David Bowden, artistic director of the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic, will speak to the music appreciation class of John Glennon, adjunct instructor at Ivy Tech Community College-Columbus, on Friday, December 4. (more…)
Archive for November, 2009
David Bowden to speak to music appreciation class at Ivy Tech-Columbus
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Ivy Tech-Columbus agriculture students Aaron Borden and David Rust receive FFA’s highest honor
Friday, November 20th, 2009
Ivy Tech-Columbus agriculture students Aaron Borden and David Rust received the American FFA Degree at the 82nd National Future Farmers of America Convention in Indianapolis on Saturday, October 24, 2009. The award is the highest honor that can be achieved as a member of the national FFA organization, (more…)
Ivy Tech-Columbus EMT graduate Brian Lucas receives award
Friday, November 20th, 2009
Brian Lucas, a December, 2008, graduate of the Ivy Tech-Columbus basic emergency medical technician (EMT) course and a resident of Sweetwater Lake, recently received the Second-Half Champion Award, presented by Wells Fargo Advisors. The award is given to individuals who are 50 years of age or older, have achieved remarkable personal goals, or have made significant contributions to society, or are using the second half of their life for a purpose completely different from the first half. Winners are selected by a panel of judges representing Wells Fargo Advisors.
After 31 years as an air traffic controller, Lucas became a firefighter, an EMT, and a sheriff’s deputy. Using his EMT training, he saved a man’s life at Sweetwater Lake in June of this year. Crediting his instructor, Dennis Rose, Lucas commented that he had been a certified EMT for only five months when the incident occurred.
Book cover design by Ivy Tech-Columbus student Kayla Straw selected for publication
Friday, November 20th, 2009
A design created by Kayla Straw, a second-year Ivy Tech Community College-Columbus visual communications student, has been selected as the cover for the poetry chapbook titled Night Duty, by Dave Seter. (A chapbook is a small book or pamphlet containing poems, ballads, stories, or religious tracts.) The book will be published by Main Street Rag, a publishing company based in Charlotte, North Carolina. (more…)
Ivy Tech-Columbus offers new creative writing course
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
A new creative writing course, ENGL 202, will be offered during the spring semester at Ivy Tech Community College-Columbus. Taught by Patrick Nevins, Assistant Professor of English and Communications, the course will be offered in two different formats – face-to-face and as an Internet course. Credit earned in both will transfer fully to four-year institutions. (more…)
Five countries represented in new Ivy Tech-Columbus ESL Bridge program
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Students in the English as a Second Language (ESL) Bridge program that began this fall at Ivy Tech Community College-Columbus are natives of five different countries: Senegal (West Africa), Colombia, Panama, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic. (more…)
New transfer program between Ivy Tech and IUPUI offers MET career path to students
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
A new collaboration will allow Ivy Tech-Columbus students who earn an associate of science in mechanical engineering technology (MET) to transfer all credits to the bachelor’s degree program in that same field to Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), according to Steven Bardonner, chair of the departments of design technology and mechanical engineering technology at Ivy Tech Community College-Columbus. Course offerings in this transfer program began this fall. (more…)