Diversity in the News
- Camp Abilities, for children and teens who are visually impaired, was hosted for its third summer at the Skidmore campus and nearby venues.
- Melvis Langyintuo '12 successfully raised $50,000 to build two schools in his hometown of Tamale, Ghana.
- Members of the Skidmore community reflect on the assault on Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
- English professor Cecilia Aldarondo has had her documentary film Memories of a Penitent Heart accepted in the renowned TriBeCa Film Festival.
- Mentoring, money, and more are available to help high school students attend Skidmore's summer Pre-College Program, thanks to a new foundation grant.
- An Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant will seed a $1.2 million initiative to explore diversity and collections at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College
- An April 11 discussion on LGBTQ inclusivity will feature two prominent speakers: Kate Fagan and Kristin Russo. Admission is open to all.
- A student from Pakistan will return with life-saving vaccines for a poor region. A Maldives native will promote civic waste management on her island.
- Prasad book throws down the gauntlet in critical management scholarship
- Hip-hop activist, journalist, and 2008 Green Party vice presidential candidate Rosa Clemente wants to change the world. She will speak at Skidmore March 30.
- Blood--in the lives of migrants and laborers, prostitutes and hoodlums, Mexicans and Bosnians--is the motif of one poem by U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera. He gives a public reading at Skidmore on March 23.
- Garza will deliver the keynote address at the NY6 LGBTQIA Spectrum Conference Feb. 27
- A Feb. 24 discussion hosted by the Office of Spiritual Life and Hayat, a student club, will promote tolerance. All are welcome.
- This year's theme: "What Do You See When You See Me?" More than 30 students are invovled in staging the popular event.
- The number of students seeking to join Skidmore's Class of 2020 has now reached nearly 9,100 -- officially the largest group of applicants in College history.
- Masculinity, race, politics, and citizenship engaged students at a recent national conference.
- Several Skidmore people will be among those engaged in the multi-day community celebration of the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- Students in "Multicultural Flare-ups" analyzed hot issues like the killing of black suspects by white police, sexual assault in the military, and a county clerk's refusal, on religious grounds, to issue same-sex marriage licenses.