Claire Mountcastle chats with fourth grader Lucas Haskett about his surprising birthday tradition. This audio interview was produced for the Spring 2021 Advanced Newswriting and Reporting course. … [Read more...]
LinkedIn is the place to be for students
Forty million people use LinkedIn to search for jobs every week, and three people are hired every minute on the site.“LinkedIn is the best way to take any student sitting in a classroom and put them in an office environment,” said Dr. Anna Stumpf, Ball State assistant lecturer, online program coordinator and former Anderson University professor. “The conversations that take place on LinkedIn are the same that take place in board rooms.” Stumpf has been using LinkedIn since 2008, and … [Read more...]
‘It has been a rollercoaster’: Senior Hannah Hawkins reflects on basketball journey
“I started playing when I was in fourth grade,” Hannah Hawkins said. “There was a league at the park that I joined.”Although the two-time HCAC Defensive Player of the Year loves the sport, it wasn’t always her goal to play in college. “I never saw it going anywhere,” Hawkins said. “Even in my senior year [of high school], I said I wasn’t going to play in college.Hawkins explained that she enjoys basketball for the fun of it, not the competitiveness, and that she wasn’t … [Read more...]
COMM department announces new journalism major
Starting in the fall of 2021, AU’s communication and design arts department will begin offering a full journalism major.The program will be headed by Dr. David Baird, who is already the academic adviser for the complementary journalism major. “Several students have asked us in recent semesters if we could offer a stand-alone major,” Baird shared. “It was possible to do that without adding any courses, faculty or additional expenses, so we went ahead and proposed it.”The … [Read more...]
Access is key, according to Mike Thigpen
The biggest issue concerning MOSAIC right now is access, according to Chief Diversity Officer and Co-Chair of MOSAIC Mike Thigpen. Thigpen emphasized that some students do not have the same opportunities as others. “It is the responsibility for those who provide care to diagnose the need for each person that comes in,” Thigpen said about students who enter the university. “MOSAIC is an acronym for ‘Making Our Students an Informed Community,’” Nia Carter, author of … [Read more...]
COVID-19: Looking forward
“It’s a big deal,” Professor of Nursing Dr. Sarah Neal said. “Where we’re at right now is a whole lot of bad. We are in the red zone in Madison County.”For the last 10 months, the world has been ambushed with a pandemic that has changed the normal way of life. Many students have had to adjust to online learning and businesses everywhere have been forced to close their doors. “We can mitigate a lot of spread if we change our behaviors,” Neal said. Neal, who has been at AU … [Read more...]
School of Science and Engineering offers new scholarship opportunity
AU is now offering a new scholarship for science and engineering students.“When Heather Kim, vice president for Enrollment, Marketing and Communication, arrived on campus, she wanted to help get the word out about our science and engineering programs,” said Dr. Chad Wallace, dean of the science department. Kim had the idea to redirect the current source of funds to be able to make this happen. “We were able to reallocate some of our funding to put it toward this … [Read more...]
AU hosts musical theatre and dance livestream
On Sept. 16 and 19, AU put on livestream performances for the department of musical theater and dance department that reached over 1,000 views. Kris Rinas, the director of studio and technical operations at AU, led the film students in capturing the events. “We took our broadcasting cameras from the studio and took them into Reardon and we controlled the broadcast from our control room in the Broadcast Center while everyone else was on stage,” Rinas said. Director of … [Read more...]
City of Anderson unveils new murals
This past August, the Anderson Indiana Main Street (AIMS) revealed two new murals around the downtown area painted by local artists. The organization is a non-for-profit that is passionate about providing an inviting culture within Anderson.Nekoda Witsken, the artist of one of the murals, is a native of Anderson who became involved with the project by applying online with the Arts Council of Indianapolis. “I was born in Anderson's hospital, so when I came across the callout, I felt … [Read more...]
New RDs introduced for fall semester
Three new Resident Directors have been added in Myers, Morrison and Dunn. Amanda BradleyMyers Hall will now be run by Amanda Bradley, from Warsaw Indiana. Bradley graduated AU in 2018 with a major in Christian ministries and is now pursuing her Master’s of Theological Studies. In the future, she would love to continue working in student life or pursue youth ministry. “I love the intentional time with students in this job,” Bradley said. “ Relationships are … [Read more...]