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It’s a conundrum that would have baffled Peter Drucker: When five dozen emerging leaders meet at a restaurant, who orders first?

Lesley Stahl, an award-winning correspondent for CBS News’ 60 Minutes and author of Reporting Live, will deliver the keynote address at Colgate University’s 187th commencement exercises on Sunday, May 18. During the ceremony, Colgate will award Stahl a Doctor of Humane Letters honorary degree. One of the country’s most respected journalists, Stahl has been a […]

It’s one of the first ways that students living at Colgate identify themselves: “I’m on the third floor of Andrews.” Or, “I live in East.” When students arrive on campus each August, they bring their excitement and enthusiasm. They also bring duffel bags brimming with clothes, crates of PowerBars and macaroni and cheese, photographs, and […]

Parker Commons was transformed with palpable, focused energy for environmental change for Colgate and the surrounding community as nearly 100 participants converged for the sixth annual Green Summit. The summit is not a recognized group but rather an open gathering of students, faculty, staff, and community members who want to see environmental change enacted by […]

Golden Auditorium was hear-a-pin-drop quiet Thursday night as Paul Muldoon, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, read selections of his work for audience members weighing his every word and inflection. On Friday night, it was different. Donovan’s Pub in James C. Colgate Hall was rattle-the-walls loud as Muldoon and fellow band members played guitar-driven rock songs infused […]

Michael Eric Dyson is not afraid to shake things up, which is why his lecture “From Sit-ins to Hip Hop: A Social Consciousness in a Post-King America” left students both moved intellectually and shaking with laughter. Named by Ebony as one of the 100 most influential black Americans, Dyson is a university professor at Georgetown […]

Colgate professor Peter Balakian, whose book The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response was a New York Times bestseller, is the first guest for a new podcast series produced on campus. The series – Colgate Conversations: Writers and their craft – features authors talking about their unique writing styles and their latest works. […]

He’s been called “one of the most exhilarating of all living poets.” The Colgate community will receive a literary treat from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon when he reads from his collection of poetry at 4:30 p.m. Thursday in Golden Auditorium. Muldoon’s coming to Colgate as part of the Living Writers Series, co-sponsored by the […]