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Collective momentum: College activists drive institutional change

Collective momentum: College activists drive institutional change

By Faith Meckley and Sophia Tulp January 28, 2016
Students protesting the racial climate at Ithaca College are not the only ones finding a collective voice with which to address institutionalized racism. In a tumultuous fall semester, at least 75 other colleges and universities have begun bringing their demands for change to their administrations.
Ithaca College's votes have made the college one of 132 schools nationwide that have held votes of no confidence in their academic presidents in the last 25 years.

IC votes of no confidence similar to actions nationwide

By Sophia Tulp, Staff Writer December 2, 2015
Ithaca College’s Student Government Association’s recently completed vote of no confidence on President Tom Rochon and the faculty vote of no confidence currently underway can be understood in the context of similar actions at colleges and universities nationwide.
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