate 2021 FACET Awards
July 28, 2022
IU Southeast faculty seemingly swept the 2021 Faculty Academy on Excellence in Teaching (FACET) awards. The awards recognize faculty throughout Indiana University who bring passion, innovation, and creativity to the classroom to promote student success. It also helps FACET share and disseminate best practices in teaching for the benefit of the entire IU community. The ...
IU Southeast announces spring 2022 Chancellor’s and Dean’s lists
June 27, 2022
IU Southeast announces spring 2022 Chancellor’s and Dean’s lists NEW ALBANY, Ind. (June 27, 2022) – Indiana University Southeast is proud to announce members of the spring 2022 Dean’s List and Chancellor’s List. For the spring 2022 semester, 244 students made the Chancellor’s List, while 636 students were named to the Dean’s List. The Dean’s ...
IU Southeast undergrad elementary ed program among the best for math teacher prep
May 23, 2022
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–The undergraduate elementary education program at IU Southeast has been recognized as among the best in the nation in a new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) that examined the performance of more than 1,100 teacher preparation programs across the country in preparing future teachers to teach elementary mathematics. The IU Southeast ...
Sumreen Asim is PI on NSF NOYCE Track 4 Research grant
April 7, 2022
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a grant to a project undertaken by a team of researchers including Dr. Sumreen Asim, assistant professor of technology education at IU Southeast. Collaborative Research on Integrated STEM Self-Efficacy: A Study of Elementary Preservice Teachers Including Noyce Scholars is the name of the ...
Faculty Innovators: Sumreen Asim and John Ross
October 11, 2021
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–For a student, the academic year can sometimes feel like a roller coaster at a theme park, with its highs, lows and ecstatic relief at having survived. And wobbly knees. But what if classrooms really were theme parks? Better still: What if theme parks were classrooms? Absurd, right? Not when ...
ICHE grant expands support for STEM education undergrads
September 27, 2021
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)– IU Southeast has received a $325,000 grant from the Indiana Commission for Higher Education (CHE) for Growing Tomorrow’s STEM Teachers (GTST) for 2021-2023. The grant will allow the program to offer, for the first time, full-time tuition and fees to undergraduate students to become science and mathematics teachers in Indiana. Since ...
