inside ivy tech july 2015

• Cisco competition top honor• Happy anniversary, Madam Chancellor• Jet-setting donation

Raise your glassgraduate david tomaszewski, at right,

and his business partner, will long, own one of the summit City's newest breweries

Summer 2015

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Features Summer 2015

INSIDE Ivy Tech Community College Northeast is a magazine published four times a year to celebrate the successes of our students, graduates, faculty, staff, and friends of the College. This publication documents how we hold ourselves accountable to the College’s vision statement: Changing lives. Making Indiana great.

ChancellorJerrilee K. Mosier, Ed.D.

Executive Director of Marketing and CommunicationsAndrew D. Welch

DesignSandra Fouty

EditorialDane Hawley and Jaclyn Y. Garver

Contributing PhotographersZeke Bryant, Sandra Fouty, Jaclyn Y. Garver, and Dane Hawley

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Hospitality graduate finds success with local brewery

Five years ago this month, Ivy Tech Northeast found a new chancellor

9COVER

4 3 Student takes first place in Cisco networking competition

7 Adams County students benefitting from new phlebotomy certificate

11 Patience, practice necessary to win financial support

17 Ivy Tech expands number of single articulation transfer pathways

18 Tidbits

20 Touch-a-Truck event

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Retired corporate jet to offer unprecedented training opportunities

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College selects two graduates for highest academic, service honor

Summit City Brewerks is run by Will Long, at left, and David Tomaszewski, an Ivy Tech Northeast graduate. Photo by Jaclyn Y. Garver

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As Cody Arnold took a computer networking certification exam in April, he applied a recommended approach to test-taking: Be confident. Proceed. Breathe. Repeat.

The strategy proved hugely successful for the Ivy Tech Community College Northeast network infrastructure major. Arnold achieved first place in the 2015 Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician, or CCENT, competition among 170 high school, college, and university participants from the United States and Canada.

“I was fairly confident I would do well, and I thought the rounds would be easy to me,” Arnold says. “However, I did not expect that I would win at all. The second round, the one that really matters, was so difficult and unclear I thought I had completely failed, so I nearly forgot about the competition soon after submitting my work. I was very surprised to see myself in first place when the notifications rolled out.”

The first portion of the exam involved a 100-question virtual test that lasted an hour, equaling out to less than a minute per question. The second portion included a virtual lab with vague instructions, allowing Cisco to see if competitors could think on their feet, Arnold says.

For winning, he received a $150 voucher for CCENT certification.

“I really do owe my success to the people who teach me and the educational structure that surrounds me. Literally everything in the competition, I learned from Ivy Tech,” says Arnold, who is also a student intern with Ivy Tech Northeast’s Computer and Technology Services office on campus.

Associate Network Engineer Alexander Jovanovich has supervised Arnold since his internship began last December.

“Cody will be America’s next networking all-star one day,” Jovanovich says. “He has an inquisitive mind for the subject matter, and he retains knowledge very well.”

In May, Arnold took his knowledge a step further by earning a CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) certificate—a degree of networking skill higher than the CCENT—which complements his existing certifications: A+, Net+, and Security+. He plans to continue competing, too, with his sights on the 2016 USA and Canada CCNA NetRiders competition next spring.

Student takes first place in Cisco networking competitionStory and photo by Dane Hawley

Network infrastructure major Cody Arnold (left) traces cables on a cable management rack to comply with Ivy Tech Northeast standards, as Alexander Jovanovich, an associate network engineer at the College and Arnold’s internship supervisor, oversees his progress. Arnold recently achieved first place in the 2015 Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician, or CCENT, competition among 170 high school, college, and university participants from the United States and Canada.

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Hospitality graduate finds success with local brewery Story and photos by Jaclyn Y. Garver

Based on a city of its size, Fort Wayne has one of the nation’s fewest breweries per capita. David Tomaszewski wanted to help fix that.

Last year, he and his business partner, Will Long, opened Summit City Brewerks. The long-time friends—they used to play Little League together—brewed beer together and soon realized the city was ready for another brewery.

Tomaszewski graduated from DeKalb High School in 2002 and started at Indiana University Bloomington to study psychology. He eventually transitioned into public health but soon realized cooking was more than a hobby; he turned to Ivy Tech Community College Northeast’s Hospitality Administration program because he loved to cook, and he completed an associate degree in 2006.

