Essays and Speeches
- Glotzbach describes the “healthy insecurity” of taking bold steps and making new starts
- Conflict and compromise require both logic and empathy, wisdom and sensitivity
- It's always great to begin a new academic year - even though any of us might look back with a bit of nostalgia on the quiet campus we experienced just a few days before the return of our full contingent of students. It wasn't quiet for the folks in Special Programs, of course. We had a wonderful season of summer programs - and, more recently, we've had a very smooth opening of school, thanks to
- Creative thought and black swans—or, how to stay ready for and make the most of life’s “outlier” events
- Glotzbach makes the case for strengthening Skidmore’s efforts to foster scientific expertise, and wide-spread scientific literacy, for the 21st century
- It is fitting that we gather on this day of celebration, a time when we mark the achievements of our graduates and also a moment when we pause to reflect on this significant transition in the life of an individual and a family.
- “Measure twice, cut once” is Glotzbach’s way of reminding graduates that the only rehearsal for life is life itself.
- A letter to Saratoga residents near campus discusses campus construction plans and the importance of good neighborly relationships
- A reflection on virtue, courage, moral imagination, and the future
- When you’re between two trapezes, you have to let go of one in order to catch the other, perhaps unlearning something in order to learn a new truth