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Once a Hoosier, always a Hoosier, in Ghana

“Indiana University was, for me, an experience never to be forgotten.” “I hope there will one day be another opportunity for me to go back to Bloomington.”  “I will always be a Hoosier.” The final day of this historic IU presidential trip to Africa offered delegation members a chance to meet and talk with five […] Read more »

Goodbye, Kenya. Greetings, Ghana.

Members of the IU delegation said goodbye to Kenya early this morning, but not without taking with them an indelible impression of a country that, in many ways, reflects both the dynamism and tension felt here in Africa, the world’s second-largest and second-most-populous continent, but also its poorest and most underdeveloped. About half of those […] Read more »

An introduction and itinerary

Beginning this weekend, a delegation from Indiana University, led by IU President Michael A. McRobbie and including yours truly, will embark on a two-week trip to sub-Saharan Africa, including stops in South Africa, Kenya and Ghana. I’m honored and excited to be part of the trip — the first by a sitting IU president to Africa in […] Read more »