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 Community College is set to start new construction at a former hospital site next to its downtown Indianapolis campus.
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.
Federal money will help create programs at community college and Purdue University to offer skills in smart-grid technologies.
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.
Programs will bolster job opportunities for some 1,700 Indiana workers in sectors including health care and advanced manufacturing.
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 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.
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.
The
Indiana Commission for Higher Education late last month slashed college budgets based on key performance
measures.
Embattled workers might lose motivation to go back to school, thus putting them in an even worse position in the long run.
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 Community College says it will offer "moonlight madness" classes at its downtown Indianapolis campus this
spring semester, which begins Jan. 11.
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.
Mary Ostrye, 52, will have oversight of 150 different academic programs at Ivy Tech’s 23 campuses around the state.
A report by Community College Week says Ivy Tech’s central Indiana campus enrollment grew by 22 percent from fall 2007 to
fall 2008.
The state has approved more than $1 billion in university projects in the last 18 months.
Ivy Tech Community College will build a $20 million campus along Interstate 69 in Anderson, school and city officials
announced Tuesday.
Ivy 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.
Ivy Tech Community College says a record of nearly 110,000 students were enrolled before fall semester classes started this
week.
Ivy 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.