- Interested in a creative read to put these times in perspective? Imagine a new future with the First-Year Experience summer reading.
- Ask students or faculty about Skidmore’s First-Year Experience and their responses will range from a deep dive into the liberal arts supported by peers to a kickoff to college life in London.
- What will the Class of 2023 learn in its first semester? Inspired by Skidmore professors' intellectual curiosities and passions, Scribner Seminars are a cornerstone of the First-Year Experience.
- Marla Melito '93, student academic development coordinator for the First Year Experience, and student Facebook advisor Joe Doino '18 are on the front lines of assisting students in the class of 2020 as they begin their college careers at Skidmore.
- Elianna Mentzer '19 (left) wrote a paper that was "beautifully written, well researched, and soundly argued," according to Professor Kate Greenspan. (Photo by Rebecca Fawcett '18)
- A first-year seminar asks digital natives "to stop and think about how technology affects not only our everyday lives, but also our academic studies."
- Professor Tillman Nechtman is giving his first-year seminar students a lot of ownership, and they're loving it.
- Moore, whose novel A Gate at the Stairs was the summer reading assignment for the Class of 2015, will visit the campus Nov. 3 for a conversation with Professor Linda Hall, followed by a book signing event. The event is open without charge to the public.
- The first of this year's Distinguished Scientist Lectures will be given by Dr. Neil Shubin, author of Your Inner Fish, the summer reading selection for the Class of 2014. The talk, scheduled for Sept. 27, is free and open to the public.
- Student soloists will be a highlight of the first performance of the Skidmore College Orchestra in the new Zankel Music Center. Maestro Charles Schneider (at left) is guest conductor of the March 6 program.