The Bicentennial Year (2019/2020) and the period leading up to it provide a truly unique opportunity to reflect upon the university’s history and to catalyze new initiatives at the start of the institution’s third century. It will also provide numerous occasions to showcase IU’s extraordinary intellectual resources in science, its world-class programs and facilities in the arts and humanities, and its distinguished history of contributions to the people of Indiana, the state, and the world. It will be an opportunity to celebrate not only within the university community on all campuses, but also with all the communities across Indiana who are so closely intertwined with these campuses, the people of the State of Indiana, and the hundreds of thousands of IU alumni, colleagues, friends, and supporters around the country and globe.

The Bicentennial will feature numerous Signature Projects that are recommended by the Bicentennial Steering Committee. These projects are organized into the follow topics:

• Recognition Programs
• Lectures, Reunions, and Conferences
• Public Art and Campus Beautification Programs
• Heritage and Legacy Programs
• Public Programs and Outreach
• Academic and Curricular Innovations

Built into the Signature projects are opportunities for students to do research and manage aspects of projects as active members in the IU Bicentennial Celebration. This document provides guidelines for interested parties to apply to host interns for a semester long project.

The IU Bicentennial offers internship opportunities for IU students, on all IU campuses, at all levels of study, and from any discipline to conduct historic based research projects. Bicentennial Interns complete project-based research and deliver special, one-time project outcomes defined by the Office of the Bicentennial, project supervisors, and mentors. Our internships are typically one semester long for 10 hours per week (150 hours total). Internships are paid and provide the IU Bicentennial with content and program development and provide the intern with critical job experience.

The Bicentennial Office will consider the following when they evaluate intern host applications:

• Proposed project alignment to Bicentennial goals
• Not all goals and principles need to be addressed but those that offer solid connections will receive special consideration
• Availability of resources for project completion
• Research sites must have measureable and attainable goals for students.
•  Contribution to the body of research
• Does the proposed topic provide needed research on a little understood topic or provide a new perspective on an important topic?
• Topic interest
• Does this topic offer and intriguing topic that will garner research and reader attention?

Additionally, proposed projects will be assessed on their ability to address the criteria below:

• Balance IU’s past, present, and future in its emphasis
• Exemplify and express IU’s core missions of education and research.
• Ensure all IU campuses, units, programs, and constituencies are included.
• Be accessible and open to the public, and interesting to a wide variety of participants.
• Exemplify and express IU’s core missions of education and research.
• Engage all University constituencies on and off campuses, and strengthen IU’s connections to them locally, nationally and internationally.
• Identify and label ongoing University events and projects that contribute to IU’s vision for the Bicentennial.
• Advance the university’s reputation through creative and strategic use of communications in all events and programs.

Examples of deliverables include timelines, book content, research articles, blog posts, new websites, etc. View previous student work at https://200.iu.edu/history/ for guidance.