Diversity in the News
- Anthropology professor Joowon Park is using K-pop, the spirited, South Korean music phenomenon, to help first-year students explore interdisciplinary ideas and acclimate to the rigors of academic life at Skidmore.
- Meet Juleyka Lantigua-Williams ’96, a government major who loved her genetics class and was on the construction team for the theater company. Today, she’s a storyteller opening media to more people of color.
- Journalists and academics probed the meaning and bounds of free speech as part of the "Skidmore Speaks" series Nov. 5-8.
- Skidmore College faculty, staff and students came together for a series of conversations about diversity, equity and inclusion related to socioeconomic class.
- Events include a men's soccer game vs. St. Lawrence, a Center for Integrated Sciences groundbreaking ceremony, a keynote address by paleontologist Neil Shubin and the dedication of Skidmore’s new Valentine Boathouse.
- Learn about Saisselin’s remarkable history and see photos from the anniversary event.
- Skidmore is sponsoring a series of lectures and special events designed to initiate conversations around diversity, equity and inclusion related to socioeconomic class.
- Update: The U.S. Senate debate scheduled to be held at the Zankel Music Center on Sunday, Oct. 21 has been canceled.
- The Assistance to Firefighters Grant from FEMA will enable professor Denise L. Smith and colleagues to put research findings into practice and help protect firefighters’ hearts.
- Hassan López, an associate professor in Skidmore’s Neuroscience Program, is also a successful game developer. His new board game — “Maniacal,” a strategy game for aspiring supervillains — is set for release this spring.
- A recent live storytelling performance, produced by the renowned nonprofit, The Moth, and hosted by Skidmore’s MDOCs program, empowered and energized a new generation of storytellers at Skidmore College.
- Skidmore students, faculty, staff and community members recently gathered to share their responses as part of the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery’s public art project, “For Freedoms.”
- The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Skidmore College a $912,000 grant to promote diversity and global learning initiatives in its new general education curriculum.
- Even before stepping into classrooms on Sept. 5, members of Skidmore College’s Class of 2022 had already helped in Cambodian and Jamaican orphanages and worked on coral reef restoration.
- Donna Ng, a senior financial and administrative executive with extensive experience in higher education, has been appointed Skidmore’s next vice president for finance and administration and treasurer.
- Over 500 supporters gathered at the Saratoga Polo Fields to raise a record-breaking $320,000 to benefit the Palamountain Scholarship Fund.
- MDOCS Storytellers' Institute will present a series of free public lectures on campus June 7–10 around the theme "surveil/surveilled."
- Equipped with hands-on experience, new networks, diplomas and a dose of creative thought, grads are ready to tackle both graduate school and the working world.
- Friendships and fun. Accomplishments and confidence. Members of the Class of 2018 share how their lives have changed from 2014 to 2018.
- College experiences a 30 percent increase in applications over the last five years