Labor Department awards $5M to Ivy Tech for apprenticeship expansion
The new funding specifically targets the growing electric vehicle industry, including EV manufacturing and infrastructure.
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Ivy Tech spent years trying to improve rock bottom graduation rates—and it’s working
Over the last decade, Ivy Tech Community College, which serves about 74,000 students across the state, has made steady gains in completion rates.
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Ivy Tech breaks ground on $14M automotive tech center in International Marketplace
The center will move operations from a building it has operated in for several years at 1331 E. Washington St.
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Top Indiana companies for diversity provide unconscious bias training, support minority-owned businesses
For the 14 Indiana companies that made Forbes’ 2022 list of America’s Best Employers for Diversity, efforts go far beyond diversifying the composition of the executive leadership team or the board of directors.
Hands-on training for key occupations means swerving and dodging COVID-19
With the highly contagious omicron variant now spreading, technical schools and occupational training programs are still working to ensure the safety of students and staff. But they’ve found ways to cope and keep hands-on instruction going as best they can.
Ivy Tech launches $285M statewide fundraising campaign
The school said the funds raised through the “Invest IN Ivy Tech” effort will benefit its 19 campuses across Indiana and add much-needed “human capital.”
Ivy Tech opens new automotive tech center in west side’s International Marketplace District
The center boasts 16 classrooms, nine labs, offices and state of the art facilities. It will give students hands-on and cognitive skills training needed to be an automotive technician.
Sue Ellspermann & Daniel Elsener: One effort to diversify Indiana’s teaching corps
We are all aware of the significant teacher shortage plaguing our state. It is incumbent upon our universities, both public and private, to aggressively recruit highly qualified and talented individuals to lead Hoosier classrooms.
Martin University focuses on workforce needs to close equity gap
The predominantly Black college—under the leadership of a president hired less than two years ago—is making moves to expand its enrollment, its reach among Black adults and its presence in the community.
Ivy Tech, Conexus to launch first-of-its-kind truck driver training program
The one-semester program, which includes both on-the-road driver training and academic instruction, is set to begin in January at Ivy Tech campuses in Indianapolis, Lafayette, Fort Wayne, Evansville and Lawrenceburg.
IPS, Ivy Tech receive $1.15M grant from Salesforce.org
The donation from the philanthropic arm of tech firm Salesforce will be used to support career-development programs at Indianapolis Public Schools and Ivy Tech Community College.
Universities rush to meet cybersecurity job demand
Pretty much every school of note, including Indiana University, Purdue University, the University of Notre Dame, Ball State University and Ivy Tech Community College (which offers a well-regarded two-year associate’s degree certified by the National Security Agency) offers advanced education for students interested in cybersecurity.
Ivy Tech Foundation lauded for fundraising
Ivy Tech raised $16.4 million in 2017, exceeding the No. 2 community college fundraiser by 43 percent, according to a survey.
Hogsett unveils plan to get more Indy students to enroll in college—and finish
Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett on Tuesday plan to roll out an initiative called Indy Achieves, which will support students across Indianapolis’ 11 school districts.
Ivy Tech plans $43M in projects in Muncie
The school’s downtown campus will get $30 million in work, including a $17.2 million Downtown North Building to be constructed on the site of the former home of the Muncie Star Press.
House, Senate agree on workforce changes, but critics say they don’t go far enough
The major change this year is to replace the existing State Workforce Innovation Council with a new board that legislative leaders hope will be smaller and more nimble.
Ivy Tech hopes to double degree output, increase enrollment
Ivy Tech Community College has a five-year goal to grow enrollment by more than 25 percent and more than double the number of degrees and certificates it awards each year.
Former Ivy Tech president receives $1M retirement payout
The former president of Indiana’s community college system received a retirement payout worth more than $1 million despite the university's struggle with budget cuts.
Former DWD chief used ex-colleagues to build key data tool
Steve Braun says Inquidia Consulting was uniquely qualified to help create the state’s groundbreaking “Demand Driven Workforce System,” which will influence how millions of dollars in training and education money is spent.
Messer introduces bill to help more transfer students earn degrees
Indiana officials are also trying to advance “reverse transfer” policies statewide as a tool to increase Indiana’s college attainment rate.
Ivy Tech receives $1M land donation for training center
The community college will use the six-acre site on the city’s northwest side to build a new automotive technology center to help fill demand for auto technicians.
‘Reverse transfer’ could be potent tool to bolster Indiana’s college-attainment rate
Reverse transfer allows students to combine credits they earned from both the community college where they started attending classes and the four-year college they transferred to—even if they hadn’t completed enough credits at either institution individually to earn a degree.