Diversity in the News
- The "Human Dilemmas" cluster of the First-Year Experience will host several public events in the coming weeks.
- Skidmore will celebrate Latino Heritage Month throughout November with a variety of activities designed to promote Latino culture and history.
- Saratoga Reads, a community program designed to foster a shared reading experience, has announced that of 138 novels nominated by the community, 10 have been chosen as finalists for this year's book of choice.
- Best-selling author Dinesh D'Souza will give a lecture titled "America through Muslim Eyes: Why the U.S. is Loved, Why the U.S. is Hated, and Who is Winning the War on Terror" at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 1, in Gannett Auditorium, Palamountain Hall.
- Skidmore students will host several opportunities for Halloween fun this weekend, and invite children of faculty and staff to participate in the festivities.
- Hayat, a student organization dedicated to sharing the culture and traditions of the Middle East and South Asia, is sponsoring a week of events to do just that.
- Pushkala Prasad, Professor of Management and Business, is a co-editor of the Handbook of Workplace Diversity (Sage Publications Ltd., 2006).
- Saratoga Reads will launch its third year of programs and activities on Wednesday, Dec. 6, with a book fair at Barnes & Noble, Route 50, Wilton.
- What's the connection between Skidmore College and a health clinic in Malawi, Africa? On Monday, Dec. 4, Saratoga resident Dan Sansone will explain in a talk scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in Gannett Auditorium, Palamountain Hall.
- Skidmore's newly formed Black Faculty-Staff Group will host a film discussion and screening of the new documentary film What's Race Got to Do with It? at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 6, in Gannett Auditorium, Palamountain Hall.
- A screening of the new documentary film The Second Independence: A New Face of Africa by Joseph Kaifala '08 is scheduled at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 7, in Gannett Auditorium, Palamountain Hall. Admission is free and open to the public.
- John Brueggemann, associate professor of sociology, is coauthor of Racial Competition and Class Solidarity (2006, State University of New York Press).
- Even the most diehard rationalist, in his heart of hearts, longs to believe in magic.
- The Aaron Goldberg Trio will be in residence on campus in mid-February as the latest performers in the Filene Concert Series sponsored by the College's Music Department.
- Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Clarence Page will visit Skidmore Wednesday, Feb. 15, to deliver the keynote lecture for the College's Black History Month celebration.
- If you are an environmental studies major with a minor in German, what could be better than spending two months working with the Green Party as an intern in the German parliament?
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