Greetings, IC Musicians! Are you looking for a performance opportunity through the month of July? Are you hoping to keep your ensemble skills finely-tuned while gaining new insights into additional repertoire? You can register for Concert Band, Chorus and several other courses through your Homer Connect account. Details on the first two below:

Last Fall I wrote to tell you that the Board of Trustees would complete a comprehensive presidential assessment of President Tom Rochon during the 2012-2013 academic year. The Association of Governing boards recommends this process every 5 years as part of their best practice recommendations.

Please join us as Timothy Ryan, Manager from the Environmental Health & Safety Department, brings in his EH&S team to conduct a short presentation followed by a “hands-on” fire extinguisher training. During his presentation you will learn about fire prevention and how to handle a situation.  Fires can sometimes happen when you least expect it.

Do you know what to do?

This training will teach you the essentials about this great life skill that everyone should know.

If you have additional questions, please contact Campus Center & Event Services at: 607-274-3313.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Please register for one of the following sessions. All sessions will take place in the Center for Faculty Excellence, 316 Gannett Center.

 Actor David Boreanaz used the example of his own career in urging members of the Ithaca College graduating class to begin their search for “an authentic existence.”

Get your Mind, Body, and Spirit ready for sizzling fun this summer and join the Mind, Body, Me wellness program!

Interested in planning and organizing events for our senior year? Apply to be on Senior Class Cabinet! Applications close today, May 17th.
Email us for ANY questions or more information about the positions! ICSeniors2014@gmail.com.

We are pleased to announce that the Staff and Administration Performance Review Process is now available to be completed on-line.  The College Performance Review process will continue to follow the same overall approach and forms consistent with last year.  Points of emphasis for 2012-13 reviews include:

• Strong encouragement to have all staff complete a self-assessment/review as part of the process.
• In depth professional development conversations.
• Continued focus on goals and expectations.

ITS is currently planning for software upgrades in ITS-managed computer labs for the 2013-14 academic year.

If you need specific software installed or upgraded to support instruction, please notify Lisa Efing-Guida no later than Saturday, June 1, 2013.

To successfully raise an increased level of funds each year, we must focus our resources on engaging alumni, parents, and friends as efficiently and strategically as possible, and identifying and involving a greater number of individuals with the capacity and inclination to make leadership-level gifts to our college, as these donors will be crucial to our success in the upcoming campaign.

Ithaca College president Tom Rochon has announced the appointment of Gerald Hector as vice president of the Division of Finance and Administration. Hector, who has two decades of experience in financial management in both the higher education and private sectors, will join the college on July 1.

He succeeds Carl Sgrecci, who announced last year that he would be stepping down from the post he has held since 2003.

Thursday, May 16 marks the local observance of National Bike to Work (and School) Day. That morning, everyone who cycles to work can take advantage of breakfast stations located around town, including one right here on campus. From 7am - 9am on Thursday, cycle up to the flagpole circle and come into Textor Hall for a free breakfast and the chance to enter a drawing for prizes! For a poster listing all the breakfast stations around town, visit Way2Go.org or the Bike to Work Facebook  page.

IMPORTANT: CHANGE OF PLANS! 

If you have been accepted into an IC graduate program for Fall 2013, you may work over the summer if you have paid your deposit and completed a new I-9 with the Office of Student Employment.  You may contact us at studentemployment@ithaca.edu to set up a time to complete the I-9.

Exception: If a graduating student is accepted into an IC graduate program for Fall 2013, they may work over the summer if they have paid their deposit and completed a new I-9 with the Student Employment office. The student can set up a time to do the I-9 by contacting our office (studentemployment@ithaca.edu).

 EXSS 20200 - Sport and Exercise Psychology will be offered online during Summer Session I. Course attributes: GE 1: Self & Society, Liberal Arts, Social Sciences 

Open to ALL majors at Ithaca College, The Park School of Communications is offering Introduction to Field Production, TVR 11500, during Summer Session I from May 28-June 28. Taught by professor Peter Johanns, TV-R, the course will teach students how to shoot and edit HD video.

If you are considering using a student response system (a.k.a. clickers) for your fall 2013 courses, please go to the Clickers ITS web site  for more information or contact Marilyn Dispensa (mdispensa@ithaca.edu).  Turning Technologies NXT/Turning Point is the supported technology at IC.

If you are planning to work and live on campus this summer and are not registered in a Circle Apartment you must fill out the orange "Hold at Phillips Hall P.O." card and take it to the Registrar's office to receive mail on campus during the summer. This card is effective beginning Monday May 13 and ends on Friday August 16th. After August 16th mail is processed to the current on-campus, local or permanent address on file.

This card is available at the Phillips Hall Post Office, the Mail Center and Emerson Hall during check in. Fill it out now and be all set when May 14th rolls around.

Patricia R. Zimmermann, professor of screen studies and Codirector of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, was an invited speaker at the University of Oregon (UO) April 17-20, 2014.

As part of the Cinema Pacific Film Festival, Zimmermann delivered a lecture entitled “The Home Movie Archive Live,” analyzing archival, music, and live performance collaborations as mappings of new historiographic public spaces.

The semester is ending, winter has passed and now it's time to PARTY!

Date: Thursday, May 23, 2013
Time: 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Location: Campus Center Quad

All faculty, staff and administration are invited to this campus event! No RSVP necessary.

Ithaca College thanks you for your hard work and dedication over the past academic year, and this event is an opportunity for all to sit back, relax and enjoy a break from regular routine.

Take advantage of the more than 350 concerts offered each year by the School of Music. A full listing of all concerts and events is available at www.ithaca.edu/music/events/ and this week's are listed below.

Can't make it? Web-streamed performances are available live and on demand at www.ithaca.edu/music/live.

Heading home for the summer and not sure how it's going to go? If you are nervous about facing family time, not sure how to approach tough subjects, or just looking for some fun summer ideas, check out the "Summer Break Resources" page in the "Resources and Services" section of the LGBT Center website.  Have a great summer!

The summer hours program will begin Friday, May 24, 2013, and continue through August 9, 2013. 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.

Patricia Zimmermann was recently named the recipient of the Park School Faculty Writing Award for her essay, "Humanist and Poetic Activism: The Rob Flaherty Film Seminar in the 1950s."

Zimmerman, professor of screen studies and Codirector of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, was selected unanimously by a judging panel consisting of Park School faculty whose professional expertise represent scholarly writing, journalism, and screen/scriptwriting.

According to the judges, Zimmermann's work "represents a culmination of multiple years of solid scholarship and examines an area of cinema history that gave birth to the early independent film festivals that has rarely been explored."

The essay was published by University of St. Andrews Press (2012).

A panel of Park School faculty whose professional expertise represent scholarly writing, journalism, and screen/scriptwriting reviewed the nominations and selected the winners.

The committee unanimously agreed to split the award between Killeen, author of the short script, LOVESICK, and Burnette, author of a full-length screenplay, SYNAPSE.

Interested in planning and organizing events for our senior year? Apply to be on Senior Class Cabinet! Applications HAVE BEEN EXTENDED to this Friday, May 17.
Email us for questions! ICSeniors2014@gmail.com.