Civic Involvement

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We are a diverse open-access college that fuels Indiana's economy through excellence in teaching and proactive engagement with industry and community partners, embedded in a culture of innovation that empowers all students to learn and succeed.

We build partnerships with diverse donors and leaders to generate resources and create opportunities for communities while breaking down barriers for students pursuing their education at Ivy Tech Community College.

Pierre F. Goodrich (1894-1973) was a successful Indiana businessman and lawyer who founded Liberty Fund in 1960. His aim was to promote study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals.

The Philadelphia Society is a membership organization of scholars, educators, journalists, business and professional leaders, clergy–thoughtful analysts of current trends and public policy–all dedicated to the goal of deepening the intellectual foundations of a free and ordered society and to broadening the general understanding of its basic principles among the public at large.

Our mission is to provide a creative and innovation agriculture/agribusiness in conjunction to applicable real world skills so our students are prepared for life after graduation.

The American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) educates people on the value of personal freedom, free enterprise, property rights, limited government, and sound money.

Liberty Fund's mission is to explore the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. This mission is vitally important, perhaps now more than ever.

The mission of APEE is to put into action accurate and objective understandings of private enterprise.

The Mont Pelerin Society is composed of persons who continue to see the dangers to civilized society outlined in the statement of aims. They have seen economic and political liberalism in the ascendant for a time since World War II in some countries but also its apparent decline in more recent times.