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Daniel Auwarter, social services commissioner for Chenango County, speaks during a panel discussion April 22, 2025, with Rajni Chawla, executive deputy commissioner of the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA), and Paul Brady, executive director of New York Public Welfare Association (NYPWA) highlighting Local, State and Regional Perspectives on Poverty, By America.

State and regional experts with decades of social services experience recently visited Colgate to share their perspectives on the issues raised in Matthew Desmond’s book Poverty, By America as they work to provide support to those struggling to meet basic needs locally and across New York State.

May 19, 2025

Charlie Tourbaf '25 stretching plastic over invasive plants

As part of the 2024 cohort of Summer Field School Fellows, Mary Thomas Powell ’26 and Charlie Tourbaf ’25 are conducting hands-on environmental research.

August 15, 2024

LLP Plus

LLP Plus Seminars

In addition to the individual presentation offerings for LifeLong Learning Program members in the spring and fall, this spring LLP is launching LLP Plus, a separate seminar program which offers an opportunity for deeper learning through a series of meetings focused on a single topic. This initial seminar will feature Margaret Darby, who will direct an extended discussion of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.

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Grace is sitting in a grassy area and is putting together a wooden structure for her pollinator conservation project

Grace Leightheiser finishes her 2021 summer field school fellowship with AdkAction, a nonprofit based in Keeseville, N.Y.

August 5, 2021

Samantha Giuntini standing inside the art studio

Samantha Giuntini ’22 finishes her 2021 summer field fellowship as an intern for Bell Tree located in Earlville, N.Y., and the Carol Kinne Memorial Columbus Center in Columbus, N.Y.

August 4, 2021

Cassie standing next to Cazenovia Preservation Foundation Sign with a Map

Cassie Ferrante ’21 finishes her 2021 Summer Field Fellowship as an intern for the Cazenovia Preservation Foundation.

August 3, 2021

A screenshot of Meg DeSouza '23 on zoom working remotely for the The Young Scholars Liberty Partnerships Program

Meg DeSouza '22 finishes her 2021 Summer Field Fellowship as an intern for the The Young Scholars Liberty Partnerships Program.

August 3, 2021

Kelsey Bennett sitting next to her computer with a presentation made for the Northern Forest Center

Kelsey Bennett ’22 finishes her 2021 summer field fellowship as an intern for the Northern Forest Center.

August 3, 2021

Victoria Basulto sitting in an office in front of a desk with three boxes of documents

Victoria Basulto '21 finishes her 2021 summer field fellowship as an intern for the National Abolition Hall of Fame.

August 3, 2021

Aliyah DeJesus and Abigail Douglas work with BRiDGES remotely

Each summer, Field School Fellows conduct research in partnership with community and nonprofit organizations in the Upstate New York region. In the summer of 2020, this research took place virtually but over twenty students were still able to complete valuable community-based projects.

August 26, 2020

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