PRESENTATION TO THE SGA ON THE 2009-2010 SCHOOL YEAR

How Ithaca College has become an unhealthy mental and physical environment

AGENDA

Freshmen Class Size Financial Aid Incentives Extended Occupancy Academic Integrity Crowded Public Spaces Lounges as Dorms Sanitary Living Conditions

FRESHMEN CLASS SIZE

Target 1600 Actual 2050

FINANCIAL AID PACKAGES

45% to freshmen 38% to all other students

INCENTIVES

$2,000 for upper classmen to move off campus

$10,000 for a year off 31 students took the grant costing

$250,000

EXTENDED OCCUPACY

8 people in temporary housing 2008

600 students in temporary housing 2009

Tripled corner rooms in the towers/quad

$3.1 million to build T13

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

74% acceptance rate 2009 59.2% acceptance rate 2008 Offered better financial aid for

students who considered IC as a “reach” school.

“The college offered higher financial aid packages to students who, based on high school academic profiles, may have considered the college their ‘reach’ school.” –Vice President of Finance and Administration Carl Sgrecci

CROWDED PUBLIC SPACES

Classes Told to tell students ratio is still 1:12. Although the

ratio is still kept, the gap is being filled with TA’s and short term contract faculty. The attention students receive CANNOT be the same.

Students feel like they are loosing touch with professors

Class sizes are pushing cap

Library Overcrowded last year Limited number of computers No space/tables to study (midterms/finals)

Quotes From the Faculty

Biology Professor Kit Muma said, “Students have been very patient so far. Their main frustration is trying to find a seat in the lecture hall.”

2008 Class size= 190 2009 Class size=237 Cap=239

We ask, “should students ever have to worry about this?”

CROWDED PUBLIC SPACES

Cafeteria Long lines Campus Center filthy Seating Issues

LOUNGES AS DORMS

Ruins sense of community Incentives?-free TV, micro fridge,

$624 off of housing Options to stay in rooms

Upon Expressing Concern…

Director for Residential Life and Judicial Affairs Bonnie Solt Prunty said,“I know since the time you wrote to us the Terrace 1 lounge has vacated and been returned to the community for use.”

FALSE

VS.

Why are they paying less?

SANITARY LIVING CONDITIONS

Swine flu Dirty cafeterias Cramped quarters

H1N1 (swine) Influenza Info PagePlease protect others by following self-

isolation guidelines: Keep a safe distance (at least 6 feet) from

others.

Not possible in triples Difficult in a packed Library Without lounges, no escape if roommate is ill

What we want?

Answers to where our money is going Incentives for lack of common space Options SGA to get our message to higher power

officials