Academics

Centers

ALANA Cultural Center: A learning center and focal point where all students, faculty, and staff can gather to understand the African, Latin American, Asian American, and Native American cultures, struggles, and accomplishments, ALANA provides support, advice, and facilitation for all Colgate community members.

Center for the Arts and Humanities: The center’s activities highlight the rich texture and interconnections between the arts and humanities in the overall intellectual and cultural life of the university. A key focus is to increase student appreciation of the ats and humanities through involvement in them as well as study of them. In addition, the center works toward making the university an even more valuable resource to the central New York region.

Center for Freedom & Western Civilization: Seeking to promote a conservative viewpoint as a way of enhancing intellectual diversity and a genuine exchange of ideas, the center looks to foster a climate of civilized debate about the great issues of the past and the present without the limitations of prevailing academic discourse.

Center for Learning, Teaching and Research: Opened in fall 2005, the center is dedicated to enhancing theacademic experiences and academic climate for learning for all students. One of the center's top priorities is helping students see connections between what they need and what the center offers. Faculty and staff are critical in helping students make that connection and in providing a pathway to the center and all it offers.

Center for Outreach, Volunteerism, and Education (The COVE): Colgate's center for service, citizenship, and community building, the COVE supports volunteer organizations, service learning classes, internship programs, residential life initiatives, and social change oriented career counseling.

Center for Women's Studies: The center offers educational materials and programs to the entire Colgate community on issues of gender and women's studies. There also is a women's studies interdisciplinary program that is open to all students.

W. M. Keck Humanities Resource Center: This center in Lawrence Hall focuses on the study of foreign languages and supports many kinds of learning activities that integrate video, sound, and text. Writing Center: The center’s mission is to help any student, regardless of ability or confidence, at any stage of the composing process, from brainstorming initial ideas to reviewing and revising a draft.

Institutes

Upstate Institute: The mission of the institute is to create linkages between the university and the regional community to engage students, faculty, staff and residents in research and a reciprocal transfer of knowledge that will enhance the economic, social and cultural capacity of the area and sustain the environment.

Teachers' Institute on Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad in Upstate New York: Become one of twenty-five participants in an exciting teachers’ institute on Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad in Upstate New York to be held at Colgate University from June 27-July 23, 2010. The National Endowment for the Humanities is sponsoring this institute and has designated it as a “We the People” project.  Summer Seminars and Institutes for School Teachers are offered by the National Endowment for the Humanities to provide teachers an opportunity for substantive study of significant humanities ideas and texts. 

Institute for the Creative and Performing Arts: The mission of the arts institute is to support, promote, and encourage the creative and performing arts through practice and scholarship; to enrich the quality and availability of artistic experiences for Colgate students and the broader community; and to stimulate critical dialogue on the creative and performing arts in the liberal arts context.

Institute for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics: The mission of the institute is to provide a focus, forum, and resource for faculty development and student engagement at the intersection of public affairs and the liberal arts.