Midyear & Annual Reporting

• Campus Center and Student Experiences (CCSE) hosted 878 events/bookings incorporating social distancing measures—310 campus visit programs, 87 departmental reservations, 348 student organization reservations, and 133 information tables.
• Campus Health administered 5,308 COVID-19 shots as of July 14, 2021.
• Campus Health also provided 152,487 mitigation tests for IU Indianapolis students, faculty, and staff.
• Campus Health administered flu vaccines to more than 7,500 IU Indianapolis students, faculty, and staff.
• Campus Recreation served 38 faculty/staff in fall 2020, 57 in spring 2021, and 54 in early summer 2021.
• Campus Recreation also served 3,642 students in fall 2020, 3,124 in spring 2021, and 722 in early summer 2021.
• Campus Recreation also held 37 club sports matches, practices, and meetings with 700 participants.
• Counselling and Psychological Services (CAPS) reached more than 980 students through mental health outreach presentations; 150 attended presentations designed for traditionally underserved students, up from 921 and 64 last year, respectively.
• CAPS provided education and training on addressing student mental health concerns to 488 faculty and staff, up from 414 last year.
• CAPS also provided mental health care for 1,030 students, down from 1,300 last year.
• CAPS provided group counselling for 173 students, down from 279 last year.
• CAPS supported and advocated for 54 student survivors and 3 faculty and staff survivors of interpersonal violence (IPV), up from 46 student survivors last year.
• Educational Partnerships and Student Success (EPSS) offered 35 Weeks of Welcome (WOW) experiences to 1,539 attendees in fall 2020.
• EPSS hosted the spring 2021 WOW with 31 experiences reaching 1,133 attendees, including 582 unique students.
  • Of the 150 students who completed a survey after spring 2021 WOW, 85 percent reported the IU Indianapolis campus community had made them feel welcome while 82 percent reported feeling a sense of belonging at IU Indianapolis.
• EPSS hosted five virtual events/workshops during a virtual Jaguar Family Week November 3-5, 2020, instead of having an in-person weekend event.
• Health and Wellness Promotion (HWP) administered the Indiana College Substance Use Survey (ICSUS) in spring 2021 to a sample of 2,500 students. The survey achieved a record-high response rate with 30.3 percent of the students completing the survey.
• HWP shared the National College Health Assessment (NCHA) survey results in a press release and facilitated eight roadshow-style outreach presentations reaching 144 faculty and staff.
• Vice Chancellor Weldy reallocated $50,000 of the division’s state-appropriated funds toward Paws’ Pantry’s operational budget. IU Indianapolis administration matched the division’s appropriation by allocating another $50,000. As a result, the annual operating budget for Paws’ Pantry now stands at $100,000.
• The Office of Student Conduct (OSC) received 610 reports involving 800 students, up from 445 students last year.
• OSC facilitated 15 training sessions on investigation and adjudication techniques reaching 381 attendees, down from 672 attendees last year.

• Campus Health created an Instagram account to share the unit’s news.
• Campus Recreation established a 24-hour response rule on voicemails and emails.
• Campus Recreation utilized Fusion to email information to members.
• CAPS expanded Twitter following to 608, up from 593 last year.
• CAPS also expanded IPV Sexual Assault Prevention, Intervention, and Response (SAPIR) Twitter following to 261, up from 244 last year.
• CAPS also expanded IPV (SAPIR) Instagram following to 200, up from 100 last year.
• EPSS created and distributed 1,000 Parent and Family Calendars to families of IU Indianapolis students with the goal of highlighting IU Indianapolis, involvement opportunities, campus traditions, and Jaguar pride.
• EPSS distributed the Jaguar Family Association Newsletter every two months to approximately 21,000 family contacts.
• HWP delivered physical copies of the newly completed Student Wellness Directory to 4,000 incoming students and provided 1,500 copies to nine academic units.
• HWP continued to increase its presence on social media with 1,738 followers and 176,000 impressions on Twitter and 1,181 followers and 215 posts on Instagram.
• HWP utilized Salesforce Marketing Cloud to deliver monthly health and wellness opportunities to a list of 3,533 opt-in subscribers.
