Ithaca College is a
private college
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in
Ithaca, New York
Ithaca is a city in the Finger Lakes region of New York, United States. Situated on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake, Ithaca is the seat of Tompkins County and the largest community in the Ithaca metropolitan statistical area. It is named a ...
. It was founded by William Egbert in 1892 as a
conservatory of music and is set against the backdrop of the city of
Ithaca
Ithaca most commonly refers to:
*Homer's Ithaca, an island featured in Homer's ''Odyssey''
*Ithaca (island), an island in Greece, possibly Homer's Ithaca
*Ithaca, New York, a city, and home of Cornell University and Ithaca College
Ithaca, Ithaka ...
(which is separate from the town),
Cayuga Lake
Cayuga Lake (,,) is the longest of central New York's glacial Finger Lakes, and is the second largest in surface area (marginally smaller than Seneca Lake) and second largest in volume. It is just under long. Its average width is , and it is a ...
,
waterfall
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Waterfalls can be formed in several wa ...
s, and
gorge
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s. The college is best known for its large list of alumni who have played prominent roles in the media and entertainment industries.
Ithaca College is internationally known for the
Roy H. Park School of Communications, which is ranked by several organizations as a top school for journalism, film, media and entertainment. The college has a strong
liberal arts
Liberal arts education (from Latin "free" and "art or principled practice") is the traditional academic course in Western higher education. ''Liberal arts'' takes the term ''art'' in the sense of a learned skill rather than specifically the ...
core, and offers several pre-professional programs, along with some graduate programs.
Ithaca College has been ranked among the Top 10 masters universities in the "Regional Universities North" category by ''
U.S. News & World Report,'' every year since 1996, and was ranked tied at ninth for 2021. Ithaca College is consistently named among the best colleges in the nation by ''
Princeton Review
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'', with the 2018 guide ranking the college number 3 for theater, number 3 for newspaper, and number 6 for Radio, and is among the top schools producing
Fulbright scholarship
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recipients.
History
Beginnings
![Boardman_House,_Ithaca_NY](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Boardman_House%2C_Ithaca_NY.jpg)
Ithaca College was founded as the Ithaca Conservatory of Music in 1892 when a local
violin
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teacher, William Grant Egbert, rented four rooms and arranged for the instruction of eight students. For nearly seven decades the institution flourished in the city of Ithaca, adding to its music curriculum the study of
elocution
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, dance, physical education, speech correction, radio, business, and the liberal arts. In 1931 the conservatory was chartered as a private college. The college was originally housed in the
Boardman House, that later became the Ithaca College Museum of Art, and it was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1971.
Modern era
![Job Hall, Ithaca College campus](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Job_Hall%2C_Ithaca_College_campus.jpg)
By 1960, some 2,000 students were in attendance. A modern campus was built on South Hill in the 1960s, and students were shuttled between the old and new during the construction. The hillside campus continued to grow in the ensuing 30 years to accommodate more than 6,000 students.
As the campus expanded, the college also began to expand its curriculum. By the 1990s, some 2,000 courses in more than 100 programs of study were available in the college's five schools. The school attracts a multicultural student body with representatives from almost every state and from 78 foreign countries.
In October 2020, the college announced that 130 out of 547 faculty positions would be cut due to a need to cut $30 million from the school's budget. This in turn was said to be a result of declining enrollment. 4,957 undergraduate students enrolled for Fall 2020 versus 5,852 undergraduates in Fall 2019 and 6,101 in Fall 2018.
Presidents
Ithaca's current president is
Dr. LaJerne Terry Cornish. She was named the school's 10th President in March 2022 after having served in as interim President since August 30, 2021.
She replaced
Shirley M. Collado who departed Ithaca College to become the president and CEO of College Track, a comprehensive college completion program. She was named the ninth president of Ithaca College on February 22, 2017, and assumed the presidency on July 1, 2017. She was previously executive vice chancellor and chief operating officer at
Rutgers University–Newark
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and vice president of student affairs and dean of the college at
Middlebury College
Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college in Middlebury, Vermont. Founded in 1800 by Congregationalists, Middlebury was the first operating college or university in Vermont. The college currently enrolls 2,858 undergraduates from all ...
. She is the first Dominican American to be named president of a college in the United States. Collado announced in July 2021 that she will step down in January to become president and CEO of College Track.
Collado succeeded Thomas Rochon, who was named eighth president of Ithaca College on April 11, 2008. Rochon took over as president of the college following Peggy Williams, who had announced on July 12, 2007, that she would retire from the presidency post effective May 31, 2009, following a one-year
sabbatical
A sabbatical (from the Hebrew: (i.e., Sabbath); in Latin ; Greek: ) is a rest or break from work.
