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'Ithaca College' is a 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. Known internationally for its communications program, the college also offers a wide blend of liberal arts education. The college is at the center of a sophisticated cultural community, with a stunning backdrop of Cayuga Lake, and hundreds of waterfall and gorges. The college is perhaps best known for its large list of alumni who play or have played substantial roles in the world of broadcasting.
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
The college has been ranked among the top ten master's universities in the North by U.S. News & World Report for ten consecutive years. In 2006, the college was ranked 7 in this category. [1]

Contents

History

Beginnings

Modern Era

Media and publications

''The Ithacan''

''ICTV''

''iMPrint Magazine''

''Buzzsaw Haircut''

''Ithaca College Radio''

92 WICB

VIC Radio

''Journal of Race, Culture, Gender and Ethnicity''

Athletics

Presidents

Current president

Former presidents

Notable Alumni and Faculty

Music Groups

Student Organizations

IC After Dark

External links

History

Beginnings

Ithaca College was founded as 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.

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''

''The Ithacan'' is Ithaca College's official newspaper. The paper is written, edited and published by students. ''The Ithacan'' is available in print every Thursday morning and online.[2] ''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.

''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.

''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.[3] The magazine 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.
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 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.
Other programming 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.

VIC Radio

VIC Radio, once known as 106-VIC, is an Internet radio station broadcasting via Live 365 at www.vicradio.org[4]. The majority of VIC's programming falls under the indie pop, alternapop, and power pop genres. The playlists are planned by the Programming Department, with leeway for on-air talent favorites and listener requests. 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. [5]

Athletics

Ithaca College's sports teams were originally named 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. 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. 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). 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. 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 seven appearances in the Division III national championship game, the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl. The Bombers play the SUNY 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.
Most recently, the women's crew won back-to-back NCAA Division III championships in 2004 and 2005.
Women's soccer has won two national championships in Division III and is consistently ranked in the top 20 nationally.
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

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. 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.
On July 12, 2007, Williams announced that she would retire from the presidency post effective May 31, 2008.[6]

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 Faculty

Following is a brief list of noteworthy Ithaca College alumni and faculty.
''For a more extensive list, see main entry List of Ithaca College People.''

★ Jessica Savitch, first female network news anchor

★ Rod Serling, Screenwriter, Creator of ''The Twilight Zone''

★ David Muir, ABC news anchor for ''World News Saturday'' and co-anchor of ''Primetime''

★ Barbara Gaines, Executive Producer, ''Late Show with David Letterman''

★ Chris Regan, writer ''The Daily Show'' from 1999-2006.

★ Robert Marella aka Gorilla Monsoon, World Wrestling Entertainment Hall of Fame wrestler, former ringside commentator

★ Robert Iger, President & CEO, The Walt Disney Company

★ Karl Ravech, ESPN sportscaster

★ Bob Kur, Washington Post Radio, former NBC News National Reporter

★ Richard Jadick, combat surgeon who was awarded the Bronze Star for service in Iraq

★ Steven Van Slyke, Chemist, 20 patents related to Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs)

★ Kate Aldrich, internationally-renowned mezzo-soprano

★ David Boreanaz, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel

Music Groups

''Within the Ithaca College School of Music:''

★ Ithaca College Choir

★ Madrigal Singers

★ Ithacappella - All-Male a cappella

★ Premium Blend - Female a cappella

★ Vocal Jazz Ensemble

★ Ithaca College Chorus

★ 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
;Outside the Ithaca College School of Music

★ Amani Gospel Singers

★ VoiceStream - Co-ed a cappella

★ Ithacappella - Male a cappella

★ Five Cents Sharp - Male Brass Quintet (2006-2010)

★ Unmentionable Tuba Quartet (defunct and currently unmentionable)

Student Organizations

IC After Dark

IC After Dark is a student-run organization that provides free, themed late-night programming for the Ithaca College community. Every event features a main attraction (such as an inflatable game), food, music, crafts, giveaways and prizes. IC After Dark hosts an average of four events per semester, attracting hundreds of students to each event.

External links

★ Ithaca College official site
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★ School of Business
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★ School of Humanities and Sciences
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★ School of Health Science and Human Performance
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★ School of Music
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★ Roy H. Park School of Communications
; Campus media

★ The Ithacan - Ithaca College's official newspaper

★ ICTV | Ithaca College Television

★ iMPrint Magazine: College Life's Internet Magazine

★ Ithaca College Journal of Race, Culture, Gender and Ethnicity

★ Buzzsaw Haircut - Ithaca's alternative student-run magazine publication

★ VIC Radio Official site

★ WICB Official site