The Ithacan

Ithaca College welcomed the a freshmen class with the largest percentage of Asian-American, Latino, African-American and Native American students — nearly 25 percent — in the institution’s history.

Incoming students of the Class of 2022 were warmly welcomed to Ithaca College during the annual 2018 Convocation ceremony on Aug. 27.

Ithaca College publicly announced that the college will continue to support students’ access to contraceptives after lobbying from the Ithaca College chapter of Planned Parenthood Generation Action, a

Brothers 4 Brothers and Sister 2 Sister are clubs in the African, Latino, Asian and Native American community who are celebrating Black History Month.

Employers plan to hire four percent more new graduates from the Class of 2018 than they did from the Class of 2017.

Molly Israel’05, executive director of marketing strategy, said the team hopes to be able to test out the new website internally in the coming weeks.

Giovanna Rivero’s, assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, novel revolves around a coming-of-age story about an adolescent who suffers from bipolar disorder.

Mayor Svante Myrick gave advice to Ithaca College community members about how to be allies for the LGBT community during his presentation Oct. 10.

The proposal seeks to create an Ithaca community–based program to help college students who on are on mental health leaves of absence.

The college completed renovations to individual, gender-neutral bathrooms and switched to a co ed by door layout in Towers residence halls.

The New York State Arthur O. Eve HEOP and the CSTEP programs at Ithaca College were able to avoid budget cuts for the 2017–18 fiscal year.

“It leaves out in the dust students who look at the opportunity and conclude they don’t have the means to be able to work for free,” Yamada said.