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City\u2019s Community and Family Resources Department Director announces retirement<\/strong>
Beverly Calender-Anderson, head of the City of Bloomington Community and Family Resources Department (CFRD) has announced she will retire May 17. A Chicago native, Calender-Anderson began her service with the City of Bloomington in 2006 as the Safe and Civil City Director. During her nine years of leadership, the Safe and Civil program focused heavily on diversity and public safety education. The program also responded to a variety of community issues to remediate noise, graffiti, and the town\/gown divide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the retirement of the previous CFRD director, Pete Giordano, then-Mayor Mark Kruzan appointed Calender-Anderson to the director role, where she served an additional nine and a half years. In this role, Calender-Anderson has annually overseen 39 programs as well as the work of seven commissions, the Council for Community Accessibility, and the Monroe County Domestic Violence Task Force. She\u2019s provided leadership to collaborative efforts supporting agencies who provide services to the community\u2019s unhoused residents and managed three City grant programs and the Local Income Tax Economic Equity Fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA healthy, thriving community is one in which residents are engaged, care for and about one another, celebrate each other\u2019s accomplishments, and stand with one another in times of trouble,\u201d said Calendar-Anderson. \u201cIn my 18 \u00bd years at the City of Bloomington, along with my colleagues and community partners, I hope we\u2019ve helped move Bloomington toward being a community all residents are proud to be a part of.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IU celebrating 2024 commencement across the state; Scott Dorsey to speak at IU Bloomington<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Indiana University will award nearly 19,000 degrees in\u00a0commencement ceremonies and celebrations across the state<\/a>\u00a0from May 3 to 9. The ceremonies will include student speakers who were selected to represent their graduating classes and a guest speaker for IU Bloomington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, the start times for some ceremonies were moved to the evening where possible to make them more convenient for families traveling from out of town, and to allow for more school recognition events beforehand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott Dorsey, a tech entrepreneur and IU Bloomington alumnus, will address graduates during the May 4 IU Bloomington undergraduate commencement ceremony. Dorsey, a 1989 graduate of the Kelley School of Business, is the managing partner of High Alpha, a venture studio that launches, scales and invests in enterprise cloud companies. He also earned an MBA in 1999 from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IU Bloomington\u2019s student speakers will share converging messages<\/a>\u00a0about the power of mistakes and taking risks when they address their fellow graduates. The May 3 graduate student speaker is Patrick Blackstone, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences who has done research in elementary particle physics. IU Bloomington\u2019s undergraduate speaker is Hannah Pedersen, a biology major who will attend the IU School of Dentistry in the fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IUPUI\u2019s May 9 commencement is a joint ceremony for graduate and undergraduate degree recipients<\/span>
The\u00a0graduate speaker is Kidist Yasin<\/a>, a doctoral student in the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy who is earning a degree in philanthropic studies. The\u00a0undergraduate speaker is Faith Odiete<\/a>, an Honors College Scholar and criminal justice major in the Paul H. O\u2019Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commencement events<\/span>
IU Bloomington\u2019s graduate commencement ceremony will take place at 3 p.m. May 3 at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall, and the undergraduate commencement ceremony will be at 7:45 p.m. May 4 at Memorial Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IUPUI\u2019s combined graduate and undergraduate commencement ceremony takes place at 7:45 p.m. May 9 at Carroll Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dates and times for regional campus commencements:<\/p>\n\n\n\n