“A big part of it was the affordability, and the culinary program was the big determination,” he says. “I was just ready to get in the kitchen.

“Will and I started brewing together about five years ago. We’d started getting deep into craft beer a couple years earlier. Craft beer is more about the flavor than picking up a 12-pack every few days and drinking it. It’s more about flavor components, which went very well with being a chef.”

Long says the two balance each other out well: Tomaszewski is more detail-oriented, while Long thinks more conceptually.

“My mind just kind of runs all the time,” Long says. “He sort of grounds some of the ideas that come up. I think it’s a good balance. He’s more cautious.”

Though the brewery won’t celebrate its first anniversary until October, Tomaszewski is already looking to the future: He’d like to see the brewery bottling or canning its beers and selling kegs around town.

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Summit City Brewerks, one of Fort Wayne's newest breweries, boasts 37 taps. David

Tomaszewski, one of the owners, is an Ivy Tech Northeast hospitality administration graduate.


Summit City Brewerks regularly changes out the beer in its 37 taps, and it relies on color-coded chalk to tell patrons if the beer is the brewery’s own or from another brewery. Guest taps feature beers from breweries including Chicago’s Two Brothers Brewing Company and California’s Sierra Nevada.

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Summit City Brewerks is in a large, no-nonsense red brick building in a manufacturing area of Berry Street near Anthony Boulevard. There isn’t much around—a video production company upstairs, parking lots for semis across the street. Food trucks park in front of the brewery during business hours, giving patrons a rotating sample of fare. Tomaszewski recently added a small bar menu, too, with salads, sandwiches, appetizers, and specialty pizzas made on French bread with a panini press.

Inside the brewery is all exposed brick, tin ceilings, and funky décor. Couples have used the space for engagement photos and wedding party pics, Tomaszewski says—of course, with a pint.

Then there are the drinks—37 taps where “variety” is the mantra. One house staple is a favorite, Carl’s Cream Ale, which is lighter and, yes, creamier than some of the more hoppy house beers with creative names like Weesoheavy (a Scottish wee heavy), T & Crumpets (ale with coffee and tea), and Fuzzy Slippers (a porter). Guest taps

feature craft beers from breweries including Chicago’s Two Brothers Brewing Company, Delaware’s Dogfish Head, and California’s

Sierra Nevada.

Beers run $3.75 for 12 ounces and $5 a pint—or guests can get a flight to sample four 5-ounce

pours. As Tomaszewski discusses the brewery an hour or two before it opens, an employee comes in with a woman looking for a growler fill.

The employee, Sarah Alpert, says the growler can hold 64 ounces, and 32-ounce bottles are available, too.

“Disgruntled Kiwi?” Alpert checks with the customer before filling the container. It’s a

hoppy wheat ale.

The woman asks how long her beer will hold.

“If you don’t open it, it’ll last several days,” Tomaszewski says. “If you open it ... ”

The customer finished for him: “ ... you have to drink the whole thing.”

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Adams County students benefitting from new phlebotomy certificate

Janelle Gresla is a firm believer in the expression, “It never hurts to ask,” especially after she received a “yes” response from Ivy Tech Community College Northeast to expand its academic offerings at Bellmont High School in Decatur, Ind.

The Career and Technical Education (CTE) instructor approached the College last year about the possibility of adding more study options in health occupations.

Health Care Specialist Chair Cindy Chenoweth proposed phlebotomy—the collection and processing of blood and non-blood specimens—via the College’s Phlebotomy Technician Certificate.

The new opportunity launched last fall, and it continues to be well-received by Gresla and her inaugural class.

“With Ivy Tech’s help, we have pushed our CTE program to a higher level,” says Gresla, who is also a registered nurse and an Ivy Tech Northeast adjunct faculty member. “Our kids have been able to jump into college, knowing exactly what’s going to come at them and being able to shave off as much as a year of studies from their baccalaureate degrees.”

Indeed, Gresla’s observation was precisely the desired goal when Ivy Tech Northeast began working with Bellmont administrators years ago to designate the school as an Early College provider—a vision fulfilled in 2010.

Students attending Early College high schools take dual-credit classes to satisfy their high school graduation requirements while simultaneously earning about one-half or more of the credits required to complete an associate degree—or traditionally their first year of college.

