Ithaca College

The game that the administration has been playing with the Contingent Faculty Union in the last few bargaining sessions is a classic example of what biologists call “aggressive mimicry.” In its public statements, the administration assumes the mask of an eminently reasonable, patient and level-headed bargaining partner who has only the best interests of the college at heart and is forever “surprised” and “disappointed” by the inexplicable recalcitrance of the Contingent Faculty Union. The actual face under that mask, however - which only comes out at the bargaining table -  belongs to a predatory employer who is determined to keep contingent faculty at IC trapped in our current state of perpetual fear, insecurity and poverty by gutting our modest proposals for wages and job security. What the administration offers in return are ornamental token improvements that would do little to address the existential problems at stake for contingent faculty. In effect, what they offer are band aids for flesh wounds.

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A recent ASHA Leader article highlighted an excerpt from a live Q&A presentation by SLP faculty members Amy Rominger, AuD, CCC-A, and Yvonne Rogalski, PhD, CCC-SLP. The Q&A session, which was part of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association's online conference "Maximizing Functional Outcomes for Patients with Dementia," discussed their collaborative investigation into the impact that hearing loss has on cognition and memory in healthy older adults.

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PayFlex Coach can help you get more out of your Health Savings Account (HSA)

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Happy Spring Break to all! Please click here for a downloadable copy or see below for our hours of operation during Spring Break.

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From Senior Vice President Nancy Pringle, Provost Linda Petrosino, and Professor Gwen Seaquist, representatives of the Ithaca College bargaining committee.

The Ithaca College bargaining team would like to offer the following update to our campus community on the negotiations with the part-time, per-course and full-time, one-year term faculty bargaining units.

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Ithaca College students traveled to Albany, New York on February 14th to stand up for student aid! More than 370,000 New York students count on state student aid programs each year to help pay for college.

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Join the Educational Affairs Staff Development Committee for a casual continental breakfast.  There will be activities, games, good food and good coffee, and a chance to get to meet your colleagues from across the Division on March 15, 8:30 – 10:30am in Clark Lounge.

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Contributed on behalf of Vanessa Brown, Business Intelligence Application Architect

The DIIS Business Intelligence team (BI), along with the main report writers across campus, are pleased to announce the release of a new Reporting Center accessed through the new apps.ithaca.edu site (see Intercom announcement https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20170307151841102#.WL8b-vLVTFl). All reporting previously accessed through ACE/Argus will be accessed through the Reporting Center starting on April 10, 2017.

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Ithaca College CSTEP participant Venique Clarke ‘17 participated in the 2017 Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) Winter CSTEP Mini-Course from January 9-13th. Brookhaven National Laboratory is a multipurpose research institution funded primarily by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. The Ithaca College Collegiate Science Technology Entry Program (CSTEP), operated under the Office of State Grants (OSG) supports historically underrepresented and economically disadvantaged groups from New York State who are pursuing professional licensure and careers in mathematics, science, engineering, technology, and health-related STEM fields.

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Contributed on behalf of Tom Grape ’80, chairman of the Board of Trustees, and David Lissy ’87, vice chairman of the Board of Trustees.

On behalf of the Board of Trustees, we would like to share with the Ithaca College community some news from our most recent meeting, held in Ithaca March 1–3.

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Plan your future!
Saturday, March 11
1:00-3:30 p.m.

Ramada Inn 
2310 N. Triphammer Rd, Ithaca, NY

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We are now accepting nominations, including self-nominations, for the 2018 Senior Class Gift Committee.  

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Congratulations to the current and retired members of the faculty who have been recognized by the Ithaca College Board of Trustees. The board granted emeritus status to eight former faculty members and awarded promotions and/or tenure to 19 current faculty members at its March meeting.

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On Monday, March 13th (Spring Break) between 8-11:00 AM there will be an outage of the campus voice mail system due to maintenance. This will not impact telephone dial tone or general telephone use. The campus Emergency Notification System will continue to function during the voice mail maintenance. Any callers who would reach the voice mail system during this period will receive a recording stating maintenance is ongoing and to call back after 11:00 AM.

Digital Instruction and Information Services (DIIS)
Service Desk
servicedesk@ithaca.edu
104 Job Hall
607-274-1000

The Office of State Grants (OSG) would like to invite you to participate in the OSG Faculty Mentoring Program. The goal of the mentoring program is to create or provide pre-professional development opportunities and guidance to HEOP, CSTEP and CSTEM students (includes ALANA students and students of color) giving them a better chance for real-time success in college and beyond graduation.

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The fifteenth annual Rainbow Reception will be held on Friday, April 21. The Rainbow Reception is a celebration of Ithaca College's graduating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, asexual, and allied seniors and graduate students. Reservations are required. Please register here.

All students, staff, and faculty who wish to celebrate the accomplishments of our LGBTQA+ and allied seniors and graduate students are welcome and reservations are required. 

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Contributed on behalf of Interim AVP/CIO, David Weil for Digital Instruction and Information Services 

The complete Ed Tech Day seminar schedule is now available.  Seminars will be running between 9 AM and 3 PM on Thursday, March 23rd in the campus center (unless otherwise noted).  All sessions are free and open to the entire campus community – no advance registration is required.

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On Sunday March 12 (Spring Break) between 7am-12pm the Parnassus application will be down for system maintenance. No other services should be affected.

Happy Spring Break to all! Please click here for a downloadable copy or see below for our hours of operation during Spring Break.

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The Town of Ithaca has a fundamental commitment to protect and enhance economic, community, and environmental resources. Currently, the Town is focusing primarily on environmental sustainability, working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions within Town operations and community-wide.       

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