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An Oracle Time and Labor (OTL) Update: Information Regarding Staff Paid Time Away (PTA)Contributed by Tanisha Malone on 05/05/09 Submitted for Mark Coldren, AVP for Human Resources The Office of Human Resources is pleased to bring online time reporting with Oracle Time and Labor (OTL) to the Ithaca College campus beginning in August 2009. It has been a challenging road to create a process that would allow us to move away from paper Time Report Forms (TRF) and using paper accrual sheets to recording both our time on the job and our paid time away online. This is the first of many communications we will be sending out as we move closer to implementation. Read more . . . (592 words) Quoted in the media: Faculty members Michael McCall, Kim Gregson, and Gary Sforzo. For more information on the following articles, please visit the IC in the Media page at the Office of Media Relations: Read more . . . (44 words) Julie Blumberg Attends "Future of Television" ConferenceContributed by Melissa Gattine on 05/05/09 Julie Blumberg, assistant professor in the Department of Cinema, Photography, and Media Arts, attended the "Future Of Television" conference in March. Read more . . . (34 words) The summer hours program will begin Friday, May 22, 2009, and continue through August 7, 2009. During this period, full-time employees will work two fewer hours (37-1/2 hours reduced to 35-1/2, 40 hours reduced to 38 hours) and receive their usual compensation. Ithaca College's official business hours will end at 3:00 p.m. on Fridays instead of 5:00 p.m.; thus giving many of our employees a chance to get a head start on the summer weekends. This year there will be 12 Fridays on which the official hours will be reduced by two hours. Read more . . . (80 words) Attention college-owned Mac users: Please be aware that there is a problem with the Microsoft Office Update process. Updates for Microsoft Office products are currently not able to be downloaded. Microsoft Office is able to periodically check for updates, but is not able to install the updates. ITS is working to find a solution to this problem and a notice will be posted to Intercom when it is resolved. ITS Helpdesk Using "Clickers" in the Classroom -- Info Sessions May 8, May 14Contributed by Marilyn Dispensa on 05/05/09 Interested in using clickers in your fall courses? (See original Intercom article.) Click Personal Response System (PRS): Demo for Instructors to register for the information sessions on either:
Read more . . . (19 words) Caps and gowns will be available at the buyback window May 13-16 from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. each day. The Jostens representative will be in the Bookstore May 13, 14, 16 and 17. Read more . . . (12 words) Representatives from Live Text, the new assessment and portfolio system for all teacher education programs at Ithaca College, will be on the Ithaca College campus for two days of training workshops on May 19 and 20. Read more . . . (73 words) H1N1 Swine Flu Update: World Health Organization Raises Pandemic Influenza LevelContributed by David Newman on 05/05/09 The World Health Organization (WHO) last week raised the Pandemic Influenza Level from 4 to 5, recognizing that there is now sustained person-to-person transmission of the H1N1 swine flu in many areas. Read more . . . (411 words)
Read more . . . (18 words) ITS is pleased to announce that graduating seniors with ePortfolios can continue to use and update the ePortfolio after graduation! Read more . . . (233 words) Please remember there are special Optical Scanning procedures and schedules in place for Final Exam Week – Tuesday, May 5th through Monday, May 11th, 2009. These procedures have recently changed. Read more . . . (94 words) Kal Telage Presents Paper at International Conference on Teaching and LearningContributed by Kalil Telage on 05/04/09 Kal Telage, of the Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, recently presented a PowerPoint presentation, "Strategies for Building PowerPoint Architecture for E-Learning." The paper was given at the International Conference on Teaching and Learning in Jacksonville, Florida. Read more . . . (65 words) The Office of Admission has finalized its Finger Lakes Tour date as well as prospective student program dates for the fall 2009 semester, as well as dates for accepted-student programs in the spring 2010 semester. Read more . . . (282 words) Nine Park School students had their work featured on WCNY, the PBS affiliate in Syracuse, in April. The station aired a 30-minute special devoted to three documentaries that were filmed as assignments for the fall 2008 Nonfiction Production class, which was taught by Professor John Scott.
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Read more . . . (54 words) Mara Alper's Documentary to Screen at Art Museum in Kyoto, JapanContributed by Melissa Gattine on 05/04/09
Segments of the documentary to be exhibited include how the intricate art is made, daily life in the mountain villages, healing rituals and ceremonial events. These segments are part of a one-hour documentary which Alper is editing in bilingual versions. Read more . . . (95 words)
Read more . . . (8 words) After fundraising for the past two years, IC SafeWater has reached its goal of $10,000 to provide clean water and sanitation to villages in Ethiopia! Read more . . . (47 words) Students and Faculty Inducted into Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research SocietyContributed by Bernard Beins on 05/03/09
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Mara Alper's latest documentary, Visions of the Huichol, was invited to be exhibited at the Kampo Museum, an art museum in Kyoto, Japan, in November 2009. It will be an intrinsic part of an exhibit of Mexican Huichol (pronounced "WE-chol") tribal art curated by Aurelio Asiain, a Mexican diplomat in Japan. 
Thank you to everyone who donated to the Ithaca College and Cornell University Fight MS Team for the Walk on May 3, 2009.
Ten students and four faculty members were inducted into Sigma Xi, the scientific research society, on April 29. The students and faculty were elected to membership because of their research achievements or potential.