Indiana
Indiana General Assembly plans to focus on workforce education in upcoming legislative session
INDIANAPOLIS – Legislators have been assigned to accommodate an schooling committee.
“Whereas Indiana continues to make historic investments in Okay-12 schooling and is the No. 1 state for college alternative and father or mother empowerment, we nonetheless have work to do,” Bob Behning, committee chair and State Rep. mentioned. “We should do extra to make sure our highschool graduates are prepared to satisfy the wants of our 21st century economic system, and I stay up for engaged on this vital concern and lots of others within the session forward.”
Leaders on the state home have mentioned that schooling with a give attention to workforce improvement will likely be a giant focus within the upcoming session.
The labor scarcity is hitting Indiana onerous so the Indiana normal meeting is engaged on laws that can information teenagers and younger adults in direction of a pathway of employment.
One program that has been in Indiana since 2006 is the JAG program. Julie Flint’s has a background in social work, however for over a decade has been a JAG specialist.
“We assist college students put together whether or not that’s to go in to work, school, commerce faculty apprenticeship, navy, mainly something besides be a sofa bum, ” Flint mentioned.
JAG stand for Jobs for America’s Graduates. This system spends 25% of its time both on subject journeys or with visitor audio system from numerous careers coming into the classroom.
In addition they do some profession exploration assessments by way of Indiana profession Explorer. When this system began a number of college students have been occupied with pursuing a school diploma, however as of late issues have modified solely about 20% of Flints college students plan on pursing a standard 4-year diploma.
” At any time when I began in 2011, we most likely had about 50% of our college students pondering at the very least associates diploma and 4-year, however plenty of it now’s one thing that’s going to get them straight in to a very good paying job, ” Flint who works at Decatur Central Excessive College mentioned.
Lilly Wheeler is senior at Decatur Central Excessive College and participating within the JAG program. She plans on pursing a 4-year diploma and would be the first in her household to take action. She says she isn’t the norm amongst her friends.
” COVID we have been at house so all people type of received use to that,” Wheeler mentioned. “Now all people is rather like properly I can get a warehouse job as a result of these jobs are extra in demand now due to COVID so individuals do not actually wish to pursue school anymore.”
The pattern of much less younger individuals pursing a 4-year diploma is one thing the Indiana Chamber of Commerce says they’re conscious of.
“Going again a handful of years in the past virtually two-thirds of our college students have been occurring now it is hovering simply above 50% and for male college students it is beneath 50% so there is a main drawback. There’s a main disconnect there, ” Jason Bearce the V.P. of Schooling and Workforce on the Indiana Chamber of Commerce mentioned.
The Chamber says this can be a troubling pattern and will doubtlessly have an effect on financial improvement.
Indiana had a very good story to inform as a result of we’re some of the enterprise pleasant, tax pleasant, regulatory pleasant states within the nation, lowest price of doing enterprise, and so on,” Bearce mentioned. “More and more employers are taking a look at what the expertise degree is in every state and so they’re taking a look at their schooling ranges.
“So, we wish to compete for these sorts of jobs,” Bearce mentioned. “We have to do a greater job in making the case to people, notably younger college students popping out of highschool that they’ll want greater than only a diploma, {that a} diploma shouldn’t be sufficient.”
Republicans haven’t laid out precisely what their plans are to reinvent the wheel. The Chamber says they’d assist work-based studying packages; nevertheless, democrats really feel there are larger points at hand on the subject of schooling.
State Rep. Ed DeLaney a Democrat from Indianapolis who sits on the schooling committee says creating a flowery new program isn’t the reply.
“If we’ve a workforce drawback what it means is, our children do not get ready for the present job availabilities or do not select them. These are counseling issues,” DeLaney mentioned. “We need not create new packages, which we name workforce. We simply want to assist children direct themselves. Lots of our colleges have 400 college students per counselor; the advice is 250.”
He feels that the final meeting must give attention to rising lecturers’ pay and encourage extra college students to enter schooling.
“We’ve got a trainer’s scarcity and it is solely going to worsen with fewer and fewer individuals finding out to be lecturers,” DeLaney mentioned. “We have to present extra scholarships, extra monetary assist and extra ethical constructing for lecturers, then we’d remedy that long run drawback.”
We reached out to Republican management to see what plans they’ve to alter highschool curriculum, however the chair of the schooling committee was not prepared to talk on what laws might put ahead.
The Indiana Common Meeting will reconvene on January 9th.
On Wednesday afternoons, the Indiana Hoosier swim team puts on racing suits and goes off the blocks. This “Lactate workout” is meant to create and help the body practice dealing with lactic acid.
There were three different lactate groups today: Longer, middle, and sprint.
The sprint workout (which included US Olympian Matt King) was:
- 2×75 @ 10:00 (275+ cooldown)
- 2×50 @ 7:00 (200+ cooldown)
- 4×25 @ 3:00 (75 cooldown)
The middle workout (which included Olympians Josh Matheny, Tomer Frankel, and Rafael Miroslaw) was:
- 1×150 @ 10:00 (300+ cooldown)
- 1×75 @ 10:00 (275+ cooldown)
- 2×50 @ 7:00 (200+ cooldown)
- 4×25 @ 3:00 (75 cooldown)
The longer workout (which included US Olympian Anna Peplowski) was:
- 1×150 @ 10:00 (300+ cooldown)
- 2×75 @ 8:00 (225+ cooldown)
- 3×50 @ 6:00 (150+ cooldown)
PARADISE ISLAND, The Bahamas – Indiana and Providence have one last chance to salvage a win Friday in the Battle 4 Atlantis seventh-place game. The loser will head home as the member of the eight-team tournament to go winless in the three-game stretch.
