Diversity in the News
- 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.
- At Commencement, Skidmore grads don colorful and symbolic regalia to celebrate their personal journeys and creative accomplishments. Here’s your guide to the story each piece tells.
- 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.
- During a livestreamed event, Miranda shared touching and humorous anecdotes about his career, family and "Siempre, Luis," the new HBO documentary about his life.
- As promised in President Marc Conner's first day message on July 1, the College has launched a yearlong series of projects that seek to address the realities of racial injustice locally, nationally and globally.
- The new space will provide a dedicated location to collaborate and think creatively about equity and inclusion. It will also serve as a hub for people from diverse cultures, identities, religions and other backgrounds.
- A recent alumna reflects on the connections and inspiration she found as a member of the international scholarship program.
- The fourth In It series aimed to strengthen the Skidmore community through inclusion programming focusing on religion, faith and spirituality.
- Faculty artists explore themes such as time and space, the history of women’s justice and the body with mediums ranging from metal and wood to ceramics.