Ivy Tech president, student invited to White House
The meeting is billed as a chance to discuss the role of community colleges in preparing the nation's work force and reaching President Barack Obama's goal of having more college graduates.
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Indiana college students seek degrees that offer jobs
College students are selecting majors that will lead straight to a job after graduation and not into a field riddled with layoffs and unemployment, local college leaders said.
Ivy Tech sees first drop after enrollment explosion
Ivy Tech counted 111,452 students statewide, up about 4 percent from a year ago, but down from the nearly 120,000 students
the college had for the spring semester.
More Indiana students enroll in dual credit classes
More than 21,000 Indiana high school students earned college credits through Ivy Tech Community College
last year, marking
a growing trend officials say saved parents more than $10 million in tuition bills.
Ivy Tech renews president’s contract
Thomas Snyder is set to lead the nation’s largest singly accredited statewide community college through at least 2014. His
annual salary of $300,000 remains unchanged.
Ivy Tech naming new building after Julia Carson
The Julia Carson Learning Resource Center will house the Indianapolis campus's library and tutoring labs, a local bus
hub and a 500-space parking garage.
Ivy Tech summer semester enrollment up 17 percent
Enrollment during the period rose 17 percent, to more than 57,000 students as of Monday, the first day of the summer semester.
Ivy Tech set to break ground on new downtown building
Ivy Tech Community College is set to start new construction at a former hospital site next to its downtown Indianapolis campus.
Ivy Tech to offer classes in Avon shopping mall
The town will spend $250,000 to turn a vacant 15,000 square foot space in the Beechwood Centre into 12 classrooms and a computer
lab.
Ivy Tech gets $4.7M energy grant to retrain 1,500 workers
Federal money will help create programs at community college and Purdue University to offer skills in smart-grid technologies.
Adjunct instructors organize at IUPUI
Two 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.
Ivy Tech, IPIC snare $10M in job-training grants
Programs will bolster job opportunities for some 1,700 Indiana workers in sectors including health care and advanced manufacturing.
Fast-growing Ivy Tech feeling pain of funding cuts
Hoosiers 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.
Ivy Tech names new business school dean
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.
Ivy Tech takes over state prison GED classes
The Indiana Department of Correction plans to shed the jobs of 118 teachers for GED, literacy and vocational classes at prisons
by turning those programs over to Ivy Tech Community College.
State links university funding to lifting graduation rates
The
Indiana Commission for Higher Education late last month slashed college budgets based on key performance
measures.
Too much, too soon in Elkhart?
Embattled workers might lose motivation to go back to school, thus putting them in an even worse position in the long run.
Facing cuts, Indiana colleges put everything on table
Universities searching for ways to cut $150 million say they’re looking at all options, including eliminating some sports
or even academic majors.
Ivy Tech to offer late-night classes in Indianapolis
Ivy Tech Community College says it will offer "moonlight madness" classes at its downtown Indianapolis campus this
spring semester, which begins Jan. 11.
Ivy Tech offers fast degree for at-risk students
Ivy Tech Community College is offering at-risk students a chance to earn an associate’s degree in just 10 months instead of
two years.