Several educational institutions have announced they’re closing or have closed. But that’s not a message you’ll hear at Colgate University. 

Numerous projects are taking place all over campus.

What You Need To Know

  • Colgate University is making way for Peter’s Glen

  • Peter's Glen is a project that will help connect the upper and middle areas of campus with a heated walkway, gathering spaces, and pretty views

  • Peter’s Glen is being funded by a Colgate alum

Colgate University is making way for Peter’s Glen.

“Peter’s Glen is really remarkable in that it's going to connect to parts of campus that I think felt disconnected beforehand," said Colgate University Vice President of Communications Daniel DeVries.

The project will connect the campus with a heated pathway, gathering spaces, and pretty views. Hundreds of trees will be planted.

“That was somewhat of a degraded landscape. There is a lot of erosion. There wasn't a lot of very many healthy trees. It's never easy to have to take trees down, but the vision is actually restoring this with a much more resilient and healthy canopy," said Colgate University project manager Katy Jacobs.

Peter’s Glen is being funded by a Colgate alum.

It seems this donation isn’t a previous reflection of Colgate’s progress, but a look to the future.

“We're always doing something around here," Jacobs said. "As you can tell, there's a lot of construction happening all the time."

While we hear of other schools not doing so well, that isn’t the case at Colgate.

Applications continue to flood in.

That could be attributed to a number of factors including how they handled reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic and/or their Colgate Commitment.

“If your family makes under $80,000 as a combined income, you don't pay anything for Colgate education up to $180,000," DeVries said. "There is no loans. Colgate pays for all of the loans, and then there's a sliding scale after that. And the university continues to meet 100% of demonstrated need of all admitted students."

Another potential factor as to why Colgate is maintaining success is the school allows students to work closely with their professors.

“We have a nine-to-one student-faculty ratio, and Colgate is one of the rare places where students can do a lot of research with their professors, and often they publish papers with them," DeVries said.

This is the third year in a row for Colgate University to have more than 20,000 applications for admission.