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After an exciting year of singing around campus, releasing a new album, performing at major venues like Madison Square Garden, making a movie, and putting on one of the first ever "A Cappella Rave" concerts, we're ready to put on one final show for you all! 

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Dr. Heather Sheridan-Thomas will present "Helping Teacher Candidates Understand the Expectations of the Academic Literacy Skills Test (ALST)" Monday, April 13th, from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. in Textor 101. The presentation is intended for any faculty members associated with the preparation of teachers (e.g., professional education faculty and faculty in the arts/sciences) as well as interested teacher candidates from any program area. The ALST is one of several new teacher certification examination for the State of New York. 

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The thirteenth annual Rainbow Reception will be held on Friday, April 24. The Rainbow Reception is a celebration of Ithaca College's graduating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, asexual, and allied seniors and graduate students. Reservations are required. Please register here. All members of the campus community who support our LGBTQ and allied graduates are welcome to attend. And any student of any year may attend, but all MUST rsvp in advance.

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We know you love being a part of a student organization at Ithaca College, but we want to know what would make you love it even more! 

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Stephen Mosher, Professor, Department of Sport Management and Media, along with Elijah Breton (Sport Studies/Communication Studies '18) and Brian Hotchkiss (Sport Studies/Writing '09) presented at the Annual Popular Culture Association Conference in New Orleans, April 1-4. Their presentation was titled "Tony Stewart and NASCAR's Deadly Sins."

APPLY TO BE A PEER TUTOR FOR THESE COURSES!  

APPLICATIONS ARE DUE BY FRIDAY, 4/16/2015 by 5pm!  

Go to Ithaca.edu/tutoring to apply online and get more information or call 607-274-3381 and speak to Tutoring Services staff.

No cumulative GPA requirement! Must be in good academic standing as of Fall 2015! Gain excellent experience helping others! Build your own academic strength! Build your professional repertoire of skills! Manager your own work schedule! An option to get academic credit for training!

As Ithaca College welcomes the many prospective students and families visiting campus for the Ithaca Today events this weekend, please be aware that these visitors will significantly impact campus parking on Saturday and Sunday, April 11 & 12.  

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Join your colleagues on Monday, April 13th for this month’s Dollars and $ense discussion on Strategic Sourcing. 

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The Department of Chemistry Presents:

The Jean Dreyfus Bossevain Lecturer

Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy at Harvard University, Daniel G. Nocera is widely recognized as a world leader in renewable energy research. His "artificial leaf," a system designed to mimic photosynthesis in plants, was named Time Magazine's Innovation of the Year for 2011.

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The Center for the Study of Culture, Race, & Ethnicity (CSCRE) hosts:

Alexander Aviña - "Specters of Revolution, Past and Present: Popular Protest and State Violence in Mexico"

• Thursday, April 16
• 7-9PM
• Hill 104

Alexander Aviña is an Associate Professor of History at Florida State University.  He received his B.A. in History at Saint Mary's College of California and his PhD in Latin American History at the University of Southern California. He recently published his first monograph, Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside, with Oxford University Press. His next major research project explores the links between counterinsurgency, state terror, and the formation of a transnational narcotics economy in 1960s and 70s rural Mexico.

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Contributed on behalf of Gerald Hector, Vice President for Finance and Administration.

On the heels of President Rochon’s March 5, 2015 campus discussion, we will be announcing some steps towards engaging the campus around the ideas and concepts we received via the various feedback loops that were established.  We are very pleased to see so many comments from the campus around ideas on alternate sources of revenues, but more importantly ways that we can streamline costs at the College to ensure that our precious resources are spent in strategic and prudent ways that benefits student education.

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Want to help plan Relay for Life and other amazing events to fight back against cancer? Apply today to be a part of the 2015-16 Colleges Against Cancer executive board. There are a lot of positions open.  Fill out the form on orgsync using your Netpass username and password.

https://orgsync.com/87686/forms/116710

Need more information? E-mail cacithaca@gmail.com with any questions.

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Chad McCelland at cacithaca@gmail.com . We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.

The Office of Human Resources’ third annual Ithaca College IC My Future, a retirement planning open house, was a great success! We were pleased to see so many of you attend the event to take advantage of being able to interact personally with representatives from various resources to help you plan for your future. 

We would like to congratulate Yuko Mulugetta, our door prize winner, who has won a pair of Hanger Theatre tickets!

We hope to see even more of you next year as we continue this tradition of excellence! 

Please join Ithaca Waldorf School (IWS), Ithaca College Recreation & Leisure Studies, Alliance for Childhood, and Ithaca Children's Garden's Hands-on Anarchy Zone for two important events:

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On Monday, April 13, at 6:00pm at Emerson Suites Ask Big Questions (ABQ), a non-denominational fellowship in campus, launched by Hillel at Ithaca College in the Fall 2014 will host a campus-wide conversation regarding sexual assault.

It is a first of a kind, student-led attempt to have a facilitated conversation for students, faculty and staff around the table.    This event will open with a reception at Emerson Lounge.

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Apply to be a part of the IC After Dark late-night event planning team by FRIDAY, APRIL 10th at 4PM!

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The implementation of WebCRD and trainings offered through December of 2014 provided the opportunity for the campus to become familiar with using the new online print ordering system.

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Thank you for testing your financial knowledge by participating in the “What’s Your Financial IQ Challenge” hosted by TIAA-CREF. 

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Thank you again for coming together and ensuring IC Giving Day on February 26 was a huge success. We have finished some more in-depth analysis, and the results tell a story of how our community came together in one day, like never before, and encouraged more gifts and more spirited participation on and off campus than ever.

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Ithaca College students can secure a Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival five pass for screenings and events at Cinemapolis for the low price of $20.  

That's $4 a film, for films you can't see anywhere else. Many are US or Upstate Premieres.

Passes available today at the Ithaca College Bookstore. Over the weekend, passes available at the Cinemapolis Box Office.

Over 40 screenings at Cinemapolis alone, most with filmmakers, directors, writers, distributors.

All screenings except the 9:00 screenings feature moderated post-screening discussion!

Join us in FLEFF's 2015 HABITAT!

FLEFF: A DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENT

For a full festival schedule and bios of guests, check us out at www.ithaca.edu/fleff

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