Doug Stout of Flying Eagle Aviation instructs a flight course offered through continuing studies on the IUK campus."Off we go, into the wild blue yonder...flying high into the sun."
Got an itch to fly?
IU Kokomo can make it happen. In cooperation with Flying Eagle Aviation, IUK offers a 12-week ground school course in flying, which helps students complete the first of two steps required to become a licensed pilot. The course has been running for three years, and when this semester's classes end, 40 enthusiasts will have completed the training which includes 75 hours of ground school instruction and two hours of flying. The students fly in Piper aircraft, usually Tomahawks.
Doug Stout of Flying Eagle Aviation teaches the course. He says "it is the most affordable, accessible ground school in Indiana. There is none other like it in the state."
To be licensed as a pilot, students who finish the course must take further flight training, Stout explained, and the majority of his students do go on.
Off they go, into the wild blue yonder, see them soar into the sky! How appropriate for students at a campus with the phoenix as its symbol.
Horses need back rubs, don't they? This class is an intensive 100-hour program designed to prepare owners to safely approach and relax horses. Students learn the anatomy and physiology of horses, as well as different muscle relaxing modalities. There's classroom instruction and hands-on application. Last fall, the class met at a stable in Clermont, not far from the IUPUI campus.
The "classroom" is rolling hills and lake shores in Morgan County. John Bradford, the last surviving member of a Hoosier pioneer family and a friend of James Whitcomb Riley, bequeathed to the university the rambling forests and meadows of his childhood to serve as a life-enhancing and healing place for Hoosier children with disabilities. Any number of programs throughout the seasons at Bradford Woods are open to the general public. Go birding, discuss wildflowers and flower folklore, hike a "moccasin mile," visit the Bradford Cemetery and discuss the symbols found on tombstones, as well as some of the late 19th-century burial customs, with instructors from the Interpretive Center. (Telephone 765-342-2915 for program information.)
Want a cup of coffee? Looking for a new coat? Need a new associate's or bachelor's degree? Let's go to the mall.
Through a program begun 15 years ago by retired IUPUI educator Jim East, IUPUI's Community Learning Network (CLN) encompasses the Weekend College and the Learn and Shop Program, which offers degree and non-degree programs at shopping centers as well as high schools throughout central Indiana. East's vision of offering educational opportunities at times and at locations that might serve non-traditional students has served as a model for programs at institutions of higher learning around the country. Next fall, this Cool School program will be "dual cool" -- courses taught by IUPUI professors will offer classes that grant dual credit, both for high school and college credit -- at Indianapolis-area high schools. CLN serves 22,000 students each semester, 2,000 by television instruction.
For a quarter of a century, IU alumni, staff, faculty and others have come to the Bloomington campus in June to enroll in classes that entertain as well as inform.
For those interested in the international scene, there is the course "Why Don't the French Like Americans?" being offered by historian William Cohen. Literary-minded participants may want to try "Was Mark Twain a Tragic Clown?" taught by Don Cook of the English Department or Rosemarie McGerr's class, "The Quest for the Grail: from Mythic Past to Monty Python."
Those interested in signing up for the IUB Mini U classes (June 15-20) can do so right up until the last minute before class, according to the Alumni Office. Schedules of activities are available by calling 800-824-3044 or 812-855-5844. Bring the whole family.
Take a look at "Blues and Boogie-Woogie Piano," for beginners and experts alike who would like to pursue this uniquely American musical form, there's a practice cassette and workbook. Both IU East and IU Southeast have included this offering through their continuing education curricula.
T'ai Chi Chuan, where form is not a piece of paper with inscrutable lines and squares, but the perfect progression of the melding of movement, mind and spirit, and energy -- "chi." Look for this "meditation in motion" class, developed in China and now practiced by millions of people in Asia, Europe and the United States, on the IU campuses. There's martial arts and meditation offerings, too, to be experienced, including Vipasana, Chi kung and TM, plus Tibetan, Zen and Dhyana yoga.
   | Training specialist Brenda Bailey-Hughes (left) and Lee Hadley, departmental secretary in employee relations at IUB, demonstrate the toils of speaking in front of a group. "Nerves, Nail-biting, and Nausea: Overcoming Communication Anxiety," taught by Brenda Bailey-Hughes, a training specialist at Human Resources Management in Bloomington, is one of many opportunities offered to staff on all IU campuses for training and development. "Communication anxiety" can be a professional roadblock (see story). Check for opportunities through your campus employee training office. |
Students explore species conservation, fishing and boating safety skills, casting techniques, spincasting equipment, interpretation of seasonal patterns and the effect on weather, proper lure selection and catch and release policies. Mostly, though, cast out. A river (a lake, a brook) runs through it.
Economist Lynn Duggan's new class at IU Northwest, "Labor and the Economy," takes an interesting spin; students study the issue of economic competitiveness from the workers' points of view. Some of the questions the class considers: Do we need lower wages and benefits to stay competitive? What is behind the current corporate appeals to workers to tighten their belts? Downsizing and restructure, NAFTA and trade, and approaches taken by other industrialized nations concerning competitiveness are issues being discussed. (IU Northwest is the home of SwingShift College.)
Get ready for an adventure of strange events with even stranger people. In this award-winning IU Independent Study course, take a critical and historical look at superstitions, magic, witchcraft, astrology, the Cabala, alchemy, psychic phenomena and UFOs. IU's Independent Study Program has more than 18,000 students world-wide and is one of the world's largest and oldest (founded in 1912) individualized instructional services.
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