The concept of the sabbatical is based on the Biblical practice of ''shmita'' (sabbatical year), which is related to agriculture. According to ...
. During the fall 2015 semester, multiple protests focusing on campus climate and Rochon's leadership were led by students and faculty. After multiple racially charged events including student house party themes and racially tinged comments at administration led-programs, students, faculty and staff all decided to hold votes of "no confidence" in Rochon. Students voted "no confidence" by a count of 72% no confidence, 27% confidence, and 1% abstaining. The faculty voted 77.8% no confidence to 22.2% confidence. Rochon retired on July 1, 2017.
Campus
![Dillingham Center and fountains, Ithaca College](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Dillingham_Center_and_fountains%2C_Ithaca_College.jpg)
Ithaca College's current campus was built in the 1960s on
South Hill. The college's final academic department moved from downtown to the South Hill campus in 1968, making the move complete.
Satellite campuses
Besides its Ithaca campus, Ithaca College has also operated satellite campuses in other cities. The Ithaca College
London
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Center has been in existence since 1972. Ithaca runs the Ithaca College
Los Angeles
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Program at the James B. Pendleton Center.
Former programs include the Ithaca College
Antigua
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Program and the Ithaca College Walkabout Down Under Program in Australia.
Ithaca College also operates direct enrollment exchange programs with several universities, including
Griffith University
Griffith University is a public research university in South East Queensland on the east coast of Australia. Formally founded in 1971, Griffith opened its doors in 1975, introducing Australia's first degrees in environmental science and Asian s ...
,
La Trobe University
La Trobe University is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its main campus is located in the suburb of Bundoora. The university was established in 1964, becoming the third university in the state of Victoria an ...
,
Murdoch University
Murdoch University is a public university in Perth, Western Australia, with campuses also in Singapore and Dubai. It began operations as the state's second university on 25 July 1973, and accepted its first undergraduate students in 1975. Its n ...
, and
University of Tasmania
The University of Tasmania (UTAS) is a public research university, primarily located in Tasmania, Australia. Founded in 1890, it is Australia's fourth oldest university. Christ College, one of the university's residential colleges, first pro ...
(Australia);
Chengdu Sport University
Chengdu Sport University () is a sports university in the southwest of the downtown district of Chengdu, Sichuan Province.
The university is administered by the national State General Administration of Sports and the Sichuan provincial governmen ...
and
Beijing Sport University
Beijing Sport University (BSU) (), formerly known as "Central Institute of Physical Education" () and "Beijing Institute of Physical Education" (), is a nation-level public university located in Beijing, China. It is one of the National Key Univ ...
(China);
University of Hong Kong
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(Hong Kong);
Masaryk University
Masaryk University (MU) ( cs, Masarykova univerzita; la, Universitas Masarykiana Brunensis) is the second largest university in the Czech Republic, a member of the Compostela Group and the Utrecht Network. Founded in 1919 in Brno as the seco ...
(Czech Republic);
Akita International University
, or AIU, is a public university located in Akita City, Akita Prefecture, Japan. Established in 2004 and modeled on American liberal arts colleges, AIU is one of the few universities in Japan offering all of its courses in English. It has currentl ...
and
University of Tsukuba
is a public university, public research university located in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Ibaraki, Japan. It is a top 10 Designated National University, and was ranked Type A by the Japanese government as part of the Top Global University Pro ...
(Japan);
Hanyang University
Hanyang University (Korean: 한양대학교) is a private research university in South Korea. The main campus is located in Seoul and its satellite campus, the Education Research Industry Cluster (ERICA campus), is in Ansan. ''Hanyang'' (한양, ...
(Korea);
Nanyang Technological University
The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is a national research university in Singapore. It is the second oldest autonomous university in the country and is considered as one of the most prestigious universities in the world by various inte ...
(Singapore);
University of Valencia
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(Spain); and
Jönköping University
Jönköping University (JU), formerly Högskolan i Jönköping, is a non-governmental Swedish university college located in the city Jönköping in Småland, Sweden.
JU is a member of the European University Association (EUA) and The Association ...
(Sweden). Ithaca College is also affiliated with study abroad programs such as
IES Abroad and offers dozens of exchange or study abroad options to students.
Academics
The college offers a curriculum with more than 100 degree programs in its five schools:
School of Business*
Roy H. Park School of Communications
School of Health Sciences & Human Performance*
School of Humanities & Sciences
*
School of Music, Theatre, and Dance
Until the spring of 2011, several cross-disciplinary degree programs, along with the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity, were housed in the Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies; in 2011, the division was eliminated and its programs, centers and institutes were absorbed into other schools.
