The Ithacan

Exploratory Program requires new students to pick concentrations

By Maddy Vogel, Contributing Writer • April 5, 2023

Incoming students who join the Exploratory Program will have to choose a school concentration so they can explore programs within a known interest.

Editorial: Focus on job training undervalues humanities

March 29, 2017

Most courses in vocational studies, such as business or law, do not do enough to foster critical-thinking skills.

Commentary: Humanities are essential to student success

By Michael Smith • April 13, 2016

For most of the history of higher education, the humanities were the foundation of a college degree, not a marginal element squeezed in—or worse, “gotten out of the way,” to use the all too common parlance about ICC courses on campus.

Distinguished MIT professor to visit Ithaca College as keynote speaker

By Joe Byeon, Staff Writer • November 7, 2014

Alan Lightman, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the keynote speaker at Ithaca College’s C.P. Snow Lecture Series.

College aims to prepare students for new frontiers of China

By Michael Tkaczevski, Staff Writer • March 7, 2013

Ithaca College seeks to prepare students academically for the new economic and political frontier of China, with new courses, study abroad programs and the IC 20/20 strategic plan.