• Housing and Residence Life (HRL) communicated with over 2,000 students and parents regarding changes in room assignments for the 2020-21 school year, including reassignment to super single rooms and building moves due to occupancy limitations.
• HRL set up a 24-hour hotline for communications to students who were required to quarantine or isolate.
• HRL partnered with the Office of Enrollment Strategies and Insights to start a text marketing campaign to incoming first-year students using the AJ chatbot.
• Marketing and Communications executed the Student Affairs Shares newsletter, an internal staff newsletter sent twice a month. They sent 21 newsletters with an average open rate of 54 percent and average click rate of 19 percent—above industry averages.
• Marketing and Communications communicated to 503,677 students, faculty, staff, parents, and donors through Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
• Marketing and Communications continued to increase social media following with 1,410 followers on Instagram and 1,390 followers on Twitter.
• Marketing and Communications received 364,814 impressions on Instagram and Twitter combined and more than 12,000 page views on all of our DoSA news stories combined.

• CCSE continued to lead DoSA units in the number of unique experiences approved for the Record with 44 experiences—19 fraternity and sorority life (FSL) experiences, 15 student employment experiences, and 10 Student Activities Programming Board (SAPB) experiences.
• CCSE also collaborated with CAPS staff to launch the Mental Health Advocates program for 12 people representing eight FSL chapters. This program helped combat mental illness, burnout, imposter syndrome, bystander behavior, and sexual assault.
• FSL hosted nine activities reaching 733 students.
• CCSE collaborated with HWP staff to implement the FSL Harm Reduction program funded by a grant of more than $7,000 from Indiana Collegiate Action Network (ICAN).
• SAPB hosted 53 programs—42 in person—reaching 3,024 students.
• CCSE provided 18 civic engagement activities and events reaching 305 students.
• USG developed the Menstrual Product Initiative that garnered more than 4,000 students in support and a carefully crafted plan for implementation.
• According to Campus Health’s latest patient satisfaction survey results, approximately 78 percent of students were likely to use Campus Health’s services in the future.
• Campus Health provided services for 7,316 unique students.
• Campus Health participated in 22 virtual presentations focusing on health and wellness promotion.
• Campus Health hosted 18 students from the Community Nursing Program.
• Campus Health allowed 25 nursing students to provide assistance during the flu shot clinics.
• Campus Recreation offered 33 student employment opportunities in fall 2020 and 26 student employment opportunities in spring 2021.
• Based on survey results, students engaged in three or more sessions with CAPS reported a positive impact on academic performance (73 percent) and on their ability to remain enrolled at IU Indianapolis (62 percent), down from 75 percent and 65 percent last year, respectively.
• More than half (55 percent) of participants in group counseling reported services had a positive impact on their academic performance, and 57 percent indicated CAPS services helped them stay enrolled.
• CAPS facilitated 14 supportive measures requests supporting 12 individuals experiencing sexual misconduct.
• EPSS hosted two socials and six workshops for 131 sophomores during the fall 2020 semester and a similar number of socials and workshops for 166 sophomores during the spring 2021 semester.
• EPSS collaborated with the Office of Women to support the Advancing Women Mentoring Program’s 2020-21 cohort comprised of 20 student mentees.
• HWP provided training, supervision, and weekly ongoing development for seven peer health educators (PHEs), down from 12 last year. PHEs hosted 26 activities.
• HWP trained three practicum student coaches who conducted 25 client sessions with eight different coaching clients.
• HWP piloted a nutrition counseling program in the spring 2021 semester reaching 24 students.
• HWP facilitated eight small group motivational enhancement curriculum and one-on-one interventions for 20 students following alcohol/drug policy violations, down from 45 students last year.
• HWP scheduled 170 health and wellness coaching sessions with 30 active clients, up from 42 sessions last year.
• HWP offered 62 Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS) interventions to 31 students, up from 18 students last year.
• HWP provided 57 outreach presentations for 1,343 students, down from 1,902 last year.
• HWP offered 19 recovery support meetings with a cumulative attendance of seven, down from 147 last year.
• HRL reopened the residence halls with reduced occupancy and adhered to COVID-19 safety measures, and moved in 1,662 students in fall 2020, down from 2,400 last year.
• HRL offered 360 activities led by resident assistants in fall 2020 reaching 1,208 students and 280 activities for 530 students in spring 2021 (as of May 2021).
