Ithaca College

Submitted on behalf of Dr. Roger Richardson, Associate Provost and Interim Chief Diversity Officer

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The Exploratory Program is seeking faculty who enjoy working with first-year students and have assigned academic advising built into their workload.

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Come celebrate the end of the year at IC Kicks Back on Friday, May 5 from 2pm-6pm on the Campus Center Quad! Challenge your friends on an inflatable Tropical Obstacle Course, Hippo Chow Down and on the inflatable Toxic Drop. Be sure to capture the moment with the Photo booth or try out the new interactive photo booth Snap Shot all provided by NY Party Works. Student Activities Board sponsored the Toxic Drop and the Snap Shot photo booth.

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The third and fourth candidates for DIIS Associate Vice President/Chief Information Officer will be on campus on Wednesday, May 3 and Thursday, May 4, respectively.  Members of the campus community are invited to attend open sessions, which are scheduled at 1:30 pm in Textor 103.  Materials for the candidates can be found here a day ahead of the interview date.

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The Shared Governance Task Force (SGTF) would like to take this opportunity to provide the campus community with an update on our work.  We have received feedback on the second draft of the proposed charter and we met during the week of April 3 to review the feedback and determine appropriate next steps. 

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New Online Course for May Summer Session 2017

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Procedures and schedules are in place for optical scanning of final exams during the week of May 8th-12th. Optical scanning can be dropped off at the Service Desk in Job Hall during these hours:

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Join the Academic Advising Center for one of our ICC Portfolio Working Sessions.  Drop-in anytime between 1 to 3 p.m. on Wednesday 5/3 and Thursday 5/4 at the Academic Advising Center.  Bring your laptop!

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Last chance to take a course with Professor Gunderson this summer. This course counts for Social Science perspective and Identities, and Mind, Body, Spirit themes.

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 All current students should have received an email inviting them to take an online course entitled Think About It. Ithaca College recently partnered with Campus Clarity to provide this important educational tool for our campus community. 

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IC Autism Speaks U is Ithaca College's chapter for the national non-profit organization, Autism Speaks. Autism Speaks U is a program that supports students, faculty and alumni in their awareness, advocacy and fundraising efforts for Autism Speaks. We are looking for a new academic advisor, as our previous advisor Skott Jones is going on sabbatical this upcoming fall. Roles of an advisor would include: approving the budget and any additional budget requests as well as serving as a consultant to the group (i.e. for possible topics and speakers, guest present at meetings, and attend campus events). If interested, please contact icautismspeaks@gmail.com

A Peer Leader is a current IC student who acts as a peer assistant in the Ithaca College Seminar. All students who have successfully completed their Ithaca College Seminar can apply (including transfer students).  

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The Politics of Refugee Gratitude

A Book Talk with CSCRE's Dr. Phuong Nguyen

The Center for the Study of Culture, Race and Ethnicity invites you to a celebration of Dr. Phuong Nguyen’s forthcoming book, Becoming Refugee American: the Politics of Rescue in Little Saigon (University of Illinois Press, 2017). Dr. Nguyen will discuss the complex ways Vietnamese refugees who come to the United States after the Vietnam War negotiate anti-Asian sentiments, their identities and sense of belonging.

Thursday, May 4, 2017
12pm-1:30pm
Clarke Lounge
Campus Center

Light refreshments served. For accommodations, please contact cscre@ithaca.edu or call 607-274-1056.

Come support senior photography students!

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Come support senior photography students!

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Dr. Orlando-Marquez C. Kittrell, founding director of the Office of State Grants (OSG), presented "STEM Student Editorial: Developing a Synergistic Pipeline for Historically Underrepresented STEM College Students" at the 14th Biennial Tri-State Conference.

The Tri-State Consortium includes educators, administrators, counselors, staff, pioneers and educational leaders mostly working in the state-supported educational opportunity programs in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York, and other programs which provide college access and opportunities for historically underrepresented, academically underprepared, disenfranchised or marginalized, and economically disadvantaged students to succeed in college. In New Jersey there is the Educational Opportunity Fund/EOF and in Pennsylvania there is the ACT 101 program.

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Check out HLTH 22700 Stress: Its Nature and Management offered online in the 2-week May Session. This course discusses the impact of stress on your health and strategies to use stress to your advantage for optimal achievement.While we often tend to think of stress in negative terms, stress when managed can be a positive force in our lives. This course is offered from May 15th to May 26th. The course offers you maximum flexibility; it is asynchronous, meaning that you do not need to be online at any specific time.  This course is designated as ICC Mind, Body Spirit – Natural Science or Social Science Perspective, Liberal Arts.  For more information, contact the instructor at wuest@ithaca.edu. 

Two individuals with a lengthy track record of fostering dialogue and bridging difficult issues will be awarded honorary degrees by Ithaca College: Ann Thompson Cook, the co-founder and co-director of the organization Many Voices, and La June Montgomery Tabron, the president and CEO of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. They will be presented with honorary Doctor of Letters degrees at the college’s Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 21.

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The National Weather Service has issued a Tornado Watch for Ithaca and surrounding areas in effect until 10:00 p.m. on Monday, May 1. A Tornado Watch means that conditions are favorable for the development of severe thunderstorms producing tornadoes in and close to the watch area. Those living in watch areas are advised to monitor weather reports for a possible upgrade to a Tornado Warning, which means that a tornado is indicated by radar or sighted by trained storm spotters.

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Don’t forget that Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) will be providing faculty development opportunities prior to classroom use in the fall.

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