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The centers and institutes below feature exceptional opportunities for research and discussion. Visit their respective sites to learn more.
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 Freedom & Western Civilization: The center supports lectures, debates, and research on the ideals of freedom and democracy and the cultural traditions that sustain them.
Center for Language and Brain: The mission of the center is to scientifically explore questions regarding foreign language instruction and learning. The approach is fundamentally interdisciplinary, with perspectives from linguistics, speech science, psychology and neuroscience.
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.
Writing and Speaking 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.
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.
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.
Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute: The mission of the institute is to foster the creation of new knowledge that is obtainable only through the development of sustained interdisciplinary research.
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.
Teachers' Institute on Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad in Upstate New York: Please check back in October 2012 for information on this 2-week institute for school teachers to be held in Summer 2013 (pending funding from The National Endowment for the Humanities). Past institutes were held in summers 2008, 2010, and 2011.