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Dave Prunty (left) and Tom Swenson (sitting down) discussed Ithaca College’s commencement at the Faculty Council meeting on Feb. 5. Possible campus-wide policies on technology were also deliberated.

Faculty Council debates tech use in classroom

By Ashley Stalnecker, Staff Writer • February 6, 2019
Ithaca College Faculty Council members favored mandating a college-wide policy on cell phone usage in the classroom at the Feb. 5 meeting.
Tom Swensen, professor and chair of the Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences and Faculty Council chair, said the idea for closed sessions were originally proposed to the executive committee by Ithaca College President Shirley M. Collado

Faculty Council makes little progress optimizing ICC

By Rachel Kriedberg, Staff Writer • December 7, 2016
As of the second to last week of the fall semester, the committee has not announced any new findings, nor have any policy changes been proposed.
Linda Petrosino, provost of the college, addressed the Faculty Council at their Nov. 1 meeting about concerns they have on the proposed shared governance draft.

Faculty and staff have concerns about shared governance draft

By Nicole Pimental, Staff Writer • November 2, 2016
Since the release of the shared governance draft, sent out to the campus community via email Oct. 24, faculty and staff have expressed concerns.
Kim Blaha ’09, an employee at the GreenStar cooperative Market, the city's only co-operative grocery store, speaks to Debbie carmichael, an ithaca local and customer, Wednesday at the store on West Buffalo Street.

Ithaca celebrates its many co-ops during national co-op month

By Megan Devlin, Editor-in-Chief • October 24, 2013

October is National Co-op Month, and Ithaca has more than 80 years of cooperative history to motivate the community to continue expanding its co-op landscape. A cooperative, or “co-op,” is a legal...

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