Essays and Speeches
- For Skidmore, 2019 promises to be a year filled with excitement and new opportunities, as well as challenges, and I write to you to share some news of what lies ahead.
- Welcome to another exciting academic year. It has been a busy summer, and we have a great deal of news to share to those who are new and those who are continuing their relationship with the College.
- Good morning! Let me add my own greetings to parents, family members, trustees, members of the faculty, and honored guests in attendance at this celebratory event: Skidmore’s 107th Commencement.
- In 2016 President Glotzbach was honored by the education foundation of the Saratoga Springs Rotary for helping lead Skidmore in engaging with the community. Here are his remarks at the ceremony.
- Glotzbach urges graduates to build lives of intrinsic and extrinsic value
- Glotzbach extols a simple but crucial value: friendship, not on Facebook but in closeness, respect, affection, and loyalty
- Sharing thoughts on social justice and the responsibility of liberally educated citizens
- A reminder for graduates to use their “intellectual and ethical toolkit” to tackle real-world problems
- On graduates’ responsibilities—and capabilities—to leave the world better than they found it
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