IC Community Reacts to Collado's Departure
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THURSDAY, VOLUME 89 AUGUST 26, 2021 THE ITHACAN ISSUE 1 ACCURACY • INDEPENDENCE • INTEGRITY IC community reacts to Collado’s departure BY CAITLIN HOLTZMAN friends and colleagues,” she said in the mes- sage. “And to our students — you are the true Some members of the Ithaca College promise of Ithaca College, and you will stay community have expressed disappointment in my heart forever.” in President Shirley M. Collado’s last year as president following the announcement that Collado’s Presidency she is leaving the college. Collado was named the ninth president In a July 8 email to the campus com- of the college in 2017 after former President munity, the Board of Trustees announced Tom Rochon stepped down July 1, 2017. Ro- Collado will be leaving the college Jan. 10, chon retired after protests led by the group 2022 to become the president and chief POC at IC following multiple racist incidents executive officer for College Track. She that happened during Rochon’s presidency, will serve as the senior advisor to the which spurred national attention. Rochon interim president and the Board of also received votes of no confidence from Trustees effective Aug. 30, 2021, until faculty and students. Dec. 31. La Jerne Cornish, provost and Lauren Suna ’20 said that when the board executive vice president, will serve was conducting the search for a new presi- as the interim president for the 2021–22 dent after Rochon, she and her friends were academic year. excited for Collado’s presidency. The Board of Trustees said in its an- “Everybody was like, ‘This is great, a nouncement that it will be considering the change is coming and this change is going to next steps in planning for the next president be good and it seems like we have someone of the college. who’s going to be great and listen and be In a message to the campus commu- transparent,’” she said. nity July 8, Collado reflected on her past Suna said that while she had been look- four years — the shortest tenure of all nine ing forward to Collado’s presidency, when Ithaca College presidents — at the col- she learned about Collado’s past, she had Ithaca College President Shirley M. Collado at the Class of 2025 convocation Aug. 18. Collado is lege and spoke about the resiliency of the mixed feelings about Collado. stepping down as president effective Aug. 30. She will be staying at the college until Dec. 31. campus community. ALYSSA BEEBE/THE ITHACAN “Many of you have become trusted COLLADO, PAGE 4 Study abroad programs open Majority of students for first time since Spring 2020 vaccinated for COVID BY JILLIAN BLEIER BY SYD PIERRE Samm Swarts, assistant director Ithaca College senior Marina Ithaca College has required stu- of Emergency Preparedness and Re- Bryan was disappointed when she dents to be fully vaccinated against sponse in the Department of Public was sent home early from the Itha- COVID-19 for Fall 2021, resulting in Safety and Emergency Management, ca College London Center (ICLC) over 99% of the student population said the vaccination cards students in March 2020 because of the rapid being fully vaccinated. submit go through a two-step ver- spread of the coronavirus around In April 2021, the college an- ification process when they are the world. nounced that all students must be submitted to the health center. “It was just really upsetting to vaccinated in order to return to “The students initially sent in get the email saying that we were campus for the fall semester. Stu- their cards to Hammond Health and being sent home because it was dents were required to submit their then a staff member from the health my first study abroad semester,” vaccination cards to the Hammond center has also confirmed the infor- Bryan said. Health Center by July 19. Students mation to make sure that it matches Bryan is currently studying can still be exempt from the vac- other databases,” Swarts said. at the Ithaca College Los Ange- cine mandate because of medical or Katie Newcomb, assistant direc- les (ICLA) Program at the James disability reasons, but requests for tor of the Department of Student B. Pendleton Center in Los Angeles religious exemptions were due Conduct and Community Standards, for the fall semester. She said she A group of Ithaca College students went on a hike while July 19. said if it was discovered that a stu- was nervous to apply because the studying away at the Ithaca College Los Angeles Program. International students needed to dent had submitted a fake vaccine program had not been open since COURTESY OF MARINA BRYAN have received any World Health Or- card, they would be referred to Spring 2020. ganization (WHO) approved vaccine the Office of Student Conduct & “I was really excited that it did have the opportunity to go abroad and Extended Studies. During in their home country and submitted Community Standards and would still happen and that I’m out here,” or travel to the college’s satellite this time, affiliated study abroad their vaccination card by July 19. The participate in the administrative she said. “I’m really hoping that I campuses at the ICLC in England programs and exchange pro- WHO has approved seven vaccines: hearing process. She said the office am able to remain out here for the or at the James B. Pendleton Cen- grams — which are not managed Moderna, Pfizer, Janssen, Oxford, would weigh a number of factors, rest of the semester and it doesn’t ter in Los Angeles. by the college — were not avail- Serum Institute of India, Sinopharm including past violations, the stu- get shut down again.” Study abroad programs were able for students to attend. Gould and Sinovac. dent’s level of cooperation, extent Study abroad programs are on hold for the entire 2020–21 said she thinks approximately As of Aug. 23, 51.6% of the of harm caused and impact on back up and running for the first academic year, said Rachel Gould, two-thirds of affiliated programs U.S. is fully vaccinated, according the community. time after they were shut down in director of Study Abroad in the to the Centers for Disease Control ABROAD, PAGE 5 VACCINE, PAGE 5 March 2020. Students once again Office of International Programs and Prevention (CDC). 2 | NEWS THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 2021 MULTIMEDIA THERE’S MORE MULTIMEDIA ONLINE. 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The Tompkins County Health According to an Intercom post July 5, the Department (TCHD) announced College Archives and Special Collections, lo- that the county is now classi- cated in the Ithaca College Library, now has fied as a high-transmission area, around 2,500 boxes and at least 200,000 which the Centers for Disease digital objects, including the Rod Serling Ar- Control and Prevention define chives. Bower was originally hired in 1988 as when there are more than 100 and served as the archivist for 33 years, the cases per 100,000 people over a post stated. seven-day period. Bower said she was informed in Decem- In the past seven days there ber 2020 that her position would be reduced were 132 positive cases in the in January 2021, meaning she would be rel- county. Residents are advised to egated to working part-time, only working wear masks indoors, even if they Ithaca College is not planning to change any of its COVID-19 guidelines despite the rise in cases in Tompkins three days a week.