Beginning in summer 2023, Prof. Chrystyna Dail (School of Music, Theatre, and Dance) and Prof. Amy Quan (School of Humanities and Sciences) will serve as the Director of the ICC and the ICSM Faculty Coordinator, respectively.
Chrystyna is a tenured associate professor in the Theatre Studies Department, in the Center for Theatre and Dance. A theatre historian, her work focuses on theatre and social activism, which was the topic of her 2016 book Stage for Action: U.S. Social Activist Theatre in the 1940s. Since coming to IC in 2011, Chrystyna has been deeply involved with advising, curriculum, and assessment, and has particular experience with ICC curriculum and assessment. In addition to teaching in Theatre Studies, Chrystyna developed and taught an ICSM, as well as ICC Capstone and diversity-designated courses. In addition, she participated in a variety of committees working to develop and implement the ICC, including participating in the process to design the assessment rubric for Creative Arts courses, e-portfolio review and assessment, and, while a member of the H&S General Education Committee, developing assessment processes for the H&S CLA and providing professional development for colleagues designing capstone courses in their departments. She also held the position of Coordinator for Assessment in H&S for three years, working closely with faculty colleagues across H&S in designing and refining learning outcomes assessment processes, and leading the H&S assessment committee in their annual review of department assessment reports.
Amy joined the faculty of the Department of Writing as assistant professor in 2017, teaching a variety of writing courses as well as mini-courses for the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival and Ithaca Seminars. For the last three years, she served as the chair of the department’s Composition Committee and the director of the first year composition program, a role that has brought her into contact with colleagues and students from across our campus. In addition to her long-standing teaching in the ICSM program, Amy has deep experience with the ICC as well, participating regularly in the faculty committee reviewing proposals for the Writing Intensive designation, and participating as an evaluator of academic writing in the ICC e-portfolio assessment process. Her interest in assessment led her to join the H&S Assessment Committee for two years. Prior to coming to IC, Amy spent over 20 years on the faculty at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she coordinated the college writing program, and mentored faculty and colleagues in a wide variety of fields as they developed and taught first year core courses with rich content and appropriate pedagogy to support first year student success.
We are delighted that these experienced faculty colleagues have agreed to take on these important all-college responsibilities.