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A periodic compilation of references to Ithaca College in the nation’s media.

Since 1990, USA Today has honored students as representatives of outstanding undergraduates in all our schools. Here are the 180 alumni of the All-USA College Academic First Team. There are doctors, lawyers, executives, politicians, educators, social workers, and artists. 1990: Joseph Bliss, Ithaca College. Pediatrics resident, Children’s Hospital at Strong, Rochester, N.Y. Master’s, M.D., and Ph.D., University of Rochester.

— USA Today, Feb. 25, 1999

How do women respond to unwelcome romantic interest? Those less experienced at it tend to use face-saving methods such as claiming to have a boyfriend, says an Ithaca College poll of 135 women. Those more experienced favor avoidance — such as not returning calls. Researchers didn’t study which approach works better.

— Shape Magazine, April 1999

I’ve come to believe that traditional instructional design models are not serving us as well as they did even a few years ago. The conventional instructional systems design (ISD) approach assumes that there’s some correct "content" out there and that our job is to digest, package, and deliver it to learners in order to engineer standardized behavioral outputs. This doesn’t seem either desirable or doable in many of the organizations that I study and advise today.

— from an article by Diane Gayeski, associate professor of organizational communication, learning, and design, in Training magazine, Feb. 1999

Communication technology is changing faster than the mind can process the information, said speakers this morning during a community roundtable at SUNY Cortland. Cynthia Scheibe, associate professor of psychology at Ithaca College, warned the audience that there are social dangers with the new technology. "As with television viewing, we need to think about the indirect effects of e-mail and the Internet," she said. "If we are doing these things, what are we not doing instead? What types of activities did we do before that have been replaced by this technology?"

— Cortland Standard, Feb. 4, 1999