Third in the nation The 2001 Peace Corps report on top volunteer-producing colleges is out, and Colby made the headline as number three on the list. With 21 Colby alumni active in the corps, we're third among colleges and universities with enrollments under 5,000. We're up from the 10th slot in the 2000 list. Our 21 Colby alums are among 7,300 Peace Corps volunteers and trainees now serving in 76 countries. International news When Colby's Student Government Association teamed up with Bates and Bowdoin student leaders to launch the CBB Diversity Conference March 11, they hoped to have an impact on students, faculty and administrators at the three colleges.
Diversity is about honoring and celebrating our interdependence, our basic humanness. . . .
Trish O'Brien's women's basketball team entered the ECAC New England Championships as the fifth seed but pulled three upsets in three games to emerge with the ECAC Div. III championship banner this month. It was Colby's first women's ECAC championship since 1991, and the Mules finished with a 22-7 record. III national championships in Buffalo in March, and Colby records fell. Steve Feldman '01, seventh in the three-meter dive, was named an All American.