April 12, 2010
J.K. WallFederal money will help create programs at community college and Purdue University to offer skills in smart-grid technologies.
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April 10, 2010
J.K. WallTwo problems come with prevalent use of adjunct instructors: a perception that adjuncts reduce the quality of instruction
and the adjuncts' frustration with low levels of pay, security and benefits, and appreciation.
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February 15, 2010
IBJ StaffPrograms will bolster job opportunities for some 1,700 Indiana workers in sectors including health care and advanced manufacturing.
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January 26, 2010
Scott OlsonHoosiers enrolling at fast-growing Ivy Tech Community College might find it increasingly difficult to get the classes they
want at the times they prefer. Blame burgeoning enrollment and $10 million in funding cuts.
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January 26, 2010
Ivy Tech Community College's new dean of the School of Business for its East Central Region will oversee all business programs
at its Anderson, Marion and Muncie campuses.
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January 16, 2010
J.K. Wall
The
Indiana Commission for Higher Education late last month slashed college budgets based on key performance
measures.
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December 4, 2009
Associated PressIvy Tech Community College is offering at-risk students a chance to earn an associate's degree in just 10 months instead of
two years.
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December 3, 2009
IBJ StaffMary Ostrye, 52, will have oversight of 150 different academic programs at Ivy Tech's 23 campuses around the state.
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October 7, 2009
IBJ Staff and Associated PressIvy Tech Community College will build a $20 million campus along Interstate 69 in Anderson, school and city officials
announced Tuesday.
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August 27, 2009
Cory SchoutenIvy Tech Community College plans to save the facade of a historic former hospital along Fall Creek Parkway and build a new
150,000-square-foot academic building behind it.
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July 10, 2009
Scott OlsonIvy Tech Community College President Tom Snyder is one of 13 candidates being considered for the position of chancellor of
the State University System of Florida.
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June 22, 2009
Chris KatterjohnThere's reason to believe serious progress is coming, due to the people in leadership positions for the state in three key
areas: the Department of Education, the Commission for Higher Education and Ivy Tech Community College.
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January 19, 2009
Cory SchoutenIvy Tech Community College is working with private developers on an $18 million plan to turn the old St. Vincent Hospital
on Fall Creek
Parkway into a housing complex for Ivy Tech and IUPUI students.
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January 12, 2009
Scott OlsonStudents are flocking to online classes at Ivy Tech Community College faster than the burgeoning college is racking up overall
growthmirroring a national trend toward computers over classrooms.
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December 1, 2008
The Indiana Pacers and Ivy Tech Community College have teamed to offer six statewide scholarships to Ivy Tech students.
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November 17, 2008
Chris O'MalleyIf certain people in Hancock County have their way, one of the fastest-growing new industries here could be adult education.
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June 16, 2008
Tracy DonhardtRetired Ivy Tech Community College President Gerald Lamkin has repaid nearly $20,000 after a review of the college foundation's
expense-reimbursement policy uncovered bills that had been paid for him without proper documentation. College and foundation
officials call the accounting lapse and Lamkin's inability to produce receipts for all the submitted expenses an "innocent
oversight" and have implemented a revised policy with tighter controls.
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July 9, 2007
Tracy DonhardtIn the three months since being named president of Ivy Tech Community College, Tom Snyder
has read up on the school's history and held meetings with 4,000 faculty, students and others to gain insight into the school.
He's also made decisions about hiring, cost-cutting and student services.
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May 28, 2007
Chris O'MalleyCarol D'Amico has been publicly silent since the board passed over her for president of Ivy Tech Community College in March.
But a letter her attorney dashed off a day after the vote says she deemed neither of the finalists for the job qualified and
the selection process ripe for a lawsuit.
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April 23, 2007
Chris O'MalleyIvy Tech Community College--charged with cranking out workers to fill high-demand jobs in critical occupations--has an output
rate reminiscent of an old, state-owned Soviet assembly line. Incoming President Thomas Snyder is taking over a community
college system that graduates only 12 percent of its students within three years.
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August 28, 2006
Victoria D. WilliamsIndiana Business College will launch a Chef's Academy downtown next month, offering an 18-month program intended to produce
trained "culinarians." Ivy Tech Community College, meanwhile, is looking for space to expand its two-year culinary arts program,
which has seen explosive growth.
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July 24, 2006
Chris O'MalleyIvy Tech Community College will train students in mortuary sciences, filling a void left when Indiana College of Mortuary
Science kicked the bucket several years ago.
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Can IBJ please stop referring to this property as "Kessler Mansion"? What a ridiculous title for the biggest, bloated, blight in our city. It's not a mansion. At best, it's an ideal site to shoot low-budget porn. Ahhh! Another business use!
Its stories like these that prove that a Ball State diploma is worth less than the paper that its printed on. A real institution of higher learning would have taken care of this long ago. No way should this crap be taught in a SCIENCE class.
It is such a shame that King Ballard has made Indianapolis into Chicago south with all of the rampant corruption.
How many of these 1,259 bills were actually heard and voted on on the floor vs how many were shot down in committee?
When a an arrogant young guy with essentially no experience and no qualifications for the job, was dropped into an Administrator position out of nowhere by his "mentor" in the Mayor's office things seemed fishy. Sometimes things are what they seem.