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Indiana University Bloomington is the principal campus of the Indiana University System . It is popularly known as "Indiana University," '''IUB''', or simply '''IU'''. It is located in Bloomington in Monroe County, Indiana . The University is one of the 60 members of the AAU association of leading American research universities. STUDENT BODY/CULTURE IUB's enrollment in the spring semester Of 2005 was 35,694 students, of whom 30,334 (85%) were full time. Undergraduates accounted for 27,787 (78%) students, while graduate and professional students accounted for 7,907. Most IUB students are white Indiana residents. Of students enrolled in spring 2005, 1,433 (4%) were African-Americans, 1,174 (3.2%) were Asian-Americans, 785 (2.2%) were Hispanic, 83 (0.2%) were American Indian, and 28,699 (80%) were white, 3,096 (8.7%) were foreign, and 422 (1.1%) were unknown. More women, 18,428, were enrolled than men, 17,266. Despite IUB's status as the principal campus of the Indiana University system, only 21,296 (60%) of its students in spring 2005 were native Hoosier s. Indiana University's Freshman experience was recognized by '' U.S. News & World Report '' in 2003 as among the best in the country. The 10th annual ''Newsweek-Kaplan College Guide'', which appeared in the Aug. 22, 2005 issue of ''Newsweek'' magazine, chose IU Bloomington as its "Hottest Big State School" and extolled the campus' blend of tradition with emerging technologies. IU was the only Big Ten institution included. '' USA Today '' called Bloomington one of the top 10 places for campus culture. The university offers the latest in technology as IU was ranked as one of the top five wired universities in America according to ''Yahoo! Internet Life''. IU is home to one of the largest and oldest Greek systems in the country. Nearly 5,000 students (about 17 percent of undergraduates) join one of the 55 fraternities and sororities. HISTORY Early years Indiana's state government founded Indiana University in 1820 as the "State Seminary." The 1816 Indiana state constitution required that the General Assembly (Indiana's State Legislature ) create a "general system of education, ascending in a regular gradation, from township schools to a state university, wherein tuition shall be gratis, and equally open to all." It took some time for the legislature to fulfill its promise, partly due to a debate regarding whether the Territory of Indiana's land-grant Public University —what is now Vincennes University —should be adopted as the State of Indiana's public university or whether a new public university should be founded in Bloomington to replace the territorial university. While the original state-issued legislative charter for IUB was granted in 1820, construction began in 1822; the first professor was hired in 1823; classes were offered in 1824. The first class graduated in 1830. Throughout this period and until the rechartering of Vincennes University from a four-year institution to a two-year institution in 1889 , a legal-cum-political battle was fought between the territorial-chartered public university in Vincennes and the State of Indiana on behalf of the state-chartered public university in Bloomington, including the legal case ( Trustees For Vincennes University V Indiana , 1853 ) which was appealed to the Supreme Court Of The United States . IUB developed rapidly in its first years. The hiring of Andrew Wylie, its first president, in 1828 signified the school's growing professionalism. The General Assembly changed the school's name to "Indiana College" in the same year. In 1838 the legislature changed the school's name for a final time to Indiana University. Wylie's death in 1851 marks the end of the university's first period of development. IU now had nearly a hundred students and seven professors. Despite the university's more obviously secular purpose, presidents and professors were still expected to set a moral example for their charges. It was only in 1885 that a non-clergyman, biologist David Starr Jordan , became president. Between Wylie and Jordan's administrations, the University grew slowly. Few changes rocked the university's repose. One development is interesting to modern scholars: The college admitted its first woman student, Sarah Parke Morrison in 1867, making IU the first state university to admit women on an equal basis with men. In mid-passage In 1883, IU awarded its first Ph.D. and played its first intercollegiate sport, baseball, prefiguring the school's future status as a major research institution and a power in collegiate athletics. But another incident that year was far more important to the university: the university's original campus in Seminary Square near the center of Bloomington burned to the ground. Instead of rebuilding in Seminary Square, as had been the practice following previous blazes, the college was rebuilt between 1884 and 1908 at the far eastern edge of Bloomington. (Today, Bloomington has expanded eastward, and the "new" campus is once again at the center of the city.) The first extension office of IU was opened in Indianapolis in 1916. In 1920/1921 the School Of Music and the School of Commerce and Finance (what later became the Kelley School Of Business ) were opened. In the 