O’Neill “You work a lot more with live people than you do with dead people.” That’s how Makayla Morris describes her internship with the Marion County Coroner’s Office. Morris spent the summer there and is now joining their ranks as a deputy coroner after she was offered a position before she even has her… Read more »
Entries by Leslie Wells
Borst Fellowship opens doors to O’Neill grad students
To apply for the Borst Fellowship for the upcoming legislative session, contact O’Neill Career Advisor Stacy Lozer at slozer@iupui.edu. Jordan Lett became a Borst Fellow while pursuing his MPA at the O’Neill School. What began as a fellowship focused on fiscal impact led him directly into his current job for the state budget agency. “This… Read more »
Connecting the lessons of 9/11
Many O’Neill students don’t remember when the twin towers fell. They don’t recall the brave passengers who took control of an airplane before it crashed it into a Pennsylvania field. Nor do they remember seeing the hole left in the Pentagon. After all, most of them were very young on September 11, 2001…. Read more »
Students can build employable skills with an intergroup dialogue certificate
The hardest conversations to have are often the most important. Yet it’s vital to face conflict, communicate across differences, and work through difficult situations. To help students learn how to do that, and make them more employable in the process, O’Neill’s Tamra Wright and her Intergroup Dialogue colleagues have developed the intergroup dialogue certificate,… Read more »
Community Corps: A mission of community development
If Community Corps is SPEA’s division of community development specialists, then Marshawn Wolley is its general. And the general is on a mission. His mission began after several community development stakeholders approached SPEA, worried about the number of people pursuing community development jobs, the quality of that talent, and the field’s diversity. So Wolley got… Read more »