, the most popular majors included visual and performing arts, health professions and related programs, business, management, marketing, and related support services and biological and biomedical Sciences.
Student life
Media and publications
* ''The Ithacan'' is Ithaca College's official weekly newspaper that is written, edited and published by students. ''The Ithacan'' and its staff have won over 200 major collegiate journalism awards and is generally recognized as one of the top student-run newspapers in the country. Most notably, the newspaper is a consistent recipient of the Associated Collegiate Press'
National Pacemaker Award; it has received the National Newspaper Pacemaker Award six times and the Online Pacemaker Award nine times (both most recently in 2015).
The Pacemaker has been widely considered the "Pulitzer Prize of collegiate journalism." ''The Ithacan'' is also a five-time recipient of the Gold Crown Award from the
Columbia Scholastic Press Association
The Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA) is an international student press association, founded in 1925, whose goal is to unite student journalists and faculty advisers at schools and colleges through educational conferences, idea exchang ...
, most recently receiving the award in 2016.
''The Ithacan'' was also ranked #3 on the 2018
Princeton Review
The Princeton Review is an education services company providing tutoring, test preparation and admission resources for students. It was founded in 1981. and since that time has worked with over 400 million students. Services are delivered by 4,0 ...
Best College Newspaper list.
*
Ithaca College Television (ICTV) is the world's oldest student-operated college television channel. Broadcasting since 1958, ICTV is available to 26,000 cable households. It is also one of the most awarded student-run television stations, with its news program, ''Newswatch'', receiving best news telecast accolades from organizations including the New York State Associated Press Broadcasters Association, Society of Professional Journalists and Collegiate Broadcasters Inc. The show also received ICTV's first College Emmy Award from the
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS), also colloquially known as the Television Academy, is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the television industry in the United States. It is a 501(c)(6) non-prof ...
. ICTV is housed and operated in the Roy H. Park School of Communications. Approximately 15 to 20 production teams operate simultaneously, utilizing around 400 volunteers each semester. Programming varies by semester, but typically includes news, sports, entertainment, scripted, and podcast programs.
*
WICB
WICB (91.7 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Ithaca, New York, United States. Established in 1947, the station is owned by Ithaca College.
WICB broadcasts an alternative music format to the greater Ithaca area. Along with alternative m ...
is a student-operated, 4,100 Watt FM station that serves Tompkins County and beyond, reaching from northern Pennsylvania to Lake Ontario, with a potential audience of over 250,000. The majority of programming on WICB – which broadcasts from 91.7 on the FM band – is modern rock, but the station also airs a number of specialty shows, which includes a number of genres (including blues, Broadway, jam band music and "homeless" music) that is not normally heard on public airwaves. Recently, readers of the Ithaca Times voted 92 WICB "Best Radio Station." WICB has also won the MTV U's Woodie Award for Best College Radio, while the Princeton Review ranks WICB the number one college radio station in the country.
* VIC Radio is Ithaca College's second student-run radio station. Previously available on 105.9 FM, VIC Radio is now an online-only radio station. It is most well known for its annual 50 Hour Marathon, in which four DJs broadcast for 50 hours straight to raise money for local community organizations.
*''Buzzsaw Magazine'', formerly ''Buzzsaw Haircut'', was founded in 1999 and is an independent monthly alternative magazine written, produced and distributed by Ithaca College students. It is a progressive publication with a goal to "publish original creative journalism, commentary and satire that works to deconstruct society, pop culture, politics, college life and dominant Western beliefs." The faculty adviser is media critic
Jeff Cohen, who is also the founder of the college's Park Center for Independent Media. In 2011, the organization added a new multimedia section to Buzzsaw, titled Seesaw, dedicated to creating documentaries, radio pieces, interactive graphics, and other multimedia pieces to complement the print and online magazine. ''Buzzsaw'' has also won a number of national awards, including the Campus Alternative Journalism Project's award for "Best Sense of Humor" and the Independent Press Association's Campus Independent Journalism Awards for "Best Campus Publication with a Budget Under $10,000" and "Best Political Commentary."
* Park Productions is a professional production unit within the Roy H. Park School of Communications which allows students to collaborate with faculty and industry professionals to create interdisciplinary media projects. Park Productions partners with community organizations, government agencies, and higher education institutions and has produced over 200 titles including documentaries, feature films, shorts, commercials, museum exhibits, television programs, educational, corporate, and web-based media. Awards and juried screenings include LA Webfest, Mexico International Film Festival, CINE Awards, Chicago International Film Festival, Official selections at Miami, University Film and Video Festival, Cinema in Industry Awards, Multiple International Communicator Awards, Oberhausen, Montreal, Palm Springs, and Hudson Valley Film Festivals.
