Ithaca College occurs as personal liberal arts college in Ithaca, New York, founded in 1892 as a music school, the Ithaca Conservatory of Music within downtown Ithaca.

Presidents
Current President
Ithaca's todays president is Peggy R. Williams. President Williams assumed a presidency of Ithaca College in July 1, 1997. She is the College's seventh president & its number one female president. Williams come to Ithaca from either Lyndon State College, where she experienced been president since 1989. She experienced antecedently worked at Trinity College in Burlington, Vermont, as associate academic dean, chair of the business & department of economics, and associate prof. She besides held various positions inside a Vermont State Colleges technique. Prior to typing a field of higher education, Williams was a welfare worker for the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont & the Monroe County Department of Social Services within Future York. Williams holds the bachelor of arts degree within psychological science 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. The indigen of Montreal, Williams has lived in the United States since 1968 and is a citizen of two a United States and Canada.

Former Presidents

W. Grant Egbert (1892-1924) — Founder, musical director, & president of a Ithaca Conservatory of Music, the predecessor of Ithaca College

George C. Williams (1924-1932) — 2nd president of the Ithaca Conservatory of Music & number one president of the renamed Ithaca College

Leonard B. Job (1932-1957) — Protector Globe health organization with success shepherded a College through the Wonderful Depression & World War II

Howard We. Dillingham (1957-1970) — Conductor of the movement that transported Ithaca College from either downtown Ithaca to South Hill

Ellis L. Phillips Jr. (1970-1975) — Credited by using overseeing essential, comprehensive changes to the College

James J. Whalen (1975-1997) — Led the College across a instance of unprecedented growth

Athletics

Ithaca College's sports teams were originally known as a Cayugans, however a title was changed to the Bombers in the Thirties. Sources credit an Ithaca Journal sports editorialist by owning rendering a Bombers their title whenever he equated Ithaca's baseball team to the New York Yankees (which are dearly referred to as a "Bronx Bombers".)

Ithaca occurs as member of the NCAA's Division Terzetto, a Empire Eight Conference, and a Eastern College Athletic Conference. Ithaca has one of Section III's strongest athletic computer software. the Bombers own won a number of Fifteen national titles inside sevener team sports & 5 single sports. Last, a women's crew team won back-to-back NCAA Section III championships within 2004 and 2005.

Ithacthe is as well personal to a big total of club sports. There are concluded Lx teams & numerous may be competitory; competiting against more colleges inside leagues & tournaments.

The Modern Era

Ithaca College's modern era began once a school moved from either downtown Ithaca to Ithaca's South Hill, south of Cayuga Lake, beginning in 1960.

Ithaca College is better known for its computer program around music, communications, physical therapy, business, theatre, & physical education.

A School of Music, okay, housed in the James J. Whalen Center for Music (which was erected around a original Ford Hall in 1998), gives concluded 300 concerts a year, virtually all of which are then loose & open to the public. A school offers degrees within music performance, education, recording & jazz studies; too as a unique Four-1/Ii month program where students graduate sustaining 2 bachelor's degrees, a single withwithin performance & 1 in education.

Notable professors, alumni and former students
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