1940s Indiana University opened extension campuses in Kokomo and Fort Wayne . The controversial Kinsey Institute for sexual research was established in 1947. CAMPUS The IU campus is considered one of the most beautiful college campuses in the nation, with its abundance of flowering plants and trees and graceful, cool limestone buildings. Art critic Thomas Gaines called IU one of America's five most beautiful universities in ''The Campus as a Work of Art''. IUB's 1,931 acres (7.8 km²) includes copious green space and historic buildings dating to the university's reconstruction in the late nineteenth century. The campus rests on a bed of Indiana Limestone , specifically Salem Limestone and Harrodsburg Limestone , with outcroppings of St. Louis Limestone . The "Jordan River" is a stream flowing through the center of campus. It is named for David Starr Jordan , Darwinist , Ichthyologist , and president of IU and later Stanford University . Facilities and architecture ]] Many of the campus's buildings, especially the older central buildings, are made from Indiana Limestone quarried locally. The Works Progress Administration built much of the campus's core during the Great Depression. Many of the campus's buildings were built and most of its land acquired during the 1950s and 1960s, when first soldiers attending under the GI Bill and then the Baby Boom swelled the university's enrollment from 5,403 in 1940 to 30,368 in 1970. The Bryan House is the traditional on-campus home of the university president. In the 17,000-seat Assembly Hall and stadium (home to the IU NCAA basketball team), there are five NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship banners on display. (For more on athletic facilities, see Indiana Hoosiers .) Indiana Memorial Union The 500,000-square-foot Indiana Memorial Union (IMU) is the campus centerpiece -- a place where students go to study, relax, eat, bowl, play pool, watch movies, and even shop. It is the world's second largest college union. In addition to numerous stores and restaurants, it features a seven-story student activities tower, a 186-room hotel, a 400-seat theatre, a 5,000-square-foot Alumni Hall, and 50,000 square feet of meeting space. The Fine Arts Library The Fine Arts Library houses Indiana University's books and journals in the fields of the visual arts, art history, architecture, design and related disciplines and supports the academic needs of the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, and the Indiana University Department of Fine Arts. The collection is comprised of over 130,000 volumes and 390 periodicals, including collections of circulating slides and plates and a non-circulating collection of over 900 artists' books. IU-Bloomington's first Fine Arts Library was established in the late 1930s as part of the Departmental office on the second floor, east wing of the University Library which was then located in Franklin Hall. The Library has gone through many changes and now the Fine Arts Library now is comprised of over 100,000 volumes and 390 periodicals, including collections of circulating slides and plates and a non-circulating collection of over 500 artists' books. Find out more about the History of the Fine Arts Library. {Link without Title} {Link without Title} . Herman B Wells Library IU's Herman B Wells Library is the thirteenth largest university library in North America . (Until a ceremony in June of 2005 where it was renamed for IU's beloved former chancellor, this building was simply called the "Main" Library.) Built in 1969, the building contains 11 floors in the graduate tower and five floors in the undergraduate tower. The building also contains the Information Commons, a fully-integrated technology center for learning and collaboration -- open 24 hours a day, seven days a week - which attracts 82 percent of all undergraduate students. (IU Libraries recently earned their highest ranking ever, advancing to twelfth place in a survey of North American academic research libraries.) The Lilly Library The Lilly Library is one of the largest rare book and manuscript libraries in the United States. Founded in 1960 with the collection of J.K. Lilly, owner of Lilly Pharmaceuticals in Indianapolis , the library now contains approximately 400,000 rare books, 6.5 million manuscripts, and 100,000 pieces of sheet music. The library's holdings are particularly strong in British and American history and literature, Latin Americana, medicine and science, food and drink, children's literature, fine printing and binding, and popular music. Notable items in the library's collections include the New Testament of the Gutenberg Bible, the four Shakespeare folios, Audubon's Birds of America, George Washington's letter accepting the presidency of the United States, Abraham Lincoln's desk from his law office, and the manuscripts of Robert Burns's "Auld Lang Syne" and J. M. Synge's ''The Playboy of the Western World''. The library also owns the papers of Hollywood directors Orson Welles and John Ford , the poets Sylvia Plath and Ezra Pound , and authors Edith Wharton and Nadine Gordimer . Special permission is not required to use the collections, and the library has several exhibition galleries which are open to the public. IU Auditorium Built as a Federal Works Agency