Vocational Wellness

Definition

Ithaca College defines Vocational Wellness as enhancing our work, whether academic, job/career, or volunteer, with our passions, values, skills, and/or needs to find satisfaction and enrichment, while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

Student Campus Resources

Learn more about resources available on campus to support student's vocational wellness.

Academic Concerns: Allows faculty and staff to submit a form and relay information about a student who may need extra academic assistance. From there, we try to get students back on track and support them.
Center for Student Success (CSS): Actively listen to students’ stories to help them strategize and connect with Ithaca College resources and tools that empower them to gain academic, social, emotional, and financial wellness.
Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP): The mission of HEOP is to provide a comprehensive menu of support services to pre-freshmen, opportunity program transfer students, and continuing IC students who, because of both academic and economic circumstances, would otherwise be unable to attend Ithaca College. Support services continue until graduation.
Student Accessibility Services: works to facilitate access for students with disabilities at Ithaca College. Through the interactive process, SAS works in partnership with IC students, faculty and staff to develop and implement accommodation plans.
Transfer Student Support: Resource for students who enroll in Ithaca College through a transfer pathway. Goal is to help students adapt to Ithaca College and provide them with the necessary resources to succeed.
Tutoring Services: Provides peer tutoring, peer coaching for academic success.
Writing Center: Offers tutoring focused solely on writing and reading. Goal is to help students from all disciplines, backgrounds, and experiences develop greater independence as writers and to foster advanced writers across the College—students, staff, and faculty alike.

Center for Career Exploration and Development: Career Services assists students and alumni from all majors and class years with every aspect of career development through a large collection of on-line resources as well as events (i.e., career fairs & networking), talks, and drop-in hours and personalized appointments with Career Engagement Specialists and Peer Career Advisors. Services and resources include: Self-assessment, career decision-making, choosing a major; career exploration and research; the internship search process; the job search process; professional branding and networking; the graduate/professional school search & application process; resume & cover letters; interview preparation; and salary negotiation.
Intercultural Career Connections: Intercultural Career Connection is a long-standing program at IC that brings PoC alumni back to engage with students over a professional panel that explores post-grad life and careers and provides networking opportunities.
LinkedIn Learning: With courses for all skill levels, practice environments, exercise files, and on-the-go learning from your laptop, tablet, and mobile device, LinkedIn Learning provides something for everyone. LinkedIn Learning.com can be accessed on-demand to build your technical, managerial, communication and other skills. Log on to apps.ithaca.edu using your Netpass username and password.
Student Employment: Ithaca College Student Employment provides students the opportunity to put their academic experiences into practice in a professional setting that reflects the post-graduate workplace. Student Employment jobs offer experiential learning initiatives, and a range of transferable skills, as well as a competitive recruitment and retention process that models the professional environment. Student Employment assists matriculated students in attaining campus employment, and additionally assists eligible Federal Work Study students in securing off-campus work opportunities through the Off Campus Community Service Program.
Study Abroad: Ithaca College students study on semester-long and short-term study abroad programs with the goal of providing students with quality international experiences. Study abroad has been shown to effectively foster global citizenship as well as other valuable intercultural competencies that students can use both personally and professionally throughout the course of their lifetimes.

Handshake: Database of available job and internship opportunities, career fairs, and networking opportunities to build career connections.
LSAMP: IC is a member of the Central New York LSAMP Alliance, sponsored by the NSF. Participants engage in Ithaca College-specific and alliance-wide workshops to promote career development, paid summer research opportunities, mentorship, and community/network building.

Employee Campus Resources

Learn more about resources available on campus to support employee's vocational wellness.

Center for Civic Engagement: While serving as an intellectual incubator and socially responsible partner in advancing civic learning and democratic engagementˡ, the Center of Civic Engagement facilitates the development and coordination of curricular and co-curricular community partnerships and activities including Service-Learning courses, volunteer community service initiatives by students and student organizations, and all areas of institutional community access.
Center for Faculty Excellence (faculty resource): The CFE promotes equitable organizational change, develops inclusive teaching pedagogy, presents resources that support faculty roles as educators and scholars, offers mentorship and support, and provides award and grant opportunities for Ithaca College faculty.
Flexible Work Plans: Learn more about Ithaca College's guiding principles on creating effective flexible work plan opportunities.
LinkedIn Learning: With courses for all skill levels, practice environments, exercise files, and on-the-go learning from your laptop, tablet, and mobile device, LinkedIn Learning provides something for everyone. LinkedIn Learning.com can be accessed on-demand to build your technical, managerial, communication and other skills. Log on to apps.ithaca.edu using your Netpass username and password.
Staff Development Funds: To expand professional development opportunities for Ithaca College Staff members, ICHR supports the cost of job related development programs. Professional development opportunities that enhance the staff member’s ability to support the College’s effort to attain its mission, vision, guiding values, and strategic plan are encouraged.
Training Resources: Explore various programs and opportunities offered through Ithaca College's Office of Human Resources to enhance the college's commitment to provide education, training, and consulting resources that strengthen individual capability, build organizational strength, and promote a culture of excellence.
Writing Center: Offers tutoring focused solely on writing and reading. Goal is to help students from all disciplines, backgrounds, and experiences develop greater independence as writers and to foster advanced writers across the College—students, staff, and faculty alike.

Student Employment Enhancement Network (SEE- SUPERvision Team): A campus-wide, grassroots effort to turn student employment into a high-impact practice by providing training, resources, and support for supervisors of student employees.
Faculty Council (only faculty employees): Learn more about the role of faculty council, serving as an elected member, and its impact as the representative body for all faculty employees of Ithaca College.
IC Unity Network: ICUnity is a network of students, alumni, staff, parents, and friends associated with Ithaca College. We support diversity-related programs and events that facilitate improved interaction between people of different ethnic backgrounds, identities, religions, and orientations.
Staff Council (only non-faculty employees): Learn more about the role of staff council, serving as an elected member, and its impact as the representative body for all non-faculty employee positions at Ithaca College.
Women's Mentoring Network: Connecting women faculty and staff in meaningful ways to create a sense of community and belonging and uplift women to empower their success