News and Updates

Joanne Race Borfitz of Norwich, N.Y., will join Colgate University as associate vice president of community relations and auxiliary services starting April 7. Borfitz fills a new position created to manage Colgate’s relationship with and investments in local and regional communities. She will also oversee the primary auxiliary operations of the university. “Joanne is a […]

The Colgate rugby football club today departed New York City for a nine-day trip to Ireland. It is the club’s second tour of Ireland – its maiden voyage was in 2004. Since then, the club has enjoyed tremendous success, making the “Elite Eight” in the Northeast Rugby Union in 2004 and again last fall in […]

For spring break this year, nine Colgate students will roll up their sleeves and dig in to help others — literally. Accompanied by Daniel Mandell, assistant director of the COVE, the group will head to the Dominican Republic this Friday to plant vegetable gardens and lead educational sessions on nutrition for the community of El […]

Campus was buzzing today about the blizzard that hit Sunday. No, not the lake-effect-snow kind of blizzard, but rather the hundreds of students and fans who donned white T-shirts to watch the men’s basketball team beat Bucknell to advance to the Patriot League championship game. More than 1,300 fans jammed Cotterell Court to watch the […]

The thrill is definitely not gone for Ken Schanzer. As president of NBC Sports for nearly 10 years, he says he has “one of the greatest jobs on the planet.” As an alumnus from the Class of 1966, he says his love of Colgate — a place of “magic and miracles” — is as strong as […]

Within minutes of walking into New York City’s Soho House on Wednesday night, the club was abuzz with Colgate alumni exchanging stories — a few good laughs as well — about their days back in Hamilton. Then, it was time to get down to business. More than 100 Colgate alumni from the classes of ’85 […]

Students gathered in the O’Connor Campus Center last week to engage in formal political discussion as part of a mock Democratic caucus. With tensions running high between the Democratic presidential hopefuls, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama, students hoped the caucus process would help them better understand the candidates and their platforms.

A Colgate couple’s tireless efforts to return a digital camera accidentally left in a New York City taxicab to its owner became the focus of an Associated Press article picked up by newspapers and websites around the world. Brian Ascher and Erika Gunderson , both from the Class of 2003, were the main players in […]

Last year, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, written by Kim Edwards ’81, became a literary phenomenon and surprise summer reading hit. Within weeks of its paperback release, the novel simultaneously reached number one on The New York Times, USA Today, Publisher’s Weekly, and Book Sense bestseller lists, and it has been published in 34 languages. In […]

Raider Nation, it’s time to step up and be counted. Again and again and again. Fans of Colgate hockey are urged to vote for star goaltender Mark Dekanich, who is one of 10 finalists for the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award for men’s hockey. The award recognizes achievement in the areas of character, classroom, community, and […]