News and Updates

A total reimagination of the Colgate visit experience is thanks to the generosity of lead donors Dan ’86 and Ellie Hurwitz P’17 and a number of alumni, parents, grandparents, and other friends of the university.

Colgate University President Jeffrey Herbst today announced the selection of Rachel Reuben as vice president for communications, effective July 28. Reuben will join Colgate from Ithaca College, where, as associate vice president for marketing communications since 2010, she has overseen strategic marketing and branding of the college, as well as advancement and athletic communications, media […]

The Colgate University mobile app offers alumni quick and easy access to Reunion information, the alumni directory, campus webcams, WRCU, and much, much, more. Look for our icon in your app store, and download now. It’s as easy as 1-2-3!

Video of the commencement keynote address by CNN chief political analyst Gloria Borger ’74 P’10.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5LCtErh42Y] Torchlight is one of Colgate’s most time-honored traditions. See it in an all-new light in this time-lapse video by Brian Ness.

Gloria Borger ’74, ‘P10, who delivered a knock-out keynote address at Colgate’s commencement on Sunday, won praise for her speech and for her alma mater today as she was congratulated by Wolf Blitzer on his afternoon CNN program. On his daily program Wolf at 1 p.m., Blitzer congratulated Borger for receiving an honorary degree from […]

Looking out at a sea of graduates from the Class of 2014, Gloria Borger ’74, P’10 on Sunday recalled how much things had changed since she graduated 40 years ago as a member of the first coeducational class at Colgate. Borger was one of 132 “coeds” in that historic class, and she shared personal memories […]

(Note: These are prepared remarks by Father George Coyne SJ, McDevitt Chair of Religious Philosophy at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, for the baccalaureate service held Saturday, May 17, in Memorial Chapel. ) The Liberal Arts: Whence Freedom? It is said that John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin seriously considered putting an image of Moses […]

(Note: These are prepared remarks delivered by Gloria Borger ’74, P ’10, keynote speaker for Colgate’s 193rd commencement. Watch the speech here. ) President Herbst, members of the Board of Trustees, esteemed faculty and, of course, members of the Class of 2014 and your families… How wonderful it is for me to be back here in […]

(Note: The following is President Jeffrey Herbst’s prepared remarks to the Class of 2014 for Colgate’s 193rd commencement on Sunday, May 18.) It is a pleasure to speak before you on this special day. Before going further, I ask all parents and grandparents to please stand. Congratulations to you. We are grateful for the support […]