Upstate Institute

• Read more about Community-Based Student Research

At the Upstate Institute, we support engagement in the community within the framework of an academic course in a variety of ways. This engagement gives our students a new strategy for learning and exposes them to the resources of our region through projects that encourage a reciprocal transfer of knowledge.

Each year since 1959, Colgate has given area high school students a taste of the college experience. Faculty and administrators teach four sessions, meeting for three classes each, during the academic year.

The university’s mission is to provide a demanding, expansive educational experience to a select group of diverse, talented, intellectually sophisticated students who are capable of challenging themselves, their peers, and their teachers in a setting that brings together living and learning.

• Read more about High School Seminars

• Read more about Upstate Institute Research

We seek to encourage faculty scholarship on, or directly pertaining to, the upstate region of New York by providing support for the costs of research being conducted by a Colgate faculty investigator.

• Read more about Upstate Institute Course Development Grants

Interested in teaching a course focused on community-based research and engagement? The Upstate Institute’s course development grants help faculty design courses to create student research opportunities that benefit the community.

• Read more about Summer Field School

Summer Field School Fellows work with a community, government, or non-profit partners to create and complete research projects to benefit the upstate region of New York.