When disaster strikes, a community’s resilience is put to the test. Whether the cause is natural, political, man-made, or technological, Courtney Page-Tan works to understand how communities can withstand, recover from, and even thrive amid and after disasters. Her interest in community resilience can be traced back to a single moment, one the entire world… Read more »
Entries by Leslie Wells
IU Executive Education reaches milestone with IHA Management Institute
Tom DeCoster was there for the first Indiana Hospital Association Management Institute cohort in 1990. At the time, he was the founding director of IU Executive Education and helped create and teach the Management Institute. Thirty-three years later, the core lessons he taught then still ring true for leaders today. DeCoster now serves as professor… Read more »
Vernise Estorcien: Reaching youth through police mentoring
Vernise Estorcien is a long way from her hometown of Nassau, The Bahamas. After earning her Ph.D. in Florida, she’s now even farther north—1,138 miles from home, to be exact—and will join the O’Neill School faculty for the 2023–24 academic year. Estorcien says she came to the O’Neill School in Indianapolis because she knew it… Read more »
Kathy Koehler honored by IU Alumni Association
When Kathy Koehler (MPA’98) came to O’Neill, she was already entrenched in the working world. She had earned her undergraduate degree in psychology because she wanted to help people. “I started out wanting to help children,” she says. “In learning more about what kids were going through, I saw issues in the educational system and… Read more »
Students learn to bring research to more people through communication
Learn more about the Association for Cultural Economics International’s annual conference through the Center for Cultural Affairs. Academic research can influence laws, how organizations and communities operate, and the decisions people make each day. But that only happens if the research is relevant and relatable, connecting people to the topic in ways they understand…. Read more »