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Ithaca College is incorporating sustainability in their efforts to address deferred maintenance. The college has started a project to reduce the Gannett Centers lighting costs by 70 percent by upgrading lighting to LEDs. On right, energy-efficient LED and on left, traditional lighting.

Ithaca College incorporates sustainability into maintenance

By Kyle Arnold, Assistant News Editor • March 31, 2016
As a result of an aging campus, the college has seen a buildup of deferred maintenance, which has exceeded $200 million in recent years. Deferred maintenance covers issues like cracks in concrete, or loose handrails or aging mechanical equipment, grouping projects into an agenda according to when they should be finished.
From left to right, former Ithaca College employees Robert Cree, Susan Weatherby, Mike Lindberg, Marian Brown and Craig Evans. They are among a number of people who have left the college to take positions at Wells College.

Former IC employees find new opportunities at Wells College

By Daniel Hart, Staff Writer • February 10, 2016
In recent years, a number of Ithaca College employees have found that the next big step in their careers was just 30 miles away. Five former Ithaca College administrative and staff members have left to take jobs at Wells College in the past two years.
The Ithaca College Environmentalists call for the college to commit to sustainability, such as by encouraging students to compost and having faculty incorporate sustainability in curriculums.

Ithaca College retail compost locations to be removed

By Kyle Arnold, Assistant News Editor • February 1, 2016
Ithaca College compost retail areas will be removed following a policy change at the college's compost management facility, Cayuga Compost.
Jerone Gagliano was hired to serve as Ithaca College’s new director of energy management and sustainability.

Q&A: Jerone Gagliano hired as new sustainability director

By Faith Meckley, Assistant News Editor • December 9, 2015
Jerone Gagliano was hired in November to serve as Ithaca College’s new director of energy management and sustainability. Assistant News Editor Faith Meckley spoke with Gagliano to discuss the state of sustainability at the college and his role in future sustainability initiatives.
From left, professors Susan Allen-Gill, Chip Gagnon, Patricia Rodriguez, Alicia Swords and David Turkon are former members of the committee to create a master degree in sustainable international development. They say President Tom Rochon has not made progress in campus sustainability.

Open Letter: Rochon has squashed campus sustainability

By Alicia Swords, Chip Gagnon, David Turkon, Patricia Rodriguez, and Susan Allen-Gill • November 21, 2015
Stories like this one at IC have demoralized faculty.
President Tom Rochon sits in the Taughannock Falls Room after POC at IC walked out of a meeting Oct. 23.

Open Letter: Faculty make list of complaints against Rochon

By Ithaca College Faculty • November 19, 2015
We have not seen this degree of widespread distress, anger, and dissatisfaction since President James Whalen’s years (1975-1997).
Each Sunday a composting bin will be located at the Circle Apartments community building for two hours, said senior Ben Tolles, sustainability project assistant of the Eco-Reps.

Ithaca College Eco-Reps pilot new Circles composting program

By Kyle Arnold, Staff Writer • November 17, 2015
The IC Eco-Reps are partnering with the Tompkins County Solid Waste Management Division to unveil a new composting site at the Ithaca College Circle Apartments, where there currently exists no composting program.
Ben Tolles, sustainability project assistant for the Eco-Reps, sorts through the trash and recycling in IC Square. The Resource and Environmental Management Program is planning to have one Eco-Rep in each residence hall.

IC Eco-Reps to incorporate Res Life into program

By Kyle Arnold, Contributing Writer • September 23, 2015
The Resource and Environmental Management Program is looking to have a student representative available in each residence hall to offer sustainable-living education.
Junior Joshua Enderle (pictured on the right in the red shirt) participated in a blockade in the middle of Washington, D.C., traffic May 26 to protest the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the projects it funds.

Q&A: Student participates in environmental activism

By Natalie Shanklin, Opinion Editor • September 9, 2015
I think we just need to make it a priority again, and I think now is the time to do it. Now is always the time to do stuff.
Professor Michael Twomey stands in front of Aldeyarfoss, a large waterfall in Bardardalur, Iceland.

Q&A: Professor learns about sustainable living in Iceland

By Kalia Kornegay, Staff Writer • August 25, 2015
"This is a place where people are extremely conscious that they have to put back what they take away from the environment, and they’ve learned to do that."
Sustainability falls low on administrations to-do list

Sustainability falls low on administration’s to-do list

By Faith Meckley, Staff Writer • April 29, 2015
Amid many other concerns Ithaca College is facing — successfully instituting IC 20/20, part-time faculty unionization and the demand for better mental health services — initiatives to keep the college a leader in environmental sustainability no longer seem to be a priority, according to students and faculty involved in sustainability effo
Editorial: College should prioritize sustainability

Editorial: College should prioritize sustainability

April 29, 2015
Given the reality of climate change, environmental sustainability should be a top priority of both the college and students.
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