Essays and Speeches
For Skidmore, 2019 promises to be a year filled with excitement and new opportunities, as well as challenges, and I write to you to share some news of what lies ahead.- Welcome to another exciting academic year. It has been a busy summer, and we have a great deal of news to share to those who are new and those who are continuing their relationship with the College.
- Good morning! Let me add my own greetings to parents, family members, trustees, members of the faculty, and honored guests in attendance at this celebratory event: Skidmore’s 107th Commencement.
In 2016 President Glotzbach was honored by the education foundation of the Saratoga Springs Rotary for helping lead Skidmore in engaging with the community. Here are his remarks at the ceremony.
Glotzbach urges graduates to build lives of intrinsic and extrinsic value
Glotzbach extols a simple but crucial value: friendship, not on Facebook but in closeness, respect, affection, and loyalty- Sharing thoughts on social justice and the responsibility of liberally educated citizens
- A reminder for graduates to use their “intellectual and ethical toolkit” to tackle real-world problems
- On graduates’ responsibilities—and capabilities—to leave the world better than they found it
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