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Ithaca College
File:Icseal.JPG
MottoCommitment to Excellence
TypePrivate with 5 schools and the Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies
Established1892
PresidentPeggy R. Williams
Undergraduates6,098
Postgraduates314
Location
Ithaca
,
NY
,
USA
CampusUrban area, 757 acres (3.0 km²)
Athletics23 Varsity Teams
Nickname"Bombers"
Websitehttp://www.ithaca.edu

Ithaca College is an internationally-recognized private institution of higher education located on the South Hill of Ithaca, New York. The school was founded by William Egbert in 1892 as a conservatory of music. The college offers a curriculum with over 100 degree programs in its five schools:

  • Roy H. Park School of Communications
  • School of Business
  • School Health Sciences & Human Performance
  • School of Humanities & Sciences
  • School of Music
  • Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies

History

Beginnings

Ithaca College was born the Ithaca Conservatory of Music in 1892 when a local violin 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, dance, physical education, speech correction, radio, business, and the liberal arts. In 1931 the conservatory was chartered as a private college.

The Modern Era

By 1960, some 2,000 students were in attendance. A modern campus was built on South Hill in the sixties, 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 now attracts a multicultural student body with representatives from almost every state and more than 75 foreign countries.

Media and publications

The Ithacan

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A recent issue of The Ithacan

The Ithacan is Ithaca College's official newspaper. It is entirely student run, under the guidance of advisor Michael Serino and final editorial decisions are made by the students. The Ithacan is available in print every Thursday morning and online: [1]. The Ithacan and its staff have won many major collegiate journalism awards, most notably, the Associated Collegiate Press' National Pacemaker Award for the 2004-2005 academic year. The Pacemaker has been widely considered the Pulitzer Prize of collegiate journalism. [citation needed]

The Ithacan provides in-depth news coverage of matters of importance to the Ithaca College student body and its surrounding community including hard news, arts and entertainment and Bomber athletics. The paper has been a staple of the campus community for 75 years. Ithacan staff writers and editors are held to high journalistic standards including tape recording interviews, fact-checking, and using multiple sources to provide fair and balanced coverage to all its stories.

ICTV

See main entry Ithaca College Television

iMPrint Magazine

iMPrint Magazine: College Life’s Internet Magazine, published from Ithaca College, is published by college students, for college students, about college students. iMPrint strives to inform its readers of national issues and give them the opportunity to voice their opinion and become involved in the discussion.

In order to allow readers to make connections across all topic areas, each edition of iMPrint is built around a central theme. This allows the sports fanatic, for example, to understand how issues of the news might affect their favorite team. Beyond providing stories, iMPrint mobilizes information; that is, it allows the reader to become involved in what he or she just read. Whether by linking to a related site, e-mailing a source in the story or leaving a comment for the writer, each article allows the reader to take part in the discussion. Currently, iMPrint only features writers and editors from Ithaca College. In an effort to diversify content, however, iMPrint plans to expand to other colleges and universities

Buzzsaw Haircut

Buzzsaw Haircut was founded in 1997 and is the college's monthly alternative news magazine. It is available in print and online every month.

Buzzsaw Haircut is produced by the Ithaca College community and printed by Our Press of Binghamton, NY. It is funded by the Ithaca College Student Government Association, the Park School of Communication, local advertising, community support, and a grant from Campus Progress.

The magazine is published with a monthly theme that directs the content of the Upfront section. Other sections include News+Views, covering current events, Ministry of Cool, which includes reviews of books, music and movies as well as discussions of related pop culture topics, and Sawdust, the section for satire and cartoons. Voice is emphasized more than journalism and reporting and writers have free range to publish opinionated stories on topics approved by the editors.

The magazine intends to inspire thoughtful debate and open up the channels through which information is shared. It has won a number of national awards, including the Campus Alternative Journalism Project's award for "Best Sense of Humor" in 2003 and the Independent Press Association's Campus Independent Journalism Awards for "Best Campus Publication with a Budget Under $10,000" and "Best Political Commentary" in 2005.

Ithaca College Radio

Ithaca College is also home to two student-operated radio stations.

