Ivy Tech Names Interim Chancellor
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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowIvy Tech Community College has named Kathleen Mote interim chancellor of its Columbus/Southeast Region. She fills the leadership vacancy created when former Chancellor Chris Lowery was named senior vice president of workforce alignment. The Columbus/Southeast Region has campuses in Batesville, Columbus, Lawrenceburg and Madison and has an enrollment of nearly 5,000 students. Mote began her career with Ivy Tech as an adjunct professor of general education in 2009. In 2011, she became assistant professor and chair of the regional Criminal Justice program. Mote was promoted to associate professor in 2014 and in November of that year was named president of the Madison Campus. Prior to Ivy Tech, she practiced criminal law as a deputy prosecuting attorney in Marion, Jackson, and Jefferson counties. Mote was honored in 2014 as Outstanding Prosecutor of the Year by the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence. She has been a member of the Indiana Bar since 2005. Under Mote’s leadership, enrollment at the Madison Campus has increased. The Madison Campus has led the state through development of the Transfer General Education Core dual enrollment program where high school students taking college classes at Ivy Tech Madison complete the first year of college upon high school graduation. Enrollment of high school students in this program has increased from 22 in 2014 to 208 this fall. During her tenure as campus president, she was among those in the Madison community spearheading manufacturing initiatives that have created career pathways for high school students. Mote holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, earned with high distinction, in English and Spanish from Indiana University, Bloomington. She also studied at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. She earned her Juris Doctor in 2005 from the Maurer School of Law at Indiana University.