INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie will present the annual State of the University address at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 10, in Hine Hall at IUPUI.
McRobbie is expected to discuss the university’s progress toward goals and initiatives outlined in the university’s Bicentennial Strategic Plan and preparations for IU’s bicentennial celebration in 2019-20.
In keeping with the Faculty Constitution and IU tradition, the University Faculty Council invites the president to present a report on the state of the university each year. All members of the IU community and the general public are invited to view the address in person or via live-stream broadcasting at broadcast.iu.edu or on IU Bloomington campus cable channel 32. A reception will follow the address.
McRobbie’s address will also be available for viewing the following ways:
- On tape delay at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 10, off-air on Digital Multicast Broadcast Channel WTIU-World 30.2, on Comcast/Xfinity Cable Channel 17 or Channel 419 in Bloomington, or where available
- On tape delay at 11 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 10, off-air on Digital Multicast Broadcast Channel WTIU-HD 30.1, on WTIU Comcast/Xfinity Cable Channel 5 or Channel 1022 in Bloomington, or where available
- Via archived broadcast, available soon after the address, at broadcast.iu.edu.
McRobbie became IU’s 18th president on July 1, 2007. He joined the university in 1997 as vice president for information technology and chief information officer and was appointed vice president for research in 2003. He was named interim provost and vice president for academic affairs for IU’s Bloomington campus in 2006 and became president the following year.
As president, McRobbie has refocused IU around six Principles of Excellence: an excellent education, world-class research and scholarship, an outstanding faculty, enhanced international engagement, excellence in health sciences, and engagement.
