he Ivory Review (TIR) is the flagship research journal of the Ivory League Conference of Community Colleges. TIR is a scholarly journal for a general audience. We challenge academics, students and professionals, to make a complicated idea simple and consumable.
TIR encourages submissions of previously unpublished scholarly articles on topics significant to community development and innovation. For TIR, Community Development is a broad term given to the practices of civic leaders, activists, involved citizens and professionals dedicated to improving various aspects of communities, rural or urban, typically aiming to build better and stronger societies.
We invite manuscripts on a wide range of topics related to research or critique on community development, from all academic disciplines especially as it pertains to the yearly theme.
TIR will publish top monthly reviewed submissions, and at the end of the academic year, Independence Community College, on behalf of the Ivory League, will publish a print anthology of the Ivory Review Journal.
Authors of top published ideas will be invited to present at the annual Kansas Innovation Summit hosted by Independence Community College. TIR’s mission is to publish sound academic papers that inspire community members to work together, to take collective action and generate solutions to common problems.
Editor-in-Chief
Konye Ori
Editorial Board
Dan Barwick
Keli Tuschman
Karen Carpenter
Brad Henderson
Jim Correll
Kara Wheeler
Tammy Geldenhuys
Associate Editors
Lester Kurtz
Kristy Sheeler
Lindsay Quandt
David Smith
Jessica Morgantate
Tim Haynes
Breta Campus
Zach Peterson
Quake Pletcher
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