Skidmore College
Seal of Skidmore College
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| Motto | Scuto amoris divini (Latin for Under the shield of divine love) - a play on the name of Skidmore (scuto amoris sounds like "Skidmore"). |
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| Type | Private liberal arts college |
| Established | 1903 (as the Young Women's Industrial Club), 1911 (as Skidmore School of the Arts), 1922 (as Skidmore College) |
| Endowment | $330.6 million |
| President | Philip A. Glotzbach |
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Academic staff
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211 |
| Students | 2,646 (2014) |
| Undergraduates | 2,632 (2014) |
| Postgraduates | 14 (2014) |
| Location | Saratoga Springs, New York, United States |
| Campus | 850 acres (3.4 km2) |
| Colors | Green and Yellow |
| Athletics | NCAA Division III – Liberty League |
| Nickname | Thoroughbreds ("T-Breds") |
| Mascot | Thoroughbreds |
| Affiliations |
CLAC Annapolis Group Oberlin Group |
| Website | skidmore.edu |
Coordinates: 43°05′52″N 73°47′07″W / 43.09778°N 73.78528°W
Skidmore College is a private, independent liberal arts college in Saratoga Springs, New York. Approximately 2,500 students are enrolled at Skidmore pursuing a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree in one of more than 60 areas of study.
Skidmore College has undergone many transformations since its founding in the early twentieth century as a women's college. The Young Women's Industrial Club was formed in 1903 by Lucy Ann Skidmore (1853–1931) with inheritance money from her husband who died in 1879, and from her father, Joseph Russell Skidmore (1821–1882), a former coal merchant. In 1911, the club was chartered under the name "Skidmore School of Arts" as a college to vocationally and professionally train young women.
Charles Henry Keyes became the first president of the school in 1912, and in 1919 Skidmore conferred its first baccalaureate degrees under the authority of the University of the State of New York. By 1922 the school had been chartered independently as a four-year, degree-granting college.
Skidmore College was first located in downtown Saratoga Springs, but on October 28, 1961, the college acquired the Jonsson Campus, 850 acres (3.4 km2) of land on the outer edges of Saratoga Springs. The Jonsson Campus was named for the Skidmore trustee Erik Jonsson, the founder and president of Texas Instruments and a former mayor of Dallas, Texas (1964–71). The first new buildings on the campus opened in 1966, and by 1973, the move was mostly complete. The old campus was sold to Verazzano College, a new institution that did not prove successful, and its buildings have since been put to other uses.
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