Ithaca College

The Ithaca College community is cordially invited to participate in the Second Annual Symposia on Inclusion, Cultural Fluency, and Global Citizenship. The Center for Faculty Excellence, the Office of the Associate Provost for Diversity and Inclusion and Interim Chief Diversity Officer, and the Office of International Programs and Extended Studies are collaborating to facilitate the continuation of the conversation we began last September.

Based on last year’s Fall Symposium, the subsequent learning communities that were convened during the Spring, and the student-led events throughout the academic year, it is apparent that in order to advance inclusion on campus, we will have to support the acquisition of cultural fluency. It is also clear that diversity and tolerance are not inclusion.

This year, we propose to underscore more pointedly the relationship between domestic inclusion and global citizenship in keeping with the expectations of our institutional mission. In order to foster a campus culture focused on the international, we must also address domestic concerns. None of this is possible without you, the Ithaca College faculty and staff, who educate our students in and outside of the classroom. Therefore, please join the conversation about connections between the local and global, the meaning of community, and the constructive ways we can better engage difficult matters on our campus.  Thank you for considering this request.

Please reserve these dates on your calendar.  We will provide additional information about each individual event in the next few weeks.

The first event in our Symposia series will be held in late September:

• Monday, September 26, 3pm to 6pm in Klingenstein.  Our guest presenter, Dr. Aziz Rana, will speak on “Black Internationalism and the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement” .  There will be a faculty panel to facilitate discussion after the presentation.

The second and third events for the Fall 2016 semester will be held:

• Monday, October 24, 1pm to 4pm in Clark and Klingenstein. Events held in collaboration with the FLEFF (Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival) Forum and participating faculty.  The speakers and discussion will focus on the FLEFF theme for this year, Geographies.  Specifically, the schedule includes:
  • 1pm: FLEFF Forum: Geographies of Inclusion
  • 2pm: FLEFF Forum: Geographies of Cultural Fluency
  • 3pm: FLEFF Forum: Geographies of Global Citizenship

• Monday, November 28, from 3pm to 6pm in Klingenstein: planning still in progress -please hold the date!

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact International Programs at intlprog@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-3306. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.

Please check Intercom for further details about each event in the near future. We look forward to seeing you at a events!

With best wishes for the academic year ahead,

Diana Dimitrova, Director of International Student and Scholar Services
Rachel Gould, Director of Study Abroad
Wade Pickren, Director of the Center for Faculty Excellence
Roger Richardson, Associate Provost for Diversity, Inclusion and Engagement and Interim Chief Diversity Officer
Tanya Saunders, Assistant Provost for International Programs and Extended Studies