2020 Fall Foundations Magazine

Abstract

Fall 2020 issue of Foundations Magazine, the publication of the IU South Bend Alumni Association. Contents include article about Marvin Curtis stepping down as Dean of the Ernestine M. Raclin School of Arts, for which he raised more than $5.1 million in grants during his 12-year tenure and launched the magazine Aspire in 2009; article about eight IUSB students working as research scholars in the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP), including spotlights on each student; article detailing IUSB's response to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, including archivist Scott Shoger's plans for an oral history project documenting the pandemic's effect on locals and director of the Office of Admissions and International Student Services Connie Peterson-Miller's sewing and donation of face masks; list of Chancellor Susan Elrod's priorities for 2020-21; alumnus profile on Isaac Torres, founder of InterCambio Express and recipient of the 2019 Indiana University Distinguished Alumni Service Award, the highest award IU grants its alumni; article detailing several milestones being celebrated at IUSB's Civil Rights Heritage Center (CRHC), including its 20th anniversary, IUSB's official acquisition and permanent dedication of the Engman Natatorium building that the CRHC has been housed in for the past 10 years, and the CRHC's reception of a $50,000 federal grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences; and information about making a gift to IUSB, with the example of a Revocable Living Trust established to provide an $800,000 scholarship fund to support students studying education.