tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post9016325124057800241..comments2024-03-13T14:53:25.892-05:00Comments on Advance Indianaâ„¢: Would Someone Please Rein In Ivy Tech?Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-81458358802293044502007-05-08T14:04:00.000-05:002007-05-08T14:04:00.000-05:00blog me, please!, come on. People need to start ta...blog me, please!, come on. People need to start taking responsibility for their own education. You and your daughter should know just by looking at course descriptions that certain classes may not transfer as what is needed. If you need Calculus to complete your math requirement at Purdue, and you take Functional Math at Ivy Tech, you know it will not transfer as Calculus. Take responsibility. Whichever math class your daughter took, she had to test into. Don't be mad at Ivy Tech because she was not proficient enough to take Calculus. Quit blaming. As for being out "several" hundred dollars. Again, I say please. How about being out about a thousand dollars when your daughter failed her math class at Purdue because she was not prepared for it?<BR/><BR/>Ivy Tech is great for the state. Ivy Tech is a great alternative for the first 2 years of college at about half the price of 4-year institutions. Ivy Tech does have some growing pains to get through, but they will get through them. I believe Tom Snyder is just the man to get Ivy Tech through the growing pains. Carol D'amico was only here to pad her resume. She was going to be out the door as soon as she had some viable numbers to put on her resume. She brought Ivy Tech down. Mr. Snyder, even before he is officially here, has elevated the college. His ideas are exactly what Ivy Tech needs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-58601886250157167402007-04-30T07:25:00.000-05:002007-04-30T07:25:00.000-05:00I have not heard how the final budget and related ...I have not heard how the final budget and related bills came out, with regard to this story.<BR/><BR/>Update, Gary, or bloggers, if you know?<BR/><BR/>As for someone reigning in Ivy Tech...it's an institution out of control, and Carol D'Amico was in effect its COO for the last several years. She earned, by my account, over a million smackeroos in wages and related benefits, that we KNOW of.<BR/><BR/>I posted here earlier about my child's 2006 summer class at IT, which we were led to believe would transfer 100% to Purdue. It was a (difficult) math class she needed for her degree. She got back to Purdue in the fall, talked to her counselor, and guess what? The course did not transfer. The reason?<BR/><BR/>"Lack of academic rigor," was the official reason.<BR/><BR/>I'm out several hundred dollars...she had to take the class in the middle of the day M-W-F, so she wasn't able to keep the summer job she'd had the prior summer, and she lost out on a lot of potential income. Which we need since Purdue has raised its fees and room and baord a whopping 16% in the two years she's been there.<BR/><BR/>I wrote my senator (Patricia Miller) and representative (Buell, I think) to ask about this, and got back form letters praising Ivy Tech. <BR/><BR/>Carol and anyone remotely associated with accountability at this cash cow, needed to go.<BR/><BR/>So do Bauer, Crawford, etc., and former Sen. Garton. How they can look at themselves in the mirror, take these huge salaries, then vote on the budget that funds those salaries, is a huge question.<BR/><BR/>A bigger question is why no one else narcs them out for this hypocracy.Blog Me, Please!https://www.blogger.com/profile/16133696840154710667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-29938256507585075492007-04-29T11:59:00.000-05:002007-04-29T11:59:00.000-05:00I'm at the Statehouse now. The Ivy Tech language i...I'm at the Statehouse now. The Ivy Tech language is still in the budget. The Star has updated their story online - they assumed that when Crawford said he removed it that he actually removed it. But he didn't. <BR/><BR/>http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070429/LOCAL190107/704290470Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com