Indiana
Indiana’s Shifting Gears efforts focus on improving postsecondary education options for lower-skilled and working adults and driving policy change through improved data collection and reporting. Thus far, Indiana has: - Formed a high-level policy team to identify opportunities to scale up and sustain innovation in workforce education, as well as related obstacles to that goal.
- Produced a report that identified nearly one million adults who have not completed high school, speak little or no English or are in families that earn less than a living wage.
- Created a new Indiana Workforce Intelligence System (IWIS) that will ultimately track student progress through the adult education, workforce development and postsecondary education systems.
- Launched the “College for Working Adults,” a new academic format designed to make high demand associate degree programs more accessible to working adults.
- Launched a series of local pilot programs to test how to best integrate remedial education with occupational education in community colleges.
State ResourcesPreliminary "Lessons Learned" on Remedial Education Pilots in Indiana
Update on Shifting Gears remedial education pilot projectat IvyTech Community College in Indiana. Five pilot projects were developed as models for contextualization of basic skills in academic and workforce credentials. Report on Adult Education and Workforce Training Report on Preparing Adults for a Brighter Future Information on the College for Working Adults Discussion with the Senior Vice President at Ivy Tech Community College on Indiana's Workforce Initiative (video)
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