News and Updates

Conversations With Colgate Leaders, the live broadcast featuring members of the Colgate University administration, continued on Feb. 17 with Provost and Dean of the Faculty Lesleigh Cushing.

This year’s MLK celebration included seven days of extensive programming, Jan. 23–29, centering on the theme “Stronger Together.”

Second-year students seeking professional guidance from industry leaders gathered for Colgate Career Services’ annual SophoMORE Connections program, from Jan. 20 to 21.

During winter break, SRS students visited landmark southern cities to form deeper connections with course content and their peers.

Misty Copeland, a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre, will address the Colgate community on Friday, April 14.

Colgate University has received more than 21,000 applications from students hoping to join the Class of 2027.

Colgate Day, Jan. 13, President Brian W. Casey fielded questions from alumni during the first in a series of live conversations on YouTube. The discussion focused on the Third-Century Plan, where it stands, and where it is headed. 

This year, Colgate’s annual MLK Celebration will run from Jan. 23 through Jan. 29, 2023. The opening ceremony, featuring student speaker Kwabena Owusu Ansah ’24 and performances by the Colgate Resolutions and Safety Forth, will be held at 4:30 p.m., Monday, Jan. 23, in Memorial Chapel and will stream live.

On the latest episode of 13, join Professor of Sociology Paul Lopes for a wide-ranging exploration into the history of jazz, comic books, and the commonalities between Miles Davis and Martin Scorsese.

From the Colgate Magazine Archives, Fr. Tom Powell, Colgate’s Catholic chaplain and leader of the Newman Com­munity, writes of a sentimental journey he shared with five students — Peter Luglio, Peter Derrenbacker, Jeff Craig, and Dean Gregory, all ’89, and Rob Curran ’91 — in June 1989.