The next cohort for IU Executive Education’s Certificate in Effective Nonprofit Governance begins on July 25, 2019. To register, click this link. In 2017, Nigena Livingston was building Urban Act Academy from the ground up. She had worked as an educator for years, but launching Indianapolis’ newest charter school was unfamiliar territory. She was beginning… Read more »
Entries by Leslie Wells
Pay gap lessons help student negotiate better salary
Kennedy Jefferies is only a month into her first full-time job. The O’Neill Civic Leadership major accepted a position as the director of preschool ministries for a large church in Indianapolis. She now edits youth curriculum and recruits and manages 30–50 volunteers who lead classes for hundreds of children, provide childcare at church events, and… Read more »
Executive Education helps organizations invest in employees through MPA program
In May 2023, 22 employees of the Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center received their Executive Master of Public Affairs degrees from Indiana University Executive Education at the O’Neill School. The graduates spent more than two years working toward this goal and are the latest in a long line of Crane employees to earn their degrees… Read more »
Crowdfunding the arts
This blog is the result of a research partnership between the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts: the Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation (AEI) Lab. My name is Michael Weigel and I’m a first-year graduate student at the O’Neill School working on my Master of Policy Analysis…. Read more »
The search is on for IUPUI’s next queen bee
A fascination with bees and an on-campus internship helped create the Urban Beekeepers at IUPUI club. But to keep it going, the club needs a new leader—fast. Its current leader, Melissa Kidulas, is graduating and she needs a new queen (or king) bee to run the club. Kidulas, who is earning her O’Neill degree… Read more »