Back to the Beginning: Real Shared Governance
When planning began in earnest for the “Ithaca Forever” and Academic Prioritization Process (APP), assembled community members were given the overarching goal of “right-sizing” Ithaca College; we—tenured, tenure track, NTEN, and contingent faculty as well as staff and students—were asked to deliver plans in the service of that goal.
Some Ithaca College alumni are voicing their opposition to the implementation of the APP process and the resulting faculty and program cuts.
Dear Politics students and alumni,
We write to share our response to the APP recommendations (The Shape of the College), as we feel it is important to keep you informed.
Dear Faculty Council Executive Committee,
We write as a group of BIPOC faculty at Ithaca College who have no communal affiliation other than our shared experiences at this predominantly white institution.
If students are Ithaca College’s “why,” then why are those same students being ignored and talked down to?
The only protection faculty at IC have against destructive top-down management decisions is to stand in solidarity with one another.
Ultimately, faculty members need to be commended for their work in altering their curricula. This demonstrates what makes the college special.
Students are saying that they want more communication and transparency regarding these faculty cuts. Students are also requesting basic information.
The Ithaca College administration has been inconsistent throughout this semester, and its intentions are often unclear.
Clearly, this is something no one wants to see happen. Shared governance can be achieved. The college is just making it more difficult.
Throughout the years, different groups have siloed themselves from one another on all levels. Students typically stay within their respective schools.
Dear President Collado, Provost Cornish, and members of the Senior Leadership Team:
We write to you as members of the Executive Committee of Faculty Council, the leading governance body for the Ithaca College faculty, in order to relay the very serious concerns that we have heard from our colleagues—at two separate meetings the FCEC called during the week of October 12th, attended in each case by almost 300 faculty—in response to the news that the elimination of roughly 130 FTE faculty will be recommended by APPIC by December 31st, 2020.