92 WICB

92 WICB is a fully-functional, FCC-licensed station that operates at 7500 Watts at 91.7 on the FM band. The majority of its programming falls under the modern rock category. While broadcasting modern rock, the station is run similarly to a commercial modern rock station, with the inclusion of playlists planned by the programming and music departments that include leeway for listener requests and DJ choices.

WICB also broadcasts a City Rhythms programming block on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights. Programming on these nights ranges from mainstream hip-hop and R&B, to underground, downtempo, and other lesser-known genres of what is generally considered urban music.

In addition to a lunchtime Jazz show, WICB broadcasts a number of other specialty shows throughout the week. These shows, which usually run 2-3 hours in length, come from genres such as blues, broadway, jam band music, and "homeless" music, that is not normally heard on the public airwaves.

WICB has a reputation in the entertainment and news industries as a strong training ground for students. Alumni of the station are numerous within the radio, record label and artist management businesses.

VIC Internet Radio

VIC Internet Radio, once known as 106 VIC, is an internet radio station which also broadcasts on ICTV 16 when that station is not otherwise programmed. Approximately 60% of its programming falls under the Modern AC format (a mix of lighter alternative rock and singer/songwriter-style music), which is chosen by the music and programming departments. The rest of its programming consists of specialty shows, programmed by student DJs, which are more representative of a typical college station.

The station also hosts an annual 50 Hour Marathon, where two DJs stay awake for fifty hours straight to raise money for a local charity. The marathon, which is simulcast on 92 WICB and ICTV 16, typically involves events such as concerts, scavenger hunts, and remote broadcasts around Ithaca.

Journal of Race, Culture, Gender and Ethnicity

Founded in 2004 by several Ithaca College students, the Ithaca College Journal of Race, Culture, Gender and Ethnicity is an academic journal that explores complexities of such topics and welcomes student contributions. The journal is available in print and online.

Athletics

Ithaca College's sports teams were originally called the Cayugans, but the name was changed to the Bombers in the 1930s. Sources credit an Ithaca Journal sports columnist with giving the Bombers their name when he compared Ithaca's baseball team to the New York Yankees (which are affectionately known as the "Bronx Bombers"). In recent years, there has been an ongoing debate among students and faculty on changing the name of the college's teams. [citation needed]Many people consider the name "Bombers" to have jingoistic connotations that do not fit well within the liberal atmosphere of Ithaca College and the city of Ithaca. [citation needed]Others do not believe the appellation to be offensive in any way, and some have presented the idea that the title honors Air Force pilots of WWII (around the time that the teams were given the name). [citation needed]It is a common subject on the editorial page of The Ithacan.

Ithaca is a member of the NCAA's Division III, the Empire Eight Conference, and the Eastern College Athletic Conference. Ithaca has one of Division III's strongest athletic programs. [citation needed] The Bombers have won a total of 15 national titles in seven team sports and five individual sports.

Coached by Jim "Butts" Butterfield for 27 years, the football team has won three NCAA Division III football championships in 1979, 1988 and 1991 (a total surpassed only by Augustana and Mount Union). Bomber football teams made a record [citation needed] seven appearances in the Division III national championship game, the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl. The Bombers play the Cortland Red Dragons for the Cortaca Jug, which was added in 1959 to an already competitive rivalry. The matchup is one of the most prominent in Division III college football.[citation needed]

Most recently, the women's crew team won back-to-back NCAA Division III championships in 2004 and 2005.

Ithaca is also home to more than 60 club sports, many of which compete regularly against other colleges in leagues and tournaments.

