News and Updates

Raiders football coach Dick Biddle, and Colgate fans everywhere, won’t forget Sunday’s game for quite awhile. The game against Coastal Carolina, and Biddle’s place in school history, was not settled until the game clock showed triple zeros and the Raiders had turned a muffed snap into a game-winning touchdown toss.

Ask Ajay Chahar ’12 where he is from, and he’ll say, “Colgate.” That’s partly because he is so excited about being a first-year student, and partly because he’s lived in so many cities in his native India that he doesn’t know which to call home. His father is an army colonel, and Chahar moved with […]

Amid the whoops of welcome and buzz of activity emanating from Whitnall Field on move-in day, came this shouted question from a first-year student: “Mom, how many of these 250 hangers do you think I’ll need?” Ah, the joys of packing — and overpacking — for college.

As the former chief executive officer and president of seven companies, including Revlon and DelMonte, Robert A. Fox ’59 knows a thing or two about being an effective leader. On Wednesday, Fox returned to Colgate’s campus — the place he credits with giving him “the building blocks for success” — to offer leadership advice to […]

A college degree provides you with many advantages after you graduate. A Colgate education, however, not only opens up lots of opportunities once you leave, but while you are studying here as an undergraduate. One of the most popular ways to take advantage of all Colgate has to offer is to study abroad. As ironic […]

It pays to coach Little League. For Kevin Briody ’85, it led to a Daytime Emmy award. While coaching his son Cavan’s Triple-A baseball team in Ridgefield, Conn., Briody, a folk singer-songwriter, had made the acquaintance of another player’s dad, who also happened to be a songwriter. In fact, he was Paul Glass, music supervisor […]

What’s a Colgate University degree worth? A study released Wednesday by PayScale, which was reported in Forbes and The Wall Street Journal, may shed some light on that question.

Colgate football players hope their strength and endurance pay off for charities that help fight rare diseases. At the “Lift for Life” fundraiser Friday, about 35 players will compete against each other in lifting and skills competitions.

Sports Illustrated senior writer Austin Murphy ’83 covered the National Football League for six years and is in his 15th year of covering college football. In the most recent episode of Colgate Conversations, the podcast series highlighting members of the campus community, Murphy had this to say: — The NFL is run by pinched, unsmiling […]

Participants in a Greek Life Summit met on campus last weekend to discuss the past, evaluate the present, and envision the future for Colgate chapters. Five representatives from each of the 10 fraternities and sororities on campus collaborated with staff members, local advisers, and alumni representatives. In all, more than 70 people contributed to the dialogue that was […]