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Outdoor Education offers classes for Physical Education credit and Backyard Adventures that allow students to explore the outdoors.
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Students on our Wilderness Adventure pre-orientation program settle into life at Colgate with an exciting outdoor adventure.
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First-year students can apply for Outdoor Ed staff positions. Lead expeditions, learn lifelong skills, and make new friends as an OE leader.
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Outdoor Education's trained students and staff can help you foster good team relationships with our team-building programs
Mission
To provide Colgate students with leadership, wellness, personal growth, sense of place, and community-building opportunities through outdoor and experiential programs
In addition, our community values sustainability, diversity and inclusion, safety, and improvement. We support Colgate's mission to help students:
- Prepare for lives of leadership and productive citizenship
- Develop the skills to participate in a lifetime of healthy activity
- Develop personal potential and experience the cohesion of shared purpose