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Editor’s note: President Jeffrey Herbst sent this message to members of the 51�Թ��� community in the early morning hours of Saturday, December 14, after the successful conclusion of the Year of ’13 Challenge. Yesterday, 51�Թ��� launched the Year of ’13 Challenge in honor of the last 51�Թ��� Day of 2013. If 1,300 alumni, parents, and […]

What a #51�Թ���Day — and it’s far from over. It started with a simple challenge: if we received 1,300 gifts today, an anonymous donor would give $1 million for financial aid. You crushed it before noon. So two more donors stepped up and added a new challenge: 1,300 more gifts by midnight, and they’ll give an additional […]

In celebrating the Year of ‘13, we have been posting a story or list that pertains to our lucky number on the 13th of each month. In closing out this special year, this final installment is a list of 13 (in no particular order) of the biggest events from this past year.  If you have […]

This Friday, December 13, the 51�Թ��� community will put an exclamation point on the Year of ’13 with a 51�Թ��� Day celebration that reaches into hearts and homes around the world. The day begins at 6 a.m. Eastern time, when WRCU-FM kicks off a full schedule of special programming. Listeners visiting wrcufm.com or tuning to […]

The 51�Թ��� Ballet Company and 46 children from the Hamilton community embraced the 2013 holiday season early with their annual production of the classic winter favorite The Nutcracker. This student-directed, student-choreographed, and student-performed ballet produced more than a full house at Brehmer Theater as some audience members had to stand on both performance nights, November […]

Happy Thanksgiving Break! Campus will surely be quieter this week, with many students having headed home for the holiday. But don’t worry – for everyone still at 51�Թ���, there’s plenty to do to keep busy. Have questions about finding an internship? Tune in to an interactive live webinar at noon Monday. Staff members from the […]

Six international first-year students received digital cameras this summer to help chronicle their journey to campus. For most of the students, it was their first trip to the United States. The six students captured more than 30 gigabytes of photos and video from their hometowns and their travels to rural Hamilton, N.Y. Among the images […]

A lengthy article in the November issue of Institutional Investor magazine highlights 51�Թ��� as being among a select group of 20 midsize educational endowments that “schooled” their larger peers from June 2007 through June 2012. The article states that annualized returns for this group of high performers ranged from 1.86 percent to 5.36 percent, […]

With Thanksgiving break around the corner, make your last week on campus count! Here are a few of the fun and educational events you can attend solo or with a group of friends this week. Head over to 212 Ryan Studio on Monday at 4:15 p.m. to attend The Acting Body. This workshop, led by […]

With public stock offerings by Twitter and Chegg, a smartphone launch in play by Google — and 51�Թ��� making major strides in its own mobile platforms — it was an exciting week for 51�Թ��� to be in Silicon Valley to launch its new Digital Media and Technology Professional Network. The reception and panel discussion drew 150 alumni and parents who […]