Diversity in the News
- Members of the Skidmore College community gathered to celebrate first-generation students, share their experiences, and offer words of encouragement and fellowship.
- Activists, artists, scholars, and the community will have opportunities to engage together through in-person and virtual lectures, workshops, exhibitions, and more, highlighting a variety of perspectives from and about the borderlands, Sept. 18 through Oct. 16.
- Student-athletes, coaches, alumni, faculty, and many other community members came together to learn about how to be active allies to the LGBTQ+ community at a panel discussion sponsored by Skidmore Athletics.
- The Tufts-Skidmore Spain program won a 2022 Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion in International Education Award from Diversity Abroad, which promotes diversity in study abroad programs.
- With campus glowing in green, the Skidmore community came together for an exciting Celebration Weekend filled with fun, family, and friends.
- Freeman Hrabowski III discussed his experiences in transforming University of Maryland, Baltimore County into a leader of bringing underrepresented undergraduate students into STEM fields, as well as his visions for inclusive education and society.
- Skidmore is welcoming the largest first-year class in College history — 785 students drawn from a record pool of more than 13,000 applicants.
- Conrad has earned a strong reputation for entrepreneurial leadership, savvy marketing, social impact, and engagement with and support for diverse communities.
- Shadi Abu Awwad and Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger discussed their involvement in Roots/Shorahim/Judur, a unique collaboration of Palestinians and Israelis, during the Nov. 17 event in Gannett Auditorium.
- Skidmore’s leadership, faculty, students, and staff are marking the opening of The Center, a new space in the heart of campus that reaffirms the College’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Skidmore’s International Friendship Family Program offers international students a special way to immerse themselves in U.S. culture and allows faculty and staff to learn more about the world.
- Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to be an Antiracist” is the First-Year Experience's summer reading. A memoir, the book details Kendi’s real-life encounters with racism and his advice on eliminating it.
- President Marc C. Conner and Barbara Reyes-Conner joined community leaders and Saratoga Springs residents at an event to mark the beginning of Pride Month.
- Skidmore College conferred 570 degrees to the Class of 2021 during in-person Commencement Exercises that celebrated graduates’ perseverance during a challenging senior year.
- Johnson read from some of his works and joined President Marc Conner and Visiting Distinguished Writer-in-Residence Calvin Baker in a Q&A discussion on Thursday, April 29.
- "Going to the Griot: Conversations with Dr. Cornel West" was sponsored by the Black Studies Program and supported by Skidmore College’s Racial Justice Initiative in collaboration with the New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium.
- The two leading public intellectuals with differing political and philosophical views spoke to the Skidmore community about their friendship and shared commitment to the liberal arts.
- Skidmore College President Marc C. Conner spoke about his latest book, “The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison,” during the English Department’s annual “Critical Futures” event.
- In line with Skidmore's Racial Justice Initiative, the College has joined the University of Southern California Race and Equity Center’s Liberal Arts College Racial Equity Leadership Alliance as a founding participant.
- The poet, author, poetry editor at The New Yorker and next director the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture speaks as part of Skidmore’s Racial Justice Initiative.
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