Tag: Ivy

Ivy Tech accepting nominations for Distinguished Alumni Award

Mar. 6—KOKOMO — Nominations are being accepted through March 30 for Ivy Tech Community College’s 2024 Distinguished Alumni Award. In celebration of the accomplishments of Ivy Tech graduates, the Ivy Tech Distinguished Alumni Award is the highest honor given to recognize alumni from campuses across the state. “Ivy Tech alumni have accomplished so much in […]

Ivy League school joins growing list of colleges requiring SAT

Dartmouth College announced this month that it will require standardized test scores (SAT or ACT) of all applicants. The Ivy League institution is joining a growing number of prestigious schools that are turning away from the “test optional” policy adopted during COVID to keep their application numbers high. Other colleges and universities, popular with New […]

Ivy Tech Logansport offering FAFSA filing help on Feb. 25

Feb. 9—Ivy Tech Community College’s Logansport site is one of 40 locations where financial aid professionals will be volunteering from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 25, to help collegebound students and their families open the door to financial aid. The 2024 free College Goal Sunday program, which has been offered annually for more than […]

Ivy Tech hosting special Homeschool Visit Days in Columbus, Franklin

Feb. 7—Ivy Tech Community College is hosting special college visit days designed specifically for homeschool students in grades 9 to 12 and their parents to learn about the college. The Homeschool College Visit Days are from 9 a.m. to noon March 1 at Ivy Tech Columbus, 4475 Central Avenue, and from 9 a.m. to noon […]

Women ran 6 of 8 Ivy League schools. Then came the Israel-Hamas war.

The university presidents called before a congressional hearing on antisemitism last week had more in common than strife on their campuses: The leaders of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were all women who were relatively new in their positions. In that sense, they represented the changing face of leadership […]

Biden stays clear of calling for Ivy League presidents’ resignations

Biden has remained unwavering in his backing of Israel and denounced antisemitism on multiple occasions, aides and others familiar with his thinking said, even as it has cost him support from some in his own base. White House allies see little upside in putting the president further in the middle of a raging argument about […]

Ivy league presidents shock social media with testimony at antisemitism hearing

The presidents of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and The University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) shocked and angered social media users with testimony given during a congressional hearing on antisemitism. The school leaders arrived at Capitol Hill on Tuesday to answer questions about rising antisemitism on their campuses before the House Education and […]