Dear Students, We are excited to welcome you back to campus for the Fall 2020 semester. We recognize some of you will be studying remotely, and we will be in touch with you soon. As we work to create a safe and engaging campus experience for this academic year, we...

Dear Students, As we continue to make significant investments that prioritize the health and safety of the Colby and Waterville communities, we have developed a robust testing program to substantially minimize the risk of exposure to COVID-19. Your participation in, and adherence to, our testing program will allow us to...

Dear Students, We hope you have found creative and meaningful ways to spend your time this summer, and we are delighted that the vast majority of you are returning to campus in August. Colby’s faculty and staff have been working through many details and plans to create a safe and...

Dear Colby Community, In March, as the global health pandemic emerged in the United States, we made the difficult decision to close the campus, a decision that, in hindsight, was the right one. We said at the time that we would be guided by three principles: protecting the health and...

Dear Colby Community, For the past several months, we have been focused on creating a plan for the 2020-21 academic year that prioritizes the health and safety of the Colby and Waterville communities while preserving the in-person academic program and as much of the students’ residential and cocurricular experience as...

Dear Colby Community, We are writing with updates based on recent developments, including the State’s guidelines for re-opening Maine’s economy, as well as planning efforts to open for the 2020-21 academic year that we are initiating. Stay-at-home mandate, phased re-opening guidelines, and campus protocols The stay-at-home mandate has essentially been...