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The purpose of this website is to empower you to be independent, and to help you make Ivy Tech State College a very productive educational experience.   In this age of fast information access, it is imperative for your success that you learn how to use the Internet in various elements of your life, such as educational preparation, and your career.  If you are not computer literate before graduation, you are beginning your next employment search with a severe handicap.

               

 

My position with the two year institution is to both serve as a full-time faculty member (currently Medical Terminology and Medical Law and Ethics), and to help with student academic advising for applicants interested in a Health, and Public Services programs or special courses, especially for our one-year Technical Certification Practical Nursing Program (PNU), and our two-year Associate Degree Program (NUR) that prepares students to become Registered Nurses. 

Before this new challenge in May of 2001, I served as the Division Chair for the Health and Human Services Division since 1977.  I was a Program Chair for Emergency Care Technology, which I was asked to start.  I recommended that this one-year Program be discontinued after three classes because graduates were not being given opportunities, and/or salaries proportionate to their knowledge and skills.  This program concept was valid but it did not “fit” health care in the mid ‘70s.

 I have five degrees from two Colleges, and I have attended other post-secondary institutions.  My nursing degree from Indiana University is probably the most readily marketable credential.  The degrees in philosophy, and education provide perceptions about education, and student success that can be helpful.  I have been a Medical Assistant program accreditation site surveyor for the American Association of Medical Assistants for a number of years.  In this capacity I have visit about 25 different colleges to assess their educational process and models to helps students.

My favorite authors are William Glasser, Reality Therapy and Steven Covey, The Seven Habit of Highly Effective People, which I believe are must reads for all, and excellent reading for students.

 Outside of the College, I have some business interests, two cats: “Motor” and “Scooter”, and I enjoy two-wheeled vehicles with various size engines – used with the appropriate safety devices.

 As an academic adviser, I am here to help you learn to fish, and not feed you fish.  I will help you with information sources, contacts, College policies, and processes.  If you can do it for yourself, I will empower you, using a web site and e-mail.  I am here to make recommendations, so that you can make informed choices.  It is your responsible to get the needed information from others, including available documents in printed or electronic form.

 Food for thought:  It has been my experience with students consistently  “Last in are first out.” – meaning- those who register late are the first to either drop a course or just disappear.  A corollary to “Last in are first out” is “Your lack of planning is not an “emergency” for others”.  As an advisor and as nurse, an emergency occurs when your respirations stop.  Planning ahead and getting lots of facts and perceptions from others before you make a choice or decision can avoid most other emergencies.

Just do it!