Diversity in the News
- 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.
- Here's a two-fer: a feature story about Nigerian soccer players Adebare Oyeniyi '17 and Austin Okoye '18, and an advance on the Liberty League men's soccer championship.
- Noted legal expert Charles Ogletree to discuss race and justice in America during Thursday's lecture.
- Janelle Hobson will examine the limited representations of black women in film and TV in her Oct. 22 talk.
- Franklin and Marshall College scholar Alison Kibler will share her research on how action against racial ridicule at the dawn of the 20th century resonates in contemporary debates over hate speech.
- Kevin Wang '17 had an unexpectedly inspiring high school English class. His teacher asked questions that touched him, that made him feel alive. Now he's sharing that gift overseas.
- Cheryl J. LaRoche of the University of Maryland, College Park, is the keynote speaker at this year's event, the 17th annual celebration of Northup and his story.
- United World Colleges want to make education a force to united people, nations and cultures for a peaceful, sustainable future. Skidmore's UWC schoalrs are living that mission.
- For some Skidmore students, the notion of freedom carries special significance.
- An upcoming conference on Intergroup Relations is expected to draw nearly 150 participants to hear national scholars on the subjects of racial and ethnic relations, and the campus climate.
- Volleyball players Clare Kenny and Aria Goodman, both Class of 2015, asked fellow athletes to declare themselves LGBTQ allies. They got a strong, unequivocal response.