Campus Life

Lauren Sanderson ’18 is an entrepreneur, student-athlete, academic all-star, and a soon-to-be published poet who now adds Colgate University’s most prestigious student recognition, the 1819 Award, to her impressive résumé of accomplishments. The 1819 Award is given annually to one graduating student whose character, scholarship, sportsmanship, and service to others best exemplify the university’s spirit and […]

LeAnna Rice, Campus Advisor for the JED Foundation and former Mental Health Counselor and Outreach Coordinator for SUNY Binghamton University, will be Colgate’s next director of the ALANA Cultural Center, effective June 18, 2018.

Nicki Moore has been selected to lead Colgate’s athletics, recreation and physical education programs, following a national search for a new athletics director.

Today, the university held one of its best-known traditions: Dancefest. This year, the event marked its 20th anniversary. Follow the timeline, and take a look back at past years’ festivities.     If you couldn’t be there in person, you can still watch Dancefest via our Livestream archive.  

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and the Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence Coalition is collaborating with groups across campus on a variety of events.

Spring has not yet arrived at Colgate but, with so much to celebrate, our community is as vibrant as ever. Here are 13 things that are causing excitement at Colgate right now.

The Smash Club student group has come a long way since Jonathan Morales ’18 and Marc Maggiore ’18 discovered their mutual interest.

What activates your inner nerd? President Brian W. Casey is a self-confessed campus architecture nerd. Casey presented on his obsession during Brown Commons’s inaugural Nerd Nite lecture, “Set in Stone: The Role Architecture Plays in Institutions of Higher Education.” Surrounded by a group of professors, students, and members of the Hamilton community, Casey made a […]

The springtime symposium “Women and Religion, Philosophy and Feminism” will honor emeritae faculty members Marilyn Thie and Wanda Warren Berry.

For the second time this academic year, Brenda Tracy returned to campus to raise awareness about sexual violence.