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Ivy Tech Community College Hosts New Communication Speaker Series

Ivy Tech Community College Hosts New Communication Speaker Series

Ivy Tech Community College Hosts New Communication Across Disciplines Speaker Series 

Valparaiso, IN – Ivy Tech Community College Department of Communication is launching new Communication Across the Disciplines Speaker Series to celebrate the foundational power of communication skills across different professional disciplines and in personal areas of everyday living.

 

Monday, September 29, 2025 from 2-3 p.m. CT at the Valparaiso Campus Auditorium, the Department of Communication will kick start the speaker series by welcoming Dr. Kim Scipes to discuss Global Communication best practices with attendees.

 

Kim Scipes, PhD, serves as Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Purdue University Northwest in Westville, Indiana. He has published four books and over 280 articles and book reviews in the US and 11 different countries. Scipes has been an industrial worker (a printer), high school teacher, and office worker over the years, and has been a member of the Graphic Communications International Union, the American Federation of Teachers, and the National Education Association. Scipes is also current member of the National Writers Union. His newest book, tentatively titled Unions, Race and Popular Democracy: Learning from the CIO to Rebuild a Progressive US Labor Movement in the Mid Twenty-first Century, will be published in late 2025 or early 2026.

 

The Ivy Tech Department of Communication hopes to help attendees at the event better understand communication best practices in building new connections and fostering new professional relationships. The Department of Communication will welcome four speakers from various backgrounds to campus throughout the 2025-26 academic year. 

 

For those interested in learning more about the Speaker Series Event and additional ways to support Ivy Tech Community College’s mission contact Communication Department Chair Kayla Vasilko at kvasilko@ivytech.edu.

Additional Info

Media Contact : Erika Mihalek, M.A. Director of Marketing & Communications Ivy Tech Community College – Valparaiso Campus Phone: 219-476-4721

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