Giving: Funding Priorities

The School of Education at Indiana University South Bend has initiated several new funding priorities in three key areas: student scholarships, strengthening school-university partnerships, and serving the mental health needs of the community.

Scholarships

• Underrepresented Teachers’ Scholarship: We seek to raise $1,000,000 for scholarships to support diverse young people who want to become teachers. If we reach our goal, we will be able to provide substantial support for five undergraduate teacher education students each academic year. Per Indiana University Foundation policy, new endowment accounts which do not become fully funded at the required stated minimum through pledges/gifts at the time of the establishment of the account and through fulfilled pledges/gifts after five years will be converted, and all gifts will be made available to support the outlined in the support agreement.

• Education Scholarship Fund: We seek to raise $100,000 to support full-time and part-time teacher education student scholarships at the graduate and undergraduate level. This would afford us the opportunity to give two $2,225 scholarships – one to a graduate Transition-to-Teaching student and one to an undergraduate teacher education student.
• Counseling and Educational Leadership Program Scholarships: We seek to raise $100,000 to support graduate students in counseling and educational leadership programs. Candidates must express a commitment to working in the region.

Strengthening P–12 Schools

• School-University Partnerships to Improve K-12 Student Achievement: We seek to raise $100,000 to support summer school offerings at low-achieving schools in South Bend and Elkhart for the next two years.
• Advancing Multicultural Early Childhood Education: We seek to raise $50,000 to start a speaker series to advance early childhood education for diverse young children in our community.

Serving Community Mental Health Needs

The Counseling & Human Services Counseling Clinic seeks to raise $150,000 to support operational costs for the next five years. The clinic provides affordable counseling services to members of the immediate community.

Total Funding Priorities: $1.5 Million

For more information on how to support these initiatives, please contact Assistant Dean Tony Randles at randlest@iu.edu  or (574) 520-4693