Clinics Reopen and Adjust to COVID-19
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THURSDAY, VOLUME 88 MARCH 11, 2021 THE ITHACAN ISSUE 5 ACCURACY • INDEPENDENCE • INTEGRITY BY MAKAYLA CAROZZOLO Although clinics within the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance (HSHP) at Ithaca College are emptier and have fewer patients and staff than previous years, clinical students are still working to get hands-on experiences and assist the community. The Sir Alexander Ewing-Ithaca College Speech and Hearing Clinic is currently offering in-person service only to the Clinics reopen hearing portion of the clinic. These au- diology clients can also receive service through teletherapy and curbside service. and adjust Speech-language pathology services are being offered remotely through teleprac- tice. The Occupational and Physical to COVID-19 Therapy Clinic (OT/PT Clinic) is also offering in-person and telepractice services this se- mester. The clinicians can work hands-on with patients while wearing safety gear like gloves, face shields, goggles and masks. In the fall semester, the clinics most- ly operated through telepractice, except HSHP clinics begin in-person for the PT clinic, which treated a fellow student-clinician and a staff member operation amid pandemic in person. The college held classes primar- ily remotely for Fall 2020, but some students were allowed on campus for the PT Boot Camp. Junior McKensie Galusha, a physical therapy student, treats a patient at the Ithaca College Physical Therapy Clinic in the Center In addition to telepractice, Amie for Health Sciences. The physical therapy clinic, among others, has opened for limited in-person operations for Spring 2021. CLINICS, PAGE 4 BEC LEGATO/THE ITHACAN SGC members discuss possible Faculty of color data no confidence vote amid APP unavailable to public BY SYD PIERRE BY ASHLEY STALNECKER Ithaca College President Shirley M. Collado and La Jerne Cornish, The Ithaca College Student Ithaca College will be terminat- provost and senior vice president of Governance Council (SGC) dis- ing faculty members as a result of academic affairs, said in an opinion cussed a vote of no confidence at the Academic Program Prioritiza- article for Inside Higher Ed that cuts its March 8 meeting. tion (APP) process, some of whom to contingent faculty at the college The SGC voted 15–0 with no are people of color. However, the will not disproportionately affect abstentions to move into exec- college will not release data on the faculty of color. They said that more utive session during the Open diversity of faculty by rank — so it is than 70% of the contingent faculty at Agenda portion of its meeting. It difficult to evaluate the APP’s impact the college are white. went into executive session for on faculty of color. Fomalhaut said the union asked over an hour and discussed the As of Fall 2020, 12.2% of faculty for this information on diversity by possibility of holding a vote of identified as Black, indigenous or faculty by rank in the past but has no confidence. Members of the people of color, according to the not been granted access. SGC would not confirm who or college’s Office of Analytics and Insti- The Ithacan also requested what the possible vote would be tutional Research. Additionally, 2.8% access to data from the Office of against. The meeting agenda stat- of the faculty identify international Analytics and Institutional Research ed that there was a “Vote of No Members of the Student Governance Council (SGC) Executive origins. In accordance with Section on the racial and ethnic identities of Confidence Discussion” under Board for Fall 2019 speak at a Sept. 16, 2019, SGC meeting. 4.9.8 of the Ithaca College Policy contingent faculty, NTEN faculty and the Campus Climate section of the FRANKIE WALLS/THE ITHACAN Manual, contingent faculty are laid tenured faculty. Claire Borch, direc- Open Agenda. off before tenured and tenure-track tor of the Office of Analytics and A vote of no confidence is At its March 2 meeting, the Fac- senior vice president for academic professors. Contingent faculty are Institutional Research, stated that held when groups on campus, ulty Council discussed holding a affairs, approved the final propos- considered temporary full-time and race and ethnicity by tenure status is like the SGC, the Faculty Council vote of no confidence against the als for the cuts Feb. 24. part-time professors. Many, howev- not publicly available. and the Staff Council, feel that the administration amid the