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Tiffani Ziemann, Title IX Coordinator, receives complaints of sexual harassment, sexual assault and discrimination at Ithaca College. The office of Title IX will receive an increase in funding for the 2016–17 academic year, the first time it will have a dedicated budget.

Ithaca College office of Title IX sees concrete budget

By Jessica Ferreira, Staff Writer • April 20, 2016
Ithaca College’s office of Title IX will receive an increase in funding for the 2016–17 academic year. Having previously received money on an as-needed basis, Fall 2016 marks the first time that Title IX will have a cemented budget.
Benjamin Rifkin, provost and vice president for educational affairs, is head of a team monitoring Ithaca Colleges reaccreditation process. The college is currently in The Middle States Commission on Higher Education reaccreditation process, a procedure to evaluate if the college is reaching certain standards of quality higher education.

Ithaca College begins process for reaccreditation

By Ana Borruto, Staff Writer • April 19, 2016
Ithaca College is in the beginning stages of The Middle States Commission on Higher Education reaccreditation process, a procedure to evaluate if the college is reaching certain standards of quality higher education.
Sandra Steingraber gives a presentation on expanded gas storage in old salt caverns on Seneca Lake Feb. 24 at Cornell University. She was the keynote speaker April 13 at an Ithaca College panel, sharing her experience dealing with climate change in Ithaca and at the United Nations in December 2015.

Ithaca College hosts panel on climate change

By Annika Kushner, Staff Writer • April 16, 2016
Ithaca College’s Textor 102 was crowded with almost 300 students, faculty, staff and community members April 13. Experts offered firsthand accounts of international sustainability efforts, urging audience members to get involved with local efforts any way they can.
Ithaca College full-time contingent faculty members and supporters pose in front of the Peggy Ryan Williams Center April 7 following a meeting with administration.

Full-time contingent faculty’s union request denied

By Michael Pyskaty and Sophia Tulp • April 7, 2016
Members of the Ithaca College administration have denied a request by full-time contingent faculty to join the existing part-time faculty union.
The Ithaca College Shared Governance Task Force held listening sessions to solicit feedback from the campus community March 1, 2 and 3. Since then, key individuals involved in this process say there are still issues that need to be resolved and communicated to the campus community.

Ithaca College campus community discusses shared governance

By Justin Henry, Staff Writer • March 8, 2016
“I think not only being transparent, but being able to deliver,” he said. “When people feel like it impacts them, they want to be involved in that process.”
Roger Richardson will no longer hold the interim chief diversity officer position at the college and will continue in his role as associate provost of diversity, inclusion and engagement.

Ithaca College likely to miss diversity action plan deadlines

By Elena Piech, Staff Writer • March 2, 2016
In Fall 2015, Ithaca College set a timeline for addressing issues regarding diversity and campus climate. Although the plan covers a timeline of roughly 2 1/2 years, Roger Richardson, associate provost of diversity, inclusion and engagement and interim chief diversity officer, said it is not realistic for all deadlines to be made.
Derek Adams, assistant professor in the Department of English, talks to the audience at the Nov. 11, 2015 teach-in in Textor. Adams was one of three faculty members that POC at IC demanded receive immediate tenure.

Newly tenured IC professors do not include POC at IC’s picks

By Grace Elletson, Staff Writer • March 2, 2016
The list of professors at Ithaca College who were awarded tenure for 2015–16 was announced Feb. 21. However, missing from the list were the names of the professors that POC at IC demanded be given immediate tenure.
Students in the honors program visited Ottawa, Canada Feb. 22, 2014. This year students travelled back to Ottawa Jan. 26 during its winter festival. The program sponsors at least one major cultural trip each semester.

Ithaca College honor students find issues with program changes

By Annika Kushner and Meredith Husar • February 27, 2016
Many Ithaca College honors students are having difficulty completing the honors program since it underwent structural changes in Fall 2013. Students say the new requirements are too complicated, numerous and restrictive.
Ithaca College has announced its new open-housing policy — a housing option that enables students to select roommates regardless of their sex or gender. Freshmen Anna Gardner and Joe Simpson plan on utilizing the open-housing policy in the fall.

Ithaca College allows students of different sex to be roommates

By Elena Piech, Staff Writer • February 23, 2016
Ithaca College recently announced its new open-housing policy, allowing students to select roommates regardless of sex or gender.
Editorial: Student turnout too low at input opportunities

Editorial: Student turnout too low at input opportunities

February 10, 2016
The Ithaca College student body has a history of low turnout to events or meetings that help shape the campus climate it protests.
Emil L. Cunningham speaks at the Rankin & Associates presentation when consultants came to Ithaca College Feb. 2 to outline their plan for the next campus-climate survey. The college has announced the survey will be open from Sept. 27 to Oct. 28. for participation.

Consulting firm for campus-climate survey visits Ithaca College

By Elena Piech and Parita Desai • February 3, 2016
Rankin & Associates, a third-party consulting company, presented to Ithaca College students, faculty and staff Feb. 2 regarding its plans to develop and carry out the survey.
Ithaca College discussed moving course evaluations online at the Dec. 1, 2015, Faculty Council meeting

Ithaca College discusses moving course evaluations online

By Grace Elletson, Staff Writer • January 26, 2016
As Ithaca College advances discussions about moving all course evaluations online, there is doubt in local and national conversations on the effectiveness of using course evaluations to judge a professor’s skill.
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