KnowLedges -- a newsletter from the Ithaca College School of Humanities and Sciences

School of Humanities and Sciences
Volume 6, Number 1, Fall 2005

School of H&S

CONTENTS

Letter from the Dean

Innovo Disciplina

Math and Computer Science Grow into Separate Departments

Emerson Award Supports Collaborative Work in Humanities

Chinese and Arabic Join Ithaca's Language Lineup

Looking Forward

Science, Scholarship, and Creativity Highlight Whalen Symposium

Math Day Adds Up for Everyone

Students Sample Science at Physics Café

Biology Research Explores Life from Micro to Macro

Eleven Ithacans Share Research at Chemical Society Meeting

Broadway Connections Bring Seussical to Ithaca

IC Turns Wicked on Broadway

Handwerker Celebrates Creativity on Campus

Ithaca Playwright Wins Kennedy Center Honor

Gutkind: The Truth Is in the Storytelling

Seniors Highlighted at English Honors Conference

Tsunami Turns Freshman into Global Activist

Meet Mr. T Cell

Planned Studies Leads to Unplanned Wonders

Ithaca Fund Earns High Marks in Second Year

Fifty-Year Timeline:


		1947-1948 College president Leonard Job notes that higher education accreditation by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools will require that the College create a liberal arts major.		Fall 1949 The term "General College" appears as an official division for the first time in the 1949-50 course catalog. Departments include speech and English, education, social science, and science.		May 1955 The College earns accreditation from the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.


		May 1956 The Board of Regents of the State of New York renames Ithaca's General College the College of Arts and Sciences.		Fall 1958 Chemistry and physics departments are added to the College of Arts and Science.		November 1961 The South Hill campus opens. Its first residents are 586 students from the College of Arts and Sciences.		January 1969 The new $3.8 million Center for the Arts opens for its first performance, Pirandello's Enrico IV. In 1973 the building is renamed to honor College president Howard Dillingham.


		August 1971 President Phillips announces the College of Arts and Sciences will be called the School of Humanities and Sciences. Communication and business become stand-alone schools.		1975-1997 The sixth president of IC, James J. Whalen, brings unprecedented growth, with enrollments rising 25 percent, the number of degree programs doubling, and the size of the faculty increasing by over 50 percent. In addition, 15 academic and residential buildings are added to the campus.		1989 Howard Erlich is named dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences. To date, Erlich is the longest-serving dean in the school's history, a period of stability in which the school reaches new heights in enrollment, prestige, and faculty accomplishment.		1992 Ithaca College celebrates its centennial. The College boasts 100 degree programs and 6,400 students.


		1996 H&S introduces an interdisciplinary honors program. Bringing together some of the school's best students and faculty, the program combines academic rigor, experiential learning, and self-directed study.				July 1997 As the College's seventh president and first woman to hold the office, Peggy Williams embarks on a collaborative effort to make Ithaca "the standard of excellence for residential comprehensive colleges."		2002 The school begins to draft a strategic plan to guide its future, with a vision to become a nationally recognized model in the study of the liberal arts and sciences.

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