Bellmont’s individually structured Early College program offers three pathways—healthcare, liberal arts, and pre-engineering—with others in development. Bellmont also allows students at other Adams County high schools, namely Adams Central and South Adams, to participate.

Costs associated with the 17 credit hour Phlebotomy Technician Certificate are contained significantly through online and onsite dual-credit classes. In fact, students and their parents or guardians are financially responsible for only eight credit hours, or three classes.

“This opportunity is a huge benefit to a county that’s economically suppressed like Adams is,” Gresla says. “If we can give our kids college credits without touching mom and dad’s billfold, the students are more likely to go, ‘Hey, yeah. We want to earn some more certificates.’”

Six of Gresla’s students—each with diverse medical career ambitions—are currently completing a summer externship in phlebotomy and preparing to sit for the American Society for Clinical Pathology’s national certification.

Among them is recent Adams Central graduate Kati Dunham who completed her externship at Adams Memorial Hospital in Decatur.

“I followed the phlebotomy certificate because I plan to go into nursing, and I knew this would put me one step ahead of others and hopefully help me to stand out,” Dunham says.

As fall semester planning looms, Gresla is faced with what she describes as “a good problem to have.” About 24 additional Adams County high school students have expressed interest in completing the certificate.

“To me, this is a win-win for Ivy Tech because it’s saying, ‘Yes, we are attracting good students to our programs,’” Gresla says.

Recent Adams Central High School graduate Kati Dunham prepares to draw blood during her phlebotomy externship at Adams Memorial Hospital in Decatur, Ind. Dunham was one of six students this year who completed Ivy Tech's Phlebotomy Technician Certificate requirements through Bellmont High School's Early College agreement with Ivy Tech Northeast. Photo courtesy Janelle Gresla

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Story by Dane Hawley


Jerrilee K. Mosier, Ed.D., celebrates five years as the chancellor at Ivy

Tech Northeast this month. Here, she is pictured with her husband, Russ

Coombs, and her Goldendoodle, Ivy, in the couple’s side yard.


Happy anniversary, Jerrilee MosierFive years ago this month, Ivy Tech Northeast found a new chancellorStory and photo by Jaclyn Y. Garver

Psychotherapist Alfred Adler once said our first memories provide insight into our psyches, showing our fundamental view of life.

Jerrilee K. Mosier, chancellor at Ivy Tech Community College Northeast, offers up her first memory:

I was 3 or 4. My dad was in the Army at Fort Sill, Okla., and I had one brother with another one on the way. I was in the car. Doris Day’s “Que Sera, Sera” was on the radio. I stood between my mom and dad in the front seat with my arms around them, and we would sing it at the top of our lungs.

“What I take from that, really, is my motto,” she says. “You can plan as much as you want to, but you never know.”

Mosier moved to Fort Wayne from Washington state five years ago, and July

1 marked her five-year anniversary as chancellor at Ivy Tech Northeast. As the College’s administrator-in-charge, Mosier is the face of Ivy Tech in northeast Indiana, overseeing the region’s mission and employees.

Once, Mosier thought she’d end up as a director in special education, her first career goal. Looking back, she says, she could have been happy in fundraising, or maybe nonprofit work, too.

“I’d love to be in economic development—anything that would be improving lives and the community,” she says, and then turns to her husband. “I wouldn’t be a very good engineer. We balance each other very well.”

Russ Coombs is an engineer, and he ran his own consulting business: He trained employees in Six Sigma, a data-driven approach for process improvement. He is recently retired.

It has freed up even more time for travel, something the couple loves to do together. This spring, Coombs and Mosier spent a week on an Alaskan cruise, where Coombs took a helicopter ride over a glacier—Mosier opted to keep her feet on the ground.

Her favorite thingsMosier is a reader, often working on two or three books at once. She read The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, a story of five sisters in Afghanistan who secretly start a small business after the Taliban took over, on the cruise.

“I kept coming to dinner telling everyone (about the book),” she says.

She’s also an HGTV-lover who enjoys cooking.

“She’s very modest about it,” Coombs says, “but she’s an excellent cook.”

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“You think I make a good osso buco and apple pie,” Mosier says.

The pie is her cousin’s recipe, and it won a blue ribbon at the Kansas State Fair.

And then, of course, there’s Ivy.

As Mosier and Coombs settle in to chat about the last five years, Ivy the Goldendoodle bounds up and plops herself in the guest’s lap, snuggling in.

