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Here are several opportunities to read what members of the Colgate community and guests have discussed at major campus events.
August '11
• Founders' Day convocation address by Professor George Hudson
May '11
• Commencement address by Howard Fineman '70
• Commencement remarks by Colgate President Jeffrey Herbst
• Baccalaureate address by Rev. Maria A. Scates
October '10
• Inauguration remarks by President Jeffrey Herbst
August '10
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Convocation address by President Jeffrey Herbst
May '10
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Commencement keynote by Martha Nussbaum, one of the world's leading philosophers and a University of Chicago professor (See a
related story, photos)
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Commencement remarks by Lyle Roelofs, interim president
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Baccalaureate address by Rev. Roger A. Ferlo '73
August '09
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Convocation address by Lyle Roelofs, interim president (See a
related story, photos)
May '09
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Commencement remarks by President Rebecca Chopp (See a
related story, photos)
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Commencement keynote by Geoffrey Canada, CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone
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Baccalaureate address by Jerry Balmuth, Harry Emerson Fosdick Professor of philosophy and religion
August '08
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Convocation address by Ellen Percy Kraly, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of geography (See a
related story, photos)
May '08
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Commencement keynote by CBS journalist Leslie Stahl
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Commencement remarks by President Rebecca Chopp
May '07 • Commencement remarks by President Rebecca Chopp (Listen to the speech and see a related story, photos)
• Commencement keynote by Bob '83, former co-anchor of World News Tonight, and Lee McCaughnay Woodruff '82, journalist (Listen to the speech and see a related story, photos)
• Baccalaureate sermon by Rabbi David Ellenson (See a related story, photos)
August '06
• Convocation address by Peter Balakian, Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the humanities; director of creative writing (See a related story, photos)
May '06
• Commencement remarks by President Rebecca Chopp (Listen to the speech and see a related story, photos)
• Commencement address by Eliot Spitzer, New York state attorney general (Listen to the speech See a related story, photos)
• Baccalaureate sermon by Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz (See a related story, photos)
August '05
• Convocation address by Jill Tiefenthaler, professor of economics, associate dean of the faculty, director of the Upstate Institute (See a related story, photos)
May '05
• Commencement remarks by President Rebecca Chopp (See a related story, photos)
• Commencement address by Marian Wright Edelman, president and founder of the Children's Defense Fund
• Baccalaureate sermon by the Rev. J. Bryan Hehir
August '04
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Convocation address by Lourdes Rojas, professor of Spanish, division director of University Studies
May '04
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Commencement address by Stephen Burke '80, president of Comcast Cable (See a
related story, photos)
May '03
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Commencement address by Anna Quindlen, author
September '02
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Convocation address by President Rebecca Chopp
September '02
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Inaugural address (PDF) by President Rebecca Chopp
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Remarks (PDF) by James T. Laney, president
emeritus of Emory University and former U.S. ambassador to South Korea, at President Chopp's inauguration