We’ve reached the end of another incredible semester and academic year! Hundreds of students are graduating this semester, and hundreds more will start their Luddy journey in a few short months. All thanks to the work of our wonderful staff and faculty. Without you, we cannot advance the school's mission. Please take time today to celebrate and honor a colleague.

Last week, Bloomington hosted the student recognition celebrations (read the article and see the pictures). The Indy celebration is this week, and I encourage you to participate where you can.

Thank you to everyone who planned these events and thank you to everyone who attended them or the receptions. Students and families love to interact with the faculty and staff who have helped them along the way.

Luddy is well represented this year at the campus commencements. The graduate commencement speakers for Indianapolis and Bloomington hail from our school. Their stories highlight why we do what we do.

Mohammad Nasir Moradi graduated with an M.S. in Secure Computing from Bloomington. He came to IU after fleeing Afghanistan and completing his undergrad degree online in Iraq. Now, thanks to the support he has received from many of you, he calls IU his home and his family.

Sahiti Somalraju will graduate with a M.S. in Bioinformatics from Indianapolis. She has a strong academic and research record, going back to her first year as a research assistant in the Janga Lab of Genomics and Systems Biology. She’s sticking around campus though and starting her Ph.D. this fall.

It is a wonderful testament to our school that our students were chosen as speakers on both campuses.

Thanks to the very hard work of our recruitment and admissions teams (and many others!), Luddy is much better positioned now with enrollment than it was several months ago. We won’t know final numbers for a while yet, but I’m cautiously optimistic about where things will land. Yes, we’ll be down in grad enrollment, but given the national climate with graduate tech majors, it could have been much worse if not for your efforts.

There is still a lot of change coming our way thanks to new federal policies and state laws. The Indiana legislative session has come to a close, and University Relations wrote a summary of the bills that passed and how they will likely impact IU. There are still many unknowns about how they will be implemented, but we will communicate new policies as we learn them.

As you know, several international students at IU had their visas revoked. But recently many of them have been reinstated. The Luddy School remains committed to helping students achieve their academic goals, and we’ll work with any impacted students to provide support however we can. Please keep us informed.

We’ve received some questions related to speaking to any law enforcement agents that may come to campus. As IU employees, we are expected to follow university policies and public laws. For instance, student records are covered by FERPA and cannot be shared. If you are approached, please refer law enforcement inquiries to the Office of the Vice President and General Counsel.