News and Updates

  • Today is #CUselfie day at Colgate University. As the Colgate fiscal year ends on June 30, we want to see your selfies. Use the tag #CUselfie and take a picture, wherever you are. We’ll collect them all and post them in an update. The Photo Finish campaign is a celebration of student achievement at Colgate. […]
    June 30, 2014
  • Financial aid, Division I athletics, off-campus study, internships — which aspects of the Colgate experience inspire you? That’s the question the university has posed every day for the past two weeks as Fiscal Year 2014 comes to a Photo Finish.
    June 27, 2014
  • SophoMORE Connections, the signature program that connects Colgate sophomores with alumni, recently won the NACE award for innovation. Last year alone, 400 sophomores joined 100 alumni on campus to explore career opportunities in a variety of fields. This is just one of the ways in which Colgate brings graduates and undergraduates together for career-centered conversations.
    June 26, 2014
  • Student volunteers help out at the community garden.
    More than 30 summer interns conducting research and working on campus got a chance to get their hands dirty last week at a volunteer party for Colgate’s recently relocated community garden. Community garden interns Alex Schaff ‘16 and Quincy Pierce ‘16, under the guidance of garden manager Beth Roy, are working hard in the summer […]
    June 25, 2014
  • The Thought Into Action Entrepreneur Institute is charged with fostering an entrepreneurial spirit at Colgate. As founder and current mentor Andy Greenfield ’74, P’12 wrote in an oped for Hechinger Report: “Liberal arts graduates have great basic training for turning an idea into an action. The school from which I graduated, Colgate University, prepared me […]
    June 25, 2014
  • Back in 1833, Jonathan Wade took his Colgate experience on a mission to Burma and started a tradition of community-based learning and engagement. In the past decade alone, the Max A. Shacknai Center for Outreach, Volunteerism, and Education (COVE) has sponsored more than 50 trips to more than 16 locations in the United States and […]
    June 24, 2014
  • Students participate in an archeological dig while studying abroad
    Colgate wrote the book on off-campus study. The storied Washington D.C. study group, a unique semester-long NIH experience, faculty-led trips around the globe, and research abroad — all of these options for off-campus learning add depth to the Colgate experience. Last winter, Kara Vadman ’14 and Mikhaila Redovian ’15 joined geology professor Amy Leventer aboard […]
    June 23, 2014
  • Between June and August, students are pursuing internships, research, and service projects around the world and across America. They will investigate, teach, report the news, participate in political campaigns, plan events, save lives, and more.
    June 20, 2014