Ivy Tech, Marian Announce Partnership to Create Express Lane to Teaching Degrees
(SOUTHPORT, Ind.) – Two Indiana colleges are teaming up on an effort to recruit more teachers, by making a teaching degree more affordable.
The new partnership between Ivy Tech and Marian University will allow students to take their first two years of base-level classes at lower-cost Ivy Tech, then complete their degree at Marian. They’ll then be able to get their required master’s degree from Marian at no additional charge.
Secretary of Education Katie Jenner says just one in six students who pursue a teaching degree end up in an Indiana classroom, while more than half don’t finish their degree at all. She says making affordability less of a barrier is one step toward shoring up Indiana’s pipeline of new teachers.
May 11, 2021 / 03:01 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (Inside INdiana Business) State and local officials will Wednesday give details on a new partnership between Ivy Tech Community College and Marian University in Indianapolis. Ivy Tech says the partnership involves the development of a dual admissions program to address Indiana’s teacher shortage.
Ivy Tech President Sue Ellspermann and Marian President Dan Elsener will be joined by Indiana Secretary of Education Katie Jenner, Indiana Commissioner of Higher Education Teresa Lubbers and others for the announcement.
The announcement will take place at Southport High School in Indy. We’ll have more on the partnership in Wednesday afternoon’s INside Edge e-newsletter.
Fewer grads enrolling in college
Statewide, 59% of class of 19 in post-high school education
ASHLEY SLOBODA | The Journal Gazette
A troubling trend in Indiana has worsened.
After years of steady declines, the percentage of college-bound high school graduates plunged to its lowest point in more than a decade. Of the 2019 graduates, 59% enrolled in education after high school, down from 61% the previous year, according to a recent report by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education.
The college-going rate has been steadily declining since 2015, when it was 65%, the agency said, “but this is the largest drop year-to-year.”
The commission expects the decline will continue in the 2022 Indiana College Readiness Report considering fall 2020 enrollment for two- and four-year public colleges dropped by 13% and 4%, respectively.
by: Wes Mills, Inside INdiana Business
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Apr 21, 2021 / 07:12 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (Inside INdiana Business) Gov. Eric Holcomb said Tuesday that the Indiana House and Senate budget negotiators reached a deal on a $37.4 billion spending plan, which includes nearly $2 billion in new spending for education over the next two years.
Holcomb said a few more hurdles needed to be cleared before the budget is finalized; however, the basics are in place for a final vote and his signature.
“There’s a high level of confidence that we’re going to not just be on schedule, but ahead of schedule with a budget that we can all be proud of for the next two years,” the Republican governor said.
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