Project, the auditorium - located in the heart of campus - opened on March 22, 1941, and has been host for the last sixty years to the world's top performers and entertainers. The Auditorium is also home to Thomas Hart Benton 's "Century of Progress" murals, painted for the 1933 Chicago World's Fair , the priceless Dailey Family Memorial Collection of Hoosier Art, and two Robert Laurent sculptures. It is also home to the 4500 pipe Roosevelt Organ, which is played for university ceremonies and other special events. Closed for a $13 million renovation and restoration in 1997, the Auditorium reopened in 1999. IU Art Museum The IU Art Museum was first established in 1941 with a later building being designed by the world-renowned architecture firm I.M. Pei and Partners. Completed in 1982, the museum collection of over 30,000 objects includes works by Claude Monet and Jackson Pollack . The museum has particular strengths in the art of Africa, Oceania, the Americas, Ancient Greece and Rome, and Early Modernism, and its collections of works on paper (prints, drawings and photographs). The IU Art Museum is also ranked as one of the top five university art museums along with Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center Founded in 2002, the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center is named after Marcellus Neal and Frances Marshall - early African American graduates from Indiana University. In addition to the culture center, it is also the home to the African American Cultural Center Library, the African American Arts Institute and the Office of Diversity Education. ACADEMICS See Also: Indiana University Bloomington academic structure IU has 110 programs ranked in the nation's top 20. Twenty-nine graduate programs and four schools at Indiana University-Bloomington are ranked among the top 25 in the country in the '' US News & World Report '''s Best Graduate Schools 2001-2002. ''Time'' magazine named IU-Bloomington its 2001 College of the Year among major research universities. Newsweek named Indiana University-Bloomington the Hottest Big State School in the Nation in 2005. Upon assuming leadership of Indiana University, one of President Adam Herbert 's biggest initiatives focused on "mission differentiation" for IU's eight campuses, which includes making the flagship Bloomington campus choosier among freshman applicants. Under the proposal IUB would educate the professionals, executives and researchers while the regional campuses would educate the state's remaining labor force. Advocates believe it will rejuvenate Indiana's economy while critics argue it betrays the university's mission of educating more of Indiana's populace. {Link without Title} College of Arts and Sciences The College of Arts and Sciences is the academic home to more than 40 percent of IU's undergraduates, while also offering the electives and general education courses for most other schools on campus. There are more than 50 academic departments in the College, encompasing such fields as biology and chemistry to Jewish studies and telecommunications, and IU also offers nearly 40 foreign languages. The College is home to the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology , the first academic department in folklore and the only department to combine the two practices into one field. Jacobs School of Music See Also: Jacobs School of Music Founded in the beginning of the 20th century by Charles Campbell, the Jacobs School of Music is one of the best music schools in the United States. It especially excels in voice, opera theatre and jazz studies. With more than 1,600 students, the school is the largest of its kind in the US and among the largest in the world. The school's facilities, including five buildings located in the heart of the IU Bloomington campus, comprise recital halls, more than 170 practice rooms, choral and instrumental rehearsal rooms, and more than 100 offices and studios. Kelley School of Business See Also: Kelley School of Business The Kelley School of Business was founded in 1920 as the University's School of Commerce and Finance. Approximately 4,600 students are enrolled on the Bloomington campus in undergraduate and graduate Business, Accountancy and Informations Systems degrees, MBA and PhD programs. Kelley is one of the top public business schools in the US. It is one of only five in the nation for whom all undergraduate and graduate programs rank in the top 25 of the '' US News & World Report '' college rankings. Additonally, it was ranked at eleventh in the US for its undergraduate B.Sc. program in business and eighteenth for the MBA program by '' Business Week '' in 2004; it was ranked twelfth for the MBA program by the '' Wall Street Journal '' in the same year. School of Education See Also: Indiana University School of Education The School of Education, formerly a part of the College of Arts and Science, is independent since 1923. One of the largest schools of education in the United States, and consistently placed among the top 20 graduate schools of education in the United States by '' U.S. News '', it offers a range of degrees in professional education: a B.S. in teacher education leading to a teaching license, M.S., education specialist (Ed.S.) and doctoral (Ed.D, Ph.D.) degrees. School of