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The following is a message from President Rebecca Chopp to the Colgate community: As we begin this week of Thanksgiving, we are mindful both of all that we as a nation and a campus community have to be grateful for and of the challenges that we must be prepared to face moving forward. Through it […]

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell will visit Colgate University in April 2009 as part of the Global Leaders Lecture Series. On Friday, April 3, Powell is scheduled to give a public talk at Colgate. More details about the lecture, including time and ticket information, will be released at a later date.

The Patriot League title as safely secured as the pigskin in Jordan Scott’s hands, the Colgate Raiders will now head to Villanova on Saturday to play the Wildcats in the first round of the NCAA Football Subdivision Championship. Colgate is making its eighth appearance in the playoffs, and first since the 2005 season. Kickoff is […]

The men’s soccer team is in, having won the Patriot League title and a spot in the NCAA tournament for the second consecutive year. The men’s football team wants in, and by winning a critical match-up against Holy Cross on Saturday it would capture the Patriot League championship and receive an automatic berth in the […]

Colgate students packed into Lathrop Hall Monday night 30 minutes before the guest speaker was to begin. When Helen Sperling entered the room she implored the standing students to try and find empty seats, asking them not to make her feel guilty because she had a lot to say. Sperling is a Polish Jew and […]

As a studio art major, Kathleen Kohl ’09 has grown accustomed to receiving feedback about her artwork from classmates and professors. But, nothing quite compares to the critique she received last week. That’s because the critic peering at Kohl’s latest creation was one of the most influential Chinese artists in the world.

Although Bill Skelton, Robert Ho Professor in Asian studies and professor of music emeritus, retired from Colgate 15 years ago, he still receives letters from alumni saying that participating in the India Study Group with him was a life-changing experience. Skelton came to Colgate in 1954 as a music professor with degrees in music from […]

You can really clean up with $700. Just ask the students in economics professor Nicole Simpson’s Immigration course. The first-year seminar analyzes the causes and consequences of immigration in America, and Simpson often looks for opportunities to give her students service-learning experiences that reinforce what they learn in class.