Ithaca College

 Sport Event & Networking Club is hosting their 2nd Annual Flag Football Tournament on Oct. 24 at 1pm at Higgins Stadium. Teams can have anywhere from 7-10 players and the cost per team is $30. 

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On Thursday, October 8, we conducted a Blue Sky Reimagining kick-off event, featuring a conversation among four alumni followed by work in small groups brainstorming on how to make the Ithaca College educational experience more immersive. Insensitive comments were made during the conversation. Immediately following the event, I (Tom Rochon) apologized to the alumna to whom the comments were addressed. We regret that what was intended to be a visionary moment for our community was diminished by insensitive comments.

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Check out the 10 semi-finalists for the Cortaca t-shirt design contest on the STAT Facebook page by clicking this link:

https://www.facebook.com/IthacaSTAT

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Patricia Zimmermann, professor of Screen Studies,  presented her research "Towards a Theory and Practice of Documentary in Open Space New Media" at Visible Evidence XXII Conference on Documentary in Toronto, Canada, on August 21, 2015.

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The Kaplan Scholarship applications are available now for a free GRE, GMAT, MCAT or LSAT class!

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Psychology students Maris Krauss and Shannon Rebholz presented the results of their research at the annual convention of the New England Psychological Association on Saturday, October 10.

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Happy Fall Break, Everyone! 

Please Click Here for a downloadable version of our Fall Break Schedule or see below for details.

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“The Teacher’s Guide to Media Literacy: Critical Thinking in a Multimedia World” by Cyndy Scheibe and Faith Rogow includes 139 lesson ideas using media literacy. The companion website has been updated to include digital resources and complete support documents such as student worksheets, relevant video clips, example PowerPoint slides and key questions for the analysis of media messages for the seven complete lesson plans. 

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The IC Asian American Alliance will be holding a BLIND FOOD TASTE TESTING on Monday, October 12 at 8 pm in Friends 207! 

Join us as we share with you snacks of various Asian cultures. These may or may not include seaweed, silkworm, or squid...so come check it out and snack your way through Asia! 

Do you have what it takes to try them all? 

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Headed home and tired of making the drive by yourself?  

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Block 2 sessions for the Students Leadership Institute will be posted by 5pm today. Check out OrgSync for complete listing events.

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The Office of Career Services is open for drop ins from 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Monday  through Wednesday, October 12th through the 14th.

Thursday, October 15th our drop-in hours will be 12:30-3:30. On Friday, October 16th we will not have any drop-in hours.

We are open during fall break for appointments and drop-ins on an adjusted schedule. Feel free to drop-in and see us!

Regular drop-in hours resume Monday, October 19th.

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 Please join the Chemistry Department in welcoming back Thomas Polson (Chemistry '05) on Tuesday, October 6th in CNS 333 @ 12:05 pm.

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This professional webinar session provides higher education administrators and staff an opportunity to learn about the importance of developing a comprehensive strategy to recruit and retain Latina/o faculty members and professional staff. The demographic reality of the growing Hispanic undergraduate and graduate student population compels higher education leaders to employ courageous leadership to create proactive measures that ensures their faculty and leaders reflect the diverse communities that they serve. Towards that goal, this webinar highlights key programmatic and policy recommendations, based on empirical evidence, to support institutional initiatives to improve Latino(a) faculty and professional staff representation.

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Ithaca College students are invited to participate to come together in a safe environment to share feelings, thoughts, and experiences in a sustained, confidential, frank dialogue around issues of race and racism. The Diversity Awareness Committee will initiate a Student Talking Circle facilitated by professionals from the Multicultural Resource Center. The Talking Circle will be made up of 16 racially and ethnically diverse people who will meet once a week for five consecutive sessions to self-reflect, share experiences, and learn from others’ perspectives and attitudes. Spaces are still available!

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The members of the Diversity Awareness Committee (DAC) invite you to attend our monthly meeting and participate in a discussion on domestic violence and sexual abuse as it relates to gender, facilitated by two of our committee members, Darnell Thompson and Maggie Wetter of Residential Life.

On Tuesday, October 13th from noon to 1:00 p.m., we will meet in the Cayuga Lake Meeting Room.  If you would like to join us, please rsvp by emailing mriosdominguez@ithaca.edu. For your convenience, I have included the 2015-2016 meeting schedule below.

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Often, managers and educators put together diverse teams or groups, but then work in ways that fail to reap the benefits of that diversity. This highly interactive workshop offers both a framework and practical tips for leveraging the power of diverse teams, optimizing innovation, and strengthening organizational decision-making. It invites participants to become intentional and strategic about this work. Designed for supervisors who lead diverse teams and faculty members who want to leverage diversity to enhance classroom learning or to strengthen students’ readiness to embrace diversity in community settings. Open to all interested in the topics covered.

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In "Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields," Dr. Wendy Lower of Claremont McKenna College will speak on young German women who went to Nazi-occupied eastern Europe and worked as nurses, secretaries, and schoolteachers and there took part in the Nazi genocide of the Jews.

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On Monday, October 12, the Office of Admissions will be hosting an Open House for prospective students and their families.  The M-Lot parking lot at the A&E Center has been designated as reserved parking for that event, and therefore will be unavailable to college staff, faculty, and students in the morning.  Notice of this parking closure was first posted to Intercom on Thursday, October 8.

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Dr. Johnson, emerita professor of Anthropology at Ithaca College, will be speaking during a celebration of the lives of the late Marcia Ascher (former professor of Mathematics at Ithaca College) and Robert Ascher (former professor of Anthropology at Cornell).

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