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A couple of years ago, the presidents of Iowa’s 15 community college districts approved so-called transfer majors, discipline-based areas within a division where students can have an increased focus as they look ahead to getting their four-year degree.

Kevin Pink March 18, 2020

Indian Hills Insight: How the College Helps English Learners

Some of the international students enrolled at the Indian Hills Community College campuses in Ottumwa and Centerville came to IHCC with a degree of proficiency in the English language. The majority, however, require the help they are able to receive at the English Language Learning Center at the college. Those are not the only students who take advantage of the services offered at the Center, though. It also acts as a resource for many other non-English speaking students and community members.

Kevin Pink January 30, 2020

Indian Hills Insight: Dental

When the Rural Health Education Center was built on the Indian Hills Community College Ottumwa campus in 2006-07, extra space was included that planners hoped would one day house new dental programs at the college. That vision came true a half-dozen years later when a $750,000 dental clinic was opened for simulation lab and clinical experience.

Kevin Pink January 09, 2020

Indian Hills Insight: 4 Day Week

Kevin Pink August 15, 2019

It was November 1977 when Indian Hills Community College adopted a rather radical new class schedule on a trial basis. Indian Hills pioneered the four-day week among Iowa colleges, taking a cue from some community colleges in Minnesota that had gone to the innovative plan to save money after unusually cold weather the previous winter.

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