Diversity in the News
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.- A camera helped Ele Martinez express himself while he learned English as a third language. Now he's bringing cameras to youngsters in his southern Mexico homeland.
- Last weekend spotlighted varsity sports and team reunions, Hispanic and African heritage events, and more.
A Hillel-sponsored talk by a Palestinian Muslim is among the guest lectures on campus soon.
Round 2 of Skidmore's "In It" diversity events, Oct. 11-13, include gender and other identity discussions featuring alumni, an eminent scholar and a student with her mother and grandmother.
Justice and rehabilitation, inequity and immobility, and other complex issues of mass incarceration in America are themes in a faculty-student project that's part of a national traveling show.
Public lectures coming up at Skidmore include expert talks on racial, environmental, and business issues.- Studying with Skidmore students and sharing campus life are part of a summer college preview for teenagers--such as Wenqin and Andrew, both returning to campus as freshmen this fall.
For Skylar Kergil '13, becoming a transgender man has also meant becoming an ever more thoughtful, open, and humane person -- not to mention an author and YouTube hit.- A professor, a staff member, an office and five outstanding students were recognized with President's awards.
- House and hearth, neighborhood, and community are informing campus life lately. This week in photos includes gardening, a faculty milestone, and documentary projects on space and place.
- If a play is "a social document," says actor and director Chris Staley '09, then he'll be in the right place this June: at Skidmore's 25th-anniversary SITI theater workshop.
Watch a few of our videos (some of them student-produced!) to experience Skidmore in a way that words sometimes just can't describe.- Two Skidmore basketball players have been named All-Americans after record-breaking years.
Students used this year's Ujima fashion show to reflect the perseverance and strength to excel that have marked so much of African, Caribbean, and African American history.
"It is impossible to describe the feeling when a work of art that you've only dreamed about being in your show hangs in front of you," says Hanna Traore '17, who is curating a Tang Museum show for her senior thesis.
At Skidmore, student engagement occurs in both the classroom and the community. Bella Bennett '17, an environmental studies major with a minor in geology, became a mentor because "I have had a lot of strong role models in my life and wanted to be there for someone else."- An interest in vintage clothing has helped Alessandra Canario '18 shape and integrate her studies at Skidmore.