Diversity in the News
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.
- Skidmore celebrated National History Month by highlighting a few of its women (disorderly, impressive, and creative) who influence the College and the world.
A historic Albany, N.Y., neighborhood--founded by a Mississippi minister and settled by other emigrants from the Jim Crow South--is explored in a documentary to be screened at Skidmore on Thursday, April 13.
Moustafa Bayoumi, author of "This Muslim American Life," will speak at Skidmore Thursday, April 6 at 7 p.m. in Gannett Auditorium.- The Tang's curator-at-large discusses her four guiding principles on podcast
- Cristian Fernandez '19 likes engaging with professors, social issues, and his hiphop audiences.
What is Skidmore? This podcast has answers. Hear stories of alumni, students, faculty, and friends to discover what makes Skidmore Skidmore.
Guest speaker Bonnie Thornton Dill, a leading feminist theorist, will discuss intersections of gender with race, class, and other identities. Her Coburn Lecture takes place Thursday, March 30.
Ujima, Skidmore's student club promoting African and Caribbean cultures, is promising one of its biggest fashion shows ever. This year's event is this Saturday, March 25, at 6 p.m.
The authors of Listen, We Need to Talk: How to Change Attitudes about LGBT Rights spoke about their research at Skidmore recently, and a student offers this summary.
A scholar, a filmmaker, and an activist will discuss whiteness and American multiculturalism Thursday, March 23. The panel is part of a Tang Museum project to accelerate access and inclusion.
How can American capitalism foster wide opportunity as well as race-based exploitation? Management scholar Pushkala Prasad, explains in her Moseley Faculty Research Lecture on Tuesday, March 7, at 8 p.m. in Gannett Auditorium.- Education advocates Oprah Winfrey, Ann Tisch, and Wes Moore to receive honorary degrees from Skidmore College at May 2017 Commencement
"Inequality and Race" is the topic for a public conversation between fellows of the Manhattan Institute and the Brookings Institution, to be held Wednesday, Feb. 22, at 5:30 p.m.
Student clubs and campus offices mark Black History Month with a range of public events, but how does it resonate with individual students?