Incoming provost visits college to meet with community
La Jerne Cornish, new provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, oriented herself to the campus community during her campus visit May 1.
La Jerne Cornish, new provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, oriented herself to the campus community during her campus visit May 1.
Around 86 percent of the students were in favor of eliminating the themes and almost 83 percent found the themes to be restrictive.
There are still nine vacant senate positions to fill.
The ICC is disorganized, lacks accountability, and often causes headaches for participating students.
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.
Ithaca College’s “IC 20/20” strategic plan will wrap up in Spring 2017, allowing the next president of the college to implement their own larger vision for the college.
The Faculty Council discussed student-centered issues of retention rates, the release of final grades and the Integrative Core Curriculum.
Ithaca College is taking the first major step toward reaccreditation by putting together the first drafts of a report that analyzes how the college is meeting certain standards.
A year into his tenure as the Integrative Core Curriculum director, Vincent DeTuri said he and the Committee on College-Wide Requirements are planning to make the ICC more manageable by changing some of its requirements after facing complaints among faculty and students that there are still many problems with the ICC.
I can finish my degree whenever I want. But I cannot put my mental and emotional health off any longer.
Ithaca College is in the beginning stages of The Middle States Commission on Higher Education reaccreditation process, a procedure to evaluate if the college is reaching certain standards of quality higher education.
The number of Ithaca College students entering college with transfer credits from high school is increasing. With these credits, some students have the ability to graduate early, but many still choose to utilize their four years.