Academ- Senior Abigail Murtha, senate er, have been at the college for years, Fomalhaut said she does not president or administration is in- ic Program Prioritization (APP) chair for SGC, said the executive said Rachel Fomalhaut, lecturer in know why the college would effective at running the college. process. As part of the APP, 116 session was only a discussion and the Department of Writing and Con- withhold information about the di- These votes are symbolic because full-time equivalent faculty posi- no formal votes took place. tingent Faculty Union Steward. versity of contingent, tenure and the Ithaca College Board of Trust- tions, entire departments, majors “No primary individual led According to a 2016 study, diver- NTEN faculty. ees is the only group with the and programs, will be eliminated. this discussion, and it was more sity in faculty members nationally power to remove a president from President Shirley M. Collado and has grown mainly in non-tenure SGC , PAGE 4 DATA, PAGE 4 their position. La Jerne Cornish, provost and track (NTEN) positions. However, LIFE & CULTURE | page 11 OPINION | page 7 SPORTS | page 14 COMMUNITY CAMPUS MUST GOLF TEAM PITCHES IN FOR BE CAUTIOUS TRAINS WITH SHARE FARM AMID COVID-19 SIMULATOR 2 | NEWS THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 2021 Students concerned with COVID-19 rules were between three and 25 people. BY CAITLIN HOLTZMAN She said she also held five specific Some Ithaca College students trainings that included approxi- have expressed concern about wit- mately 12–20 residential assistants nessing their peers not following the in each, approximately 15 Student college’s COVID-19 guidelines. Health Emergency Liaisons and Eileen Harrington Roth, approximately 15 Campus Center off-campus community living co- staff members. ordinator, held three De-escalating Some of the verbal tactics includ- COVID-19 Situations meetings for ed telling students that they noticed students, faculty and staff March they were not wearing a mask or From left, sophomores Liam Spellman and Samuel Levine stand on the social distancing markers in 2, 3 and 8. The trainings focused educating them on the college’s line at Terrace Dining Hall on Feb. 9. Not all students have followed social distancing guidelines. on providing verbal and nonverbal COVID-19 guidelines. ELEANOR KAY/THE ITHACAN ways of handling situations in which Harrington Roth said in the students may not be following the meeting that it is important for conduct office,” Harrington Roth up to students. actively eating. Emery said it can college’s COVID-19 guidelines. people to assess the situation said via email. Junior Rebecca Emery said she be difficult to go up to other stu- Some of the techniques includ- and do the best they can while Sophomore Katherine Urbano works at the information desk in the dents and tell them to follow ed educating peers on the correct being safe. She also discussed works in the Campus Cen- Campus Center and has seen many the guidelines. COVID-19 guidelines, using body needs-based confrontation, which ter Dining Hall and sees students disregarding guidelines. “I am terrified to approach peo- language or reporting the behav- is focusing on what is in people’s students not following social She said she sometimes sees ple due to the fact that I do not want ior via the Community Agreement best interest, and feelings-based distancing guidelines multiple times people sitting in larger groups at to get sick,” she said. “When I’m ap- Reporting Form. However, some confrontation, which is appealing to daily. She also said students do not tables only meant for one or two proaching someone or a group of students have found it difficult to people’s emotions. wear their masks correctly. people and also sees people with people without masks, my chances approach other students about “This training provides skills Urbano said that as a student their masks off even when they are of getting COVID are a lot higher.” following guidelines. for peer-to-peer accountability and employee, she has not been explic- no longer eating. and what to do if the issue needs itly told to intervene, but she has The guidelines allow people Harrington Roth said that at CONTACT CAITLIN HOLTZMAN the three training sessions, there to rise to reporting with our seen non-student employees speak to remove their masks only while [email protected] MULTIMEDIA THE ITHACAN THERE’S MORE MULTIMEDIA ONLINE. VISIT THEITHACAN.ORG/MULTIMEDIA 220 ROY H. 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