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Administrators spoke about the COVID-19 pandemic and the Academic Program Prioritization (APP) process during the All-Student and Family Gathering.

The Open the Books coalition organized a candlelight vigil to honor the faculty members whose positions are being eliminated due to the APP.

This series aims to put human faces on faculty members who have been notified of their termination as a result of the Academic Program Prioritization.

The Department of Physics and Astronomy has created an Anti-racism and Inclusion Action Plan to combat discrimination and microaggressions within the department.

This series aims to put human faces on faculty members who have been notified of their termination as a result of the Academic Program Prioritization.

Out of the five graduate programs that are being recommended for discontinuation by the APPIC, four are Masters of Music (M.M.) in the School of Music.

The Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies and community organizations its students work with are voicing their opposition to the “Shape of the College” recommendations.

Some Ithaca College students and faculty members are concerned about the future of clubs that are losing advisers due to the impending faculty cuts.

The APPIC released its final recommendations for the APP in the “Shape of the College” document Feb. 18. The final recommendations recommend the elimination of 116 full-time equivalent faculty.

The Ithaca College SGC passed a resolution expressing no confidence in the “Shape of the College” proposal outlining faculty and program cuts at its Feb. 22 meeting.

The Open the Books coalition held a fifth protest demanding financial transparency regarding faculty and program cuts.

Both individuals are in isolation, and all close contacts are in quarantine. Both cases were identified following travel, according to the Tompkins County Health Department.