*''Distinct Magazine'' is self described as Ithaca College's "fashion magazine devoted to the style and culture of the students on campus...
t aims
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to break gender and social class stereotypes in the fashion world, and to build a safe space for people to express themselves." The first issue was released online in 2016. The magazine is separated into five content sections: Fashion, Beauty, Life, Culture, and Health and Fitness. ''Distinct'' is released in print twice a semester (Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer editions).
*''Embrace'' is an IC magazine that aims "to create a platform in which underrepresented students are able to see a representation of themselves on campus and within society." The magazine is separated into content sections: LGBTQ+, Fashion, Politics and News, Mind Body Spirit, Personal Narratives and Alumni Highlight. It was first published in February 2016.
Greek life
Historically, various independent and national
fraternities and sororities
Fraternities and sororities are social organizations at colleges and universities in North America.
Generally, membership in a fraternity or sorority is obtained as an undergraduate student, but continues thereafter for life. Some accept gradu ...
had active chapters at Ithaca College. However, due to a series of highly publicized
hazing
Hazing (American English), initiation, beasting (British English), bastardisation (Australian English), ragging (South Asian English) or deposition refers to any activity expected of someone in joining or participating in a group that humiliates, ...
incidents in the 1980s, including
one that was responsible for the death of a student, the college administration reevaluated their Greek life policy and only professional music fraternities were allowed to remain affiliated with the school.
, three recognized Greek organizations remain on campus, all of which are music-oriented:
*
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity of America (colloquially known as Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Phi Mu Alpha, or simply Sinfonia) () is an American collegiate social fraternity for men with a special interest in music. The fraternity is open to men "w ...
(Delta Chapter)
*
Sigma Alpha Iota
Sigma Alpha Iota () is a women's music fraternity. Formed to "uphold the highest standards of music" and "to further the development of music in America and throughout the world", it continues to provide musical and educational resources to its m ...
(Epsilon Chapter)
*
Mu Phi Epsilon
Mu Phi Epsilon () is a co-ed international professional fraternity, professional music fraternity. It has over 75,000 members in 227 collegiate chapters and 113 Alumnus/a, alumni chapters in the US and abroad.
History
Mu Phi Epsilon was founde ...
(Lambda Chapter)
A fourth house, performing arts fraternity
Kappa Gamma Psi
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(Iota Chapter) became inactive in 2008. Although there are potentially plans to reactivate the chapter, it is unclear whether this will be permitted or not due to the college's policy on Greek Life.
However, there are various Greek letter organizations at Ithaca College that are unaffiliated with the school, and therefore not subject to the same housing privileges or rules that contribute to the safety of their members such as non-hazing and non-drinking policies.
Additionally, while not particularly common, Ithaca College students may rush for Greek houses affiliated with nearby Ivy institution
Cornell University
Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...
, subject to the rules of each individual fraternity or sorority. Some Cornell-affiliated Greek organizations actively recruit Ithaca College students.
There are a few unaffiliated fraternities that some Ithaca College students join - ΔΚΕ (
Delta Kappa Epsilon
Delta Kappa Epsilon (), commonly known as ''DKE'' or ''Deke'', is one of the oldest fraternities in the United States, with fifty-six active chapters and five active colonies across North America. It was founded at Yale College in 1844 by fifteen ...
), ΑΕΠ (
Alpha Epsilon Pi
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), ΦΚΣ (
Phi Kappa Sigma
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), ΦΙΑ (
Phi Iota Alpha
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), ΛΥΛ (
Lambda Upsilon Lambda
La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Inc. ( or LUL) is a Latino-based collegiate fraternity. It was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York on February 19, 1982, and has 74 active undergraduate chapters and fifteen graduat ...
), and ΚΣ (
Kappa Sigma
Kappa Sigma (), commonly known as Kappa Sig, is an American collegiate social fraternity founded at the University of Virginia in 1869. Kappa Sigma is one of the five largest international fraternities with currently 318 active chapters and colo ...
). There are also unaffiliated sororities including - ΓΔΠ (
Gamma Delta Pi
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), ΠΛΧ (
Pi Lambda Chi), ΦΜΖ (
Phi Mu Zeta), .
Athletics
![Athletics and Events Center, Ithaca College](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Athletics_and_Events_Center%2C_Ithaca_College.jpg)
Ithaca competes in athletics at the
NCAA Division III
NCAA Division III (D-III) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States. D-III consists of athletic programs at colleges and universities that choose not to offer athletic scholarships to their stu ...
level as a members of the
Liberty League
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History
It was founded ...
and the
Eastern College Athletic Conference
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(ECAC). Ithaca has one of Division III's strongest athletic programs, with the Bombers winning a total of 14 national titles in seven team sports and five individual sports. Ithaca was previously a member of the
Empire 8
The Empire 8 (E8) is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division III. The E8 sponsors intercollegiate athletic competition in men's baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, women's fi ...
