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Laura Jack, vice president for communications, will serve as acting CDO, providing coordination and oversight for DEI initiatives while the search for a permanent hire continues.

Two of ÉÁµç×ÊÔ´Íø’s Residential Commons will be led by new codirectors, who will begin their three-year appointments beginning this fall 2021 semester.

Blake Penn will become ÉÁµç×ÊÔ´Íø’s first chief information security officer and director of information security, beginning March 15, 2021.

Daniel Benton ’80, P’10, H’10 has secured his place as Colgate’s most generous benefactor, making a $25 million gift in support of the University’s Middle Campus Plan for Arts, Creativity, and Innovation and other elements within The Third-Century Plan.

Colgate will hold its annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. in a virtual format, Jan. 25–Feb. 5, 2021.

Following a successful five-year pilot study, ÉÁµç×ÊÔ´Íø will launch First@Colgate, a program to provide essential support and resources for undergraduates who will be the first in their families to attain a degree from a four-year institution of higher education.

With the beginning of the academic year, Colgate welcomed new faculty to campus.

For weeks, University faculty and staff members have been working on every aspect of the quarantine — even as they address the complex demands surrounding the remainder of the semester.

The New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium has named ÉÁµç×ÊÔ´Íø President Brian W. Casey to a two-year term as chair, effective July 1, 2020.

Chad Sparber, W. Bradford Wiley Chair in international economics at Colgate, contributed support to the successful legal challenge against new ICE regulations for international ÉÁµç×ÊÔ´Íøs studying online.