Ivy Tech Community College

Indiana’s Education Roundtable

May 24, 2011

Unique Role in Higher EducationIvy Tech shall meet the needs of state and local officials, employers, and labor organizations by designing and delivering educational training courses and programs.

The primary objective of this effort shall be to provide economic and workforce development support to the state’s

employers and communities, by meeting their needs for better educated and trained, more productive, and more competitive employers and citizens. In addition Ivy Tech shall provide educational opportunities and appropriate workforce development, assessment, and training to those who have graduated from high school and want to

earn credits that will transfer to a four (4) year college.

Excerpts from Senate Enrolled Act 296 - Enacted July 1, 2005

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A Changing Community College

Enrollment Graduates Transfer

2005 104,7086,315 3,881

Current 166,550 12,36611,047

Change 59% 96%185%

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Total Undergraduate Enrollment (2009-10)

System Total

Ivy Tech-Statewide 166,555

Indiana Univ.-Statewide 98,013

Purdue-Statewide 66,964

All Other Publics 66,586

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Ivy Tech Community College Mission

Students Who Transfer 11,047

Workers Trained 23,226

Certifications Administered 40,074

Totals 86,713

2011 Totals

Work Ready One/Two-Year Graduates 12,366

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Most Popular Programs• Accounting

• Advanced Manufacturing / Industrial Technology

• Business

• Computer Information Systems / Technology

• Criminal Justice

• Education / Early Childhood

• Nursing

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Lowest Cost Provider

Appropriation Per FTE Student

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Best Student Return on Investment

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Limiting Increased Costs to Education

2006-07 2011-12 Increase/Cost per FTE Cost per FTE Decrease

Ivy Tech Community College $5,882 $5,861 - $39

Indiana University $16,073 $17,157 + $1,084

Purdue University $17,509 $19,878 + $2,369

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The College Gap

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Lumina’s Big Goal - Indiana

• 6,454+ Graduates / Per Year

• Ivy Tech will likely provide 75 percent

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Complete to Compete (NGA)Need to produce an additional 8.2 million college graduates

•Cannot be met with recent high school graduates alone

•Need to focus on improving educational attainment among adults

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Indiana’s Challenge / Opportunities

• Nearly 1 million adults without the skills needed for the workforce

• 80% of new jobs will require an associate degree

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Indiana Adults in Need of Education and Training (Ages 18-64), 2006

No College Education,Earning Less than a Living Wage651,609

No High School Diploma524,370

No College Education, Speak Little or No English63,450

256,112256,112226,0291226,0291

385,775385,775

27,44527,445

12,36012,360

8,8618,861

14,78414,784

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88,000+ onFinancial Aid

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20% Single Parents

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Median Income$19,103

(Independent FA Students)

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73% Working Adults

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81% are Part Time

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17,859 on Food Stamps

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10,630on

Medicaid

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23,134 Minority Students

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69%Need

Remediation

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Ivy Tech and Pell Grants• 54.5% of Pell recipients

• 50.7% of Pell dollars

Recipients 2009-10 AwardsIvy Tech 68,411 $201,647,513

PU – West Lafayette 6,502 $25,386,868

IU-Bloomington 5,887 $24,226,385

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• Significantly increase the number of Americans with a degree or certificate

• Close the attainment gap for traditionally underrepresented populations

• Focus solely of dramatically increasing the Nation’s college completion rate by changing State policy

Complete College America

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• Remediation

• Reduce Time and Accelerate Success

• Structure and New Models

• Performance Funding

Complete College America Targeted Strategies

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• Customized approach

• Co-requisite, not prerequisite

• Embed in course work

• Self paced modulars

• Optional

Remediation

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• Block schedules

• Cohort

• Faster pace or accelerated

• Eliminate unnecessary prerequisites

• Competency vs. seat time

Structure

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• Graduation is goal

• Eliminate unnecessary courses

• Audit degree programs

• Effective transfer and articulation

Reduce Time

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• Indiana national leader

• New formulas for Indiana

• Successful transfer

• Successful remediation

• Completion of General Education core

• Student incentives

Performance Funding

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• Florida Policy Initiatives

• Florida High School Initiatives

• Community College Initiatives

• Achieving The Dream

Learning from Florida

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Florida Policy Initiatives • Have to go to community college first

• Have to complete degree

• Incentives to transfer

• Common course numbering – mandatory course transfer

• Common general education core

• Dual credit in every high school and guarantee to transfer

• Clearly defined college readiness-remediation inhigh school

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Florida High School Initiatives (2009) Florida College and Career Readiness Initiative

• Testing of high school students and remediation courses prior to graduation

• Expands college/career readiness testing to 11th grade students

• “College ready” or prepared to enter college credit coursework when they meet the state defined cut scores on approved common placement

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Florida Community College Initiatives

• Clear academic and career goals

• Orientation and advisement programs

• Completing a Student Success course

• Connections with college personnel during their first term

• Ability to pass developmental courses

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“Achieving The Dream” works in Florida

• 4-year graduation rate = 27.8%

• Up from 22.8%

• Federal IPEDS graduation rate = 41%

• Up from 34%

• College-ready students completion = 43%

• Remedial students completion = 21%

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IPEDS Dilemma

IPEDS Cohort (2007) Enrollment 6,898

IPEDS Cohort Graduates (2010) 608

IPEDS Cohort Transfers (2010) 1,291

Total 2010 Graduates 9,419

Total 2010 Transfers 10,047

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Ivy Tech Success

6-Year Success 79%Graduate18.6%

Transfer/Still Enrolled25.4%

Course Credit to a Better Job/Improved Skill35%

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New Completion Initiatives • Achieving the Dream (2009)

• Mandatory orientation• Mandatory advising for remedial students• Mandatory success courses for remedial students

• Remedial course completion

• Retention numbers increased by 20 percentage points for those students that went through the above ATD interventions

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College for Working Adults (2008)

•2-year cohort based

•Full-Time

•Modeled after Executive MBA

•University of Notre Dame Success

New Completion Initiatives

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Associate Accelerated Program (2010)•“New Tech High” for Associate Degree

•Full-Time / 5 days week

•10 months to degree

•Free and reduced lunch 2.5 GPA

•Complements Daniels’ Scholarship well

New Completion Initiatives

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• Full-Time 12-15 month Diploma• Technical Program

• HVAC• Welding• Automotive• IT

• Modeled after Tennessee• 70% Completion

Ivy Institute of Technology

New Completion Initiatives

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Dual Credit Assisting Completion

• 21,126 Students

• 101,190 Credit Hours

• $10 Million in Savings for Hoosier Parents

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Honors Division (2011)•Focus on Transfer Bound

•2 + 2 Program

•Mandatory Tracking

New Completion Initiatives

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