.
The Ithaca athletics nickname "Bombers" is unique in
NCAA
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athletics, and the origins of the nickname are obscure. Ithaca College's sports teams were originally named the Cayugas, but the name was changed to the Bombers sometime in the 1930s. Some other names that have been used for Ithaca College's teams include: Blue Team, Blues, Blue and Gold, Collegians, and the Seneca Streeters. Several possibilities for the change to the "Bombers" have been posited. The most common explanation is that the school's baseball uniforms—white with navy blue pinstripes and an interlocking "IC" on the left chest—bear a striking resemblance to the distinctive home uniforms of the
New York Yankees
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, who are known as the Bronx Bombers. It may also have referred to the Ithaca basketball team of that era and its propensity for half-court "bombs".
Grumman
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Aircraft also manufactured airplanes including bombers in Ithaca for many years. The first "Bombers" reference on record was in the December 17, 1938 issue of the ''
Rochester Times-Union
The ''Times-Union'' was a daily evening newspaper in the greater Rochester, New York, area for 79 years. It was published as an afternoon daily counterpart to the morning '' Democrat and Chronicle'' under the ownership of Gannett when it ceased o ...
'' in a men's basketball article.
The name has at times sparked controversy for its perceived violent connotations. It is an occasional source of umbrage from Ithaca's prominent
pacifist
Pacifism is the opposition or resistance to war, militarism (including conscription and mandatory military service) or violence. Pacifists generally reject theories of Just War. The word ''pacifism'' was coined by the French peace campaign ...
community, but the athletics department has consistently stated it has no interest in changing the name. The athletics logo has in the past incorporated
World War II
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era fighter planes, but currently does not, and the school does not currently have a physical mascot to personify the name. In 2010 the school launched a contest to choose one. It received over 250 suggestions and narrowed the field down to three: a
phoenix
Phoenix most often refers to:
* Phoenix (mythology), a legendary bird from ancient Greek folklore
* Phoenix, Arizona, a city in the United States
Phoenix may also refer to:
Mythology
Greek mythological figures
* Phoenix (son of Amyntor), a ...
, a
flying squirrel
Flying squirrels (scientifically known as Pteromyini or Petauristini) are a tribe of 50 species of squirrels in the family Sciuridae. Despite their name, they are not in fact capable of full flight in the same way as birds or bats, but they ar ...
, and a Lake Beast. In June 2011, President Rochon announced that the school would discontinue the search due to opposition in the alumni community.
Ithaca College remodeled the Hill Center in 2013. The building features hardwood floors (Ben Light Gymnasium) as well as coaches offices. The building is home to Ithaca's men's and women's basketball teams, women's volleyball team, wrestling, and gymnastics. Ithaca also opened the Athletics & Events Center in 2011, a $65.5 million facility funded by donors. The facility is mainly used by the school's varsity athletes. It has a 47,000 square foot, 9-lane 50 meter Olympic-size pool. The building also has Glazer Arena, a 130,000 square foot event space. It is a track and field center that doubles as a practice facility for lacrosse, field hockey, soccer, baseball, tennis, and football. The facility was designed by the architectural firm
Moody Nolan
Moody Nolan is based in Columbus, Ohio and is the largest African-American owned and operated architecture firm in the United States. In 2021, it was the recipient of The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Architecture Firm Award. The firm pr ...
and began construction in June 2009.
Coached by
Jim Butterfield
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for 27 years, the football team has won three
NCAA Division III National Football Championships in 1979, 1988 and 1991 (a total surpassed only by
Augustana,
Mount Union and
Wisconsin-Whitewater). Bomber football teams made a record seven appearances in the Division III national championship game, the
Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl, which has since been surpassed by Mount Union in 2003. The Bombers play the
SUNY Cortland
The State University of New York College at Cortland (SUNY Cortland or Cortland State College) is a public college in Cortland, New York. It was founded in 1868 and is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system.
History
The State Un ...
Red Dragons for the
Cortaca Jug
The Cortaca Jug is the trophy given to the annual college football game played between the Red Dragons of the State University of New York College at Cortland and the Bombers of Ithaca College. The match-up is one of the most prominent in NCAA ...
