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Missing the LGBT Center Resource Room and all of the lovely people that spend time there? We may have a solution! Introducing the Virtual Resource Room, a Zoom space where you can see some friendly faces, chat, do homework, and watch cat and dog livestreams with other students. While virtual fig bars and cookies are still in the works at Zoom (or so we assume), we hope to provide some community and good company for each other.

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The 2020 Census is a constitutionally mandated once-a-decade count of our nation. It is critical that we achieve a complete and accurate count of everyone living in the United States because the results determine how many representatives in Congress each state has — and how more than $675 billion federal dollars are distributed each year into communities for the next decade.

The challenge:

Explain why the census matters in a short (30 seconds to 3 minutes) video, designed for a platform such as YouTube, that uses entertainment, emotion, creativity, and/or humor to motivate people to respond.

This video prize challenge is open to any individual, team, or university student/student organization that can create a video that meets all of the requirements of this challenge. 

Submission deadline is 11:59 pm on May 7, 2020

Details about the Challenge are available here.

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Please join us for a short concert at 5PM Friday, April 10, by bassist Nicholas Walker.

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https://ithaca.zoom.us/j/489986662?pwd=QUZDL1BXeHRDUHkwVkwraW92dkEzUT09 

Fine Artists at Five is hosted by the Center for Faculty Excellence.

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Join Hillel and master yoga instructor Shimon Darwick Birnbaum on Friday, April 10th from 6:00 to 7:00 PM Eastern Time for a special Torah Yoga session which will stretch your body, mind and soul. Shimon draws from ancient Jewish wisdom to provide this unique wellness experience. We will also discuss this week's parsha. At the end of the yoga class, we will welcome Shabbat with candle lighting and by making Kiddush over matzah.

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Join Hillel and master yoga instructor Shimon Darwick Birnbaum on Friday, April 10th from 6:00 to 7:00 PM Eastern Time for a special Torah Yoga session which will stretch your body, mind and soul. Shimon draws from ancient Jewish wisdom to provide this unique wellness experience. We will also discuss this week's parsha. At the end of the yoga class, we will welcome Shabbat with candle lighting and by making Kiddush over matzah.

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In response to the statewide “stay at home” order, Ithaca’s member-supported independent movie theater is going virtual, in partnership the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF), now in its 23rd year.

Four international art film titles originally slated for FLEFF 2020 will screen over the course of the next several weeks:

4/10: Bacurau (Brazil)

4/17 The Whistlers (Romania)

4/24 A White, White Day (Iceland)

TBA: And Then We Danced (Georgia)

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Please join President Collado and members of the senior leadership team for a virtual All-Faculty-and-Staff Gathering on Tuesday, April 14, from 12:10 – 1:05 p.m. This gathering is for faculty and staff only, to provide space to engage in a transparent and open dialogue with one another and with college leadership around issues that are specific to our work.

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Submitted on behalf of the Office of Energy Management & Sustainability

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RAPID RESPONSE SALON
Friday April 10, 11 a.m. to 12
Hosted by the Ithaca College Honors Program

Topic:  COVID-19:  Personal, Political, Historical
Moderated multidisciplinary conversation, followed by open discussion

Dr. Jonathan Ablard, Associate Professor, History

Dr. Stewart Auyash, Associate Professor and Chair,  Health Promotion and Physical Education

Dr. Alicia Swords, Associate Professor, Sociology and Director of Honors

moderator: Dr. Patricia Zimmermann, Professor, Screen Studies

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Idrissou Mora-Kpai, Assistant Professor, Department of Media, Arts, Sciences and Studies, is among fifteen grantees for the 2020 Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF), a regrant partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts Electronic Media and Film Program. 

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Join us for IC’s free webinar on Friday, April 10 at noon (EDT.)

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Dear IC faculty and staff,

I hope this message finds you healthy and well. I am reaching out today to share with you a few major updates that impact Ithaca College, our community, and the direction we are taking as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Equity and inclusion work is more important than ever. Employees do not have the luxury of picking and choosing which elements of their identities will or won’t be disproportionately affected by this crisis.Throughout this time the LGBT Center director continues to offer services online, through zoom, and by phone for our staff, faculty, students and alumni.

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Dear Ithaca College students and families,

I hope this message finds all of you healthy and well as we continue to grapple with this major public health crisis. I deeply miss the vibrancy and energy of our students on this campus, and I am very much looking forward to seeing both students and their loved ones here on South Hill again, as soon as it is possible.

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I have posted an updated list of open-access museum collections if you need to find art and science images for your teaching. 

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Stephen Tropiano, professor of screen studies, served on the selection committee for the 13th annual Television Academy Honors.  

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Hosted by the Center for Faculty Excellence, Fine Artists at Five continues with short presentations/concerts by Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas (Wednesday), Dara Engler (Thursday), and Nicholas Walker (Friday). Join us at 5PM at

https://ithaca.zoom.us/j/489986662?pwd=QUZDL1BXeHRDUHkwVkwraW92dkEzUT09

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RAPID RESPONSE SALON 
Friday April 10, 11 a.m. to 12
Hosted by the Ithaca College Honors Program

Topic:  COVID-19:  Personal, Political, Historical
Moderated multidisciplinary conversation, followed by open discussion

Dr. Jonathan Ablard, Associate Professor, History

Dr. Stewart Auyash, Associate Professor and Chair, Health Promotion and  Physical Education

Dr. Alicia Swords, Associate Professor, Sociology and Director of Honors  

moderator: Dr. Patricia Zimmermann, Professor, Screen Studies  

Join Zoom Meeting

https://ithaca.zoom.us/j/733403962?pwd=bjMvTHlDeiswc3dGYndDUUxzSUpiZz09 

Now that most of the IC community has been learning, teaching and working remotely for a few weeks utilizing best practices for conducting meetings will help ensure the best experience possible.  This is especially true for back to back meetings. 

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The COVID-19 virus has created big changes in our daily lives and we know that it has very likely impacted your post-graduate plans.  We care and we can help.  Career Services invites you to an online chat on Friday, April 24, to discuss tools and strategies to help you navigate the environment and conduct your digital job or graduate school search.  And since we’ll be meeting by Zoom your pets are welcome too.

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