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Universities should provide clarity on extra costs

Universities should provide clarity on extra costs

By The Ithacan August 28, 2025

For many, affording to stay enrolled in college can be a great challenge. The average full-time undergraduate student pays about $1,240 a year just on course materials like textbooks. A Gallup and Lumina...

Children's media aids in addressing difficult topics

Children’s media aids in addressing difficult topics

By The Ithacan August 28, 2025

Adults still remember the shows they grew up with: the bright colors, the catchy songs and their favorite childhood characters. What they do not always realize is how those characters follow them and continue...

AI on campus: Navigating the new normal in school

AI on campus: Navigating the new normal in school

By Isabella Bogosel and Narges Kasiri May 1, 2025

Artificial intelligence is rapidly weaving its way into campus life, and our community is learning to navigate it in real time. In a multi-week research project, our Advanced Decision Making with Analytics...

Diminished expectations create disengaged students

Diminished expectations create disengaged students

By Lorien Tyne, Editor-in-Chief May 1, 2025

I came to Ithaca College for The Ithacan because decades of passionate students built a legacy worth committing four years contributing to. It is this newsroom and the people that give it life that have...

Revoking visas and status limits students’ expression

Revoking visas and status limits students’ expression

By The Ithacan May 1, 2025

The President Donald Trump administration's recent actions targeting international students should not be seen as ordinary immigration policy. The termination of students’ legal statuses and visas are...

Effective activism needs to go beyond social media

Effective activism needs to go beyond social media

By The Ithacan May 1, 2025

Generation Z is often hailed as “the activist generation,” but social media has complicated what activism looks like. In recent years, major humanitarian crises have gone viral, only to be forgotten...

Holocaust survivors' stories teach important lessons

Holocaust survivors’ stories teach important lessons

By The Ithacan April 25, 2025

This week, students from Ithaca College were preparing to attend a powerful event: an in-person talk with a Holocaust survivor. But, just days before the visit, the speaker, Judy Altmann, fell ill and...

The future of our climate depends on affordability and accessibility

The future of our climate depends on affordability and accessibility

By The Ithacan April 24, 2025

With the Ithaca College campus observing Sustainability Week and the broader community coming together for Earth Day, it’s a time to reflect not just on environmental progress, but on the deeper meaning...

Classrooms must adapt for the incoming usage of AI

Classrooms must adapt for the incoming usage of AI

By Charles Phipps April 18, 2025

Artificial Intelligence  has revolutionized the way our world works. It has made it much easier to gain direct access to questions people may have and it works even faster than the Internet. With that...

International students face the burden of being grateful

International students face the burden of being grateful

By Sonya Mukhina April 18, 2025

Watching injustice from afar is always difficult, but being torn between two worlds and still expected to be grateful for it is even worse. As we face a massive shift of political narratives around the...

Cutting programs like Deaf studies affects the entire campus community

Cutting programs like Deaf studies affects the entire campus community

By The Ithacan April 18, 2025
Programs like Deaf studies don't just teach language — they teach empathy, advocacy and accessibility. So why are they the first to go? Ithaca College’s recent decision to pause its Deaf studies minor has sparked concern among students, faculty and advocates for inclusive education.
Women's March Madness deserves more spotlight

Women’s March Madness deserves more spotlight

By David Schurter, Co-Sports Editor April 10, 2025

College basketball is one of the country’s most popular sports, due in large part to the annual postseason tournament: NCAA March Madness — featuring the likes of 64 teams together in one bracket....

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