Presidents

Current president

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President Peggy Williams

Ithaca's current president is Peggy R. Williams. President 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 Lyndon State College, where she had been president since 1989. She had previously worked at Trinity College in Burlington, Vermont, as associate academic dean, chair of the business and economics department, and associate professor. She also held various positions within the Vermont State Colleges system. Before entering the field of higher education, Williams was a social worker for the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont and the Monroe County Department of Social Services in New York. Williams holds a bachelor of arts degree in psychology from St. Michael's College of the University of Toronto; a master of education degree from the University of Vermont; and a doctorate in administration, planning, and social policy from Harvard University. A native of Montreal, Williams has lived in the United States since 1968 and is a citizen of both the United States and Canada. A little known fact about Williams: she is an award-winning yo-yoist.[citation needed]

Former presidents

  • W. Grant Egbert (1892-1924) — Founder, musical director, and president of the Ithaca Conservatory of Music, the predecessor of Ithaca College
  • George C. Williams (1924-1932) — Second president of the Ithaca Conservatory of Music and first president of the renamed Ithaca College
  • Leonard B. Job (1932-1957) — Guardian who successfully shepherded the College through the Great Depression and World War II
  • Howard I. Dillingham (1957-1970) — Conductor of the movement that transported Ithaca College from downtown Ithaca to South Hill
  • Ellis L. Phillips Jr. (1970-1975) — Credited with overseeing substantive, comprehensive changes to the College
  • James J. Whalen (1975-1997) — Led the College through a time of unprecedented growth

Notable Alumni and Professors

General Business

  • Bob Ahlgren, President of Global Distribution, Fisher Scientific Intl.
  • Raymond Angelo, President, Westinghouse Lighting Corporation
  • Michael Battle, Director, Executive Office for United States Attorneys
  • Michael Bevacqua, Managing Director, Bain Capital
  • Robert Fenton, Chief Financial Officer, Visa
  • Richard Flamm, SVP Legal & General Counsel, Nintendo of America, Inc.
  • Paul Garcia, Chairman, President & CEO, Global Payments
  • Douglas Grip, UK Managing Director & President of Mutual Funds, Goldman Sachs
  • Judith Girard, President, HGTV
  • Catherine Gridley, President of Customer Service, Smiths Aerospace
  • Robert Iger, President & CEO, The Walt Disney Company
  • Richard Johnson, Chief Financial Officer, PNC Financial Corporation
  • David Lebow, Executive Vice President & General Manager, AOL Media Networks
  • Stuart Leonard Jr., President & CEO, Stew Leonard's
  • G. Luke Lewis, Chairman & CEO, Mercury Records
  • Jay Linden, Executive Vice President, Strategic Partnership Group NBC
  • David Lissy, CEO, Bright Horizons Family Solutions
  • Stephen McCluski, Chief Financial Officer, Bausch and Lomb
  • Michael Nathanson, President & Chief Operating Officer, MGM Pictures
  • James Nolan, CEO, Sara Lee Foodservices
  • Cliff Plumer, Chief Technology Officer, Industrial Light & Magic
  • Rick Roth, CEO, 141 Worldwide, Managing Director, Ogilvy and Mather World Wide
  • Tom Sandler, CEO, Case Logic
  • Steve Van Slyke, Inventor, 14 patents in OLED materials and Device Architecture
  • Lawrence Smith, Executive Vice President & Co-Chief Financial Officer, Comcast Corp.
  • David Spiegelman, Senior Executive Vice President, New Line Cinema
  • Peter Stingi, Global Head of Human Resources, Merrill Lynch
  • David Storch, President & CEO, AAR Corporation
  • Maria Tedesco, Executive Vice President, Charter One Bank
  • Chris Weiller, Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs, NBA’s Charlotte Bobcats
  • Bernhard Welle, Executive Vice President, The Dial Corp.
  • Michael Williams, Executive Vice President, SONY Corporation of America
  • Kurt Wolfgruber, Chief Investment Officer, Oppenheimer Funds


Entertainment and Athletics

Music Groups

  • Ithaca College Choir
  • Ithacappella - Male a cappella
  • Madrigal Singers
  • Premium Blend - Female a cappella
  • Vocal Jazz Ensemble
  • VoiceStream - Co-ed a cappella
  • Women's Chorale
  • Symphony Orchestra
  • Chamber Orchestra
  • Concert Band
  • Symphonic Band
  • Wind Ensemble
  • Cello Choir
  • Trombone Troupe
  • Brass Choir
  • Contemporary Chamber Ensemble
  • Guitar Ensemble
  • Percussion Ensemble
  • Jazz Workshop
  • Opera Workshop

Trivia

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