Dear Colgate Faculty and Students,
We write to you with an update about two important University processes that, in ordinary years, occur around this time in the spring semester: fall course registration and housing selection. Both of these processes will be delayed in order to allow the faculty and administrators time to develop appropriate guidelines for students in this period of great disruption. These two processes will now take place in early June.
Colgate is fully committed to returning, as swiftly as possible, to our classic form of residential liberal arts education next year, with face-to-face instruction occurring in a residential community. Planning for the 2020–2021 academic year, however, will require a spirit of creativity to ensure that Colgate returns to its residential liberal arts education as fully as possible, as soon as possible, while also foregrounding safety and responsibility to this community. We are currently reviewing how best to achieve these ends. It is prudent to plan these various scenarios now to the fullest extent possible. Registration and housing selection will follow these planning discussions.
We will announce plans for each of these processes well in advance and as soon as it is practicable. It is important to note here that many housing selection processes for the upcoming year have already been decided; those will not change. It is the remaining housing selection processes that will be delayed until early June.
We do not wish to create any additional uncertainty at a time of many unknowns. However, we both feel confident that delaying these timelines and processes for a short period will allow the University, and you, to plan clearly and well as we look forward to our upcoming academic year.
If you have any registration questions, please email registrar@colgate.edu. If you have any housing questions, please email reslife@colgate.edu.
We appreciate our community’s continued creativity, support, and patience always —especially at this time.
Tracey E. Hucks ’87, MA’90
Provost and Dean of the Faculty
James A. Storing Professor of Religion and Africana & Latin American Studies
Paul J. McLoughlin II, Ph.D.
Vice President & Dean of the College