Our College, Your Voices

January 2019 Virtual Update

In this relaxed and fun episode, Russ Baker and Sarah DeWitt talk through the agenda for the upcoming Student Success Summit.

Ivy Tech is preparing for its HLC Reaffirmation of Accreditation Visit. In this episode, Kara talks with Dr. Russ Baker and Dr. Rod Brown who serve as Peer Corps members for the Higher Learning Commission and go on visits just like the one Ivy Tech will experience in April.

Voices of Indianapolis Winter Commencement

The Student Success Commitments were endorsed by the Student Government Association President’s Council, Faculty Council, Executive Council, Vice Chancellors for Academic Affairs, Vice Chancellor of Enrollment Services, and Vice Chancellors of Student Success, and now that they have been approved, the adoption and implementation of these commitments will require every faculty member, staff, and student to be exposed to the commitments on a regular basis.

On July 1, 2015, Ivy Tech welcomed its ninth President, Dr. Sue Ellspermann. President Ellspermann is also the first female President of Ivy Tech and I’m going to ask her to provide a brief intro and a little of her background.

We’re pleased to bring you the December 2018 Virtual Update.

The Commitments provide concrete examples of how we, as members of the College community, demonstrate our commitment to student success each and every day. The Commitments were developed with broad-based input and feedback from faculty, staff, and our Student Government Association leaders.

In this, our first episode that brings you live on location recording, you’ll hear directly from the students, faculty and staff who make this program so successful and get a chance to learn first hand about this program.

Anne Valentine, VP of Workforce Partnerships at Ivy Tech, and Zach Smith, Associate Commissioner for the Indiana Commission for Higher Education provide a great overview of “Next Level Jobs”, a program announced by Governor Eric Holcomb in the Fall 2018 semester.

In the episode, Anne and Kara talk about the first six months of making Our College, Your Voices.

This week we’re going to be discussing the College’s advising model.

Our panel members had a lively discussion about their personal experience with eight week classes as well as the first few months of this transition at the College.

On today’s episode, we’re going to be talking about a program the state of Indiana is launching in January – Gateway to Work. We talked with Anne Penny Valentine and John Barth, two people working to prepare Ivy Tech to support Gateway to Work participants.

Today’s episode looks at connecting student life activities to the classroom and beyond. In this episode, our panel: Vanessa Fritz, Anna Droste-Glowinski, and Kat Stremiecki shared about their experiences with both applied learning and service learning