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Michael Smith, professor in the Department of History, asks why climate change was minimized in the final Ithaca Forever strategic plan.

Commentary: What happened to climate awareness and sustainability at Ithaca College?

By Michael Smith • September 6, 2023
Back in the 2018–19 academic year, I served on the Investment in People, Place, Planet working group during the Ithaca Forever strategic planning process. I was then on the Climate Action Team in the fall of 2019. Throughout, I advocated consistently and forcefully for climate to be central to the final strategic plan.
Following faculty reductions made to realign the faculty-to-student ratio, one of the many recommendations made was for departments to revise their curricula.

Curricular revisions alter course requirements for students

By Lorien Tyne, News Editor • April 27, 2023
Departments across Ithaca College have been undergoing major curricular revisions as part of the objectives in the Shape of the College.
Recapping the Ithaca Forever Strategic Plan and 116 faculty reductions

Recapping the Ithaca Forever Strategic Plan and 116 faculty reductions

By Lorien Tyne, News Editor • April 19, 2023
Since Fall 2019 when Ithaca College first introduced the Ithaca Forever Strategic Plan, there has been considerable frustration and confusion throughout the campus community.
President La Jerne Cornish said in an announcement that this temporary child care partnership with the Coddington Road Community Center’s preschool and afterschool programs could be a trial for more permanent on-campus child care.

Circles Community Center may become temporary child care facility

By Noa Ran-Ressler, Assistant News Editor • March 29, 2023
Starting July 2023, the College Circle Apartments Community Building may be an annex for the Coddington Road Community Center’s preschool and afterschool programs.
From left, Luca Maurer, the new executive director for Student Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging, and Belisa González, the new dean of Faculty Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging, will be leading the new center in addition to a director for staff equity, inclusion and belonging who has not yet been hired.

New Center for Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging established

By Lorien Tyne, News Editor • March 29, 2023
Ithaca College introduced the new Center for Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in an email announcement March 23, which will officially open July 1. 
Ithaca College President La Jerne Cornish is now a quarter of the way through her first academic year as president.

Q&A: IC President La Jerne Cornish discusses values and administrative changes

By Caitlin Holtzman and Syd Pierre • October 26, 2022
Editor-in-Chief Caitlin Holtzman and news editor Syd Pierre sat down with President La Jerne Cornish to discuss her goals as president and changes made in the college’s administration.
Editorial: New school overshadowed by lack of transparency

Editorial: New school overshadowed by lack of transparency

February 3, 2022
Ithaca College has announced that the School of Music and the Department of Theatre Arts will merge to create the School of Music, Theatre and Dance.
APP phase two continues to lack shared governance and transparency

APP phase two continues to lack shared governance and transparency

By The Ithacan • September 9, 2021
If “Ithaca Forever” is meant to be such a positive plan that improves the college, why is the campus community always left in the dark about the plans?
Editorial: Questions left unanswered after All-College Gathering

Editorial: Questions left unanswered after All-College Gathering

By The Ithacan • September 2, 2021
The meeting was a lot of fluff and a lot of promises. There was no plan outlined for any of the concerns members of the college community has expressed.
The program is 27 months long and is designed for college graduates interested in pursuing health careers.

New Physician Assistant program welcomes first students

By Syd Pierre, Assistant News Editor • September 1, 2021
Offered by the college’s School of Health Sciences and Human Performance (HSHP), the PA program was officially launched in Spring 2021 and welcomed its first class in Fall 2021.
Interim president La Jerne Cornish at the Class of 2025 Convocation Aug. 18. Cornish’s term begins Aug. 30 and former President Shirley M. Collado moves to the position of senior advisor to the interim president and the board of trustees.

Board of Trustees welcome interim president La Jerne Cornish

By Caitlin Holtzman, News Editor • August 30, 2021
Interim president La Jerne Cornish’s term begins Aug. 30. She will address the college for the first time in her new role Aug. 31 at the All-College Gathering.
Ithaca College President Shirley M. Collado at the Class of 2025 convocation Aug. 18. Collado is stepping down as president of the college effective Aug. 30.

Campus community reacts to Collado’s departure

By Caitlin Holtzman, News Editor • August 26, 2021
Some members of the Ithaca College community have expressed disappointment in President Shirley M. Collado’s last year as president following the announcement that she is leaving the college.
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