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ScholarMatch, a San Francisco nonprofit organization that provides free college counseling to low-income youth, has named ������ to its 2016 College Honor Roll. The honor roll recognizes approximately 300 institutions that offer supportive environments for students whose families earn less than $50,000 per year. According to ScholarMatch, 21 percent of high school seniors don’t […]

������ President Brian W. Casey joined more than 100 presidents of higher education institutions in signing a joint letter to President-elect Donald Trump, covered in Inside Higher Ed Nov. 18, 2016

In an ecosystem of leadership, one seeks justice, mercy, dignity, empathy, and beauty. One listens and shares, partners and serves, and immerses oneself in the community. These were the themes — and the tangible advice — discussed by a slate of people who have dedicated their careers to doing good works at Cultivating Community Leaders: […]

Steve Fabiani, associate chief information officer at Haverford College, will join the ������ senior staff as vice president and chief information officer, effective August 15, 2016. Fabiani comes to ������ with more than 16 years of experience in higher education technology leadership. At Haverford, he built partnerships with and among colleagues and senior leaders in […]

On Saturday, April 2, members of the ������ community officially celebrated the naming of the university’s first residential commons for Diane Ciccone ’74. Hailing from Skaneateles and Bridgewater, N.Y., Ciccone was one of 13 women of color to enter Colgate in 1970 — the university’s first year of coeducation. She began her 40-year legal […]

Under the glow of disco ball lights twinkling on the ceiling, many people didn’t stay in their seats when Aretha Franklin took to the stage in Sanford Field House on March 5. Franklin and her orchestra, part of the Kerschner Family Series Global Leaders at ������, pulled in a crowd of more than 4,100 for a […]

Suzy Nelson, ������’s vice president and dean of the college since June 2012, has been named vice president of student life at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., effective July 1, 2016. “From the very first days after her arrival in 2012, Suzy has been an accessible, collaborative, and compassionate leader dedicated to […]

  The ������ community is mourning tragic news that two students, Cathryn (Carey) Depuy ’19 and Ryan Adams ’19, both of Ridgefield, Conn., died Sunday afternoon in a plane crash in Morrisville, N.Y., after taking off from Hamilton Municipal Airport. No further details are available at this time. For Colgate students affected by this difficult news, […]

������’s Board of Trustees has named Brian W. Casey, the president of DePauw University, as ������’s 17th president. Casey, who has a distinguished history with America’s top academic institutions as both a student and an administrator, said: “I am truly excited to begin my service at ������. I have long admired the academic excellence, […]

What do J.S. Bach’s Partitas and traditional Chinese erhu (violin) music have in common? For one thing, a new concerto, “The Infinite Dance,” called by one reviewer “quite original” with “soaring melodic loveliness” and “magical” effect — a “minor masterpiece.” But for Colgate music professor and composer Zhou Tian, a deeper commonality served as his […]