Back in the 2018–19 academic year, I served on the Investment in People, Place, Planet working group during the Ithaca Forever strategic planning process. I was then on the Climate Action Team in the fall of 2019. Throughout, I advocated consistently and forcefully for climate to be central to the final strategic plan.

It’s our contingent and NTEN faculty who are engaged in some of the most innovative, intersectional, progressive teaching on campus.

Ithaca College has released an updated diversity statement that reflects the goals outlined in the college’s strategic plan, Ithaca Forever. 

For the revisions to have lasting impacts, the data used must reflect the current student population — not one from four years past.