, which was added in 1959 to an already competitive rivalry. The match-up is one of the most prominent in
Division III college football. The game alternates locations between Ithaca and Cortland, with the exception of the 2019 Cortaca Jug, which was held at Metlife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, as part of the celebration of 150 years of College Football. This game broke the record for attendance at a Division III football game as 45,151 fans attended the game, which Ithaca won.
Women's soccer has won two national championships in Division III and is consistently ranked in the top 20 nationally.
Gymnastics won the NCAA Division III national championships in 1998.
The men's wrestling team won NCAA Division III National Championships in 1989, 1990 and 1994.
Men's Baseball team won NCAA Division III National Championship in 1980 and 1988.
Women's field hockey won the
1982 NCAA Division III Field Hockey Championship.
In 2013, Paula Miller, head of the women's swimming team completed her 30th year as head coach of the Ithaca Bombers. She has led the team to many victories. In the previous four years, the Bombers were undefeated throughout their season defeating tough competition. Ithaca has finished first or second at 25 of the past 29 state meets. The Bombers have also won the Empire 8 crown in each of the past nine seasons.
The 2013–2014 season ended with regaining the NCAA Division III Championship trophy.
During the 2015–2016 season the Bombers swimming and diving team held the UNYSCSA Empire 8 state champion meet in the Athletic and Events center at Ithaca College. The men's swimming and diving team scored 616.5 points, finishing fourth in states under coach Kevin Markwardt. The men's team was led by captain Addison Hebert, who was injured the first day of the meet and was able to overcome it by the last day helping the rest of the bombers get third place in the 400 freestyle relay by .01 seconds. The girls' swimming and diving team scored 1227 points, winning states under Paula Miller. The bombers were to bring two women divers to South Carolina, to compete in nationals in March. During the 2017–2018 season the Bombers' Veronica Griesemer won the diving national championships.
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The Men's and Women's Crew programs are housed in the Robert B. Tallman Rowing Center, a $2.6 million boathouse dedicated in 2012.
The new boathouse replaced the Haskell Davidson Boathouse, which was constructed in 1974 on Cayuga Inlet. The old boathouse was razed to make room for the new facility. At 8,500 square feet, the Tallman boathouse is almost twice the size of the previous structure.
The women's crew won back-to-back
NCAA Division III Rowing Championship
The NCAA Division III Rowing Championship is a rowing championship held by the NCAA for Division III women's heavyweight (or openweight) collegiate crews.
Wellesley are the defending champions, winning their second national title in 2022.
The ...
s in 2004 and 2005. The men's crew received 4 medals at the New York State Collegiate Championships in 2008.
Ithaca is also home to more than 60 club sports, many of which compete regularly against other colleges in leagues and tournaments. The Men's Rugby team is of particular note, consistently earning a top-25 ranking under
NSCRO
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. Repeating as Upstate Small College Rugby Conference champions in 2019, they earned a trip to the Northeast Regional playoff. The team finished third in the region for a second year in a row.
Intramurals
Along with Intercollegiate athletics, Ithaca College has a large intramural sport program. This extracurricular program serves approximately 25% of the undergraduate population yearly. Fourteen traditional team activities are offered throughout the year and include basketball,
flag football
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,
kickball
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, soccer, softball,
ultimate frisbee
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, ski racing, and volleyball.
For most activities, divisions are offered for men's, women's, and co-recreational teams. Throughout the year usually two or more activities run concurrently and participants are able to play on a single sex team and co-recreational team for each activity.
Sustainability
![Peggy Ryan Williams Center, Ithaca College](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Peggy_Ryan_Williams_Center%2C_Ithaca_College.jpg)
Ithaca's School of Business was the first college or university business school in the world to achieve
LEED
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green building certification program used worldwide. Developed by the non-profit U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), it includes a set of rating systems for the design, construction ...
Platinum Certification alongside Yale University, which had the second. Ithaca's Peggy Ryan Williams Center is also LEED Platinum certified. It makes extensive use of day light in occupied spaces. There are sensors that regulate lighting and ventilation based on occupancy and natural light. Over 50% of the building energy comes from renewable sources such as wind power. The college also has a LEED Gold Certified building, the Athletics & Events Center.
The college
compost
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s its dining hall waste,
runs a "Take It or Leave It" Green move-out program, and offers a sustainable living option.
It also operates an office supply collection and reuse program,
as well as a
sustainability education program during new student orientation.
Ithaca received a B− grade on the Sustainable Endowments Institute's 2009 College Sustainability Report Card and an A− for 2010.
In 2017, Ithaca College was listed as one of
Princeton Review
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's top "green colleges" for being environmentally responsible.
