It’s been nearly three decades since Ngozi Iwere embarked on her first social mission in Nigeria. She was instrumental in forming the Society for Women and AIDS in Africa-Nigeria, a group focused on working with communities to raise awareness of HIV and AIDS, while providing prevention education. Not long after, Iwere founded the Community Life… Read more »
Faculty
First-generation grad student focused on next generation of leaders
Only about 1 in 4 SPEA graduate students are first-generation college students. Count Morgan Farnworth among them. “In my immediate sphere I didn’t know a lot of people with college degrees,” Farnworth admits. She became the first in her family to attend college. She will also become the first to earn a master’s degree and… Read more »
Students on scene for detonation day
For more than a decade, retired IMPD Sgt. Stephen Davis, a member of O’Neill’s adjunct faculty, has given students an experience many people will never have: being on the scene of a bombing and investigating the aftermath. This year, he’ll bring the learnings to life on June 2 and 16 at the Morgan County Sheriff’s… Read more »
MLK’s Assassination: Calming a City Amid Chaos
“I have some very sad news for all of you, sad news for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world, and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee.” – Robert F. Kennedy, April 4, 1968 Fifty years ago, news of… Read more »
Women in Leadership: Training the next generation of managers
The rise of the #MeToo movement, wage gap issue, and paid-family leave debate have sparked a shift in workplace management discussion. Marshawn Wolley, SPEA’s director of community engagement and strategic initiatives, uses recent headlines to help the next generation of leaders examine how to effectively manage diversity, including the role of supporting women in the… Read more »