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There is no hush like the peace before a bagpipe procession. At 10:28 a.m. on May 21, thousands of parents, alumni, and friends quietly stood and turned in unison to the back doors of Sanford Field House. The silence was broken by the sound of the Mohawk Valley Frasers, whose sonorous pipes and insistent drums […]

On December 26, 2004, an earthquake in Sumatra, Indonesia, set in motion a series of tsunamis that bulldozed areas of southeast Asia and killed more than 220,000 people in 12 countries. Eight years later, ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ professors on a faculty development trip to India stopped in the Delhi Craft Museum, where a 7-foot–tall scroll depicting the […]

Paul J. McLoughlin II, dean of students at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa., has been named vice president and dean of the college at ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ, effective July 26, 2017. McLoughlin has served at Lafayette since 2012, overseeing residential life, recreation services, student conduct, wellness, student leadership and involvement, fraternity and sorority advising, and numerous other campus […]

Last month, while the sports world was reveling in March Madness, entrepreneurs were tuning in to Inc. magazine’s Coolest College Startup competition to see which of 16 ventures would win the 2017 title. This year, ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ was the only university represented twice on the brackets — and both ventures made it to the third round […]

ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ hosted its first Mosaic Weekend, March 24–25, featuring two full days of events for students and alumni of color and a keynote speech by ABCNews journalist T.J. Holmes. Mosaic was launched this year to foster additional efforts toward diversity and inclusion at ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ. Leading up to the weekend, multicultural students coordinated with alumni office and […]

The first amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibits government institutions from restricting freedom of speech. Private colleges are under no such obligation. So what does that mean for free expression in some of the nation’s most creative, intellectually curious places? Back in July of 2014, with protests taking place at universities across the country, University […]

It was a pivotal policy day in Washington, D.C., as Congress failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Former Vice President Joe Biden, who helped the Obama Administration enact health care legislation seven years ago, brought current events to the doorstep of Sanford Field House, where he addressed the ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ community during the Kerschner […]

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will address the ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ community on Friday, March 24, 2017. He will speak as part of the Kerschner Family Series Global Leaders at ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ.

Suppose, for a moment, that the Good Samaritan didn’t rescue just one person merely by chance. Let’s say that he spent his entire life walking up and down mountain passes, finding wounded travelers by the hundreds, spending his children’s lunch money on the medical bills. Would we still respect him? When New Yorker staff writer […]

ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ students are taking lessons in the liberal arts outside the picturesque Chenango Valley — and in impressive numbers. The university has been ranked first among baccalaureate institutions for student participation in semester-long off-campus study opportunities. The rankings appeared in the annual Open Doors report, published by the Institute of International Education (IIE) with the […]