Commitments to action on climate change
In the spring of 2007, then-President
Peggy R. Williams
Peggy Ryan Williams was the president of Ithaca College from 1997 until 2008. Williams assumed the presidency of Ithaca College on July 1, 1997. She is the College's seventh president and its first female president. Williams came to Ithaca from Lyn ...
signed the
, pledging Ithaca College to the task of developing a strategy and long-range plan to achieve "
carbon neutrality
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" at some point in the future. In 2009 the Ithaca College Board of Trustees approved the Ithaca College Climate Action Plan, which calls for 100% carbon neutrality by 2050. In 2009, the Ithaca College Board of Trustees approved the Ithaca College Climate Action Plan, which calls for 100% carbon neutrality by 2050 and offers a 40-year action plan to work toward that ambitious goal.
Energy profile
The college purchases 100 percent of its electricity from renewable sources. Including offsets from a solar farm, the college's overall energy usage is 45 percent carbon neutral.
Energy investments
The college aims to optimize investment returns and does not invest the endowment in on-campus sustainability projects, renewable energy funds, or community development loan funds. The college's investment policy reserves the right of the investment committee to restrict investments for any reason, which could include environmental and sustainability factors.
Community impact
While the Ithaca College Natural Lands has issued a statement that Ithaca College should join efforts calling for a moratorium on horizontal drilling and high volume ("slick water") hydraulic fracturing, or
fracking
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,
the college as a whole has refused to issue a statement regarding the issue.
Notable people
Alumni
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Ithaca College has over 70,000 alumni, with clubs in
Boston
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,
Los Angeles
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,
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National Capital
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,
North and South Carolina,
Philadelphia
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,
Rochester (NY)
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,
San Diego
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, and
Southern Florida
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. Alumni events are hosted in cooperation with city-specific clubs and through a program called "IC on the Road".
Following is a brief list of noteworthy Ithaca College alumni.
For a more extensive list, refer to the
List of Ithaca College alumni.
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(B.S. 1991), actor, ''
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(B.F.A. 1992),
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, an internationally recognized contract research organization. In addition to other recognitions given to him, he received Ithaca College Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020.
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Bob Kur
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(B.S. 1970),
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Trio (1959–61)
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Things We Lost in the Fire'', ''
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), ringside commentator for the
World Wrestling Federation
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* Michael Meador (B.S. 1978), chemist, Nanotechnology Project Manager for
NASA
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NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...
's Game Changing Technologies Program, former director of the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and 2017 recipient of the Ithaca College lifetime achievement award
*
David Muir
David Jason Muir (born November 8, 1973) is an American journalist and the anchor of ''ABC World News Tonight'' and co-anchor of the ABC News magazine '' 20/20'', part of the news department of the ABC broadcast-television network, based in N ...
(B.S. 1995), ''
ABC World News
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'' anchor
*
Nick Nickson
Nicholas R. Nickson (born December 21, 1953) is an American sportscaster who currently serves as the radio play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League.
Biography Early career
A native of Rochester, New York, Nic ...
, hockey broadcaster for
Los Angeles Kings
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*
Tom Nugent
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, college football head coach and sportscaster, College Football Hall of Famer, developer of the
I Formation
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*
Les Otten
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(B.S. 1971), vice chairman and partner,
Boston Red Sox
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Organization
*
Joe Pera
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(2010), actor, producer, comedian
*
CCH Pounder
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, Emmy Award-nominated actress, ''
Bagdad Café
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'', ''
The Shield
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'' and ''
Avatar
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''
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Tish Rabe (1973), children's book author and writer of over 40
Dr. Seuss
Theodor Seuss Geisel (;["Seuss"](_blank)
'' Karl Ravech
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sportscaster
*
Chris Regan (1989), Emmy Award-winning writer for ''
The Daily Show
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''
*
Mark Romanek
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, filmmaker (''
One Hour Photo
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'', ''
Never Let Me Go'') and
Grammy Award
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-winning music video director
*
Mike Royce
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Education
Raised in Syracuse, New York, Royce graduated from Jamesville-Dewitt High School in 1982, then went on to film school at Ithaca College where he ...
, executive producer and writer, ''
Everybody Loves Raymond
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'' and ''
Lucky Louie
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''
*
Jessica Savitch
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(B.S. 1968), network news anchor
*
Amanda Setton
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(2007), television actress, ''
Gossip Girl
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'', ''
One Life to Live
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'', ''
The Mindy Project
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'', and ''
General Hospital
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''
*
Deborah Snyder
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(1991), executive producer of ''
Suicide Squad
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'', ''
300
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'' and ''
Watchmen
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''
*C. William Schwab (B.A. chemistry 1968 ), Chief of the Division of Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery Research at the
University of Pennsylvania
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, known internationally for his work in damage control surgery and the care of complex trauma, and the director of the Firearm and Injury Center at Penn (FICAP)
*
Liz Tigelaar
Rachel Elizabeth Tigelaar (born October 4, 1975) is an American television writer, producer, and author.
