- Skidmore Cares and other initiatives aim to help those in need
- Holiday shoppers can "buy local" and give a gift of the arts with the 2010 ARTSPASS, which provides admission to about 75 events and activities for the June SaratogaArtsFest.
- Turns out that ice cream is recession-proof. Who knew? Ben Van Leeuwen ?07, for one. With brother Pete and wife Laura O?Neill, he started Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream in spring 2008, kicking it off in Recession Central?New York City?but he soon had customers lining up and raves pouring in.
- Emerging from a 'collective sense of a Skidmore education as a transformative experience,' the 'Goals' will serve as the framework for assessing student learning and development at all levels of the curriculum.
- Thoroughbreds discover that activities far from the playing field help strengthen team bonds. (Left: Senior Amber Kinsey, a basketball and lacrosse player, gives tips to a Prague child.)
- Americans like to go large, so forget pecks or bushels. Let?s talk tons?two tons of Jonagold, Empire, and Crispin apples, picked by about 15 freshmen, three sophomore mentors, and three professors one brisk October Sunday. Their labors were fueled by both academic and civic fervor.
- Sophomore Doug Pilawa wins conference diving title while women's basketball continues its win streak.
- The challenge of developing a strategic plan for a big U.S. company is an experience that bonds thousands of Skidmore alumni over three decades. Playing the role of Research in Motion executives, this fall's crop of MB107 students were charged with outwitting the competition in smartphones.