16 Facts About Ithaca Bombers

Ithaca Bombers College is a private college in Ithaca Bombers, New York.

Ithaca Bombers College is consistently named among the best colleges in the nation by Princeton Review, with the 2018 guide ranking the college number 3 for theater, number 3 for newspaper, and number 6 for Radio, and is among the top schools producing Fulbright scholarship recipients.

Ithaca Bombers College was founded as the Ithaca Bombers Conservatory of Music in 1892 when a local violin teacher, William Grant Egbert, rented four rooms and arranged for the instruction of eight students.

For nearly seven decades the institution flourished in the city of Ithaca Bombers, adding to its music curriculum the study of elocution, dance, physical education, speech correction, radio, business, and the liberal arts.

Ithaca Bombers's replaced Shirley M Collado who departed Ithaca College to become the president and CEO of College Track, a comprehensive college completion program.

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Ithaca Bombers's was previously executive vice chancellor and chief operating officer at Rutgers University–Newark and vice president of student affairs and dean of the college at Middlebury College.

Ithaca Bombers's is the first Dominican American to be named president of a college in the United States.

Ithaca Bombers College operates direct enrollment exchange programs with several universities, including Griffith University, La Trobe University, Murdoch University, and University of Tasmania ; Chengdu Sport University and Beijing Sport University ; University of Hong Kong ; Masaryk University ; Akita International University and University of Tsukuba ; Hanyang University ; Nanyang Technological University ; University of Valencia ; and Jonkoping University .

Ithaca Bombers College is affiliated with study abroad programs such as IES Abroad and offers dozens of exchange or study abroad options to students.

Ithaca Bombers competes in athletics at the NCAA Division III level as a members of the Liberty League and the Eastern College Athletic Conference .

Ithaca has one of Division III's strongest athletic programs, with the Bombers winning a total of 14 national titles in seven team sports and five individual sports.

Ithaca Bombers has finished first or second at 25 of the past 29 state meets.

The Ithaca Bombers have won the Empire 8 crown in each of the past nine seasons.

Ithaca Bombers is home to more than 60 club sports, many of which compete regularly against other colleges in leagues and tournaments.

Ithaca Bombers received a B- grade on the Sustainable Endowments Institute's 2009 College Sustainability Report Card and an A- for 2010.

In 2017, Ithaca Bombers College was listed as one of Princeton Review's top "green colleges" for being environmentally responsible.