Business View Magazine May 2023

199 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 5 SCHOOL CI T Y OF HOBART we will do something. We work hard for kids.” Since then, the School City of Hobart has had to constantly stay abreast of the shifting job market to update the curriculum to meet the ever- changing needs. In addition to Ivy Tech, the School City of Hobart partners with the local hospital St. Mary Medical Center, NIPSCO (Northern Indiana Public Service Company), and the Center of Workforce Innovations to help stay up to date on what jobs are needed in the community. “Our sustained leadership has been paired with nimbleness, agility, flexibility, and open- mindedness,” Krieg says. “If we’re preparing students for the challenges of tomorrow, those challenges are different than they were before. We have a constant and deliberate redefining of college and career readiness that seamlessly blends with life readiness. The economy our students are entering is very different than it was even a few years ago.” “We have an ‘oblitunity’– an obligation and opportunity – to our students and their parents and our community stakeholders to embrace those changes.” Hobart was once a very blue-collar district, but now the area is moving toward more of an energy technology focus. Healthcare has also become a large sector of employment in the