Ithaca College

Are you planning on teaching a summer course online? Would you like to learn effective tools, applications, and creative ways to support students in an online learning environment? 

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Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) is looking for ambassadors for our Student Advisory Group.  We need a combined committee of both faculty and students.

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Ithaca College Phi Kappa Phi Chapter 201's 2018 Book Drive Competition: Stock the Shelf

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Dear IC Faculty and/or Staff Member,

We would like to make you aware of an exciting opportunity that will be taking place on our campus.  The Office of Sponsored Research and the Center for Faculty Excellence are co-sponsoring a grant writing workshop to be taught by former Department of Writing faculty member, Patricia Bogaczyk Spencer, M.Ed., Professional Writing Consultant (www.linkedin.com/in/patriciabspencer). 

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 President Collado and her team have scheduled a variety of gatherings designed to help her get acquainted with the members of our campus community. 

Please consider joining the president and fellow colleagues for a casual, catered lunch in the Founder's Room of the Peggy Ryan Williams Center. This installment of the lunch series will include contingent faculty, and will take place on Thursday, April 26 from 12:00 - 1:15 p.m.

Sign up now to reserve your spot! Further details can be found here. 

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The Office of Career Services will be closed Friday, May 4, 2018 due to a Staff Retreat. We will reopen Monday, May 7, 2018. We apologize for any inconvenience. 

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Cheryl Boyer at cboyer@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-3365. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.

• Are you unsure of what you might do with your college degree?
• Have you ever wondered about what a major in exercise science can offer you?
• Have you ever wondered about what goes on behind the the scenes in an elite sport?

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Please join us on Thursday, 4/26 6:00 - 7:30pm in the Park Auditorium for Rob Humphrey's '91 "The Afterparty: How to use LinkedIn in your college to career transition" talk!

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 "Chronicles of Discontent, Tribunes for Change: Columbia and Its Underground Press in the Vietnam Era", co-authored with Seth Smith and appearing in the April issue of the Missouri Historical Review, examines the historical significance of alternative and underground newspapers in Columbia, Missouri, in the 1960s and 1970s.

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 Join HEARD for a night of food, art and social justice! Enjoy art created in collaboration with the residents of the MacCormick Secure Center.

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Felice Russell, Assistant Professor in the Department of Education, presented her paper, "Teacher and Leader Perceptions of Co-Teaching to Meet the Needs of Multilingual Learners," at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting last weekend. This year the meeting was held in New York City. 

Dr. Russell's work was recently highlighted in the Ithacan. Here is a link to the article:  https://theithacan.org/opinion/qa-professor-researches-successful-ell-classrooms/

Are you taking classes over the summer and would like to work part-time while doing so? This may be the perfect opportunity for you.

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Visit www.genworth.com/groupltc. Enter Group ID: ithacacollege and Access Code: groupltc or call 800.416.3624.

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IC Intercambios, OSEMA's Outstanding Service Organization of 2018, is having a bake sale fundraiser.

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The Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE) and the Teaching and Learning Technology (TLT) group collaborated to offer a hands-on experience, VoiceThread: Beginning to Engage, for Ithaca College (IC) faculty.

VoiceThread is an asynchronous online tool that allows you and your students to engage with a variety of media and integrates with Sakai. The use of VoiceThread is free with an IC login. Many faculty on campus are already using it as part of their course design with promising results.

Please join us as you plan for increasing student engagement in your upcoming summer or fall courses. 
April 26-May 3  Register

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The International Linguistic Association invited Asma Barlas (Politics) to give a plenary address at its 63rd annual conference on April 21.

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Information Technology has resolved the problem with HomerAdmin and the latest version of Java (update 171), and users of HomerAdmin should now be able to update as prompted.

Please contact the Service Desk if you encounter any problems.

Information Technology Service Desk
104 Job Hall
servicedesk@ithaca.edu
607-274-1000

Come and learn about the ever-changing health care landscape in Summer 2018!  The Economics of Health Care will be offered from May 14-25, 2018. We will talk about how the economics of health care is different from other types of economics, and delve into the Affordable Care Act and its implications, disability policy, end-of-life care, and pharmaceutical pricing and access.

   The Ithacan once again had a strong showing in the New York Press Association’s Better College Newspaper competition, being named Best Overall College Newspaper for 2017, the NYPA's top collegiate honor, as well as winning first place in four categories and second and third place in two others. In addition, nine staff members were honored for their individual work in the paper. The awards were for work produced during the 2017 calendar year (Kayla Dwyer ’17, spring editor-in chief; Aidan Quigley ’18, fall editor-in-chief).

Those awards are:

• First Place for General Excellence
• First Place for Editorial Writing
• First Place for Best Sports Coverage
• First Place for Best Use of Social Media
• Second Place for Best Website
• Third Place for Design

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 Ithaca College online course --  Summer Session II (July 2 – August 3, 2017). 

ENVS 25200 (also cross-listed as Philosophy 25200) is a critical examination of moral problems associated with humanity's effects on the environment.

ICC credits: Humanities perspective; Quest for a Sustainable Future theme.

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