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Editorial: Academic Program Prioritization requires community effort

Editorial: Academic Program Prioritization requires community effort

By The Ithacan • October 23, 2020
Throughout the years, different groups have siloed themselves from one another on all levels. Students typically stay within their respective schools.
Open communication critical when making decisions

Open communication critical when making decisions

By The Ithacan • October 17, 2020
The administration is disingenuously making it seem like everything is under control and going according to plan.
Actionable steps need to be taken to solve bias at IC

Actionable steps need to be taken to solve bias at IC

By The Ithacan • October 2, 2020
Why must the college be called out in a public forum for it to recognize that campus is not a safe and inclusive space for all?
Editorial: Online learning calls for collaboration

Editorial: Online learning calls for collaboration

By The Ithacan • September 18, 2020
Only time will tell if the preparation faculty had over the summer for classes this fall will be worthwhile, but it must be a team effort.
Editorial: Students must take advantage of open discussions on campus

Editorial: Students must take advantage of open discussions on campus

October 24, 2019
The responsibility to curate positive change can’t fall on the administration alone.
Editorial: All-College Gathering draws attention to changes at IC

Editorial: All-College Gathering draws attention to changes at IC

September 5, 2019

On Aug. 29, the Ithaca College administration hosted an All-College Gathering for students, staff and faculty to come together, hear the administration’s latest updates and voice their concerns regarding...

Wendy Kobler will be the new vice president for institutional advancement beginning Sept. 1.

College names vice president for institutional advancement

By Alexis Manore, Assistant News Editor • July 19, 2019
Kobler will be replacing Chris Biehn, former vice president for institutional advancement, who left the college April 15.
Over the past two years, President Shirley M. Collado’s administration has added administrators and expanded student services on campus in an attempt to respond to student concerns. However, with rising costs in higher education, the administration is also tasked with balancing the need to provide adequate services for students with the high costs that come with them.

Administration expands during Collado’s tenure

By Ryan King, Assistant News Editor • May 1, 2019
Ithaca College is tasked with balancing the support structures it has created with the high costs that come along with them.
From left, Jeane Copenhaver-Johnson, associate professor in the Department of Education, Brad Hougham, associate professor in the Department of Music and Sue-Je Gage, presidential fellow in the Department of Legal Affairs, were chosen to serve as the associate provost for academic programs, the associate provost for faculty affairs and faculty advocate, respectively.

Provost names associate provosts and faculty advocate

By Krissy Waite, Assistant News Editor • April 23, 2019
La Jerne Cornish announced that three faculty members have been chosen to fill three new positions created this academic year.
From left, John Longtin, an SEIU representative, and Pete Jones, the administration’s lawyer, sign a union contract March 26. The union is asking the college to adopt a law that would give faculty paid family leave.

IC administration considering changing family leave benefits for faculty

By Maggie McAden, Staff Writer • November 9, 2017
The Ithaca College Contingent Faculty Union has also been requesting the college adopt the specific family leave policy laid out in the law.
Students from IC Students for Labor Action delivered a petition to administrators at Ithaca College in support of three contingent faculty members involved in labor negotiations who were not rehired for the fall.

Students deliver petition to administrators in support of faculty

By Sophia Adamucci, Assistant News Editor • April 27, 2017
Members of IC Students for Labor Action delivered a petition April 27 to Ithaca College’s administration.
From left: Benjamin Rifkin, former provost and vice president for educational affairs at Ithaca College; President Tom Rochon; and Gerald Hector, former vice president for finance and administration, observe a student protest Dec. 11 at Free Speech Rock. All three administrators pictured have since announced they are stepping down from their respective positions at the college.

Administrative departures create uncertainty for academic year

By Sophia Tulp, News Editor • August 25, 2016
Ithaca College's senior leadership has seen a significant number of administrative departures, leaving the college with uncertainty about what will be accomplished throughout the remainder of his tenure.
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