She has worked on the series '' Brothers & Sisters'', ''American Dreams'', ''Once and Again'', ''Once Upon a Time'', ''Revenge'', '' Bates ...
, television producer and writer, ''
Life Unexpected
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'' and ''
Casual (TV series)
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*
Giorgio A. Tsoukalos (1998), television presenter specializing in the ancient astronaut hypothesis
*
Maureen Tucker
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, drummer for
The Velvet Underground
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*
Aaron Tveit
Aaron Kyle Tveit (; born October 21, 1983) is an American actor.
Tveit originated the lead role of Christian the composer in the stage adaptation of ''Moulin Rouge!'' on Broadway, a performance for which he won the 2020 Tony Award for Best Acto ...
, Tony Award-winning lead actor of ''
Moulin Rouge!
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,'' ''
Catch Me If You Can
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'' and ''
Next to Normal
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'', starred in
NBC
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's ''
Grease: Live'', and the 2012 film ''
Les Misérables
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In the English-speaking world, the novel is usually referred to by its original ...
''
*
Ruth Underwood
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xylophone player
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
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Originally an R&B band c ...
*
Ben Walsh
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(B.A. 2001), mayor of
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*
Travis Warech
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(born 1991), American-German-Israeli basketball player for Israeli team
Hapoel Be'er Sheva
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*
David A. Weiner
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He wrote and directed the '' In Search of Darkness'' trilogy, which explores the decade of '80s horror cinema over the course of 14-plus hours: t ...
, (1990) executive editor of ''
Famous Monsters of Filmland
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''Famous Monsters of Filmland'' directly inspired the creation of many other similar publicat ...
'' and writer/director of ''
In Search of Darkness
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''
*
Tony Wise, former NFL assistant coach
*
Jeff Wittman, member of the
College Football Hall of Fame
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.
*
Steven Van Slyke
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(B.S. 1978), chemist, 20 patents related to
organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs)
*
Bora Yoon (B.A. 2002), musician
Faculty
Notable current and former Ithaca College faculty include:
*
Asma Barlas
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Early life and education
Barlas was born in Pakistan in ...
, politics, director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity. Specializes in comparative and international politics; women, gender, and Islam; Islam and Qur'anic
hermeneutics
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*
Rick Beato
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, music educator and producer
*
Jeff Cohen, journalism, and founding director, Park Center for Independent Media; media critic and commentator, author, founder of
Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
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(FAIR) media watchdog group
*
Patrick Conway
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Early life
Conway was born in Troy, New York, but mo ...
, famous early 20th-century bandleader
*
Andrew Ezergailis
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, history; expert in 20th-century history of
Latvia
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*
A. Van Jordan, poet
*
Marisa Kelly
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Kelly received a B.A. in Government from California State University, Sacramento in 1986 an ...
, political scientist, President of
Suffolk University
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in
Boston, Massachusetts
*
Nicholas Muellner, media arts, sciences and studies; photographer and writer whose work has been acclaimed by ''
Time
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'' magazine and the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation
*
Alex Perialas Alex Perialas is an American audio engineer, mixer, and record producer, best known for his extensive work during the "golden age" of thrash metal in the mid–1980s to early–1990s. Having worked with many of the genre's top acts, including Ove ...
, sound recording technology; acclaimed audio engineer and record producer known for his extensive work during the "golden age" of thrash metal
*
Rod Serling
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, communications; creator, producer and host of ''
The Twilight Zone
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''
*
Saviana Stănescu, theater; poet, playwright, script analyst, journalist
*
Gordon Stout
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He studied composition with Joseph Schwantner, Samuel Adler, and Warren Benson, and percussion with James Salmon and John Beck. Many of ...
, music; percussionist, composer, specializes in
marimba
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*
Fred A. Wilcox Fred A. Wilcox is a retired associate professor in the writing department at Ithaca College. He is the author of six books on issues including the Vietnam War, nuclear power, and the Plowshares Movement. Two of his books discuss the effects of Age ...
, writing; nonfiction writer, fiction writer, expert on Vietnam War and effects of U.S. use of Agent Orange on U.S. military members and Vietnamese people (retired 2014)
*
Dana Wilson
Dana Richard Wilson (born 1946) is an American composer, jazz pianist, and teacher.
He grew up in Wilton, CT, and holds a B.A. from Bowdoin College, an M.A. from the University of Connecticut, and a doctorate from the Eastman School of Music. ...
, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Music; composer, jazz pianist
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