Ivy Tech Foundation buys 27 acres for Franklin expansion
Since moving to its current site in 2008, the campus has seen enrollment grow from about 450 students to 1,200.
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Factory workers struggling to bounce back
Thousands of Indiana’s rank-and-file factory workers have seen their earnings lose ground to that of white-collar workers. The gap has grown even as manufacturers expect their assembly-line workers to have more skills and more advanced education.
Ivy Tech to go after student debtors’ tax refunds
Students who owe Ivy Tech Community College money will have their tax refunds diverted to cover the debt under a new policy the statewide college system is implementing.
Universities oppose bill allowing guns on campus
Universities across Indiana are cautiously eying a state lawmaker’s proposal that would prohibit them from banning guns on campus.
Ivy Tech planning $96M South Bend campus expansion
The proposal includes a large addition at the campus, a student life center and other improvements that would nearly double Ivy Tech's current 258,000 square feet.
Indiana universities slow to embrace competency-based learning
Western Governors University allows students to complete courses as fast as they want and take as many courses as they want a semester, all for the same per-semester fee. But universities in Indiana believe the style isn’t for everyone.
Ivy Tech battles enrollment dip by promoting its lower tuition
This summer, Ivy Tech Community College rolled out a nearly $1 million marketing campaign that stressed the school’s affordability versus other higher education options. The message appears to have hit home. What looked like an impending 15-percent reduction in fall enrollment ended up at just under 5 percent.
Ivy Tech planning new central Indiana site
Indianapolis-based Ivy Tech Community College is planning to open a new classroom site in the central Indiana city of Frankfort.
Ex-Ivy Tech chancellor to lead New Jersey community college
B. Kaye Walter had served as chancellor of academic affairs for the central Indiana region of Ivy Tech until her sudden departure this spring. Ivy Tech is replacing Walter with Kathleen Lee.
Ivy Tech revs up for new automotive program
An Indiana college is revving up an intense new automotive program designed to increase graduation rates and help students earn technical certificates in less time.
Rising use of part-time faculty sparks worries
Some advocacy groups argue that an overreliance on part-time faculty can weaken the academic experience for students on campus.
Former ATA campus set to find new use as classroom
Ivy Tech Community College will begin offering accounting, business, criminal justice and information technology classes at the former airline campus on the northern edge of Indianapolis International Airport.
Daniels approves limits on Indiana college credits
The governor included the measure as part of his final legislative agenda saying that he was concerned that college degrees were becoming too expensive.
Ivy Tech absorbs avalanche of new students
For the past four years, Ivy Tech Community College has soaked up 60,000 extra students displaced by the recession even though the funding for new staff and facilities has not kept pace. But now Ivy Tech President Tom Snyder says the sponge is waterlogged.
Ivy Tech to open satellite campus at airport
Ivy Tech Community College will lease 19,615 square feet at the former ATA Airlines campus at Indianapolis International Airport for a logistics and business education program.
Ivy Tech fall semester enrollment tops 113,000
Ivy Tech Community College says it has set a fall semester enrollment record with more than 113,000 students taking classes at its campuses across Indiana.
Colleges hike tuition as state reduces funding
Supporters of Indiana's public universities say if state lawmakers continue to reduce state funding for higher education, colleges will keep raising tuition and fees.
Indiana universities face questions over tuition increases
Indiana's top higher education official warned Monday that legislators may demand explanations from public colleges and universities if the schools approve tuition hikes in excess of caps recently suggested by a state panel.
Ivy Tech says it’ll save $18M with IU computer pact
Indiana University agrees to let Ivy Tech store computer records on its system, an agreement that help Ivy Tech avoid building its own data center.
Ivy Tech gaining closed Indiana State Police post
Ivy Tech officials say the state is in the final steps of transferring the Terre Haute property’s title to the statewide college system. The no-cost transaction is expected to be completed after Jan. 1.