Over winter break, undergraduate nursing students traveled to Quito, Ecuador for a medical service trip. The student nurses stayed with host families and performed community and student health assessments at a local school. In-between work, students visited an indigenous tribe and explored Ecuador's landscapes.
We welcomed students to campus this week as they kicked off the first week of classes! Here's to a great spring semester!
Congratulations to our students who made it to the dean's list for their hard work throughout the fall semester!
Eden Wales Freedman, who currently serves as vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty at Clarke University in Dubuque, Iowa, will begin her role July 1 following the retirement of current Academic Vice President and Dean of Faculty Laura Sykes. She comes to Colby-Sawyer with more than a decade of diverse experience in higher education.
Colby-Sawyer has garnered media coverage by several high-profile national outlets, including the New York Times and Washington Post, following its announcement that it will reduce the cost of its four-year, undergraduate tuition by 62% beginning next fall.
Valerie Leclair, who will begin her role Jan. 3, comes to Colby-Sawyer with more than 20 years of experience in higher education enrollment, having most recently served as the executive director of undergraduate and graduate admissions at Rivier University in Nashua, N.H.
Colby-Sawyer College has received $1.5 million in federal funding to support the construction of a new home for its School of Nursing & Health Sciences.
Colby-Sawyer College welcomed eight new faculty members to campus this fall. Full-time faculty members teach roughly 80 percent of all Colby-Sawyer classes and are a key factor in the college being ranked second in the region by U.S. News & World Report in its Best Undergraduate Teaching Category.
Colby-Sawyer College has broken ground on a $2 million athletic pavilion to be situated on the Kelsey Athletic Campus, marking the college’s first major construction project since 2017.