Tim O'Keeffe

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  • Eddie Glaude Jr.
    Eddie S. Glaude Jr., the William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African American studies and the chair of the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University, will deliver the keynote address at Colgate’s 194th commencement on Sunday, May 17, in Sanford Field House. Glaude, widely regarded as one of the leading young African […]
    March 3, 2015
  • Colgate Memorial Chapel
    Douglas Hicks, Colgate provost and dean of the faculty, announced that the university’s Board of Trustees approved several appointments and promotions for faculty members. “I ask everyone to join me in congratulating these highly valued colleagues for their significant professional accomplishments,” said Hicks.
    January 29, 2015
  • Colgate President Jeffrey Herbst and Hamilton Mayor Margaret Miller spoke about the cooperation that led to the introduction of natural gas to the campus and community. (Photo by Dylan Crouse '15)
    A renovated heating plant that for the first time will use natural gas as a fuel option will significantly reduce the university’s carbon footprint and provide increased flexibility for heating campus in the years ahead. In about two weeks, after a series of diagnostic tests, the university will deploy two new boilers that replaced three […]
    October 29, 2014
  • Konosioni, the university’s senior honor society, is working hard this week to bring back the Colgate Hello tradition. Members have distributed nametags through student mailboxes and at tables in the O’Connor Campus Center. You can follow the society’s efforts on its Facebook page and on Twitter by using the #ColgateHello hashtag.
    October 22, 2014
  • An update of the official Colgate app features up-to-the-minute information about the Cruisers, providing students an easy way to see exactly where the buses are and where they are headed. The new functionality, which also provides key information about bus routes and their stops, can be accessed from any Android or iOS mobile device, as […]
    October 15, 2014
  • Filmmaker Segei Loznitsa will be coming to Colgate in November.
    A longstanding collaboration between Colgate University and the world-renowned Flaherty Film Seminar, which brings nearly 200 filmmakers, scholars, and programmers to Colgate each summer, has spurred creation of an on-campus residency program that will begin this fall. The Colgate/Flaherty Distinguished Global Filmmaker Residency will bring acclaimed Russian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa to the university for an intensive […]
    September 25, 2014
  • Living Writers on ColgateX
    Colgate University and Hamilton College, who last year forged a unique partnership as contributing members in edX, recently received a $91,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to further their exploration of online learning technologies within the residential liberal arts context. The two schools also will use the grant to foster collaborative ties with […]
    September 11, 2014
  • Colgate will hold a service of remembrance and interfaith prayer at noon Thursday in Memorial Chapel to honor the victims of the 9/11 attacks. Seven alumni were among the 2,977 people killed in the September 11, 2001, attacks. An untold number were, and still are, deeply affected by the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
    September 10, 2014