ITHACA — Faculty members say they hope more changes come to Ithaca College now that the president has set plans for retirement.

IC President Tom Rochon announced last week that he will be retiring after the 2016-2017 academic year, which he says will allow the Board of Trustees enough time to find his successor.

Since the beginning of the academic year, students and faculty have been calling for Rochon to resign. They say the president did not fully address the concerns of people of color after a number of incidents on campus.

Rochon told faculty during a meeting Thursday that he plans to continue open dialogues about how to help the campus community.

Associate professor of politics at Ithaca College Patricia Rodriguez says she has little faith in Rochon’s plans for the time has left in office.

“He didn’t really make anything clear about that, about what his priorities were going to be,” she said. “What he said was he was going to engage in dialogue, which is exactly where he failed in the past eight to nine years. So, I don’t know if I believe there’s a role for him in the next eighteen months.”

Rodriguez says members of the campus want to be included in more decision making processes for the school.

“Here we have a system in which very few people are engaged in the selection process of new trustees. I think that we would like to be in that process both in terms of faculty decision making around that, staff, students and alumni,” she said.

Students, faculty and staff also held votes of no confidence for the president, the results of which found the majority of the campus community did not stand with Rochon’s leadership.