Indiana entered the tournament with a 4-0 record and ranked No. 14 in the nation, but it suffered an 89-61 loss to Louisville Wednesday and an 89-73 loss to Gonzaga Thursday. Providence had a 5-0 record before losing 79-77 to Oklahoma and 69-58 to Davidson.
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Bart Torvik rankings
Projected score: Indiana 72, Providence 67. Torvik gives the Hoosiers a 68% chance of victory.
Indiana Hoosiers
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Meet the coaches
How does a team shake off its first loss of the season while facing a top-15 program that also has a lot to prove following its first defeat?
Ask Gonzaga men’s basketball head coach Mark Few — he and his coaching staff appeared to have all the answers to guide the Bulldogs to an 89-73 victory over No. 14 Indiana on Thursday to advance to the Battle 4 Atlantis fifth-place game.
The Zags (5-1) didn’t waste any time putting their overtime defeat to West Virginia behind them, as they jumped out to an 8-0 lead over the Hoosiers (4-2) in the first couple of minutes before taking a double-digit lead into halftime. Oumar Ballo kept Indiana in the fight early on to make it a 1-point game nearing the 9-minute mark in the first half, yet despite the former Zag’s efforts, Gonzaga capitalized on second-chance opportunities and transition points to go on a 21-2 scoring run, highlighted by an alley-oop dunk from Khalif Battle. The sixth-year guard led his team with 16 points and grabbed five rebounds, while five of his teammates scored in double figures, thanks in large part to Ryan Nembhard’s 13 assists.
With the win, Gonzaga will play the winner of Providence/Davidson in the fifth place on Friday at 5:30 p.m. PST/8:30 p.m. EST.
Here are three takeaways from the victory.
BULLDOGS IMPOSE THEIR WILL DOWN LOW
Braden Huff noted the Bulldogs didn’t have much of a presence in the paint in their loss to the Mountaineers. The Zags went a season-worst 19-of-44 (43.2%) from inside the arc and never established themselves on the low block, instead settling for 3-pointers when their first action didn’t lead to a score from 5 feet out.
Ballo and 6-foot-9 forward Mackenzie Mgbako posed a different kind of challenge, though, despite a hot start from Ballo, who scored 17 of his team’s first 31 points, Gonzaga’s bigs controlled the interior and the boards in totality. The Zags outrebounded the Hoosiers, 42-27, and outscored their opposition, 23-4, in second-chance points.
“Our bigs did a good job,” Few said after the game. “That’s the first team we played that’s kind of like us — likes to throw the ball inside a lot, really ducks in and really puts a lot of foul pressure on you. We were in massive foul trouble in the first half. Got in even more trouble in the second half. But they kept playing. They kept repeating and moving them in and out of there, and they were able to stay in the game.”
Ballo gave the Hoosiers a much-needed spark after they fell into an 8-0 hole. The 7-foot-tall, 237-pound redshirt senior nailed a few right-handed hook shots to put his team in position to compete with the No. 3-ranked team in the country. Ballo led all scorers with 25 points.
“Clearly he’s gotten a lot better,” Few said of Ballo. “I mean that was what six years ago [when Ballo arrived to Gonzaga as a freshman]? He’s older, he’s gotten in great shape. I’m happy for him. That right-handed hook was going tonight but we were OK with that. We just didn’t want him to get a whole lot of stuff between us and the basket.”
Michael Ajayi had his best game as a Zag, recording 15 points and nine rebounds on 5-of-9 from the field, while Ike finished with 14 points and seven rebounds. Ben Gregg added 13 points off the bench and held down the center spot while Ike and Huff had to sit on the bench due to foul trouble in the second half.
AN EMPHATIC RESPONSE
Gonzaga’s players looked ready to flush away the dramatic loss to WVU the moment they stepped off the floor Wednesday. Having a short memory is somewhat necessary when playing three games in as many days, regardless of the final score. Safe to say the Bulldogs embraced that mentality heading into Thursday’s consolation game.
“There’s a lot you say in a 24-hour period like that,” Few said in regard to how he addressed his team in wake of their loss to WVU. “We talked about how in a game like the other night, comes down to one or two possessions, we’ve got to be able to execute, especially on defense. I didn’t feel like we played very good ‘D’ last night.”
The Zags flipped the script on that end of the floor against the Hoosiers. While Ballo was rolling down low, his teammates weren’t creating much on offense from the perimeter. Indiana’s starting backcourt of Myles Rice and Kanaan Carlyle combined for 12 points on 4-of-14 from the field. Malik Reneau, who led the way with 21 points against the Cardinals, put up a goose egg in the first half before ending the night with a quiet six points in 24 minutes of action.
ONTO PROVIDENCE/DAVIDSON
The Zags can enjoy the rest of their Thanksgiving holiday while they await their opponent for tomorrow’s fifth-place game at 5:30 p.m. PST. Gonzaga will face the winner of Providence (5-1) vs. Davidson (4-1) to conclude its trip in The Bahamas.
The Friars nearly completed a wild comeback against Oklahoma in the final minutes of their quarterfinal matchup on Wednesday. The Sooners led by nine points with 44 seconds left but missed free throws and a traveling violation made it a 2-point game in the final seconds. Wesley Cardet Jr. had 17 points, Jayden Pierre and Bensley Joseph 16 each and Corey Floyd Jr. put up 13 for Providence.
The Wildcats got blown out, 104-71, by No. 24 Arizona on Wednesday. Connor Kochera tallied 20 points and Bobby Durbin nailed five 3s for Davidson, which went 38% from the field.
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