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The Contingent Faculty Union urged the college’s administration to be creative in its attempts to save money amid the COVID-19 pandemic and to support contingent faculty members, who are most at risk of being laid off. 

Commentary: Full scale of faculty layoffs may be misrepresented by administration

By James Miranda, John Burger, Mark Baustian, Rachel Fomalhaut, and Tom Schneller • November 23, 2020
The only protection faculty at IC have against destructive top-down management decisions is to stand in solidarity with one another.
Karen Edwards, associate professor in the Ithaca College Department of Health Promotion and Physical Education, participated in the 2020 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Grand Hack.

Q&A: Professor participates in international competition

By John Turner • November 1, 2020
The world works in groups, and the most important thing I learned was that our failures drove us further.
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.
From left, freshman Josh Pusateri, freshman Brett Sullivan and sophomore Nathan Smith. Pusateri, Sullivan and Smith have all found popularity through the social media platform TikTok where they post videos and express themselves creatively.

College students use social media for creative self-expression

By Julia DiGeronimo • December 5, 2019

With each college class, a new social media platform seems to take over. In 2004, Facebook, emerged, and in 2006, young people were captivated by Twitter. Students flocked to Instagram in 2010. And now,...

Q&A: Professor spearheads music app-development project

Q&A: Professor spearheads music app-development project

August 29, 2019

Doug Turnbull, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Ithaca College, spent the summer working with a group of students to create Localify, a web app designed to help people discover...

SmileBack is a dating app based on sending anonymous smiles to other users.

Dating app starts conversations with a smile

By Ash Bailot, Staff Writer • November 27, 2018
Approximately 1000 people in Ithaca are currently registered on SmileBack and some have said its unique approach to dating-app culture is appealing.
Michael ‘Bodhi’ Rogers, professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is helping a group of students map out routes on campus using laser technology to create an app to help people who are not able-bodied.

Researchers plan to create app for accessibility

By Mary Rand, Staff Writer • November 7, 2018
South Hill — the steep incline that Ithaca College’s campus is situated atop — may seem like an impossible challenge to climb for individuals who are not able-bodied.
Juniors Michael Gardiner and Isaiah Nardone created the app DropSpot, which allows students to easily connect while going out on the weekends.

Students create social networking app

By Sam Smith, Contributing Writer • February 27, 2018
The app officially launched Feb. 24, 2018.
An Ithacan analysis of prices of common routes students take — from the college to The Commons and from the college to the Tompkins County Regional Airport — shows that taking an Uber or Lyft is slightly less expensive than taking a taxi.

Ride-hailing services slightly less expensive than taxis in Ithaca

By Celisa Calacal, Senior Writer • September 19, 2017
As students from Ithaca College and Cornell University return to campus, popular ride-hailing apps Uber and Lyft are a new addition to Ithaca.
Jeffrey Scott, general manager for Sodexo at Ithaca College, addresses the Student Government Association at their first meeting of the year Aug. 30 in Terrace Dining Hall.

Ithaca College SGA prepares for elections in first meeting

By Kyle Arnold, Assistant News Editor • August 31, 2016
The Ithaca College Student Government Association held its first meeting of the 2016–17 academic year in the newly-renovated Terrace Dining Hall, where it hosted a guest speaker from Sodexo and prepared for its upcoming elections.
Former Ithaca College student Daniel Minogue hauls equipment he purchased for his brewery and malthouse company: Subversive Malting and Brewing. Minogue and his business partners Zane Coffey and Max Ocean won the top prize in last years Business Plan Competition.

Past Business Plan Competition winners turn ideas into reality

By Sophia Tulp, Assistant News Editor • March 30, 2016
Ithaca College’s Business Plan Competition, held for the past three years, helps student entrepreneurs jump-start their own businesses and cultivate ideas. Last year’s winners have since gone on to establish their businesses or find new paths on which to take their passions and award-winning plans.
The app, called GET Mobile, will be made available for students at the college on mobile devices and through an online portal. It is slated to be released January 2016 in time for the spring semester.

Ithaca College Dining plans to release food ordering app

By Jonah Swiatek, Staff Writer • October 20, 2015
Ithaca College Dining Services is working to release a mobile app that will enable students and faculty to preorder and prepay for their food from Sodexo-run facilities on campus.
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