School-specific, named, merit-based scholarships for students with outstanding academic performance and/or talent are offered for each of the College’s five schools and its division. The annual amounts of these awards range from $6,000 to $9,000. These scholarships may be renewed annually for the duration of the student’s undergraduate study as long as the student maintains full-time enrollment, a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.00, and satisfactory progress toward an undergraduate degree.
Phi Theta Kappa members who are considered transfer students at the time of acceptance to Ithaca College and possess a cumulative college GPA of 3.50 or greater will minimally qualify for one of the school specific scholarships listed below. Recipients of a President's Scholarship are not eligible to receive any of these school specific scholarships.
An accounting major and Ithaca alumnus, Carl Sgrecci taught business administration at the College in the early 1970s, earning the Faculty Excellence Award. As vice president for finance and administration, he is responsible for managing the College’s endowment, investments, and operating and capital budgets.
One of the most prolific and inspired writers in television history, Rod Serling was the creator of The Twilight Zone, as well as an Emmy Award–winning scriptwriter for Playhouse 90 and other live dramas during television’s “golden age.” In the early 1970s Serling taught communications courses at Ithaca. Today the College’s Rod Serling Archives house the largest single collection of his television scripts and screenplays.
These awards, made possible by the generosity of the Park Foundation, are intended to recognize and reward outstanding students in the Roy H. Park School of Communications who, regardless of financial need, demonstrate significant academic and creative achievement in communications, involvement in relevant cocurricular activities, and community service on and beyond campus. Awarded annually to primarily incoming freshmen only; scholars receive this award throughout their Ithaca College undergraduate career by maintaining a predetermined standard of performance.
Laurence Hill and Adrian Newens were instrumental in developing the two divisions that would eventually merge to become the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance. Hill served as head of the College’s physical education division from 1929 until 1957; one of the HSHP facilities is named after him. Newens directed the speech and drama division from 1931 until 1943. That department was a forerunner of Ithaca’s programs in the health professions.
A professor emerita of mathematics, Shirley Hockett began teaching at Ithaca College in 1966 and retired in 1991. During her long career she won several teaching awards and wrote six mathematics textbooks, including a very popular manual on preparing for the advanced placement exam in calculus.
A dedicated and dynamic teacher who specialized in Shakespeare and Dante, John B. Harcourt was an English professor for 32 years; he retired in 1985. He was also the author of The Ithaca College Story, a comprehensive history from Ithaca's founding as a music conservatory through the mid-1970s.
A German professor at Ithaca from 1965 to 1995, Willard Daetsch was also the founding director of the Center for Individual and Interdisciplinary Studies, which contributed to the early development of the London Center and such innovative academic programs as women's studies, social work, and planned studies. In addition, he founded Ithaca College's technology interest group and served for a term on the Gerontology Institute advisory board.
A celebrated cornet soloist, Patrick Conway first gave brass instrument lessons at the newly founded Ithaca Conservatory of Music in 1895. After he and his band secured tremendous success through national tours, recordings, and radio shows, he returned to Ithaca in 1922 as head of the Patrick Conway Military Band School. Affiliated with the Ithaca conservatory, the school was dedicated to training band musicians and conductors, including such notables as Les Brown, George S. Howard, and Walter Beeler.
Flora Brown was the first student to register for the Ithaca Conservatory of Music, signing up on September 19, 1892. She also, in 1924, contributed the first dollar toward the $500,000 needed for an endowment.
