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National Recap: Chicago Public Schools teachers continue strike

National Recap: Chicago Public Schools teachers continue strike

By Brontë Cook • October 23, 2019
Teachers in Chicago Public Schools continue their citywide strike that has canceled classes for more than a quarter of a million students. 
Editorial: Prison education program promotes educational equity

Editorial: Prison education program promotes educational equity

October 10, 2019
The college’s collaboration with the Cornell Prison Education Program demonstrates its commitment to educational equity.
Q&A: Professor's dance company receives grant

Q&A: Professor’s dance company receives grant

By Brontë Cook • September 25, 2019
The grant, allocated by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, will help the company create interactive digital resources to increase dance literacy.
Cris Haltom, a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Ithaca College, talks about her new book about eating disorders.

Q&A: Professor publishes book about eating disorders

By Cody Taylor, Staff Writer • December 12, 2018
Cris Haltom, a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Ithaca College, has published a book about eating disorders.
Felice Atesoglu Russell, assistant professor in the Department of Education, published her research on English-language learners in classroom settings.

Q&A: Professor researches successful ELL classrooms

By Meaghan McElroy, Opinion Editor • April 18, 2018
Opinion Editor Meaghan McElroy spoke to Russell about her interest in this research area, what successful English Language Learner classrooms look like and how ELL instruction is changing.
The Administration of Therapeutic Recreation class at Ithaca College set up a pop-up bake sale April 23 at the Cornell Cooperative 4-H Duck Race. The group, which aims to bring light to mental illness, raised $310 for the Tompkins County Suicide Prevention and Crisis Center.

Depressed Cake Shop makes Ithaca debut to fight mental illness

By Silas White, Staff Writer • April 26, 2017
One organization, new to Ithaca, aims to encourage discussion in a different way — through sweet treats.
Ithaca College students and faculty are concerned about the appointment of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education citing her lack of experience, beliefs and the impact she will have on the education system.

IC faculty concerned about the appointment of Betsy DeVos

By Steph Siok, Staff Writer • February 8, 2017
She said having DeVos as secretary of the Department of Education is comparable to having a surgeon unfamiliar with medical technique.
Trump's Universities: What Trump means for higher education

Trump’s Universities: What Trump means for higher education

By Ana Borruto and Grace Elletson • December 7, 2016
The nation is looking to Trump to steer the republic — and he has made the direction he has chosen for higher education clearer since the election.
IC junior creates high school curriculum to promote critical thinking

IC junior creates high school curriculum to promote critical thinking

By Kate Nalepinski, Assistant Life and Culture Editor • September 4, 2016
Ithaca College junior Drew Stierhoff collaborated with his faculty mentor, Ellie Fulmer, assistant professor of the Department of Education, over the summer to create a structured, analytical teacher’s guide for how to teach social studies to junior-level high school students.
Despite signage prohibiting swimming and increased patrols by the City of Ithaca along popular gorges, violations continue even with attempts to better enforcement.

Illegal behavior continues at Ithaca gorges despite patrols

By Annika Kushner and Grace Elletson • August 31, 2016
The City of Ithaca employed rangers to patrol the dams along Six Mile Creek this summer and enforce swimming and cliff jumping bans. Despite the pilot program, city officials said it has only had marginal success in enforcing rules and that violations are increasing as Ithaca College students return to school.
Presentation and Graphic Design, an integrated marketing communications course, meets April 12 in the Roy H. Park School of Communications. IMC is one of many media majors at Ithaca College that is dominated by women, care-related majors also tend to be women-dominated.

Women dominate certain majors at Ithaca College

By Rachel Langlitz and Sophia Tulp • April 12, 2016
Women make up the majority of students at Ithaca College and tend to dominate care-related and media majors at the college and in the workforce. However, some students and experts agree that this majority can cause negative stereotypes and implications for female workers.
After facing a lifetime of obstacles preventing him from focusing on his education, junior Steve Whiting is now pursuing a degree in English teaching at Ithaca College.

Ithaca College student pursues English teaching degree at 57

By Daniel Hart, Staff Writer • March 30, 2016
Steve Whiting goes about his day like most Ithaca College students: He studies in IC Square, walks to class through Textor Hall and says hello to his peers. However, at 57 years old, with trimmed gray hair and a briefcase, Whiting could easily be mistaken for a professor.
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