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From left to right, Senator at Large Kathi Hodel, International Senator Baneet Pukhrambam, Chief of Staff Olivia Jones, Provost Melanie Stein and Rishabh Sen, vice president of campus affairs, discuss results from the college's summer academic onboarding process. In Summer 2023, the college selected courses for all first-year students based on their major requirements and an Academic Interests survey.

SGC discusses summer academic onboarding process results

By Makai Yllanes, Staff Writer • November 1, 2023
The Ithaca College Student Governance Council met Oct. 30 with Melanie Stein, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, to discuss the summer academic onboarding process.
College explains results of Fall 2023 academic onboarding

College explains results of Fall 2023 academic onboarding

By Kai Lincke, Assistant News Editor • October 29, 2023
Ithaca College tested a pilot program during Fall 2023 registration where the dean’s offices and Ithaca Seminar/Integrative Core Curriculum teams selected courses for all incoming first-year students, guided by the requirements for their major and an Academic Interests Survey. 
April Johanns, coordinator of student and external relations in the School of Communications, gives a tour to accepted students. In Fall 2023, Ithaca College faculty will select all incoming students’ courses based on a comprehensive academic interests survey. 

College to select courses for Fall 2023 incoming students

By Kai Lincke, Staff Writer • April 26, 2023
In Fall 2023, Ithaca College will test a pilot program in which all incoming students’ courses will be selected by college faculty based on a comprehensive academic interests survey. 
Sophomore psychology major Nicole De La Mota said she has heard in class from her psychology professors that some psychology courses will likely shift from three to four credits in the future.

Psychology minors face registration struggles because of low course offerings

By Kai Lincke, Staff Writer • November 30, 2022
Faculty cuts in the Ithaca College Department of Psychology have left many students minoring in psychology struggling to register for Spring 2023 classes and meet the requirements needed to graduate. 
Students feel pressure from early add/drop course deadline

Students feel pressure from early add/drop course deadline

By Ryan Johnson, Contributing Writer • September 28, 2022
Some students at Ithaca College feel the period to add and drop classes does not provide enough time to decide if a course is right for them.
Sophomore Mya Stengel explains her experience with class registration and how difficult the process is. She talks about how the college makes it difficult for students to get into the classes they need to graduate.

Commentary: The nightmare before course registration

By Mya Stengel • November 17, 2021
If you are in the Roy H. Park School of Communications you are working alongside over three hundred other students trying to get into the same classes
Some students and faculty at Ithaca College are finding that low enrollment and faculty and program cuts made as a result of the Academic Program Prioritization (APP) process have affected course registration for Fall 2021.

Low enrollment results in reduced course offerings

By Syd Pierre, Staff Writer • April 21, 2021
Some students and faculty are finding that low enrollment and faculty and program cuts have affected course registration for Fall 2021.
When course registration began Nov. 7, many students were having trouble scheduling their classes because the site Homer Connect, which allows students to pick their classes, crashed unexpectedly.

Course registration system crashes first week of class scheduling

By Nicole Pimental, Staff Writer • November 15, 2017
Many Ithaca College students have complained about course registration, which started Nov. 7, when HomerConnect began crashing.
As Fall 2016 course registration approaches next week, associate professor Michael Smith urges students to pursue humanities courses beyond what the Integrative Core Curriculum requires.

Commentary: Humanities are essential to student success

By Michael Smith • April 13, 2016
For most of the history of higher education, the humanities were the foundation of a college degree, not a marginal element squeezed in—or worse, “gotten out of the way,” to use the all too common parlance about ICC courses on campus.
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