Ithaca College

ITS is pleased to announce that the TLC (Technology Learning Center) will be offering training on Taskstream and Sakai next week, Monday, August 12 through Friday, August 16.

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Residential Life is seeking interested faculty for the following Faculty Associate and Faculty Fellow positions in the residence halls for the 2013-14 Academic Year:

• Faculty Associates in the First-Year Residential Experience (FYRE) Program
• Faculty Fellow for the Sustainably Conscious Residential Learning Community

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Submitted by Marisa Kelly, Provost and Vice President for Educational Affairs

The 2013-2014 opening Ithaca College faculty meeting is scheduled for Monday, August 19th at 2:00PM in the Park Auditorium.  Please mark your calendars and plan to attend.

Click here for a copy of the agenda.  

This meeting is an opportunity for us to come together and discuss issues of interest to faculty and the institution as a whole. This meeting is separate from the All College Meeting taking place on August 22nd.  The agendas are very different, so please plan to attend both if you are able.

I look forward to seeing you on the 19th and welcoming you to the start of the new academic year.

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As a reminder, Sakai will be unavailable from 9 am until Noon, this Monday August 12, 2013 due to system maintenance. 

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ICView won an Award of Excellence in the category of Most Improved Magazines from APEX 2013 – The Twenty-Fifth Annual Awards for Publication Excellence.

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Are you currently experiencing discomfort at your workstation, or have you experienced this in the past? Your workstation should not cause you pain, but instead should support your health and productivity.

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You knew them before they were famous! 

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Sakai will be upgraded to version 2.9 on Monday, August 12, 2013 from 9:00 - Noon. During this upgrade the system will be unavailable.

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Attn: H&S Faculty and Staff!

Do you have a guest speaker or event but a lack of venue?
Look no further!

The Handwerker Gallery is looking for departments & faculty to collaborate with for some open spots in our programming calendar for Fall 2013.  For the dates listed below, preference will lean towards departments who are interested in collaborating on cross-disciplinary speakers whose presentations are pertinent to the exhibition up at the time (although we are open to loose interpretations here!).

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Faculty members play an important role in the lives of students that extends beyond the teaching of course material.  The staff of Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) recognizes faculty’s potential to influence student’s attitudes about mental health care.  We know the stigma about accessing mental health services cause some students to suffer needlessly.  Therefore, we invite you to partner with us to identify students at risk, reach out to them, or to report your concerns via the Students at Risk Initiative.

In an effort to prevent potential negative outcome of students in distress, the enclosed statement was generated as a guide for faculty to consider including in their syllabi.

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Stressed?  Tired?  Over-burdened with work and family obligations?  Living too close to the edge?  You can learn to recharge your batteries and nourish yourself on a daily basis by living a more mindful life.  Regular practice of meditation slows you down, creates the space you need to relax and take stock, and can provide a measure of comfort and ease in the midst of the chaos of daily life.  This is NOT rocket science!  Anyone can learn how to “take care of your mind” and find the still point of rest and relaxation so vital and necessary in the world we live in.

During the fall semester, Work/Life will be offering pilot meditation classes taught by Michael Faber. If you are interested and would like to participate, please email Michael Faber at faber@ithaca.edu with your availability on Tuesdays and Thursdays so that a class schedule can be created. 

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Jorge Garcìa, Assistant Professor of Spanish, co-authored an article titled "Programas comunitarios de educación audiovisual como alternativa al aprendizaje-servicio en el extranjero" (Jorge Garcìa, Joseph M. Pierce and Alejandra Zambrano).  

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Although summer is still in full swing, back to school time is just around the corner. See the August BalanceWorks Newsletter for helpful tips on making the transition from summer back to the school year.

https://www.ithaca.edu/hr/benefits/wrklife/wlprogram/?item=4573

In preparation for the annual campus electrical shutdown on Saturday, August 10, 2013, ITS would like to remind everyone to unplug computers, printers, and other electrical devices prior to the start of the outage.

While ITS expects that all computing systems and services will remain online and accessible from off campus, there is the possibility of extended system downtime for any system or service due to unanticipated problems.

ITS Helpdesk
helpdesk@ithaca.edu
104 Job Hall
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Wendy Dann, assistant professor of directing at Ithaca College, and Sarah Pickett, assistant professor of sound design and composition at Carnegie-Mellon University, combined forces this summer to workshop a new play: The Liberator: a play with music and machinery.  Ithaca College alumni and students joined local actors, Dann and Pickett for a week in July on the IC campus, supported by an Ithaca College Creative Project Grant.

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There will not be an afternoon mail pick up on campus today 8/6/13 so that the Phillips Hall Post Office and Mail Center staff can attend the Finance and Administration divisional meeting. 

Additional mail that departments need to go out today must be brought to the Mail Center by 2:30pm to allow time for processing.

The last mail pick up time at the Phillips Hall Post Office will be 2:30pm.  Mail dropped off after that time will not go out until Wednesday.

Contact the Mail Center at 4-3371 with questions. 

Due to a Division Meeting, the Campus Store and MACs General Store will be closing at 2:45pm TODAY.

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Are you ready for a fitness challenge?! From September through November Ithaca College Work/Life will be hosting the next IC A Healthy Me Challenge, “Fit in 42,” a six-week fitness competition for teams of four. Focusing on cardiovascular exercises and resistance training, Fit in 42 challenges participants to stick to a weekly workout routine.

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Risk Management is happy to advise we have posted the first class date for the Fall Semester - Students can begin utilizing the on-line registration form. 

Thank you for your patience as Risk Management continues to work with our Insurance Company regarding the scheduling of the mandatory Student Driver Safety Classes.  Normally by now the full class schedule for the Semester would have been posted on the Risk Management website.   This year there have been a few logistical issues to work through, more class dates will be forthcoming.

At the invitation of the NY-St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture (NYI-XI), Asma Barlas, professor and director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity (CSCRE) taught a three-week seminar on "Islam and the West" at the University of St. Petersburg, Russia, in July-August.  NYI is offered annually through the State University of New York, Stony Brook (www.nyi.spb.ru).