For Valparaiso University junior Ashley Vernon, a visual media arts major, news that the university plans to sell three cornerstone works from the Brauer Museum of Art to raise funds to renovate dorms for first-year students was just another thing that makes her feel as if the university is increasingly pushing arts programing to the side.
GRIFFITH â In a year where education has completely changed, one of Indianaâs top teachers is still figuring it out.
Merv Barenie, a seventh-grade teacher at Griffith Middle School, is teaching this year with about two-thirds of his students in his classroom with the other third learning remotely.
Griffith Public Schools, like many of its neighboring districts, has navigated a mix of in-person and remote learning options during the coronavirus pandemic, in some weeks experiencing full building closures as the pandemic continues.
For Barenie â an educator inspired by William Wirtâs work-study-play model of teaching â the 2020-21 school year has been âpretty tough.â