Chalkboard Winter 2009 - School of Education - Indiana University

“We have a public
responsibility as the
largest preparer of new
teachers in the state—
and that’s not just
bragging rights, that’s
a load that we have to
carry and deliver on.”
— Don Warren
(above) Opening the new
Wright Building in 1992.
(right) Groundbreaking for
new building at IUPUI, 1980.
of lobbying and fundraising by Dean
Howard Mehlinger, the new $22-million
Wright Education Building in Bloomington
opened in 1992.
Mehlinger, Warren, and current dean
Gerardo Gonzalez have continued some
of the most notable features of the IU
School of Education that established
its reputation over a century. An international
role remains important, with
projects across the globe and more than
300 students from 70 countries enrolled.
Research remains a priority, with an
annual portfolio of externally-funded
research at about $18 million. From the
core campus of Indianapolis and Bloomington
come nearly a third of the newly
licensed teachers in the state of Indiana
every year.
And with the varied responsibilities
to the field of education that the school
holds today, it’s the role that prompted
the founding in 1908 that remains a
primary force. “We have a public responsibility
as the largest preparer of new
teachers in the state — and that’s not just
bragging rights, that’s a load that we have
to carry and deliver on,” Warren said.
Chalkboard
Through the Years
The School of Education published the
first issue of Chalkboard in May 1951. In
the first two-page edition, Dean Wendell
Wright wrote the new publication would
come out “semi-occasionally.” The first
issue also included a note about the justforming
IU School of Education Alumni
Association. Chalkboard evolved into a
magazine format by 1980. 1952 1967 1977
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