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Editorial: Data transparency needed to protect faculty diversity

Editorial: Data transparency needed to protect faculty diversity

By The Ithacan • March 11, 2021
Only 12.2% of faculty members identify as people of color. However, the college does not publicly share this information broken down by faculty rank.
At the All Student and Family Gathering on March 25, La Jerne Cornish, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, announced that the college is planning to be fully open for Fall 2021.

Impact of APP on faculty of color unclear

By Ashley Stalnecker, Senior Writer • March 11, 2021
Ithaca College will be terminating faculty members — including faculty of color — as a part of the APP process, but it is unclear how many faculty of color will be affected.
Chris McNamara, clinical associate professor and clinical director in the Department of Physical Therapy and chair of the Faculty Council, speaks at a Faculty Council meeting Sept. 3, 2019.

Faculty Council discusses protections for faculty of color

By Alyshia Korba, Assistant News Editor • December 3, 2020
The Faculty Council discussed amending the Faculty Handbook to prevent faculty of color from being disproportionately affected by faculty cuts.
Approximately 25 percent of faculty responded to the survey. Faculty and experts have been critical of the results because they lack representative data that encapsulates enough experiences of faculty.

Experts and Ithaca College faculty critical of survey results

By Alexis Manore and Elizabeth Henning • December 12, 2018
A survey of the service load of Ithaca College faculty members conducted in Spring 2018 indicates that faculty of color perceived they were doing more service work than their white counterparts.
College aims to recruit and retain faculty of color

College aims to recruit and retain faculty of color

By Madison Moore, Staff Writer • February 8, 2018
There are only 17 African-Americans, 25 Asians and 30 Hispanics out of the 732 faculty that work on campus.
Many faculty of color at Ithaca College have said they feel often burdened by the amount of mentorship and service they take on, often due to expectations that they need to serve their college's diversity needs.

Faculty of color at Ithaca College experience cultural taxation

By Nicole Pimental, Staff Writer • April 5, 2017
Cultural taxation—psychologist Amado Padilla coined the term to describe minority faculty’s obligation to serve the diversity needs of the college.
Editorial: Faculty of color deserve support after being hired

Editorial: Faculty of color deserve support after being hired

By The Ithacan • November 16, 2016
Diversity is not and should not be treated as a numbers game — professors of color are not a quota to be filled.
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