“Ivy! Get down from there,” Mosier says, but it’s clear Ivy isn’t in trouble. Ivy, who could be in the running for the World’s Friendliest Dog, just wants to be pals.

A successful blind dateMosier and Coombs met on a blind date nine years ago, at Café Azul in Seattle.

“Mexican food. We had lunch. She was wearing long sleeves,” Coombs says.

“Bell sleeves,” Mosier says.

“She was talking with her hands, and she kept dipping her sleeves in the chicken tortilla soup,” Coombs says.

They wed three years later in what Coombs calls their “year of weddings.” There was the first ceremony in the Cascade Mountains in Washington, where they eloped. Because there were just four attendees—bride, groom, justice of the peace, photographer—the couple had another ceremony plus four receptions spread

across Oklahoma, Kansas, and Chicago. They honeymooned in Mexico.

Her stepson, David, 24, is a Brigham Young University student who is spending the summer at a New York City internship. He is getting married in August to his fiancee, Kelsee.

2020After spending five years at Ivy Tech Northeast it’s easy to wonder, what about the next five years?

“I frankly enjoy my job, a lot,” she says. “I get to experience daily the impact we have on our students’ lives and on the community.”

And five years from now, she hopes to be able to say the same thing.

There are a few items on the “self-improvement” list. She’d love to learn glass blowing. She’s tried throwing pots on a potter’s wheel but can’t quite get the clay centered. She has enrolled in Spanish but had work interfere with class time.

“I just want to explore some topics I haven’t had time for,” she says, though she acknowledges that she can never know for certain what will happen. “Que sera, sera. Russ is the planner. I like the uncertainty. I think there’s an edginess to that. If you knew everything that’s going to happen,” she trailed off and shook her head.

Whatever will be, will be. The future’s not ours to see.

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FROM TOP: A Mosier family photo, circa the mid-’70s. Back row, from left: Rick Mosier, Roger Mosier, Greg Mosier, and Jerrilee Mosier. Front row, from left: Richard Mosier, Mary Mosier, and Doug Mosier; a photo from Mosier’s sorority days, the image is marked “Delta Delta Delta, Bid Day, Aug. 22, 1974”; Mosier on her graduation day from Oklahoma State University in 1983. She received a doctorate in higher education administration. File photos.


Take nothing for ‘grant’ed Patience, practice necessary to win financial supportStory by Dane Hawley

KNOWLEDGE from the College

If you were to mesh the confidence of Oprah and Gayle, the resourcefulness of Cagney and Lacey, and a dash of diligence from Thelma and Louise, the result might resemble the working relationship between Barbara Jones and Kathy Wall.

With Jones as Ivy Tech Community College Northeast’s grant writing coordinator and Wall as the grant accountant, the two women spearhead all grant initiatives for the region. Both have been with the College for nearly four years, yet they are not new to their crafts. Jones and Wall have been practicing their separate specializations for more than 30 years and more than 25 years, respectively.

Through research and persuasive prose, Jones has amassed more than $8 million in grant funding during the past 10 years alone, while Wall has developed and monitored budgets of comparative value to ensure compliance with administrative guidelines, audits, financial reports, and project closure requirements.

In light of their successes, they can relate to the perils that novice and even seasoned grant writers and accountants face.

Jones recalls reading about a grant writer who missed the deadline for a large federal grant that an agency relied on for a significant portion of its operating costs.

“After reading about that mistake in the newspaper, I have been very careful to confirm and reconfirm grant due dates,” Jones says, adding, “I once forgot to include a copy of the budget in a grant proposal, but the foundation was gracious enough to allow me to submit the budget after the due date.”

For Wall, her most memorable misstep was a lack of transparency when prorating a budget. After the grant was awarded, it was not clear how the budget figures were computed and what the numbers included.

“Now when I put together a budget, I include a short explanation on each budget line to include formulas and other notes that make up the budget figure,” Wall says. “This also shortens my time writing the budget narrative.”

The cumulative grant-preparation process can prove daunting, but Jones and Wall both agree that with sufficient patience and practice come the payoffs.

[Barbara and Kathy’s] ABCs of Grant Writing and Budgeting• Include all team players in the initial meetings of grant development.

• Read the entire proposal and follow directions.

• Make sure your goals align with the grant’s purpose. If it’s not a good fit for what you want to do, find another grant source.

• Include as much detail as possible about what you plan to do with the grant funds.

