News and Updates

There was a good-natured sibling rivalry on display at center court before the game and some competitive flashes on the court during the women’s basketball game between the Colgate Raiders and Connecticut Huskies on Wednesday night in Hartford, Conn. Colgate University President Jeffrey Herbst and his sister, Susan Herbst, who is president of the University […]

Experts from the Colgate Office of Admission hosted a livestream Q&A session Tuesday night, answering questions ranging from the importance of extra curricular activities to the intricacies of financial aid for prospective students and parents. A recording of the live session can be found on Youtube.

The Colgate volleyball team, the 2012 Patriot League champions, will be heading to Austin, Texas, to play No. 3 Texas  at 7 p.m. Thursday in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

The Institute of International Education (IIE) released its 2010-2011 Open Doors data yesterday, and once again, Colgate appeared near the top of two lists for the number of students studying abroad. This news is important as President Jeffrey Herbst has placed a high priority on broadening the global awareness and experience of students and faculty since joining […]

Four Colgate alumni told students recently that a liberal arts education gave them the skills to work at Google, one of the most coveted employers on the planet. While some may assume all Google employees are computer science experts, alumni working on the business and sales side say they were able to land their jobs […]

Get ready, Raider Nation. Two Colgate teams — football and volleyball — are advancing to NCAA tournament play.

Last July, orthopedic surgeon Eric Gokcen ’84 performed a groundbreaking eight-hour surgery. His 17-year-old Ethiopian patient, Workitu Debebe, had a “parasitic twin” — a condition where a person has extra limbs, but no attached head or viable body.

It has been more than 20 years since Colgate last undertook a master plan of its built environment and land holdings, and in that time much in the landscape has changed.

Colgate dominated the second half of its game against Lehigh on Saturday, propelling the Raiders to a 35-24 victory that secured the Patriot League title and an automatic berth in the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs for the Raiders. Raiders rallied from a 10-point halftime deficit to defeat the Mountain Hawks at Goodman Stadium.

Joshua Stacher, fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and assistant professor of political science at Kent State University joined President Jeffrey Herbst for a World Affairs Conversation. Professor Stacher’s is the author of “Adaptable Autocrats: Regime Power in Egypt and Syria,” and is widely quoted in international media including NPR, the BBC, […]