News and Updates

The Colgate Debate Society is looking to build on its successes of the past year as a new semester of competition approaches. Following the 2008-09 academic year, the Debate Society received the Debate Program of the Year award from the Society Advocating More and Better Argumentation.

As a producer for CNBC.com, one of the most-visited business news websites, Paul Toscano ’07 is at the heart of today’s ever-changing economic issues. Toscano is enthralled by his exposure to the economic crisis that began within a year of his arrival at CNBC.

In one of Colgate’s most engaging annual rituals, about 1,500 members of the Colgate family are gathering this month at locations across the country to “send off” the latest cohort of new students. Alumni and current parents are hosting more than 40 events in private homes, restaurants, and parks.

Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee, will speak at Colgate on Thursday, Sept. 17, as part of the university’s Diversity Week activities. Steele’s lecture, “Unity and Diversity: Common Ground in the 21st Century,” will be at 4:15 p.m. in Memorial Chapel and is free and open to the public.

‘This guy bleeds maroon’ That is the headline on a feature story in the Utica Observer Dispatch about Bob Cornell, who retired earlier this month as Colgate’s director of athletic communications after 33 years of service.

A Colgate University education can make a significant difference not only in graduates’ starting pay, but also in salary potential throughout their careers, according to the 2009 College Salary Report. The study released this week by PayScale, an online site that collects data on salaries for different professions, reveals which colleges offer the best return […]

G. Bruce Knecht ’80 recalls researching a story in 1994 for The Wall Street Journal about a soon-to-be launched company called Amazon.com Knecht went to the Amazon website, which was the first Internet site he had ever visited, on the only computer in the Journal newsroom that allowed access to the web.

One day Vonzelle Johnson ’07 woke with a vision. Community mentors in his hometown of Deland, Fla., had asked him and a friend to speak occasionally with area youth, but Johnson envisioned something bigger. “Forget just speaking,” said Johnson. “I thought, just go back and start a whole organization.”

Lee Woodruff ’82 shares important information about traumatic brain injury (TBI) and her family’s experience with the issue in a cover story for Parade magazine. Woodruff’s article, “Can Brains Be Saved?,” appeared in the magazine on Sunday. Parade has a circulation of 33 million and appears in 475 newspapers nationwide.

Colgate University has joined forces with five other upstate liberal arts colleges to explore potential cost-saving measures and to share best practices in areas such as student life and staff development. Besides Colgate, the New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium consists of Hamilton College, Clinton; St. Lawrence University, Canton; Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva; […]