"ADVANCE WITH IVY TECH INDY" CELEBRATES NEW AND FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES On Friday, November 12, the Indianapolis Airport Authority (IAA), IBM and community organizations joined Ivy Tech Indianapolis for “Advance with Ivy Tech,” a new initiative to help employers create solutions to achieve their goals. The event featured remarks from Dr. Nagib Attai, vice president of Global Programs at IBM, and Mario Rodriguez, executive director of the IAA. The program also featured a brief panel discussion with Katrina Jones, Ivy Tech’s Achieve Your Degree program; Taiylor Fields, Ivy Tech Career Coaching and Employer Connections; Nick Duvall, president and CEO of Teen Works; and Rachel Stevens, senior director of human resources at the IAA. To learn more about ways to partner with Ivy Tech Indianapolis, visit IvyTech.edu/AdvanceIvyTechIndy.
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The Indianapolis Airport Authority (IAA) and Ivy Tech Indianapolis' new agreement gives IAA employees access to an educational assistance program encouraging personal development through degree and certificate programs. The goal of this new partnership is to help employees skill up within their current jobs or become competitive for advancements. The new agreement is available to all active IAA employees in satisfactory job performance status starting day one. Upon meeting these requirements, the IAA will cover up to $5,250 per calendar year for an approved certificate or degree program. “With this MOU, our employees can defer tuition as well as have most of it paid directly by the IAA,” said Mario Rodriguez, IAA executive director. “This agreement allows us to tap into undeveloped talent and create a pipeline for our organization or even other organizations, creating public value.” Ivy Tech participated in Boone County Workforce Alliance (BCWA)'s "Skilling Up Your Workforce" event to enhance partnerships and establish a presence in Boone County. BOONE COUNTY CONNECTIONS
Participants in the IBM Academic Initiative receive access to resources, provided at no charge, for teaching, learning and non- commercial research with recent enhancements to the program including guest lectures. One of the first priorities of this new collaboration will be the creation of a Cybersecurity Operations Center (SOC) on Ivy Tech’s downtown Indianapolis campus, which would create course content on custom threat simulations giving students real-world cyber operations experience at detecting and fighting cyber attacks. Ivy Tech’s collaboration with IBM will develop diverse, high- demand skills aligning with industry needs in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI) and data science. With this collaboration, Ivy Tech will have access to up to $15 million of select IBM cybersecurity, AI and data sciences software over the next three years. More than 30 people were in attendance and heard from Ivy Tech Employer Consultant Ariane Smith-Stallard. Stallard shared insight on developing educational pathways and workforce skills that organizations could utilize. Attendees also learned about resources to help employers find top talent for their workforce needs and options to skill-up current employees through customized training.
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