PRESENTER BIOS

							PRESENTER BIOS

Thomas J. Snyder
President – Ivy Tech Community College

Thomas J. Snyder serves as president of Ivy Tech Community College,
the nation's largest singly-accredited statewide community college
system and the largest institution of higher education in Indiana.

Appointed in 2007, President Snyder leads the strategic, academic and
operational processes of Indiana's largest and fastest growing college with more than 150,000
students at 23 campuses and 100 learning centers that provide a full-spectrum of educational
resources, transfer credits, associate degrees, workforce training and professional certification.

During his first three years, he successfully led the college through a 10-year accreditation
process and has been nationally recognized for efforts and achievements and featured in The
Chronicle of Higher Education as one of seven community college Presidents making a difference
and as the 2009 Freedom Award recipient by the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Indiana Holiday
Commission for providing major, positive, societal influence in the community.

President Snyder has installed numerous growth and expansion initiatives to meet the future
student services requirements. A negotiated agreement with Dell now provides students with
significant computer discounts. Several new facilities projects have been announced and
completed.

To upgrade student and community support and focus, he added new senior leadership by
appointing the first provost, a senior vice president for Workforce and Economic Development,
vice president of development to lead statewide foundation and fundraising initiatives and
senior executive dedicated to organizational diversity.

To supplement a catalog of online certification courses, Ivy Tech has received approval from The
Indiana Commission for Higher Education to offer a new online Technical Certificate and
Associate of Applied Science Degree in Manufacturing Production and Operations.

The new online certificates and degrees combine existing elements of the college’s Industrial
Technology and Advanced Manufacturing programs with new interactive, simulation-based
training modules.
President Snyder introduced a comprehensive Accelerating Greatness initiative which combines
the expertise of statewide staff and student leadership teams to develop, track and achieve
performance and service goals, optimize resources and ensure students achieve their
educational benchmarks. Additionally, Accelerating Greatness focuses on making Indiana great
by offering new and creative ways for Indiana citizens to access value-based workforce training,
designed to keep Indiana employers and businesses competitive in world markets.

Efficiency improvements, bookstore restructuring, a statewide call/fulfillment center, costs
savings initiatives and joint ventures have generated more than $ 3 million in new revenue in his
first year, plus the most recent consolidation contract to save 30 percent on furniture purchases
and recognize minority suppliers.
And under his leadership, Ivy Tech has realized upgraded bond ratings from both Standard and
Poor's Ratings and Fitch Ratings.

The college has experienced its largest semester enrollments consecutively over the last five
semesters as follows:

                                     Spring 2010 = 119,773
                                       Fall 2009 = 110,359
                                      Spring 2009 = 90,627
                                        Fall 2008 = 86,130
                                      Spring 2008 = 79,366

Additional achievements that chart progress of the Accelerating Greatness initiative include:

            •   New construction projects for additional classrooms, parking and student
                resources to accommodate record double-digit enrollment increases each
                semester since 2007.
            •   Established a Center for Entrepreneurship as an entry point for the practical
                application of entrepreneurial skills and ideas.
            •   Awarded 10,000 associate degree or certificate this academic year, the largest
                number of graduates ever for Ivy Tech.
            •   Announcement of an Indiana Department of Education $720K grant to fund a
                collaborative effort between the College and three other organizations to better
                prepare students at two IPS high schools for college.
            •   Installed cost savings and revenue enhancement initiatives in the last three
                fiscal years that have generated $24 million in total annual savings and $14.2
                million in total one time savings to the college.
            •   Recognized as one of the top fastest-growing colleges in the U.S.
            •   Ivy Tech enrolled 16,569 Indiana high school students in dual credit this year, a
                43.9 percent increase from the number of students enrolled the previous year.
            •   President Snyder named to the first-ever national Education Council, focused on
                expanding and enhancing the manufacturing workforce.
Prior to joining Ivy Tech, President Snyder held Chairman and CEO/President positions at
Flagship Energy Systems Center and Delco Remy International, Inc., respectively. During his 11
years at the helm of Delco Remy, he established a new business model and diversified the
company from a $500 million automotive parts supplier to $1.3 billion in sales as global leader in
truck, off-road and aftermarket products with more than 6,000 employees worldwide.

He began his career at General Motors Corporation, advancing through executive positions in
engineering, marketing and sales for automotive batteries, magnetics and electric vehicle
components.

Snyder graduated from Kettering University, formerly General Motors Institute in 1967, with a
degree in mechanical engineering. Snyder also holds a master's degree in business
administration from Indiana University. Snyder also completed a six-year tour of duty with the
Air Force with research and development assignments at Vandenberg and Andrews Air Force
Bases and the Pentagon. He serves on the boards of Conexus, Ener1, BioCrossroads, The Greater
Indianapolis Progress Committee, The Manufacturing Institute, Midwestern Higher Education
Compact, Great Lakes Manufacturing Council, and the Paramount Theatre.




Dr. B. Kaye Walter
Chancellor, Central Indiana Region, Ivy Tech Community College

Dr. B. Kaye Walter is the Chancellor of the Central Indiana Region of Ivy Tech. Dr. Walter served
as the Chief Learning Officer and Executive Vice President at Valencia Community College from
September 2005 until November 2010. From July 1997 to September 2005, she was Vice
President for Academic Services at Kansas City Kansas Community College. Dr. Walter has been
a professor of chemistry and was a co-facilitator at The Academy, Institute for Leadership
Training and Development. Her work has included many publications, presentations, workshops
and seminars on learning assessment, curriculum alignment, faculty development, international
programming, and in her discipline, chemistry. Dr. Walter has been recognized through
numerous awards for her teaching and leadership skills, including the NISOD Teaching
Excellence Award and the Paul Elsner Excellence in Leadership Award. She is the past Chair of
the Council of Instructional Affairs for Florida Community Colleges and previously served in a
similar position in the state of Kansas. Dr. Walter has a B.S. in chemistry from the University of
Houston, a M.Div. from Saint Paul School of Theology, and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Rice
University.