Your Impact
When you support Skidmore College, you ensure that our mission is carried out in the following key areas:
Unquestionable Value
and the role it plays in paving paths for career and personal success.
Through scholarships and grants, every student can have the opportunity to access a quality education without the burden of tuition weighing on them and their families. You are opening doors for exceptional students from diverse backgrounds who aspire to be Skidmore College students.
Watch how you help create a passion for learning through hands-on opportunities and experiences for students like Zoe Pagliario.
The Anne T. Palamountain Scholar Award
The 45th Palamountain Benefit at Skidmore College honored Liz and supported the Joseph C. and Anne T. Palamountain Scholarship Fund. Bracht, a psychology major and dance minor, received the Anne T. Palamountain Scholar Award for her leadership and service.
Watch how you help equip students like Liz with the resources and support they need to succeed.
SEE-Beyond Awards Program
You help foster creative thinking and real-world learning experiences which are transformational for Skidmore students.
The SEE-Beyond Awards Program at Skidmore College empowers students to apply their academic knowledge in unique summer internships, offering a $6,000 grant to support ambitious projects. Part of the Zankel Experience Network, these awards aim to reduce economic barriers, enhance professional skills, and foster academic growth through hands-on learning.
Read how you help create unique learning opportunities for the next generation of Skidmore scholars.
From diplomacy in Switzerland to medicine in Tanzania
By: ANESU MUKOMBIWA ’24
From touring the corridors of the United Nations in Geneva, to improvising makeshift tourniquets in Tanzanian hospitals, Skidmore’s SEE-Beyond Awards program has empowered students to turn their academic knowledge into hands-on adventures through unique summer internships.
Part of the Zankel Experience Network’s suite of programs that promote year-round, hands-on learning opportunities, SEE-Beyond encourages students to transform their academic knowledge into exciting real-world experiences. Awardees receive a $6,000 grant — the largest stipend provided by the College for summer activities — designed to reduce economic barriers and support ambitious projects regardless of financial need. This hands-on learning experience highlights how practical engagement can enhance professional skills and accelerate academic growth.
“SEE-Beyond Awards recognize the potential of the proposed experience to utterly transform students’ relationships to their major or minor,” said Associate Dean of the Faculty and Professor of Biology Corey Freeman-Gallant. “SEE-Beyond is about growth, and students should think big.”
Skidmore Scholars in Science and Mathematics (S3M)
You help clear the pathway for alumni like Edvin Leon Rios ’19 to pursue their dreams in a variety of STEM fields.
The Skidmore Scholars in Science and Mathematics (S3M) program, established in 2007, has significantly impacted the lives of 130 students, increasing the percentage of STEM majors at Skidmore. S3M offers scholarships to academically competitive, financially disadvantaged students from underrepresented groups and includes a summer program, academic support, and an alumni network.
Read how your support helps to create generational change for students like Edvin Rios.
S3M: Scholarships changing lives
By: PETER MACDONALD
A program that began in 2007 with just 24 students has, 16 years later, shaped the lives of 130 students pursuing STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) disciplines at Skidmore.
The Skidmore Scholars in Science and Mathematics (S3M) program provides scholarships to academically competitive but financially disadvantaged students from underrepresented groups interested in STEM.
Thanks in part to S3M, the percentage of students majoring in science and math has increased from 20% to 33%.
In keeping with the interdisciplinary thrust of the program, S3M scholars have majored in 19 different disciplines — all nine science offerings, but also social work, American studies, dance, and more.
Program highlights include a transitional, five-week summer program for rising sophomores with mini-courses and an opportunity to intern with faculty members conducting research. S3M also provides academic support like peer tutoring, study groups, mentoring and advising, and an invaluable alumni network.
Where are they now?
Senior Teaching Professor of Mathematics Rebecca Trousil, who directs S3M, says the program works with students to chart their academic and professional paths and help them identify research opportunities, internships, first jobs, and post-graduate programs.
S3M grads have become data analysts, physicians, park rangers, cyber security specialists, engineers, and more.
It’s such a privilege to watch the S3M students discover their passions and chart their own course during their time at Skidmore and beyond.
Senior Teaching Professor of Mathematics Rebecca Trousil, S3M Program director
The steps to the Federal Reserve Bank
Edvin Leon Rios ’19
S3M scholar Edvin Leon Rios ’19, who enrolled at Skidmore through the Opportunity Program (OP) with virtually all of his college costs covered, is a regulatory data analyst for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He is also pursuing a federally funded Master of Science in statistics with a concentration in data science at Baruch College.
As a Mexican immigrant from a single-family household in the Bronx, Rios arrived on campus for the OP Summer Academic Institute with virtually no idea of what was in store for him. But he brought with him his longstanding mindset: “Find and pursue opportunity.”
That opportunity presented itself during his first year at Skidmore, when Rebecca Trousil taught Rios’ Pre-Calculus class in his first semester and his Calculus I class in his second semester. The S3M director would ultimately become Rios’ faculty advisor, which the math major and economics minor says was hugely beneficial in preparing for his professional future. A summer internship with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) led to a full-time post-college job offer. He also traveled abroad to Spain, solidifying his hard-won independence.
At his May 2019 Skidmore Commencement, Rios remembers feeling like both he and his mom “graduated together.” He also remembers her saying, “You’re not done, right?” He wasn’t!
Uncompromising Commitment
Your support helps maintain an uncompromising commitment to education and premiere liberal arts offerings.
There’s something special about the faculty at Skidmore College. They not only root for you in the classroom, but they’ll also sit in the stands for your basketball game and come to your music recital or research presentation.
Because of your commitment to the future success of our students, many faculty members like Professor Jeff Segrave, are spreading the joy of learning throughout the campus. Watch this video to see his incredible impact.
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“Creativity is the heartbeat of the Skidmore education. It permeates every aspect of Skidmore, from the culture to the classroom. It makes for an exciting liberal arts experience and fosters a tremendous joy in learning. To be able to think creatively and critically — to contemplate beauty and art, science, the humanities and civic engagement — prepares students for a lifetime of learning.”
—President Marc C. Conner