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Editorial: The college must value and invest in faculty

Editorial: The college must value and invest in faculty

By The Ithacan • May 2, 2024
No matter the school, educators are the foundation of students’ learning. Excellent educators help cultivate excellent students. However, when educators are not properly supported or appreciated, their ability to educate students dwindles. Undervaluing educators leads to high turnover rates, which can create an unstable and inconsistent environment for students. At Ithaca College, this problem is especially evident.
Belisa González, dean of faculty equity, inclusion, and belonging and co-chair of the Campus Climate Committee, moderated a Key Findings Report meeting where faculty discussed the high faculty dissatisfaction rate reported in the Campus Climate Survey.

Faculty and students respond to key findings in the Campus Climate Survey during follow-up meetings

By Taylor Borash and Vivian Rose • May 1, 2024
On April 30, the Campus Climate Committee co-chairs hosted follow-up meetings for faculty and students to discuss the Key Findings report that was released April 16. 
Editorial: Campus climate survey results must be followed by community engagement

Editorial: Campus climate survey results must be followed by community engagement

By The Ithacan • April 28, 2024
The environment in which people live and work can be one of the most critical factors in determining both success and fulfillment. Who wants to work, study or live in a place where they do not feel comfortable? To gauge the comfort of students, staff and faculty, Ithaca College released a campus climate survey this fall after the last survey was done in 2016. The willingness to engage in conversations regarding campus climate is a good first step on behalf of the college, but it must be followed by engagement from all members of the campus community. 
Victoria Cabal, Rankin Climate’s executive vice president, of strategy and operations, said the company will continue working with the college to plan its upcoming course of action.

Community engages in understanding Campus Climate Survey results to discuss next steps

By Taylor Borash, Assistant News Editor • April 28, 2024
On April 25, the Campus Climate Committee co-chairs, in association with representatives from Rankin Climate, a company that collects institutional climate assessment data, gave two community presentations about the Key Findings report that was released April 16. 
The college worked with Rankin Climate, a company that assesses institutional climate and specifically works with the college’s working committee, to compile the results of the survey.  The survey was made up of 117 questions, 16 of which were open-ended. Questions from the 2016 Campus Climate Survey were used as a basis and reviewed again by the college. 

Underrepresented communities on campus report lower levels of comfort in climate survey

By Prakriti Panwar, News Editor • April 22, 2024
On April 16, Campus Climate Committee co-chairs released a Key Findings report summarizing some important details from the results of the survey that was completed in Fall 2023. 
The results of the report concluded that undergraduate students with no disability or a single disability; who identify as men or women; who were not first-generation students; and who were white had a higher sense of belonging at the college than students with multiple disabilities, who identify on the transgender spectrum and are first-gen students. 

Campus Climate Survey results released with Key Findings Report, presentations to follow April 16

By Vivian Rose, Assistant News Editor • April 17, 2024
The Campus Climate Committee co-chairs released the results of the Campus Climate Survey in an email sent to the campus community April 16. 
A promotional campaign from the campus climate survey which was conducted in 2016. Ithaca College has extended the deadline to complete the 2023 Campus Climate Survey to midnight Nov. 17. 

IC extends Campus Climate Survey deadline to Nov. 17

By Prakriti Panwar, Assistant News Editor • November 13, 2023
In an email to the campus community, President La Jerne Cornish encouraged students to take the survey during the Common Hour, which happens between 12:10 and 1:05 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday.
A promotional campaign from the campus climate survey which was conducted in 2016. The college will conduct another online campus climate survey in two weeks, to guide the college’s mission to increase equity and inclusion.

Campus climate survey releases in two weeks to guide IC’s mission to increase equity and inclusion

By Kai Lincke, Community Outreach Manager • October 4, 2023
Ithaca College President La Jerne Cornish announced Oct. 3 that the college will conduct an online campus climate survey that will be released in two weeks. Cornish said in the announcement that the survey will ask campus community members to share their concerns about the college environment, which will guide the college’s mission to increase equity and inclusion.
Editorial: Campus climate surveys are essential for a change

Editorial: Campus climate surveys are essential for a change

By The Ithacan • March 22, 2023
So, even though it is up to each college to make a change, the problem must be viewed as a national matter.
Students line up outside of the dining hall to swipe in for a meal. Students at Ithaca College demonstrate a need for swipes that is greater than the national average. 

Program collects meal swipes to swipe out hunger

By Ryan Bieber, Staff Writer • October 1, 2019
Beginning in September members of Swipe Out Hunger went to dining halls and collected guest swipes to redistribute to students facing food insecurity.
Dave Lissy ’87 recently donated money to Ithaca College to establish a food pantry to combat food insecurity on campus

Alum donates money to establish food pantry on campus

By Ryan King, Assistant News Editor • January 23, 2019
Ithaca College will establish a permanent food pantry in the Campus Center before the end of the semester in response to food insecurity on campus.
From left: Senior Shayna Fishkin asks students — like junior Connor Duffy — to donate their meal swipes to give to students at Ithaca College who identify as food insecure through the program Swipe Out Hunger. According to data from the most recent Campus Climate Survey, conducted in Fall 2016, out of nearly 3,000 students who responded, 47 percent reported experiencing financial hardship while attending the college, and 36 percent of those — almost 500 students — reported difficulty affording food.

Students struggle with food insecurity at Ithaca College

By Sophia Tulp, Senior Writer • October 4, 2018
Data from the most recent Campus Climate Survey, conducted in Fall 2016, shows that, out of nearly 3,000 students who responded, 47 percent reported experiencing financial hardship while attending the
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