• Work with program managers to develop their—not your—budget.

• Be patient with non-accountant project managers, as you explore allowable and unallowable budget expenses.

• Double-check that the proposal narrative and budget match.

Grant Accountant Kathy Wall (left) and Grant Writing Coordinator Barbara Jones oversee all grant initiatives at Ivy Tech Northeast. Photo by Sandra Fouty


Sky’s the limit


As Ivy Tech Community College Northeast extends gratitude to the numerous benefactors, community leaders, and elected officials whose combined efforts helped secure a retired corporate jet for its Aviation Maintenance Technology program, the College would be remiss not to include Google.

Yes, that Google.

For it was a Google Alert notification on his work computer that inspired Sabreliner Aviation’s director of marketing, David Meske, to attend “Ivy Tech Takes Flight.” The donor recognition event on April 17 showcased the two-pilot, 10-passenger Sabreliner jet at the Ivy Tech Aviation Center—the aircraft’s permanent new home.

With minimal notice, Meske flew to Fort Wayne from the company’s headquarters in Perryville, Mo., to partake.

“It’s great to see how much Ivy Tech is putting into the next generation of aviation mechanics and engineers since many people in the industry are retiring,” Meske says.

Sabreliner Aviation is the modern-day iteration of North American Aviation, an iconic manufacturer of midsized

Retired corporate jet to offer unprecedented training opportunities Story by Dane Hawley

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Ivy Tech Northeast formally recognized the recent donation of a retired corporate jet to its Aviation Maintenance Technology program during “Ivy Tech Takes Flight” on April 17. The

two-pilot, 10-passenger Sabreliner will provide students with hands-on access to study the aircraft’s avionics, or advanced electrical system. Photo courtesy Zeke Bryant


commercial and military jets dating back to the late 1950s. The Sabreliner series is named for its similarity to the wings and tail of North American’s F-86 Sabre jet fighter.

Beginning this summer, aviation maintenance technology majors will benefit from training on the Sabreliner, which exceeds industry standards and requirements; similar programs rely solely on mock-up equipment and textbooks for training.

“We could not be more thankful for our generous donors and the widespread community support,” says Oliver Barie, executive director of resource development. “The Sabreliner will change the lives of our students and help create a better Indiana, which is exactly what we aim to do as a college.”

This new gift is now not only the largest aircraft in the program’s fleet, but it is also one that represents an “open skies” frontier on many levels.

“The Sabreliner has complex systems comparable to an airliner. Airliners are a major part of the aviation community, and they provide a wider range of job opportunities, from being an aircraft mechanic to being an aircraft systems

Dylan Raymond, grandson of airframe instructor Brad Stark, enjoys a moment of exploratory fun during the donor recognition event on April 17. Photo courtesy Zeke Bryant

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engineer,” says Satya Sunkavalli, a 2015 aviation maintenance technology graduate who was selected to be a student speaker at the event.

Aviation Maintenance Technology Chair Michael Clouse says another benefit with the donation will be Ivy Tech Northeast’s ability to develop a new program concentration in avionics—the detailed study of electronic systems on aircraft.

The proposed concentration would be an option that adds another semester of course work and training following the completion of an associate degree and passing select Federal Aviation Administration tests.

“Many newly licensed airframe and powerplant graduates are seeking specialized training in avionics to enhance their employment opportunities," Clouse says. “The complexity of the systems on the Sabreliner provides us with some of the necessary equipment to develop this new concentration and offer advanced training,” Clouse says.

The program currently has more than 90 students enrolled, with about 20 of them being high school students from Fort Wayne Community Schools’ Career Academy at Anthis.

Above: Guests were encouraged to tour the Sabreliner after the ceremony. Below: Nearly 100 guests watched as a number of benefactors, community leaders, and elected officials who made the donation possible earned their Ivy Tech “wings”— a gold “IVY”-inscribed lapel pin to mark the occasion. Photos by Dane Hawley and Zeke Bryant

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Francisco Ramirez Martinez and Karrah Hughes come from remarkably different backgrounds.

Martinez grew up in Los Lorenzos, Mexico, a town with fewer than 1,500 residents. There were no gas stations, school buses, or even paved roads there, he recalls.

More than 1,800 miles away, Hughes was born in the heart of Kentucky’s Bluegrass region, Lexington, where the “Horse Capital of the World” influenced her lifelong affinity for horses and barrel racing in rodeo competitions.

