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Casual, pick-up summer softball is back for students, faculty and staff for 2016, NO EXPERIENCE or skill required.

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Excellent customer service is much more than having a “good attitude” – it is a set of professional skills that you can learn, and practice, that benefit your career and your personal life.  Using extensive role-playing and team exercises, this customer skills program teaches you how to become supremely confident in any customer situation, using the same proven skills that hostage negotiators, psychotherapists and law enforcement professionals use in their worst situations. 

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The Campus Store and MACs General Store will be closed on Thursday and Friday (May 26-27th) for our annual inventory.

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How do you feel about your body? How does this perspective work for you?

Read this and other articles about staying healthy in the May issue of Ithaca Student Health 101, including:

• Weight vs wellness: Which goals work for your health
• How to kill it at your interview
• When is marijuana use a problem
• Sext request: 6 smart ways to respond
• 20 ways to manage your money

Click on this link to get to the May issue:

http://readsh101.com/ithaca.html 

And save this link to get to all future issues of Student Health 101!

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Summer Hours will begin Friday, May 27, 2016, and continue through August 5, 2016. 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. This year, there will be 11 Fridays on which the official hours will be reduced by two hours. 

The Summer Hours policy applies to all full-time, benefits-eligible staff. For more information, please visit our Frequently Asked Questions page: 
https://www.ithaca.edu/hr/docs/other/policies/summer_hours_2016.pdf

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Ithaca College will be introducing a co-curricular transcript for all undergraduate students beginning in August 2016. This transcript is intended for experiences outside of the classroom where learning is guided by an office or organization at Ithaca College. 

Do you sponsor co-curricular learning experiences that could be included on the co-curricular transcript? The co-curricular transcript (CCT) is a basically a list of groups students are members of and events they have participated in. It is a distinct document from the academic transcript (it does not contain items that are part of any credit-bearing course), and it is not as comprehensive as a portfolio.

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Please find attached the information about a Cuban Cinema course this summer taught completely online. 

SPAN49100/59100

Cuba Virtual: Del cine en pantalla grande a Youtube

Summer Online Course

First Session (June 2016)

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Ithaca College will be introducing a co-curricular transcript for all undergraduate students beginning in August 2016. This transcript is intended for experiences outside of the classroom where learning is guided by an office or organization at Ithaca College. 

Do you sponsor co-curricular learning experiences that could be included on the co-curricular transcript? The co-curricular transcript (CCT) is a basically a list of groups students are members of and events they have participated in. It is a distinct document from the academic transcript (it does not contain items that are part of any credit-bearing course), and it is not as comprehensive as a portfolio.

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  The Ithaca College Mind, Body, Me (MBM) wellness program focuses on you: the employee! It works to help you identify and move toward your personal health and wellness goals while celebrating your successes. The MBM program promotes a culture of holistic health and wellness at IC, and in doing so, supports a happier, healthier you!

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Gerald Hector, who has served for the past three years as vice president of the Division of Finance and Administration, has accepted an offer to become the vice president for financial affairs at Cornell University. Hector’s last day at the college will be July 27.

Ithaca College President Tom Rochon says that Hector has been a valuable contributor to the leadership team during his too-brief time at IC, helping strengthen not only his division, but also the college as a whole for the coming decade by hiring such talented individuals to head the three major functions under his command: Finance, Facilities, and Digital Instruction and Information Services.

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The Academic Advising Center, Tutoring Services and Student Accessibility Services will be closed Thursday, May 26th from 1PM to 3PM.

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May, 26, 2016, 9:00 am - 2:30 pm, Clark Lounge, Campus Center (lunch include)
Open to faculty and staff.

In coordination with campus wide stakeholders, the Center for Faculty Excellence invites you to participate in an active day devoted to dialogues about assessment. We will:

• Identify the multiple layers of our roles and assessment practices across the Ithaca College campus;
• Apply assessment tools and techniques across disciplines and co-curricular learning opportunities,
• Create space for collegial dialogue that leads to unpacking challenges to assessment and resource development.

Please register for the day by selecting a small group work session with a facilitator. Session descriptions and bios are below:

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The U-Lot will be closed on the morning of Tuesday, 5/24 for reserved event parking.  The lot will be accessible for regular usage beginning at noon.  Individuals requiring handicapped parking can continue to access the U-Lot handicapped spaces by speaking with the lot attendant.

 HLTH 11000-01. War, Hunger, and Genocide: An International Health Perspective  Summer Session II

The primary course topics of war, hunger, and genocide are viewed as interconnected factors.  These are influenced by political, economic, and social conditions within countries as well as by foreign policies and national self-interests that exert power to marginalize groups, commit human rights violations, genocide, and produce poor health outcomes.

Recent and current conflicts placed within a historical context will be the focus of our analysis.

Particular emphasis will be placed on the plight of the poor and other marginalized groups in relation to health and disease. This includes addressing questions of power, morality, and international law such as those promulgated by the United Nations.

This online course is offer during Summer Session II (Jul 05, 2016 - Aug 05, 2016). For more information, contact Stewart Auyash (auyash@ithaca.edu)

Ithaca College has had a very successful programmatic partnership with Longview, a retirement community located on Danby Road, for the past 17 years. A significant part of this relationship has involved an ongoing Faculty & Staff Lecture Series at Longview.

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Submitted on behalf of Gerard Turbide, Vice President for Enrollment Management

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The reporter credited with bringing the story of Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai to the world told graduates of Ithaca College that journalism has given him some guiding principles — including “follow your curiosity” — that are useful no matter what their chosen field.

Adam B. Ellick, senior video correspondent for the New York Times, delivered the main address at the college’s 121st Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 22.

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Register now through Homerconnect for Intro to Linguistics this summer session. This will be a four-week online course for 3 credits in a Humanities perspective, for either Identities or Worlds of Systems. Info at https://www.ithaca.edu/summer/. Note that financial aid is also available for summer courses.

For additional info email jpfrehm@ithaca.edu. 

Register now through Homerconnect for Intro to Linguistics this summer session. This will be a four-week online course for 3 credits in a Humanities perspective, for either Identities or Worlds of Systems. Info on IC summer sessions: https://www.ithaca.edu/summer/. Note that financial aid is also available for summer courses.

For more info email jpfrehm@ithaca.edu. 

Ithaca College has announced the appointment of Nicole Eversley Bradwell as director of admission. She has spent the past 22 years working in the college’s Office of Admission, serving since June of 2015 as interim director.

Eversley Bradwell succeeds Gerard Turbide, who was recently named vice president for enrollment management.

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