Deans Office
Smiddy Hall, 3rd Floor
Office Hours
8:30am - 5:00pm, Monday - Friday
Cultivate Wellness
Bring your passion for health sciences, wellness, and physical fitness – along with your commitment to helping people of all ages and making a difference in your community – to ready yourself to join the next generation of the health care workforce. With us, you can hone essential career skills to be a transformative leader, practitioner, or researcher and contribute to creating a healthier world. Collaborate across disciplines focusing on holistic and equitable approaches to human health.
Programs
From health, exercise, and rehabilitation sciences to public health, choose from undergraduate majors that ready you for the workforce or graduate study (some with accelerated options), or join us at the graduate level for professional study.
Learn about the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance
Start with a solid foundation in the classroom and grow from hands-on experiences in our practice labs and clinics. Capstone your studies with fieldwork, clinical placement, or internship.
About Us
We educate transformative health care professionals skilled at practicing in inclusive team-based environments.
Faculty and Staff
Our expert faculty guide you through challenges and work alongside you as teachers, mentors, scholars, and practitioners.
Experiential Learning and Career Preparation
In real-life and hands-on learning experiences, you’ll learn how to prevent injury and disease, design and implement treatment plans, consider social justice implications, and advance wellness for children, adults, and older populations.
Student Experiences
Gain confidence practicing in therapy and wellness clinics, anatomy and genetics labs, and via professional organizations.
Experiential Learning
Hone professional skills through fieldwork, clinical placement, or internship with supportive preceptors organized by IC.
Research
Collaborate on leading research with students and faculty. Present at professional conferences and at IC’s own academic symposium.
Hands-on Preparation
Gain practical experience in our health and wellness clinics, research laboratories, and Center for Life Skills.
1090+
Total Students
Join a robust community of undergraduate and graduate level aspiring health professionals.
95%
Professional Certification Pass Rate
Prepare to excel in your profession as soon as you graduate.
700+
Active Field Placement Sites
Unlock your skills and prepare for real-world challenges in professional and clinical settings.
Spotlights: The Ithaca College Story
We nurture a variety of approaches to leading transformative change – from creative research to innovative service and entrepreneurial ideas – that all bring us one step closer to a healthier world. Glimpse how people in HSHP put their focus into practice
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Raevyn Goodson
Navigating Tough Times
Whether juggling 12-hour hospital shifts or a 4-hour time difference for virtual classes, Alaska native Raevyn Goodson knows how to keep her cool.
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Lisa Corewyn & Kari Brossard Stoos
Collaborating Wildly
From IC to Costa Rica, two faculty members forged an unexpected and unwavering partnership to save an endangered species.
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Scott Capozza
Charting Courageous Paths
Scott Capozza ’98, MS ’99 helped evolve cancer care after navigating his own survival.
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Tim Reynolds
Making Every Step Count
Scaling business, mountains, and TikTok, Ithaca College professor Tim Reynolds ’12, DPT ’14, knows how to gain a foothold on unexpected terrain.
Read OnNews from Our School
In HSHP, we create the world we want to live in through research projects, community engagement, and dedication to new opportunities that improve the lives of others. Here are just a few examples of how we put our passions to use every day.
Collaboration Is the Best Medicine
HSHP Interprofessional Community Case Event inspires students to collaborate across majors and tackle Parkinson’s challenges from the caregiver perspective.
A Veteran Finds Her Voice … and Her Calling
Vanessa Doucette’s journey from the United States Navy to IC’s Speech-Language Pathology program