As recipient of the college’s highest teaching award, the Jack Jensen Award for Excellence in Teaching, Professor Randy Hanson will give the 2023 Commencement address.
Academic Vice President and Dean of Faculty Laura Sykes ’98 will receive the Susan Colgate Cleveland Medal for Distinguished Service at the 2023 Commencement ceremony.
Eve Burton, executive vice president and chief legal officer at Hearst and president of the Helen Gurley Brown Foundation, will receive an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters at Colby-Sawyer's 2023 Commencement ceremony.
On a July afternoon, 14 women gathered around a table in the basement of a café in Krakow’s Old Town to write, read and discuss poetry. Thirteen of them had recently fled Ukraine to neighboring Poland to escape the war at home…
Kara Colvin ’23 was in the Lethbridge Lodge at Colby-Sawyer when she got an important phone call. “He asked me if I was with my mom, and I was like, ‘No, I'm at school.’ And so he made me call my mom…
Colby-Sawyer College has hired Eden Wales Freedman of Dubuque, Iowa, as its next academic vice president and dean of faculty. Wales Freedman, who currently serves as vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty at Clarke University in Dubuque, Iowa…
Colby-Sawyer College has garnered media coverage by several high-profile national outlets, including the New York Times and the Washington Post, following its announcement earlier this year that it will reduce the cost of its four-year, undergraduate tuition by 62% beginning next fall. …
Colby-Sawyer College has hired Valerie Leclair of Windham, N.H., as its vice president for admissions and financial aid. Leclair, who will begin her role Jan. 3, comes to Colby-Sawyer with more than 20 years of experience in higher education enrollment. Most…
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. The $1.5 million, allocated as part of the 2022 government funding bill signed into law by President Joseph…
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…
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. The pavilion, made possible by a $1.5 million gift from Colby-Sawyer Board of…
Colby-Sawyer College sent 15 students to the 2022 annual meeting of the New Hampshire IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (NH-INBRE) on Aug. 8-9 in Bretton Woods, N.H. NH-INBRE is a collaborative network of two- and four-year colleges throughout the Granite State…
Colby-Sawyer College has once again been recognized as one of the top colleges in the region by U.S. News & World Report, earning a pair of top 10 rankings in the publication’s 2023 Best Colleges issue. The annual report, released Monday…
Colby-Sawyer College Expands Opportunities with New $17,500 Tuition At Colby-Sawyer College in New London, N.H., which combines a rich liberal arts and sciences education with pre-professional preparation and required internships, students are encouraged to make a difference and discover their potential to build…
Few choices we make have as much impact on our daily lives as our choice of career. The stakes are high, and once we’ve committed, it can be difficult, time consuming and expensive to change direction. This is a common concern for many…
Colby-Sawyer College is currently hosting a solo exhibition by San Francisco-based artist Laura Roebuck, an abstract expressionist painter working in oils, in the William H. and Sonja Carlson Davidow '56 Fine Art Gallery at the Davidow Center for Art + Design. The exhibition…
Colby-Sawyer College has selected the Lake Sunapee Protective Association (LSPA) as the recipient of the 2022 Community Award in recognition of the critical role it plays in preserving and enhancing the region’s lakes and watersheds, as well as its decades-long partnership with the…
Jordan Hewes ’20 knew she wanted to pursue psychology since eighth grade. Her career assessment tests in middle school and high school always pointed her toward the path of psychology, social work and mental health services, and she dedicated much of her college…
The Colby-Sawyer College Board of Trustees has elected Andrew “Drew” Lydecker ’00, of Chicago, as its newest trustee. Lydecker began his three-year term July 1. Since graduating from Colby-Sawyer with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, Lydecker has established himself as…
NEW LONDON, N.H. — Colby-Sawyer College raised $11.7 million in fiscal year 2022, marking the second highest single-year fundraising total in its 184-year history. The $11,740,142 raised in fiscal year 2022 is second only to the $21.5 million donated last year —…
Colby-Sawyer Athletics is pleased to announce plans for the department's inaugural fundraising golf tournament. The Colby-Sawyer Athletics Golf Tournament will take place on Friday, October 14 at Montcalm Golf Club in Enfield, N.H. in conjunction with the college's homecoming weekend festivities.
One hundred percent of Colby-Sawyer College students complete an internship as part of their undergraduate program, which gives them valuable professional experience to take with them into their job search. For many students—more than 60%, in fact—the internship also brings them a job…
Sheridan Danforth P’83, ’84, GP’02 Longtime friend of the college Sheridan Danforth died on June 20, 2022, in New London, N.H. She was 83. Sheridan was predeceased by her husband, former Chair of the Colby-Sawyer College Board of Trustees Peter Danforth…
Henry Nicholas “Nick” Muller III Former Colby-Sawyer College President H. Nicholas Muller III died at his home in Essex, N.Y., on May 31, 2022. He was 83. Dr. Muller, known affectionately as “Nick,” was born in Pittsburgh and earned a…