815 North Broadway
Saratoga Springs,
New York, 12866
SKIDMORE PHONE
518-580-5000
Cocurricular Environment
Skidmore College recognizes that students' experiences outside
the classroom should be as challenging and educational as those within.
Thus the college offers many services to help students make
the best use of their cocurricular time. The Office of the Dean
of Student Affairs is responsible for coordinating these services,
which include student academic affairs, international programs,
counseling, multicultural student affairs, health services,
opportunity programs, residential life, religious life, career
planning, student activities, and volunteer services.
FACILITIES
Murray-Aikins Dining Hall
Facing Case Green, the strikingly remodeled dining hall serves
a vast array of meals in a lively bistro-marketplace atmosphere
(brunch and dinner only on Saturdays and Sundays) for students living on campus.
Case Center
Josephine Young Case College Center, named in honor of former trustee Josephine Case, connects the academic and
residential areas of the Skidmore campus. Case Center houses the college bookstore, the campus post
office, a student art gallery, the Intercultural Center,
and offices for student clubs and organizations. The building
is also home to the Spa snack bar, the faculty-staff club, and
the Burgess Café, which offers computer access combined
with study and social space in a coffeehouse setting. On the
south side of Case Center is Porter Plaza, an outdoor gathering
space for socializing, special events, and performances.
Dance Center
The Dance Center adjoins the Sports
and Recreation Center. It consists of three units including
two spacious dance studios; a large dance, sport, and recreational
area; and the fully equipped Dance Theater with adjoining dressing
rooms. This is the center for dance activities during the academic
year. The Dance Theater also hosts visiting professional dance companies throughout
the year.
Falstaff’s
Opened in 1986, this one-story facility contains small alcoves
for eating and relaxation and a large open area for dancing
and entertainment. A committee of students, faculty, and administrators
sets policy for Falstaff's and sponsors a variety of cocurricular
activities.
Jonsson Tower
Named in honor of former trustee J. Erik Jonsson, this twelve-story building houses students on its top seven
floors. A penthouse lounge is used for social functions. Health
and Counseling Services, Campus Safety,
and WSPN radio can be found on the lower
floors.
Sports and Recreation Center
The Sports and Recreation Center houses a main gymnasium with three
basketball/volleyball courts, intramural gym, swimming pool and diving well,
athletic training room and human-performance laboratory, aerobics and
fitness area, weight room, recreation gym, and varsity team rooms. The
center also houses the new Skidmore Athletics Hall of Fame. Just outside
the Sports Center are nine tennis courts (five lighted), plus an
artificial long-turf field for soccer and lacrosse in the center of a
lighted stadium with an all-weather track and seating for 1,400
spectators. Adjacent are an artificial short-turf surface for field
hockey and a long-turf softball diamond. (Baseball is played on the
natural-grass Castle Baseball Diamond off campus.)
Starbuck Center
Named for former trustee Kathryn Starbuck, this building houses the offices
that provide nearly all of the administrative
services for students, including the Offices of the Registrar,
Dean of Studies, International Programs, Student Aid and Family
Finance, Student Accounts, Career Services, Residential Life,
and the Higher Education Opportunity Program and Academic Opportunity Program.
Van Lennep Riding Center
The Van Lennep Riding Center offers excellent facilities for
riding, a stable of approximately thirty horses for student use, and space for students
active in the riding program to board their own horses. In addition to a large heated indoor
riding ring, there is a large outdoor riding arena, two turnout paddocks and a round pen,
and riding trails. The heated stable accommodates sixty-eight
stalls (ten by ten feet each), tack rooms, feed storage, a blacksmith
shop, a lounge, and a classroom.
Wilson Chapel
Val H. Wilson Memorial Chapel honors Skidmore's third president
and is intended primarily for meditation, though it is at times
used for various religious ceremonies and college events.
Set in a wooded area, it purposely lacks religious symbolism
in its architecture and decor, emphasizing that it is for use
by all members of the community, regardless of faith.
A Spirit in Nature meditation path meanders into the woods directly behind the chapel.
