With rising racial tensions, Ithaca College looks for a way forward

November 23, 2015

A series of incidents has prompted students and faculty to ask for the removal of school President Tom Rochon

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With rising racial tensions, Ithaca College looks for a way forward

In October, racial protests erupted at schools across the country, including Ithaca College. But tensions over race and diversity issues at the upstate New York school, students and faculty say, have been years in the making. In October 1,000 students staged a die-in protest on campus in response to a series of racially charged incidents, including one in which a white alumnus called a young black alumna a savage. In this America Tonight excerpt, Adam May talks with students and faculty about the climate on campus and sits down with the college’s President Tom Rochon to discuss how he can move the community forward.


 

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