Ithaca College

Summer Grants for Faculty Research are intended to support post-terminal degree scholarly endeavors for full-time continuing Ithaca College faculty and faculty regularly employed on at least a half-time basis.  Awards provide approximately $3,000 in compensation for eight weeks of full-time research.  Proposals are due in the Center for Faculty Excellence, 316 Gannett Center, by Friday, February 15.  Guidelines and application form may be found at www.ithaca.edu/cfe.  

Prior to distribution of funds for approved proposals, projects involving human subjects must have been reviewed and approved by the All-College Review Board for Human Subjects Research.

In its January 2013 meeting, Faculty Council spent considerable time discussing the Huron Report and made the following recommendations:

1. Huron’s recommendation regarding ‘aligning program capacity with applicable demand,’ should not be acted upon until after a faculty-led program review is completed or until all departments have completed their program review. The motion was passed with 19 members in favor, 1 opposed, and 4 abstentions. 

2. Faculty Council recommends that the evaluation of the Huron sections as pertains to parking and health benefits reflect the sensitivity to income and family structures of IC’s employees. The motion was passed with 24 members in favor, 0 opposed and 2 abstentions.

3. Faculty Council does not support fee for parking because the projected revenue does not outweigh the additional burden on faculty and staff. The motion was passed with 13 members in favor, 9 opposed and 4 abstentions.

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Closing the Loop: Putting Students at the Center of Learning
Reception and Keynote
Monday, February 11, 2013

This event has been CANCELED due to the speaker not being able to travel to Ithaca from Connecticut due to the recent snow storm.  This event will be rescheduled at a later date.

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Closing the Loop: Putting Students at the Center of Learning
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

This event has been CANCELED due to the speaker not being able to travel to Ithaca from Connecticut due to the recent snow storm.  This event will be rescheduled at a later date.
 

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Friday, February 8, 2013
2:30 - 4:00 p.m., Klingenstein Lounge

Dr. Jeffrey Mantz, Program Director, Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate, National Science Foundation
Dr. Katherine Beissner, Professor, Department of Physical Therapy
Dr. Michael Rogers, Associate Professor, Department of Physics
Dr. Cyndy Scheibe, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Dr. Doug Turnbull, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

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Submitted by Marisa Kelly, Provost

Please join me on Thursday, February 7th for the fourth Faculty Colloquium of the academic year.  Dan Breen, Department of English, will be presenting “Making the Past:  History, Poetry, and Discipline Formation in Early Modern England.” 

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Monday, February 4, 2013
2:00 p.m., Center for Faculty Excellence, 316 Gannett Center

Presented by Susan Adams Delaney, Assistant Professor, Department of Writing

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The Office of International Programs (OIP) would like to invite all faculty and staff members to attend a workshop designed to assist in the development of short-term study abroad programs.  Short-term study abroad programming is an important component of the overseas study options available to Ithaca College students. College faculty and staff members have successfully lead programs over the past several years to a number of different locations, including most recently Belize, Canada, China, Ecuador, Ghana, Italy, Malawi, and the United Kingdom.

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Friday, February 1, 2013, 12:00 p.m. (bring your lunch)
Center for Faculty Excellence, 316 Gannett Center

Dr. Marja Sirkkola, Principal Lecturer at HAMK University for Applied Sciences, Hämeenlinna, Finland

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The Office of International Programs (OIP) would like to invite all faculty and staff members to attend a workshop designed to assist in the development of short-term study abroad programs.  Short-term study abroad programming is an important component of the overseas study options available to Ithaca College students. College faculty and staff members have successfully lead programs over the past several years to a number of different locations, including most recently Belize, Canada, China, Ecuador, Ghana, Italy, Malawi, and the United Kingdom.

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The Center for Faculty Excellence is pleased to announce the following February events.  Please visit www.ithaca.edu/cfe for additional events offered through the Center for Faculty Excellence.

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The Hillel and Chabad Student Boards would like to invite you to a reception for Jewish faculty, staff and students as a way to connect our community on campus! 

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Student Disability Services will contact faculty regarding students in their classes who need materials in alternate format prior to the beginning of each semester.

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The Hillel and Chabad Student Boards would like to invite you to a reception for Jewish faculty, staff and students as a way to connect our community on campus!

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The Hillel and Chabad Student Boards would like to invite you to a reception for Jewish faculty, staff and students as a way to connect our community on campus!

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In compliance with section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, class materials must be made available in alternate format. Alternate formats include audio versions of written documents, documents in Braille and/or enlarged print, video captioning and materials in electronic format.

Faculty should compile reading lists as early as possible since books from smaller publishing companies and those not designated as textbooks must be scanned and converted.

Please provide course packets, handouts, syllabi, and any other materials used in class to the student in the appropriate format.

Whenever possible faculty should provide the accommodation.  For example, if the student needs print materials enlarged, all standard copy machines are capable of this function.  Typical enlargement is 121%.

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Submitted on behalf of Wade Pickren, Ph.D., Director of Sponsored Research

The 16th Annual Whalen Symposium will be held on Thursday, April 4, 2013 and the deadline for faculty to sponsor a presenter's proposal submission is Monday, February 25, 2013. 

Proposals are being accepted for oral presentations or display posters on research completed by students.  Musical or other creative presentations are also encouraged. 

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Contributed by Wade Pickren, PhD
Director, Center for Faculty Excellence
Director, Sponsored Research

I want to remind all faculty that if you are planning to conduct research or classroom activity involving recombinant DNA or any potentially bio-hazardous material, including pathogens, biological toxins, or human cells, tissues, organs, or fluids you must obtain prior approval from the Institutional Biosafety Committee before undertaking that activity. This committee provides federally-mandated oversight of activities that present risk of infection or illness in humans.

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Faculty Council is seeking a faculty member to serve on the Parking Policy Committee for a two year term.  The meetings are not intensive nor would there be that many, once some of the pending issues are resolved.
Volunteers or nominations should be submitted to rothbart@ithaca.edu as soon as possible.

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Faculty Council is seeking a 3 semester replacement for the At-Large position on the Committee for College-Wide Requirements (CCR). All faculty are invited to submit nominations, including self-nominations, along with a brief statement outlining their interests and qualifications if they so desire.  Committee members can expect to spend about 4 hours per week. Scheduling is TBA.

Please send all nominations including self-nominations to rothbart@ithaca.edu no later than Wednesday, January 30, 10 PM.

For additional information:

http://www.ithaca.edu/policies/vol1/volume_1-10602/#1060216