Ithaca College’s uncertain financial future | Backstory

Listen and subscribe to Backstory on: Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Overcast , Amazon Music , YouTube or wherever you get podcasts . Backstory also airs on WRFI at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays. Ithaca College has been grappling with a budget deficit since 2024. At the time, they projected optimism that they’d close the deficit in a few years. But now, here we are two years later, and that progress has been slower than expected. College leaders are weighing options to keep the school fiscally sustainable: Faculty layoffs? A restructure of the college’s five schools? A new artificial intelligence major? It all comes as the institution is in the midst of a broader leadership turnover. This week on Backstory, the financial plight of Ithaca College. Access a time-stamped transcript by clicking the button with three lines on the embedded player. For a full page transcript, click here . The transcript is auto-generated and may contain errors. Reported by Matt Minton, Jimmy Jordan and Megan Zerez. Hosted and edited by Megan Zerez. Cover art image by Casey Martin/Ithaca Voice. More stories like this