Hamilton, N.Y. Seven-hundred and thirty-eight new students and forty-seven new faculty members joined the Colgate University community this year. The new students boast some of the most impressive academic credentials of any Colgate class and the new faculty group is among the University’s largest ever.
The class of 2007 includes twenty-nine high school valedictorians and eight salutatorians. The class has an average SAT nearing 1400 and an average high school GPA of 3.66. In addition to their academic credentials, the first-year class is one of Colgate’s most diverse, with students coming from 38 states and 31 nations. Eighteen percent of the new students are from minority populations.
Colgate has hired twenty-five new tenure-stream faculty members, recruited from an array of other prestigious institutions including Harvard University, Amherst College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the University of Cambridge. This year’s expansion of Colgate’s faculty is evidence of the university’s ongoing commitment to the growth of its first-rate faculty with an emphasis on personalized attention for students, research and serving as a community resource.
New faculty members have been added to many different departments including Africana and Latin American studies, applied and social sciences, the classics, creative writing, education, environmental studies, fine arts, history, languages, math, music, peace studies, physical education, religion, and theater. Their research interests are similarly extremely varied. They include environmental ethics, modern Arab wars, Hinduism, the Cold War, disability studies, Mexican and Central American archeology, the causes of war, Caribbean history, criminology, electioneering ritual and voting behaviors among many more.
There are a total of 267 full-time faculty members at Colgate and a student enrollment of 2750.