- 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.
- First-year students that took Associate Professor Tim Harper’s Scribner Seminar, Industry and Innovation, learned how to balance economics and business with ethics and inclusion.
- Congratulations to those of you who have been accepted into Skidmore's Class of 2017! And welcome to our community--both students and families.
- "Must have a strong ability to hold your tongue. May not offer thoughts about a college, its geographic desirability, or its student body until client has formulated his own." So wrote journalist Margo Warren in her Washingtonian magazine piece on visiting colleges last year with her son, Peter Beiser, then a senior at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland.
- Social networking is a common link for the 665 members of the Class of 2015, many of whom are connecting online before coming to campus next month.
- Gold-medal swimmer Nancy Hogshead-Makar is an expert on matters of equity in sports. She'll discuss the challenges facing Olympics organizers as they deal with the decisions of recent Title IX litigation in the U.S. Her talk is free and open 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.
- A warm welcome to the Class of 2014, the largest in Skidmore history. New students arrive on campus beginning this week; classes start Sept. 7.
- Gregory Howard Williams, president of the City College of New York and author, will lead a lecture and discussion on campus Wednesday, Sept. 20. His talk is scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. in Gannett Auditorium of Palamountain Hall.