Their paths intersected years later at Ivy Tech Community College Northeast, where the two new graduates were both honored with the Melvin L. Curtis Award for Academic Excellence during the 2015 Commencement ceremony on May 8.

The award traditionally celebrates the accomplishments of one exemplary student in each graduating class who is selected on the basis of academic achievement, community service, and personal qualities. This year is only the second

time in the award’s 41-year history where two individuals were recognized; the first actually occurred last year.

“Francisco and Karrah represent the depth and breadth of the community college experience available at Ivy Tech,” says Candy Schladenhauffen, assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs. “Francisco exemplifies the opportunities for students transferring to the university setting after building a solid liberal arts foundation, and Karrah’s educational journey illustrates our long heritage of career and technical education resulting in graduates prepared to enter the local workforce and contribute their talent and expertise.”

Service to others was another commonality between Martinez and Hughes during their Ivy Tech Northeast educations.

Martinez was an American Honors student and Phi Theta Kappa honor-society member who volunteered with the American Cancer Society and at the Community Harvest Food Bank. He is most proud of his work as a tutor with the College’s Supplemental Instruction program.

“I managed to assist many students who were struggling with college math and chemistry,” Martinez says. “In my time with the program, I managed to see it grow tremendously, and I am excited to see how it will continue to grow long after I leave Ivy Tech.”

For Hughes, a Lambda Beta Society member for respiratory care professionals, strong bonds were developed with instructors and peers throughout her studies.

“I have met lifelong friends, learned from the best people this world has to offer, and have learned perhaps who I am supposed to be, and of course, learning how to troubleshoot ventilators and understand breath sounds along the way,” Hughes says. “These will be the years I look back on and will be so thankful for.”

Francisco Ramirez Martinez

High School: Northrop High School (2010 graduate) Degree: A.S. in Liberal Arts Next Step: Attending the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago to study chemistry Career Goal: Becoming a chemical engineer, educator, or both Advice: “Do your best and take pride in your work and education. Sometimes school can be overwhelming; it is important to just take things one day at a time. I simply did the best I could and hoped that the grades would follow.”

Karrah Hughes

High School: Parkway Local School, Rockford, Ohio (2012 graduate) Degree: A.S. in Respiratory Care Next Step: Finding work as a respiratory therapist Career Goal: Returning to college to study management and expand employment opportunities Advice: “Whether you are talented in the books or not, motivation is the key. If you want something so bad you cannot think of anything other than doing it, then you will do it. It is about drive, heart, and believing that you can, and so you will.”

College selects two graduates for highest academic, service honor

Magical moments

Left: Ivy Tech Northeast Chancellor Jerrilee K. Mosier, Ed.D., presents an award plaque to respiratory care graduate Karrah Hughes. Right: Liberal arts graduate Francisco Ramirez Martinez discusses his Ivy Tech experience at the Commencement podium. Both Hughes and Martinez were the recipients of this year’s Melvin L. Curtis Award for Academic Excellence.

Story by Dane Hawley


Spring 2015 Award recipientsMore than 1,250 associate degrees, certificates, and technical certificates awarded

Commencement Keynote AddressJoe Donnelly, U.S. Senator for Indiana

Class of 2015 Graduate AddressSammantha Alvarez, Liberal Arts

Outstanding Student Awards by SchoolMatthew Krueger, School of Applied Science and Engineering Technology

Chad Smith, School of Business

Ledjon Shtika, School of Computing and Informatics

Christine Lee, School of Education

Chris Wells, School of Fine Arts and Design

Karrah Hughes, School of Health Sciences

Francisco S. Ramirez Martinez, School of Liberal Arts and SciencesAmy Shuler, School of Nursing

Maddison Mondragon, School of Public and Social Services

Silas Miller, School of Technology

Melvin L. Curtis Award for Academic ExcellenceFrancisco S. Ramirez Martinez and Karrah Hughes

President’s Award for Excellence in InstructionLisa M. Beringer, Social Sciences Program Chair

Adjunct Faculty Award for Excellence in InstructionKrystyl N. Dumas, Non-Traditional Academic Programs Coordinator

Honorary Degree RecipientAssociate of Science in College and Community Service Richard “Dick” Conrow, founder and CEO of C&A Tool Engineering Inc.

