Diversity in the News
- 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
- Communications and conflict resolution scholar Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob of Dickinson College to visit Skidmore March 21-23
- Each year Skidmore shares a lot of news about research, campus life, alumni, you name it. Which homepage stories reached the most eyeballs in 2017?
- Beatlemore Skidmania 2017 was the last one under the oversight of its faculty founder, Gordon Thompson. He and student coordinator Will Scott '18 reflect on that and the future of the wildly popular tradition.
- Public discussions that cross both cultures and disciplines are coming up soon.
- "They not only collect the donations, but deliver them to our food pantry with smiling faces. We look forward to seeing them each year."
- Gender and race, Judaism in India, and new media are slated for discussion this week.
- Free public events this week include "Keep Dat A$$ Jumping," a lecture in youth music and gender issues.
- Skidmore employees and other local residents who volunteer as ambassadors and supporters for international students often say they get more benefits than they give.
- Diversity issues at the intersections of gender and race brought audiences together last week for a second year of "In It" discussions and forums.
- Upcoming talks and events include art, business and a residency by a Caribbean-British writer, this year's McCormack Visiting Scholar-Artist.