Literary magazine starts up after four-year hiatus
Funded by the Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society in partnership with the Department of Literatures in English, ZoetIC is emphasizing student work from all disciplines.
Funded by the Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society in partnership with the Department of Literatures in English, ZoetIC is emphasizing student work from all disciplines.
While Ithaca College is still conducting an open presidential search to find its next president, colleges across the country are increasingly using closed searches to identify theirs.
Among the seven schools in the college’s peer group that release data on faculty diversity, the Ithaca College ranks last.
“The mobilization created an environment to do this work and made it more obvious that we should do the work,” she said.
“We expect you to answer some lingering questions about the details of the process more directly.”
Sitting on Derek Adams’ desk in the Muller Faculty Center is a copy of Percival Everett’s novel “I Am Not Sidney Poitier,” a story about a character who is consistently mistaken for Academy Award–winning actor Sidney Poitier. The character decides to travel the U.S. and discover who he is so people will stop labelling him as someone he is not.
According to the a post on the Facebook page, the group consists of over 100 “white students who wish to preserve and advance their race” at Cornell University, who meet in secrecy to avoid potential “character assassinations.”
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.
Around 200 people attended the event, filling all the seats in the room, and those who couldn’t find a seat lined up along the walls.
In the wake of faculty discussions about initiating a vote of no confidence in President Tom Rochon, two out of five schools have voted for recommending Faculty Council conduct a vote, while one has voted against holding such a vote.
James McBride, author of Ithaca College’s First-Year Reading Initiative novel this year, “The Good Lord Bird,” speaks at the college Nov. 3.