USI freshmen to visit New Harmony September 12 for day of learning and fun

The University of Southern Indiana will be taking all freshmen students in the UNIV101 course to New Harmony, Indiana, on Tuesday, September 12 for a day filled with fun activities and hands-on learning. This educational trip is funded entirely by the USI Foundation and the Provost’s Office.

“Learning is always about more than being in the classroom–it’s about hands on experience and engaging with both the past and the present as you seek to expand your knowledge,” said Dr. Kristalyn Shefveland, Assistant Dean of the College of Liberal Arts.  

USI’s partnership with New Harmony, Indiana, offers an opportunity unique to USI students. The visit will allow them the opportunity to experience how the historic community can fit into their academic career, showcasing the resources available to them and how they can integrate those resources into their USI experience. 

Situated within the homelands of the Miami and Shawnee indigenous peoples, the town, founded in 1814 as an experiment in communal living, is now home to Historic New Harmony, a USI Outreach and Engagement program. With an entrepreneurial legacy and a history of social innovation and intellectual advances in science as well as public education, Historic New Harmony has been USI’s “living laboratory” since 1985.