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1/5/2009
Ithaca Leadership Scholarship: At IC, it pays to be a leader. One of the annual scholarships the College offers is the $7000 Ithaca Leadership Scholarship, awarded to students who have demonstrated outstanding leadership, service, and commitment to academics.
The award is a renewable scholarship that students maintain by adhering to the standards and...
1/4/2009
Your resolution: "Make the World a Better Place" -- It’s not too late to sign up to participate in the community service activities on January 19, 2009, the MLK Day 09 "Day On, Not a Day Off."
Your resolution: "Learn More about Issues of Social Justice" -- It's not too late to plan to attend one of the many educational workshops scheduled for January 19, 2009. Sign up in advance to help us ensure that we have room for everyone who wants to attend.
Your resolution: "Become More Involved in the Arts" -- Mark your calendar to attend the MLK Day 09 School of Music concert at 8:15 p.m. in Ford Hall on Monday, January 19, 2009.
12/17/2008
Sitting inside the Center for Cross Cultural Learning in Rabat, Morocco, Ithaca’s Martin Luther King Jr. scholars were immersed in a new, exciting, and radically different culture. During this service-learning trip, we carried ourselves as the global citizens and agents for social change that we strive to be as MLK scholars.
Yet at times culture shock set in, and we were forced...
12/17/2008
This January, I’ll be taking my last international service-learning trip with the MLK Scholars Program. We will be traveling to Costa Rica to explore issues of environmental justice, race, economics, and the intersection of all three issues.
Our trip will begin in San Jose, where we will attend lectures at the Universidad de Costa Rica on subjects such as the nation’s...
9/9/2008
ITHACA, NY — As 2008 marks the 40th anniversary of the death of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the Ithaca College Center for the Study of Class, Race, and Ethnicity (CSCRE) will host a yearlong series titled “Chaos or Community? MLK and the Politics of Resistance.” Borrowing its name from the title of a King book, the series will explore some of the themes he wrote about,...