Mission Statement:

As a statewide, open-access, community college, Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana provides residents of Indiana with professional, technical, transfer, and lifelong education for successful careers, personal development, and citizenship. Through its affordable, quality educational programs and services, the College strengthens Indiana's economy and enhances its cultural development.

Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana - Richmond Philosophy of Education:

Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana - Richmond embraces the philosophy that education enhances the quality of life. We seek to foster a learning environment that:

• Focuses on active student involvement in the learning process.
• Includes career preparation, remediation, access, and transfer.
• Embraces language arts, mathematics, and technology across the curriculum.
• Incorporates critical thinking, problem-solving and decision-making. Respects diversity.
• Accommodates diverse learning styles.
• Encourages pedagogies based on the concept of multiple intelligences, instructional innovation, and resources outside of course texts.
• Facilitates transferable communication, teamwork, and technical skills.
• Promotes community economic development.
• Encourages life long learning.