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The class of 2024 celebrates graduation at the Senior Formal.

Photo Essay: Class of 2024 celebrates graduation through Senior Week

May 22, 2024
Senior Week annually celebrates Ithaca College's graduating class through weeklong events and programming.
The event was held at the Free Speech Rock on May 8, where students spoke about their experiences on campus, past protests and the history of the Israel-Hamas war. 

IC Students for Justice in Palestine organizes listen-in, sends letter to Cornish with updated demands

By Vivian Rose, Assistant News Editor • May 13, 2024
Ithaca College Students for Justice in Palestine (ICSJP) hosted a listen-in, their final event of Spring 2024. The event was held at the Free Speech Rock on May 8, where students spoke about their experiences on campus, past protests and the history of the Israel-Hamas war. 
Victoria Cabal, Rankin Climate’s executive vice president, of strategy and operations, said the company will continue working with the college to plan its upcoming course of action.

Community engages in understanding Campus Climate Survey results to discuss next steps

By Taylor Borash, Staff Writer • April 28, 2024
On April 25, the Campus Climate Committee co-chairs, in association with representatives from Rankin Climate, a company that collects institutional climate assessment data, gave two community presentations about the Key Findings report that was released April 16. 
Sophomore Paris Agiomavritis, who is on the appropriations committee and is the assistant to the vice president of communications, is running for the vice president of business and finance position.

SGC hears from Fall 2024 candidates ahead of elections

By Jacquelyn Reaves, Newsletter Editor • April 26, 2024
The Ithaca College Student Governance Council had their annual spring platform presentations April 23 for candidates to serve in the Fall 2024 semester.
Caroline Levine, professor of humanities at Cornell University, addresses the crowd on The Commons. Levine said she played a key role in Cornell’s decision to divest from fossil fuels in 2020. Cornell’s fossil fuel divestment movement aimed to stop the university from investing in oil and gas companies and contributing to climate change through its endowment. 

Local groups urge climate justice action, engage with politicians ahead of equity proposal vote

By Prakriti Panwar, News Editor • April 23, 2024
On April 22, Earth Day, students and Ithaca locals gathered on The Commons to declare a climate emergency on “Reclaim Earth Day.” Local groups — like Cornell on Fire and Extinction Rebellion Ithaca — alongside Cornell University, Tompkins Cortland Community College and some Ithaca College students marched to The Commons to participate.
The college worked with Rankin Climate, a company that assesses institutional climate and specifically works with the college’s working committee, to compile the results of the survey.  The survey was made up of 117 questions, 16 of which were open-ended. Questions from the 2016 Campus Climate Survey were used as a basis and reviewed again by the college. 

Underrepresented communities on campus report lower levels of comfort in climate survey

By Prakriti Panwar, News Editor • April 22, 2024
On April 16, Campus Climate Committee co-chairs released a Key Findings report summarizing some important details from the results of the survey that was completed in Fall 2023. 
These visits at Hammond are provided via the Cayuga Health System network, which is different from the Center for Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS). CAPS will remain free.

Health center plans to hire professional to guide students through insurance processes

By Kaeleigh Banda, Assistant Photo Editor • April 16, 2024
Beginning Fall 2024, Ithaca College’s Hammond Health Center will add a new health insurance navigator position to help students understand their health insurance and what it covers. This new role is being added to the center to ensure that trouble understanding insurance is not something that prevents students from receiving the care they need. 
Students who deal with financial hardship and know they will not be able to pay off their bill by the due date are encouraged to reach out to SFS and communicate that with the office. Students who pay off their bill after being unregistered will reregister for their classes based on the availability of classes left.

Community concerned about new billing system that unregisters students with outstanding debt

By Jacquelyn Reaves, Newsletter Editor • April 16, 2024
In a meeting with the Ithaca College Student Governance Council on March 25, Shana Gore, associate vice president of enrollment operations, management and student success, announced that the college will be unregistering students with outstanding debts between $7,000-$10,000 starting Aug. 15.
Crissi Dalfonzo, director of LGBTQ Education, Outreach, and Services, spoke with the Student Governance Council about LGBTQ+ resources on campus and how to promote more gender-inclusive language. 

SGC discusses course feedback statements and LGBTQ+ resources with campus leaders

By Jacquelyn Reaves, Newsletter Editor • April 16, 2024
The Ithaca College Student Governance Council met April 15 to hear from David Gondek, associate professor in the Department of Biology and chair of Faculty Council, to give their feedback on end-of-semester student statements. The council also heard from Crissi Dalfonzo, director of LGBTQ Education, Outreach, and Services, to hear more about LGBTQ+ resources on campus and how to promote more gender-inclusive language. 
From left to right, first-year student Hee Jin Cho, Student Success Coach Trisha Mukherjee and graduate student Vaishnavi Devi Kumar take a selfie in their solar eclipse glasses.

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Anne Hogan, dean of the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, will be leaving at the end of the academic year and taking up the role of Dean of the College of Performing Arts at Chapman University in Southern California.

Inaugural dean of School of Music, Theatre, and Dance announces departure from IC

By Prakriti Panwar, News Editor • April 8, 2024
Anne Hogan, dean of the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, announced her departure from Ithaca College in an email sent to the campus community on April 8. Hogan was the first dean of the unified School of MTD.
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