• HRL offered three social justice real talks reaching 39 students in fall 2020 and three in spring 2021 for five students (as of May 2021).
• HRL hosted 29 residential-based learning communities’ events for 290 students in fall 2020 and 15 for 90 students in spring 2021 (as of May 2021).
• HRL offered seven leadership program activities for 232 students in fall 2020 and seven for 159 students in spring 2021 (as of May 2021).
• The Multimedia Production Center (MPC) hired 3 student employees and 2 student interns who completed 121 projects.
• Of the 31 former MPC student employees who graduated, 24 found a job in their field of study, representing a job placement rate of 77 percent, down from 82 percent last year.
• OSAS distributed hotspots to students with poor or no internet access or who needed technology assistance for virtual learning.
• OSAS provided leadership opportunities for students to serve in Paws’ Pantry and Paws’ Closet as Sam H. Jones scholars.
• OSAS implemented Paws’ Express Drive-Thru Program in collaboration with Campus Kitchens.
• OSAS created virtual Zoom walk-in hours twice a week and added an additional option for student appointments for advocacy services during the campus closure resulting in increased accessibility to advocacy support for students.
• OSC continued to offer investigations and adjudications supporting the values of the university and the development of students to that end.
• OSC continued to collaborate with HWP to provide sanction options for substance use cases.
• OSC received 272 reports involving 383 students who allegedly violated the Student Commitment Form which ensured students were informed of and committed to the best individual safety practices before they came to campus.

• FSL chapters contributed just under $45,000 to both local and national philanthropic organizations and completed over 3,700 hours of community service.
• Campus Health reviewed 400 Laboratory Animal Research Compliance (LARC) questionnaires for Bloomington and Indianapolis.
• Campus Health performed FIT testing for 2,349 residents, medical students, Health and Human Sciences students, researchers, facility staff, and new hires for Regenstrief.
• Campus Recreation worked with NIFS and the Natatorium to provide excellent opportunities for health and wellness and worked with HWP to get the word out on wellness coaching.
• Campus Recreation worked with Healthy IU to keep the “Winter Walking” program going during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Campus Recreation worked with IU Studios and helped provide equipment and students for the IU Indianapolis commercial and participated in an Instagram Live Q&A.
• The Children’s Bureau hosted the sexual assault survivors support group virtually with four student participants.
• The IU Indianapolis Thriving Campus web portal currently lists 154 local community-based mental health providers. The directory was visited 1,489 times during the report period, and CAPS staff provided more than 100 referral lists.
• EPSS collaborated with the Institute for Engaged Learning (IEL) to host the first virtual Bridge Week for Families in summer 2020 and offered three virtual workshops reaching 141 people.
• HWP partnered with the Scholarship Office to create and award the first annual addiction recovery scholarship. CRC received and reviewed 23 applications and awarded one $500 scholarship to a student in recovery.
• HWP received $27,000 from DMHA to expand alcohol/drug education and prevention programming and hire a graduate student employee
• HWP received a $5,638 assessment and planning grant from ICAN to conduct focus groups and develop the IU Indianapolis Wellness Coalition.
• OSAS received $3,800 in Kroger gift cards for student shoppers and $10,000 in additional funds to restock pantry items from USG, demonstrating strong peer advocacy and support from the campus community.
• OSAS received additional funding from the Kroger Rewards Program with increased participants from 23 contributors in FY19 to 86 contributors in FY20 and 132 household contributors in FY21—currently receiving approximately $374 quarterly in contributions from Kroger for Paws’ Pantry.
• OSAS raised more than $14,000 for Paws’ Pantry through our crowdfunding campaign, exceeding our original goal of $2,500.
• OSAS continued its campus partnership with Auxiliary Services for the OSAS and Chartwells Dining Scholarship Program for 2020-21 with 40 food vouchers for students totaling $4,000 in donations.
• OSC added addressing compliance with mitigation testing to the list of responsibilities for the unit. In collaboration with IU Studios and the Division of Student Affairs, students were sent emails and received phone calls for the first five weeks they missed a test. A conduct case was created for students with six or more weeks of non-compliance.
