Ivy Tech names new South Bend-Elkhart chancellor

Jun. 23—INDIANAPOLIS — Ivy Tech Community College has selected Tia Robinson-Cooper as the next chancellor for its South Bend-Elkhart campus; she will begin her duties on July 11.

Robinson-Cooper, formerly the president of Contra Costa College in San Pablo, California, was chosen after a national search and with input from members of the Ivy Tech president's cabinet, campus and state boards, chancellors, campus faculty and staff, the South Bend-Elkhart Ivy Tech Foundation, and members of the Elkhart community.

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