Interim Dean Wayne Jones held up a book called "Life After Graduation: Your Guide to Success" and told Harpur College's Class of 2013 that the manual is missing a chapter: How to be the best failure you can be.
"You will have failures in your life and in many ways it is the failures in our lives that often challenge us the most," Jones said. "It is through our failures that we often find our most exciting opportunities."
Welcome to Harpur College of Arts and Sciences. With our three divisions – fine arts and humanities, science and mathematics, and social sciences – we are the largest of Binghamton University's six schools, boasting more than 8,100 undergraduate students and nearly 1,100 graduate students. However, we remain committed to our guiding philosophy established when Harpur College was founded: "From Breadth through Depth to Perspective."
The outstanding liberal arts education we offer provides all of this: a breadth in the liberal arts, a depth of knowledge in any subject (or subjects) you might choose, and the opportunity to open your mind to new ideas and perspectives. | Read more
Read about the highly successful, student-run TEDx conference — which sold out the Anderson Center — as well as insights into our newest faculty, and the first graduate to receive a prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship. | Read the Spring 2013 Newsletter
The Harpur College Dean’s Office is pleased to announce the winners of the Andrew Bergman Award in Creative Writing 2013-14. First place is awarded to Bilal Javed for his screenplay titled “The Bridge.”; Chelsie Malyszek wins second place for her selection of poems; and Jennifer Capenito takes third place for her poetry. Please join us in congratulating these talented young writers.
Andrew Bergman graduated from Harpur College in 1965 with a degree in History. He is a renowned author, screenwriter and producer of such works as Blazing Saddles, Fletch and Honeymoon in Vegas. He established this award to encourage young artists and to nurture their talent.
Binghamton University faculty, alumni and administrators gathered May 1 to honor professors Carrol Coates, Gerald Kadish and Zoya Pavlovskis-Petit for their 50 years each of teaching at Harpur College. | Read more
To the uninitiated, the birds all look the same — shimmering black feathers, with eyes, beaks and feet to match. They sound the same, too, their calls collapsing into cacophony as they rise and fall on the wing. Not so for behavioral ecologist Anne Clark. | Read more