• Sara Dickey and Kailey Rigdon served on an IU-wide committee, led by the IU Office of Institutional Equity, to make changes to IU’s policy on sexual misconduct, UA-03. A new interim policy, IU Discrimination, Harassment, and Sexual Misconduct Policy UA-03 was approved in August 2020 for the 2020-2021 academic year.

DoSA staff were committed to building capacity around DEI issues and developing our first-ever diversity strategic plan. DoSA staff also participated in four division-wide DEI workshops facilitated by Mrs. Charlotte Hawthorne, a local DEI consultant, in spring 2021. In July 2021, Dr. Karen Dace and Dan Griffith from the Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion approved our diversity strategic plan.

• Campus Health successfully onboarded 13 hourly and seven full-time staff for the COVID-19 team.
• Campus Health participated in one of two learning paths focusing on racial equity, diversity, and inclusion via LinkedIn Learning.
• Campus Health successfully passed the accreditation from the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) in fall 2020. The auditor recommended our QI project for a national award.
• Campus Recreation staff completed the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) course and various courses on LinkedIn Learning.
• Matt Jones in Campus Recreation completed the Institute for Supervisory Excellence as part of the 2020 cohort.
• Dylain Hensley and Chandra Kohler in Campus Recreation attended the Fusion virtual conference in December 2020.
• Dylain Hensley and Chandra Kohler in Campus Recreation attended the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association’s national conference which was held virtually in February 2021.
• CAPS provided clinical training for two doctoral interns, three master’s interns, and two doctoral practicum students.
• CAPS established a project team of five CAPS staff (Culture Club) and coordinated two types of monthly sessions: Culture Share (60 minutes) where staff share their developmental experiences related to race and Intentional Dialogue (90 minutes) where staff discuss specific issues related to practicing social justice within CAPS.
• CAPS participated in a training on Green Dot Bystander Intervention—eight individuals from IU Indianapolis including three from CAPS.
• The EPSS team completed 235.5 hours of professional development.
• Angelica McLean-Johnson in EPSS continued to serve as the Division of Student Affairs Staff Council Representative for 2020-22 and served on the University Hearing Commission.
• Tonya Hall in EPSS completed the Institute for Supervisory Excellence as part of the 2020 cohort.
• Danielle Wolfe and Ryan Anderson in HWP completed certification-training requirements pursuing Certified Wellness and Health Coach credentials.
• Eric Teske in HWP completed the Institute for Supervisory Excellence as part of the 2020 cohort.
• HRL continued to work on the goals of the Inclusive Housing Action Project.
• HRL lost more than 10 HRL staff in the past 1.5 years. HRL will focus on hiring new staff in the coming year.
• OSAS hired the first Student Advocacy Coordinator in November 2020.
• OSAS participated in all required training under the new Job Framework Redesign.
• OSC continued to invest in the development and training of staff members consistent with the most promising practices in the field of student conduct, specifically the use of trauma-informed investigation and adjudication techniques.
• Staff Morale Committee (SMC) hosted six fun Friday events, one virtual trivia night, one game night, two virtual scavenger hunts, one day of service, one virtual PowerPoint party, one end-of-semester celebration, one end-of-year celebration, and 21 virtual coffee chats.
• SMC hosted two book clubs in collaboration with the Student Affairs Advisory Council’s Professional Development Committee reaching 40 DoSA staff.
  • In 2020-21, Ryan Anderson, Jayson Davis, Meleah Fishburn, Dylain Hensley, Paola Hernandez-Barón, Mary Olk Knarr, Mandy Porter, and Erika Thomison served on this committee.
• The Student Affairs Advisory Council’s Onboarding Committee continued to develop an onboarding manual for the division.
  • In 2020-21, Ty Davis, Kelly Freiberger, Lori Klosterman, Chandra Kohler, Brian Starkel, and Sherry Steingass served on this committee.
• The Student Affairs Advisory Council’s Professional Development Committee helped develop the first-ever diversity strategic plan for the division.
  • In 2020-21, Petra Batek, Emily Braught, Joe Hayes, A. Sonia Ninon, and Brett Watson served on this committee and also on the Diversity Strategic Plan Steering Committee. Other members of the Diversity Strategic Plan Steering Committee included Ty Davis, Tonya Hall, Brian Starkel, and Eric Teske.