Innovating in Higher Education -- Challenges and Responses within a Conservative Context

This article presents a case study of a community college – Ivy Tech-Bloomington (IN) – to illustrate challenges faced by postsecondary institutions around the world. Ivy Tech-Bloomington has faced reduced state funding and increased pressure to emphasize the instrumental value of education – namely, “workforce development” – with constructive responses that diverge in many ways from dominant trends in higher education. Inspired by a vision of serving the common good, of helping those students most likely to fail, and valuing the role of the arts and humanities, the leadership of Ivy Tech-Bloomington has accomplished many of its goals in an otherwise hostile climate. It has been able to do so by skillfully employing a logic and language understandable to state officials and education system administrators, but grounded in a distinctly different set of values. The campus leadership also has been able to mobilize public support for its strategic initiative

Faculty Recital: November 15, 1983

St. Matthew\u27s Episcopal Church 1920 E. Oakland Ave., Bloomington, IL Tuesday Evening, November 15, 1983 8:00 p.m

Faculty Recital:Patricia Monfort Whikehart, Organist

First Church of Christ February 11, 1968 3:00p.m

Patricia Monfort Whikehart: March 22, 1983

C.V.A Gallery Tuesday Evening March 22, 1983 8:00 p.m

Faculty Recital: March 26, 1982

Kemp Recital Hall Friday Evening March 26, 1982 8:00 p.m

Faculty Artist Recital: Patricia Whikehart, Organ; January 7, 1973

First Baptist ChurchBloomington, IllinoisSunday AfternoonJanuary 7, 19734:00 p.m

Recital: Patricia Whikehart, Organ; March 21, 1971

First Church Of Christ, ScientistMarch 21, 19718:15 p.m

Faculty Recital: Patricia Whikehart, Organ; March 19, 1972

First Baptist ChurchBloomington, IllinoisSunday EveningMarch 19,19728:15 p.m

Faculty Recital: October 19, 1982

First Church of Christ, Scientist 108 N. Regency Drive Bloomington, IL Tuesday Evening October 19, 1982 8:00 p.m

Violin Recital: Eduard Melkus, Baroque Violin; Pat Whikehart, Harpsichord; May 4, 1971

Centennial East Recital HallMay 4, 19718:30 p.m