News and Updates

(Editor’s note: The following guest post is by Danielle Dillon ’18) Colgate’s signature career event for second-year students, SophoMORE Connections, brought together more than 400 students and 90 alumni last week for two days of specialized networking and career exploration. Keynote speaker Amy Dudley ’06, chief spokesperson for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, pointed to the […]

Assistant Professor of Spanish Marta Perez-Carbonell shares a glimpse inside her contemporary Spanish fiction class in this new video. Students in Perez-Carbonell’s course craft their own short stories in Spanish, which are then collected in a small volume printed by Colgate’s Document Services shop. On the last day of class, students read their work out […]

The following is by Ed Fogarty, associate professor of political science, director of the International Relations program, and Eurosim faculty adviser. January 4–7, 2018, a delegation of 14 Colgate students traveled to Brussels, Belgium, to participate in the 31st meeting of Eurosim, a Model European Union program in which university students from Europe and the […]

Maria del Carmen Flores-Mills, J.D., the senior associate dean of the college at Franklin & Marshall College and former associate dean at Princeton University, has been named as the dean of students at Colgate University, effective June 4, 2018.

Last year, approximately 8,500 high schoolers wrote to Colgate trying to encapsulate what makes them a good fit for the university. This sampling of essays reveals the character of the Class of 2021 and reflects the spirit of Colgate.

Brian Ness, videojournalism coordinator in the Office of University Communications, captures the Colgate story on film every day. Here are his five favorite video projects from the last year.

University Photographer Mark DiOrio spent 2017 looking at Colgate through the lens of his camera. Here are his favorite shots from the last year.

Colgate’s newest faculty-led, semester-long study group will immerse students in the social, cultural, and political environment of post-Apartheid Cape Town, South Africa in the fall of 2018. The group was created to capitalize on the wealth of faculty expertise pertaining to South African history and culture, and it was developed with assistance from the Lampert […]

Shiny copper roof flashing and grand white–mullioned windows signaled the buttoning-up of Benton Hall’s exterior just as early winter snowfalls began to blanket the campus. When it opens in July 2018, Benton Hall will stand as a best-in-class career center — and then some. It’s part of a current $60 million building investment to enhance the […]