Alumni groups in five major cities welcomed recent graduates of the Class of 2013 earlier this month, connecting the new arrivals with a robust and friendly network of Colgate alumni.
Homecoming Weekend keynote speaker Keith Ferrazzi presented a simple message to Colgate students, faculty, and staff on Thursday: establish deeper relationships. The New York Times bestselling author and CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight — a consulting firm designed to help people collaborate more effectively — focused on the idea of generosity when building more meaningful relationships […]
Golfweek magazine has once again named Seven Oaks Golf Course one of the best campus golf courses in the nation. The magazine placed Seven Oaks 22nd on the list. The course was designed by Robert Trent Jones in 1934, but wasn’t actually built until 1958. The second nine was completed and open for play in […]
Carol Bleser, the first woman to be a full-time faculty member at Colgate and the first to become a full professor at the university, died last month in Bellport, N.Y. At Colgate from 1970 until 1985, Bleser was first hired as an associate professor of history. She also would serve as interim director of Women’s […]
This month’s Year of ’13 list, presented on a very special #Colgateday, is by Andy Daddio, Colgate photographic services coordinator. He selected his 13 favorite campus photos that he has taken so far from an archive of more than 220,000 photographs.
We wanted to catch you up on some of the Colgate Day happenings happening around the world. ABC News’ morning show, Good Morning America, invited alumni and students to celebrate Colgate Day outside their Times Square Studio in New York City. You can watch a video clip below:
Members of the Colgate Speaking Union traveled to Madrid, Spain, this summer to compete in an all-Spanish-language debate tournament, representing one of just three schools from the United States at the international event. Gisselle Perez-Leon ’15, Benjamin Rangel ‘15, and Arlene Robles ’15 spent 11 days in Spain for the World University Debate Championship in […]
While many staff members and students were busy on the ground helping first-year students during arrival day 2013, two members of Information Technology Services took to the air to capture the scene. Using a DJI Phantom quadcopter with a GoPro 3 Black camera, the ITS team was able to show Colgate’s beautiful campus and provide […]
Entering the Quad for the Activities Fair on Tuesday evening, I saw a blur of students visiting tables that represented the diversity of student clubs and organizations. Arranged systematically, the tables boasted colorful signs, bowls of candy, or, in the case of the Tea Club, warm cups of tea. Students waiting patiently to sign up […]
My name is Hannah O’Malley, and this week I joined the Class of 2017. Because I attended a pre-Orientation program, I was fortunate to be able to move in a couple of days earlier. But bright-and-early at 8 a.m. on Saturday, as the WRCU DJs started to enliven the campus, I knew the highly anticipated […]