Community colleges across the country aren’t adding online courses fast enough to satisfy a growing demand for modern, job-oriented training, according to a recent Instructional Technology Council report. The ITC, however, recognized Ivy Tech’s online Manufacturing Production and Operations program as the kind of online degree that can translate into a decent job: At a [...]
Ivy Tech is working with the Mooresville Redevelopment Commission to turn an empty hardware store into four classrooms and two computer labs. The community college will move to the new location from the local high school in spring 2013.
Ivy Tech’s enrollment statewide has grown more than 70 percent since 2007. But the school hasn’t built any new permanent classroom space since then, leaving the statewide system more than 800,000 square feet short of space.
Remediating students who enter college without college-level skills costs the state $35 million a year, Indiana higher education officials say — but only a quarter of these students will earn a diploma within six years. Time to rethink remediation? From The Augusta Chronicle: Thousands upon thousands of students don’t continue in college because they don’t pass [...]
This is a guest post from Molly Bloom, a reporter for our sister site, StateImpact Ohio. The post originally appeared here. Education came second only to Jobs, Jobs, Jobs! in President Barack Obama’s 2012 State of the Union remarks Tuesday night. Making college less expensive for students continues to be a key talking point for the Obama administration. In the State of the [...]
Last month, we asked whether for-profit universities are “diploma mills” or just convenient scapegoats for the nation’s mounting student debt. But wouldn’t a diploma mill produce — well, you know — diplomas?
For-profit colleges may be taking their lumps these days, but federal data released last week suggest community colleges have a problem of their own: Students aren’t meeting their own goals for earning degrees. Compared to the early 90′s, more community college students entered school this century aspiring to degrees higher than a bachelors’, the data show. [...]
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