By Zach Spicer
Marty Pollio, the new president of Ivy Tech Community College, hosted a community listening session Aug. 26 at the Columbus campus.
As part of his 100-day plan, Pollio has visited all 19 campuses and conducted a handful of community listening sessions. K-12, college, economic development and other area officials attended and answered three questions: What’s great about Ivy Tech? What does Ivy Tech need to improve? What advice would you give Pollio in his new role?
Zach Spicer with JCIDC attended and shared a couple of great things about Ivy Tech in Jackson County. One is how college staff came to Seymour and Brownstown Central high schools last year to lead workshops on interviewing and résumé writing to help seniors prepare for mock interviews. The other is how Crothersville High School has offered an early college program for several years that allows students to receive an associate degree in general studies from Ivy Tech before they graduate from high school.
Pollio plans to take the feedback from the campus visits and community listening sessions and apply that as he moves forward in his new role.
Pollio said he is an Indiana University graduate. While there, he was a student manager for men’s basketball coach Bobby Knight for four years. Since then, his career has been in education, from being a high school assistant principal and a high school principal to superintendent of Jefferson County Public Schools in Louisville, Kentucky, that state’s largest public school district. He started with Ivy Tech on July 1.
