January 28: Michael McRobbie
The Rotary Club of Indianapolis welcomes
Michael McRobbie, President, Indiana University
Join us next week to hear from Michael McRobbie the President of Indiana University. McRobbie became the 18th president of Indiana University in 2007. He joined IU in 1997 as the university’s first vice president for information technology and chief information officer. He was appointed vice president for research in 2003. In 2006, he was named interim provost and vice president for academic affairs for IU’s Bloomington campus.
Under McRobbie’s leadership as president, IU has seen a major expansion in the size, quality, and diversity of its student body; the largest academic restructuring in its history during which ten new schools have been established; a reinvigoration of its global engagement that support the university’s international academic and educational programs; the construction or renovation of nearly 200 major new facilities across all campuses with a total value approaching $2.75 billion; and the launch of the largest fundraising campaign in IU’s history and one of the largest ever by a public university—“For All: The Indiana University Bicentennial Campaign,” which has a goal of raising $3 billion by IU’s Bicentennial in 2020.
He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012 and currently serves as chair of the Board of Directors of the Association of American Universities, an organization comprising the 60 leading research universities in the U.S. and two in Canada. President McRobbie is a two-time recipient of the Sagamore of the Wabash Award, and, in 2016, received the International Citizen of the Year Award from the International Center for outstanding contributions to the globalization of Indiana.
All are welcome at Rotary programs. The lunch buffet opens at Ivy Tech Culinary and Conference Center at 11:45 a.m. and the program runs 12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. See you there!
