Colgate University’s 15th president, Rebecca S. Chopp, will be recognized for her leadership with an endowed chair in the humanities, named in her honor.

The Third-Century Plan, unveiled last May, underscores the University’s intention to recruit scholars of the first order for new tenure-track teaching positions. In keeping with its ambitious plan, Colgate is announcing a series of enhancements to faculty hiring packages.

Changes to Colgate’s Student Health Services this academic year will increase clinical care availability on campus while also bolstering sports-medicine support for Division I athletes, student club teams, and intramurals. 

A strategic framework focusing Colgate on the attainment of a series of long-term goals.

Colgate University is eliminating federal loans from financial aid offers for all current and incoming students with a total family income of up to $125,000, starting in the fall of 2020.

This spring, Colgate Career Services received the 2026 National Association of Colleges and Employers Excellence Award, recognizing its approach to networking that redefines how students think about professional relationships.

In April, Lindsey Glass ’19 and Brooke Sweeney ’19 returned to campus to join Doug Johnson, dean of academic and curricular affairs and William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of psychological and brain sciences, for a conversation with students in his seminar, Attention: William James to TikTok, on psychology, the rise of artificial intelligence, and attention as both a psychological process and a professional resource.

More than 125 Colgate faculty, staff, and students cast votes for their preferred piece in the inaugural Art Tank event, the culmination of Professor Elizabeth Marlowe’s new, experiential learning course ARTH/MUSE 254: How (and Why) To Buy a Work of Art.

Colgate University has long been known for the exceptional quality of its academic faculty and Division I coaching, but rarely do the two come together to learn from one another — until now.

A new Longyear Museum of Anthropology exhibit displays the work of more than 30 crafters from across campus and the community who have created “tempestries” to highlight the yearly temperature changes for significant dates in Colgate’s history.