How can IC retain excellent instructors and maintain the quality of the education they provide our students, when we leave them to struggle, living paycheck to paycheck, on semester to semester commitments, year after year?
The Shared Governance Task Force agrees wholeheartedly with these calls to engagement and hopes that everyone in the campus community will get involved in our efforts this semester.
The many calls from our community members to confront structural issues at IC have been met, however, with responses in the forms of hostility, co-option or simply inaction.
As a foreigner who is taxed without representation, I have no horse in this game. I do, however, take umbrage with flawed reasoning and illogical conclusions.
Instead of scolding the very people on whom Rochon and the Board will be relying to keep the college functioning, the Board might want to rethink its tone and scope of authority.
There is truly simple kindness in the world that we sometimes fail to recognize in the midst of the opposite happening all around us.
With Janet Donovan as my head coach, volleyball turned into psychological warfare.
The summary is, Rochon’s priorities (and potentially heart) aren’t what Ithaca College really needs, now.
It does not seem right to solicit one-sided input from their readers.
These are some reasons why I believe faculty must also vote “no confidence in Tom Rochon.”
We believe that the serious attention you have brought to the problems of racism and marginalization at IC is both welcome and long overdue.
It is fantastic to see that students are making their voices heard and that the college is listening.
