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As a result of an aging campus, Ithaca College has seen a backlog of deferred maintenance, which has exceeded $200 million in recent years. Deferred maintenance covers certain issues like cracks in concrete or loose handrails.

An aging Ithaca College results in a backlog of maintenance

By Kyle Arnold, Assistant News Editor • March 23, 2016
ADA compliance is a topic for which the college is currently being sued. A former student filed a $10 million lawsuit in October 2015 citing the college’s lack of accommodations.
Chris McNamara, Clinical Assistant Professor and Clinic Director in the physical therapy department, updated Faculty Council on the progress of the Shared Governance Task Force at the March 1 meeting. The part-time faculty union contract and the proposed changes to the Meal and Entertainment Policy were also discussed.

Faculty Council to create committee to address union concerns

By Grace Elletson, Staff Writer • March 9, 2016
Faculty Council has decided to create a task force to gather more information after a group of part-time faculty spoke to the council about issues with negotiating their union contract with the Ithaca College administration.

Letter: Part-time faculty respond to report on Rochon salary

March 3, 2016
How can IC retain excellent instructors and maintain the quality of the education they provide our students, when we leave them to struggle, living paycheck to paycheck, on semester to semester commitments, year after year?
Members of the Ithaca College administration proposed policy revisions, specifying appropriate usage of catering and entertainment funds. Here, the Sodexo caters Food Frenzy in Emerson Suites Oct. 30.

Ithaca College administration proposes catering policy revisions

By Justin Henry, Staff Writer • March 1, 2016
Members of the Ithaca College administration proposed policy revisions, restricting and specifying appropriate usage of catering and entertainment funds for meetings and events.
Editorial: Ithaca College is behind on gender neutral access

Editorial: Ithaca College is behind on gender neutral access

February 24, 2016
Ithaca College should be doing more to provide adequate restroom access for gender nonconforming students.
The 9,000 panel solar array is currently under construction at Seneca, New York, about 40 miles away from campus, pictured above.

Solar panels to meet 10 percent of Ithaca College’s energy needs

By Faith Meckley and Sophie Johnson • February 22, 2016
A solar electric project including 9,000 solar panels that will cover 10 percent of Ithaca College’s energy needs is currently under construction.
Gerald Hector, vice president of finance and administration, will leave Ithaca College in July to serve as the vice president for financial affairs at Cornell University.

Approved Ithaca College 2016–17 budget raises tuition and aid

By Sophia Tulp, Assistant News Editor • February 18, 2016
The Ithaca College Board of Trustees has approved increases in the tuition, financial aid, salary pool and operating budget of the college during its February meeting.
This map illustrates the locations of gender-neutral, gendered single-occupancy and family bathrooms at Ithaca College, according the colleges website.

Ithaca College students seek out gender neutral bathrooms

By Addie Dlott, Contributing Writer • February 17, 2016
Locating a bathroom on campus is a daily struggle for Rae Enlow, an Ithaca College senior who does not identify within the gender binary.
More than 90 blue-light emergency phones dot Ithaca Colleges campus. Terri Stewart, director of the Office of Public Safety and Emergency Management, said the bulk of calls received from the phones are nonemergencies.

Ithaca College’s blue light system underutilized by students

By Joe Cruz, Contributing Writer • February 17, 2016
“I was doing rounds for SASP, and this girl walked by on the phone repeatedly saying ‘I think someone is following me.’” Fleming said. “I was mostly scared for her, but also thought to myself, ‘That could’ve been me.’”
Rochon paid above the median salary at private institutions

Rochon paid above the median salary at private institutions

By Annika Kushner, Staff Writer • February 17, 2016
Rochon’s total compensation for the 2013 calendar year, the most recent year for which data is available, was $458,318. This includes base pay, bonus pay, nontaxable and “other.”
Students board an outbound Route 11 TCAT bus at the Seneca Street Station the night of Feb. 6. Nancy Oltz, TCAT operations manager, said the company often brings on additional buses at peak times on Friday and Saturday nights to accomodate large amounts of student riders.

Ithaca College students max out TCAT buses on weekend nights

By Michael Pyskaty, Staff Writer • February 11, 2016
The bus pulls forward, and then the driver hits the brakes. The mass of students lurches forward. One man loses his balance and stumbles toward the driver. A woman repeatedly says “I’m not drunk! I’m just tired,” and then promptly tries to fall asleep standing up...
Members of the Ithaca Colleges student movement, Divest IC, protest the colleges investments in fossil fuels in October 2013.

Ithaca College community reacts to Cornell divestment decision

By Rachel Langlitz, Contributing Writer • February 10, 2016
The Cornell University Board of Trustees has announced Cornell will not be divesting from fossil fuel companies. Ithaca College students remain hopeful for their efforts to achieve divestment on South Hill.
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