IVY TECH

In 1995 Indiana Vocational Technical College was renamed Ivy Tech State College, and in 2007 Ivy Tech State College was renamed to the Ivy Tech Community College we know today.

-Originally from Fort Wayne, Ind., Bowles stayed in the area and attended Ivy Tech State College, where she graduated with honors in the legal secretarial program.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Ivy Tech State College plans to buy and renovate a 13-story former hotel near its main Indianapolis campus.

Fulcher (retired from Swainsboro Technical College) and Frazier (retired from Ivy Tech State College) provide student nurses and medical assistants with basic knowledge needed to safely administer intravenous (IV) fluids and medications.

CLIENTS: Pomona College, TCU, Ithaca College, Xavier University, University of Texas System, Ivy Tech State College, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Saint Leo University, Association of Governing Boards

Ivy Tech State College summer classes are already under way in part of the facility, and by fall, two more operations will open--an incubator facility for startup companies and offices for Multiple Networks, a broadband systems integrator.

A graduate survey in 2000 at Ivy Tech State College in Columbus, Ind., indicated that 86 percent of the program graduates tracked were employed as technicians in a CAD-related career.

Ivy Tech State College (Indiana) is the statewide two-year college system in Indiana, with 23 campuses and a fall 2002 enrollment of 64,110 credit students and approximately 13,000 non-credit students.

Recipients for this year are: Cynthia Hallett Linn-Benton Community College Albany, OR Colleen Hiemenz Indiana University School of Dentistry Indianapolis, IN Deana Jones Ivy Tech State College Lafayette, IN Amanda Lackey Luzerne County Community College Nanticoke, PA Desiree LaFoy Grayson County College Denison, TX Bernice Lantigua Community College of Rhode Island Lincoln, RI Shelley Pierce Highline Community College Des Moines, WA Emilee Thrift Renton Technical College Renton, WA

He is currently executive assistant for professional development at Ivy Tech State College and has served as visiting professor in political science and leadership at Franklin College.