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Evansville's share of a $2.6-million federal grant for Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana will allow the local campus to provide courses and course materials in multimedia formats.
The money will enable Ivy Tech to provide lectures and other course material through the Internet, Intranet, television and DVD. The technology primarily will be used in health career courses, such as Certified Nursing Assistant, Workplace Spanish for Healthcare and Pharmacy and Paramedic to Nursing transition.
Officials said the courses will be offered through at Ivy Tech's new Media Center, currently under construction as part of the Phase II of a major expansion at the school.
Although the multimedia offerings mostly will be in health career courses, the campus eventually wants to integrate the technology into general education curriculum, said Jennifer Nagy, executive director of marketing and communications for Ivy Tech's Evansville campus.
The courses likely will start in the 2006-07 academic year, when Phase II is scheduled for completion. The project will add about 65,000 square feet to the Evansville campus at a cost of $18.1 million.
The expansion's first phase, a $20 million project, was finished in the spring.
Local Ivy Tech officials still don't know how much of the $2.6 million the Evansville campus will receive. "We're waiting with bated breath" to find out, Nagy said.
The grant, which was announced by Gov. Mitch Daniels and Sen. Dick Lugar, R-Ind., is from the President's Community Based Job Training Initiative. The program is administered by the U.S. Department of Labor.
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