News Archive - 2026
August
- Graduate fuses art and medicine into a healing formula
- IVCC Circulating Petition Notice
- IVCC Board to hold special meeting on August 20
- Airplane pilot training class
- Dental assistants, paramedics graduate in July 23 ceremonies
- IVCC offices to open at 1 p.m. on August 12
- IVCC announces partnership with leading student mental health and wellness solution company Uwill
July
- IVCC tuition payment deadline extended
- 20 new LPNs complete IVCC program
- Hometown National Bank Invests in Community with $10,000 Gift to IVCC Ag Forward Campaign
- July 2026 Board Report
- Hunt family establishes scholarship at IVCC
- IVCC Board to meet July 21
- Registration underway for IVCC youth basketball clinic
- Tuition due July 29
- Registration underway for IVCC’s Get Set college readiness program
- IVCC seeks to define Ottawa campus as center for working adults, health professions courses
- IVCC announces academic honors list
- IVCC releases Presidential Honors List
- Study highlights IVCC’s influence on the lives of its students and the regional economy
June
- Agriculture faculty office to be named for First State Bank
- Explore IVCC open house to feature student panel, college readiness session
- IVCC Audit/Finance Committee to meet
- Board report: Auto, robotics students charge forward with leading-edge training equipment
- 400 graduates complete degrees, certificates at IVCC
- Adult Education students share achievements at graduation ceremony
- IVCC Board, Facilities Committee to meet June 23
- 4 IVCC students awarded STEM, accounting scholarships to NIU
- IVCC to host volleyball, basketball summer clinics
- Danica Scoma awarded IVCC’s Matthiessen Scholarship
- RN graduates participate in IVCC pinning ceremony
- Assessment Center is a community testing hub
- Express Enrollment set at IVCC Ottawa Center
- Summer schedule becomes effective next week
May
- Veterans Assistance Commission endows IVCC scholarship
- 5 outstanding former students to be inducted in LPO-IVCC Hall of Fame
- May 2026 Board Meeting Report
- IVCC campuses closed for Memorial Day
- Starved Rock Historical and Educational Foundation creates conservation scholarship at IVCC
- Board to meet May 19
- Op-Ed from IVCC: Illinois Needs More Skilled Workers. Our Community College Can Help.
- Technology scholarship to honor longtime Ottawa Dental Lab manager
- Board to continue special meeting on May 11
- IVCC recognizes students’ academic achievement
- Board to meet in special session Monday
April
- EKG Technician training begins in May at IVCC
- Eureka Savings Bank donates to Dr. Alfred E. Wisgoski Agricultural Education Center
- 60th annual commencement set for May 16
- April 2026 Board Report
- Ensembles to perform in 3 concerts next week
- Softball games scheduled
- Hubbell awarded for teaching excellence
- Loveland awarded for distinguished support staff service
- Smith named outstanding part-time faculty
- MIMIC event showcases innovation
- Faculty office in IVCC's Dr. Alfred E. Wisgoski Agricultural Center will be named for Corcorans
- Board to meet Tuesday
- Foundation celebrates 50 years of support and generosity
- Ottawa student wins IVCC Paul Simon Essay Contest
- SciFest returns with new demonstrations
- IVCC panel to offer guidance for business startups, financial readiness
- High school, college art show opens at IVCC
- Annual IVCC welding competition invites high school, college welders
- Ottawa Center reopens at noon
- IVCC Ottawa Center closed Thursday morning
- Softball schedule change
March
- Student named Golden Apple Scholar
- Diplomat/author to speak at IVCC
- IVCC Tennis schedule change
- Scoma awarded 2 PTK scholarships
- Summer, fall registration opens April 1 at IVCC
- Two IVCC truck driver training scholarships awarded
- Thursday IVCC softball games rescheduled
- March 2026 Board Report
- Board to meet as scheduled today
- Softball game Tuesday rescheduled due to weather
- IVCC closure update-evening activities
- IVCC closed today due to weather; evening activities to be determined
- Board meeting date, location changes
- IVCC will sponsor blood drive April 2
- Explore IVCC open house to feature additional info sessions
- First graduating class, outstanding accreditation review highlight IVCC’s Dental Hygiene program’s year
- Dr. Alfred E. Wisgoski Agricultural Education Center classroom to be named in honor of Compeer Financial
- Celebrating five of the many women who help shape IVCC during Women’s History Month
February
- 20th annual edible car contest celebrates endurance, creativity, and sweet success
- Upcoming campus closures
- Jazz, Wind ensembles to perform
- IVCC to present ‘The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’
- Foundation to celebrate 50 years of generosity and student support
- IVCC seeks Paul Simon Essay submissions
- Continuing Education Center expands business course offerings, IVCC Board of Trustees learns
- IVCC, Waltham Curling Club team up again on curling lessons
- Mother, daughter exchange IVCC classrooms for world experiences
- Board to meet February 17
- Annual Edible Car Contest returns to IVCC
- Dr. Alfred E. Wisgoski Agricultural Education Center student lounge to be named in honor of Central Bank Illinois
- Audit/Finance Committee to meet
- Continuing Education launches new workshop for budding business entrepreneurs
- Change in Saturday basketball game announced
- Fall 2025 Presidential Honors List
- Academic Honors list announced
January
- Classes promote mind, body wellness
- Change announced in Saturday game schedule
- College admissions test prep classes scheduled at IVCC
- Facilities Committee to meet
- IVCC to close Friday due to weather
- January 2026 Board Report
- Airplane pilot training class
- Fall 2025 graduates
- Board to meet January 20
- IVCC to be closed Monday
- 27th softball clinic for youth
- Nursing information sessions scheduled
- IVCC celebrates first-ever dental hygiene graduating class
- Real estate, home inspection courses offered