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Dear Ithaca College Community:

Diverse Minds Are Gathering to Brainstorm
We’re up and running on the next phase of the planning process! More than 70 working group members have been oriented to their ambitious task at hand, and jumped into working with one another and with as many campus constituents as possible. Those teams are now meeting at least two hours a week, with most of them logging far more time than that.

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 Dr. Evis Sammoutis, Assistant Professor, Music Composition was recently featured on the Austrian National Radio ORF (Österreichischer Rundfunk). 

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All staff, faculty and students are invited to join us at 12:00 noon on March 27th in Klingenstein Lounge for the Diversity and Inclusion Discussion Circle which will focus on the new Bias Impact Response System. Please join us for collaborative discussion about bias on campus and ways in which we can respond to bias as a community and contribute to a more inclusive environment. Members of the Bias Impact Resource Team, including Sean Eversley Bradwell and Bill Kerry will join us in the discussion. This Circle is hosted by the Division of Legal Affairs. Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Eileen Jacobs at ejacobs@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-3836. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible

Interested in learning more about environmental/sustainability focused careers?

This lunch and learn event is your opportunity to meet and network with Marian Brown, Director, Center for Sustainability and the Environment at Wells College, who will discuss how you can become an “intra-preneur” and help an organization chart a new path to sustainability, even if the organization is struggling to advance sustainability/environmental objectives on its own!

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Ever wonder what medical school or a residency is really like?

Join Career Services and the Healthcare, Public Health and Sciences Career Interest Community for a lunch and learn event where you can meet and network with Dr. Kerry Forrestal, an Emergency Room physician and find out.

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The Ithaca College Department of Athletics is now accepting applications from IC students for the Fall 2019 semester who wish to obtain academic credits and work within athletics. All internship opportunities are three to six credits (180-360 hours) and will entail evening and/or weekend hours.

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Ithaca College has invited 16 doctoral students from diverse backgrounds to visit Ithaca College and participate in the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF). The Diversity Scholars are coming to campus for an opportunity to see our academic, artistic and intellectual environment.

If you would like to meet the  FLEFF Diversity Scholars at a small opening reception starting at 4 pm on Thursday, April 4th in Klingenstein lounge, please get in touch with Warren Schlesinger, the FLEFF Diversity Scholar Coordinator (warren@ithaca.edu). There are a limited number of seats available. At this event, the scholars will introduce themselves, hear some remarks, and we will have an opportunity to mingle over drinks and food. 

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Dr. Janet Galván presented a session at the American Choral Director’s National Conference in Kansas City in February.

The session was called “Let It Go:  Building Community and Musicianship Through Movement.”  

The session was presented twice to allow more people to attend.   At the same conference, Dr. Galván was also a judge for the national graduate conducting competition.

Mathematics scholar and experienced administrator Melanie Stein has been named the new dean of Ithaca College’s School of Humanities and Sciences. Since 2016, Stein has served as dean of academic affairs at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. She will begin her new position at IC on July 1.

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 Arhlene A. Flowers, associate professor of Integrated Marketing Communications, received an accredited lecturer certification in Intercultural Management from the Hofstede Institute in March 2019. She attended a workshop in Helsinki, Finland, along with academics and business executives from around the globe, that focused on intercultural dimensions developed by one of the leading scholars and pioneers in intercultural communication and management, Dr. Geert Hofstede.

Professor Flowers said: “I believe that intercultural skills are essential for public relations practitioners to excel in today's multinational workforce and diverse multicultural society. This workshop helped me develop new assignments and exercises on intercultural communication and management that specifically relate to the public relations industry.”

For the IMC degree program, she created a new course, STCM 36600 Global, Intercultural, and Multicultural Public Relations (which is also a diversity-designated course), in which intercultural communication is a significant component.

Politics Professor Asma Barlas published Reading the word in a foreign tongue: Islam’s scripture and non-Arab Muslims, in WORD, Volume 65 Issue 1 click here

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This summer the Women's and Gender Studies program will be offering WGST 10000: Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies, as an online course, taught by our Dissertation Diversity Scholar, Professor Donny Bellamy.

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Students in the Exercise and Sport Science program presented their research at the Eastern Canadian Sport and Exercise Psychology Symposium on March 22 & 23, 2019.

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Rev. Naomi Washington Leapheart, Faith Work Director of the National LGBTQ Task Force will join us next week for a 3 part series offering: 

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Applications are still open to be a Jumpstart Leader!

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In order to accommodate guests for the 7th Annual Project Generations Intergenerational Prom, U-Lot (Campus Center) will be closed beginning at 3:30PM on Monday, March 25th.

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 ICIC 13000 Creativity: Transforming Insights into Ideas

Where do great ideas come from? Can we become better at generating them? A series of significant challenges are posed, and a rich variety of creativity techniques and principles are introduced to meet them. Creativity skills that will apply in many contexts are developed. Pass/Fail. 1 credit. No prerequisites. LA.

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Congratulations to the Spring 2019 Recipients,

Zoe Mendrysa, Biology, Deaf Studies and Health Minor ’19

"I plan on pursuing a Master’s in Physician Assistant Studies. I am choosing PA over MD or DO because of the specific roles PAs play in health care, they fill the gap."

Alexandra Estanislau, Biochemistry and Health Minor ‘20

"My passion for dentistry took hold at a young age. I want to use my skills and resources to provide my future community with the chance to feel healthy and confident in their smile."

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The 21st Annual Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) runs April 1-7 on the Ithaca College campus and downtown at Cinemapolis. 

This year's festival theme is DISRUPTIONS. Disruptions stop the flow of events, ideas, processes, and structures which can no longer continue like before. 

Disruptions stop the flow of events, ideas, processes, and structures which can no longer continue like before

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Please join us for a FREE screening of a provocative film followed by a discussion with the film's producer.
“The Gun Shop”- free FLEFF screening co-sponsored by the Central New York Chapter of the Fulbright Association. Wednesday, April 3 at 6:50 PM at Cinemapolis, downtown Ithaca.

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