Ivy Tech Chancellor Receives Citizen of the Year Award

The award was handed out at Lawrenceburg Fall Music Fest.

Lawrenceburg Mayor Kelly Mollaun (left) awards Mark Graver with the Citizen of the Year Award. City of Lawrenceburg photo.

(Lawrenceburg, Ind.) - The musical acts weren't the only thing worth seeing at Lawrenceburg Fall Music Fest. 

On Saturday, Mark Graver was the recipient of the Citizen of the Year Award. 

The award honors individuals that demonstrate outstanding community activism and dedicated regional support for the citizens of the City of Lawrenceburg and southeast Indiana.

Graver has served as Chancellor of Ivy Tech’s Lawrenceburg campus since 2017.

His time at Ivy Tech started in 1992 when he started as a computer faculty member at the Madison campus.

Graver has also served as the program chair for the Business and Computer program at the Batesville campus, and the Associate Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs at the Lawrenceburg and Batesville campuses.

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