Spring 2025 Presidential Speaker Series

Colgate will host a new speaker series for the spring semester sponsored by the Office of the President titled The University and the Public Good: The Role of the American College in Our Time.

This series will bring together experts in higher education to discuss many of the issues facing colleges and universities today and to help unpack how the public perception of higher education has evolved through the years. These upcoming events are in the spirit of recommendations made by the Task Force on Institutional Voice, which encouraged the University to take moments of national or global concern as a call to action for developing and supporting opportunities for debate and discourse on campus.

All of these events will be streamed live online, starting with the kickoff discussion in New York City with Bret Stephens of the New York Times and Goldie Blumenstyk '79, who recently retired from the Chronicle of Higher Education as their long-time senior writer.

Additional information, including links to stream the conversations online, will be shared with the campus community as the new semester begins.

Thursday, January 23
6:30 p.m., New York Historical Society
New York Times Opinion Writer Bret Stephens and former Chronicle of Higher Education Senior Writer Goldie Blumnenstyk '79

Thursday, February 20
5 p.m., Love Auditorium
Eddie R. Cole, author of The Campus Color Line

Tuesday, February 25
5 p.m., Colgate Memorial Chapel
Presidential panel discussion, moderated by President Casey and including Vassar College President Elizabeth H. Bradley, Grinnell College President Anne F. Harris, and Hamilton College President Steven Tepper

Thursday, March 27
5 p.m., Love Auditorium
John Tomasi of Heterodox Academy, author of The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism

Wednesday, April 16
12:30 p.m., Love Auditorium
Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels, author of What Universities Owe Democracy