Public and Environmental Affairs The School of Public and Environmental Affairs (or SPEA) is the largest school of its kind in the United States. Through the wide array of concentrations and joint degrees SPEA offers, students can design an education corresponding to their interests. Founded in 1972, SPEA is known for its distinctive interdisciplinary approach. It brings together the social, natural, behavioral, and administrative sciences in one faculty. In the 2005 "Best Graduate Schools" survey by U.S. News & World Report , SPEA ranked third and is the nation’s highest-ranked graduate program in public affairs at a public institution. Six of its specialty programs are ranked in the top 10 listings; four others are in the top 20. While similar rankings do not yet exist for graduate schools of environmental science, SPEA's reputation in the field is growing. SPEA is also a founding member of the Council of Environmental Science Deans and Directors. SPEA is the only institution in its league with an interdisciplinary character where students can combine science and Public Affairs . Indiana University's other highly-ranked schools and programs complement SPEA’s offerings; the school has 15 joint programs in social and natural sciences and professional fields on the Bloomington campus. For example, in conjunction with the Department of Political Science, SPEA offers a Joint Ph.D. Program in Public Policy , the only one of its kind in the country. In addition, it offers many joint Masters degrees, such as MPA/MSES; MPA/JD; and MSES/JD programs. School of Informatics Established in 1999, the Indiana University School of Informatics develops new uses for information technology in order to solve specific problems in areas as diverse as biology, fine arts, and economics. The study is also interested in how people transform technology, and how technology transforms us. ATHLETICS ''See Main Article: Indiana Hoosiers '' scoring for Indiana in a Big Ten game against Illinois in 1977]] IUB's intercollegiate athletics program has a long tradition of excellence in several key sports. From its humble beginnings with baseball in 1867, the Hoosier athletic program has grown to include over 600 male and female student-athletes on 24 varsity teams boasting one of the nation's best overall records. Sports sponsored by the university include Football , men's Basketball , women's Basketball , Cross Country and Track , Baseball , Golf , Tennis , Rowing , Volleyball , and more. The Hoosiers became a member of the prestigious Big Ten Conference on December 1, 1899. The school's national affiliation is with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The teams won one women's and six men's national team titles (now totaling 25; 24 NCAA, 1 AIAW), topped by a record-setting six straight men's swimming & diving titles, seven men's Soccer crowns and five titles in men's Basketball . Indiana student-athletes have won 133 NCAA individual titles, including 79 in men's swimming and diving and 31 in men's Track And Field . In addition, IU teams have won or shared 157 Big Ten Conference championships. The IU athletics endowment is $42 million, the largest in the Big Ten Conference . The Varsity Club, which is the fund-raising arm of the Athletics Department, drew a record $11.5 million in gifts and pledges in the fiscal year 2004-05. In addition, overall annual giving has increased 8.3% in the last year and 44.8 percent in the last three years. In spite of this giving, IU's athletics department has been unable to balance its budget. Because of this the university administration has attempted, thus far unsuccessfully, to double the athletics fee which students pay with their tuition each semester. A number of students argue that the athletics department's financial woes are its own problems, and that support of athletics should be voluntary. Others, especially in the athletics department, argue that athletic programs are an integral part of the university experience, and therefore everyone should pay into it. MEDIA Media outlets of Indiana University Bloomington include:
FACULTY With over 1,823 full-time faculty members, IU Bloomington leads the Big Ten public universities in the number of endowed faculty positions, with 333 chairs, professorships, and curators. IUB also reported in fall 2004 that it employed 334 part-time faculty, totalling 1,877 full-time equivalents. Of the full-time faculty, 76% were tenured. Like the student body, IUB's faculty is predominantly white. Of full-time administrators, faculty, and lecturers, 118 (6%) were Asian, 74 (4%) were African-American, 62 (4%) were Hispanic, 5 (0.3%) were Native American, and 1,535 (85%) were "other." More men (62%) than women held academic appointments at the university. Professors at IUB were better-paid than their counterparts in the IU system. A full-time professor earned an average of $126,500, an associate professor $89,000, and an assistant professor $74,400. Former notable staff Notable faculty of Indiana University have included:
Current notable staff Notable current faculty of Indiana University include:
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Music ''See related article: Jacobs School Of Music '' Politics/Government
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