A career-focused approach to finding the right path to a college education

IvyTech.edu/northeast/future

at Ivy Tech Community CollegeFIND YOUR FUTUREIvy Tech Community College transfer

students, unite.

The Indiana Commission for Higher education has approved new transfer pathways that allow Ivy Tech students who earn certain associate degrees to transfer to any of the state’s four-year public universities and begin as a junior when pursuing a bachelor’s degree.

These statewide single articulation pathways were developed to pursue a common curriculum, starting with associate degrees in particular programs that will articulate, without alteration, to related baccalaureate degrees at all public Indiana universities that offer an equivalent area of study.

“Now our students will be able to attend Ivy Tech and know that their entire program of study will transfer if it is a pathways program,” says Cathy Maxwell, vice chancellor for academic affairs at Ivy Tech Northeast. “This gives them peace of mind in addition to our small class sizes, tutoring assistance, and faculty who put the focus on students first.”

single articulation pathways have been created for associate degrees in business administration, criminal justice, early childhood education, electrical engineering technology, elementary education, human and social services, mechanical engineering, mechanical engineering technology, nursing, and special education.

The College is also developing additional single articulation pathways

for associate degrees in computer science and information technology.

Maxwell says the transfer agreement applies to new students who enroll at Ivy Tech beginning fall semester 2015 and thereafter; however, she adds that if there are no curriculum changes between the pathway programs at Ivy Tech and a student’s in-state public transfer university of choice, then currently enrolled students and recent alumni may be able to benefit from the arrangement as well.

Maxwell encourages individuals who meet this latter scenario to contact the appropriate program chair at their desired transfer institution for advising purposes under the new agreement.

students who are unsure about their specific educational path, but who intend to transfer to an in-state public four-year university, are also eligible to enroll directly into the general education core transfer certificate program or a transfer-oriented associate degree program.

Ivy Tech expands number of transfer pathways to 4-year schoolsStory by Dane Hawley

IvyTech.edu/transfer


➊ Health care specialist majors attend the Alzheimer’s Association Education Conference in Indianapolis on May 1 . ➋ Multicultural Student Organization co-advisor Kim Barnett-Johnson joins human services major Maria Diaz for Ivy Tech Northeast’s Cinco de Mayo celebration. ➌ Hospitality administration majors April Luna (left) and Lauren Liebing present their nautical-themed desserts to fulfill a final exam on May 7. ➍ Library staff members Monique Myers (left) and Carol Gibbs read to third-graders visiting from West Noble Elementary School in Ligonier, Ind., on April 17. ➎ The Ivy Ag Innovators student organization was awarded the “Student Life Star Award” on April 17.

SUMMER TidbiTS

➏ Student Government Association Vice President Lance Goldman prepares to distribute Thankful Ivy cards to employees on April 29. ➐ Spring nursing graduate Kelsey Berning celebrates with her parents, Marlene and Steve, at the Nursing Pinning Ceremony on April 30. ➑ Participants in Ivy Tech Northeast’s Adventure and Imagination Summer STEM Camp collect tadpoles at Fox Island County Park on June 24. ➒ Fort Wayne’s Snider High School was one of nearly a dozen teams from northern Indiana to compete in the Youth Building Our Tomorrow, or YBOT, finals on April 25. Agriculture major Tara Gerig meets U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s annual international conference in Memphis, Tenn., on May 18.

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Along for the rideMore than 700 visitors attended the fifth-annual Touch-a-Truck event on Ivy Tech Northeast’s Coliseum Campus April 25. This year’s gathering provided area children the opportunity to explore 39 vehicles, from limousines and race cars to tow trucks and fire engines. Touch-a-Truck is free and sponsored by the Ivy Association for the Education of Young Children, or IvyAEYC, an Ivy Tech Northeast student organization that celebrates April as the national Month of the Young Child.

Right: Nathaniel Pickett gets a bird’s-eye view of the parking lot from the driver’s seat of a Light Medium Tactical Vehicle, or LMTV,

maintained by the Fort Wayne-based 384th Military Police Battalion. Photos by Dane Hawley

Brothers Ben (left) and Sam DiScala climb into the cab of a City of Fort Wayne fire engine.

Aliyah Miller pretends to drive an Earth First Services garbage truck.

Gavin Therriault honks the horn on an Irving Gravel Co. Inc. dump truck while his father, Rich, cheers for him.

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