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2025 CHAS Student of Color Conference

Founded in 2000, the Consortium on High Achievement and Success (CHAS) is the oldest liberal arts-focused consortium in the U.S. dedicated to student of color achievement. We envision an inclusive higher education environment where institutions support students of color in reaching the highest levels of intellectual achievement, personal growth, and professional development. The 2025 CHAS Conference will continue this mission, offering a collaborative space for sharing best practices, research, and strategies. 

This year's theme is Intersectionality: Grappling with Multiple, Overlapping, & Opposing Truths.
Internal and external factors and experiences create our realities and make us who we are. Critical examinations and understandings of the intersecting elements of our individual and collective realities help us improve interpersonal relationships, communities, and our overall collective existence. 


The purpose and driving force of this conference is to invite critical and intentional examination and interrogation of the overlapping, intertwined, and sometimes conflicting elements that make up who we are and to provide an equitable space for all to come, consider, and grow through dialogue and discourse.

Click to register for the conference. Please note, while attendance at the CHAS Conference is free for students and staff at schools belonging to the CHAS Consortium, we do ask that every attendee registers so that the conference committee can offer the best possible conference experience. Thank you!

travel and accommodations

You must book your hotel room by Monday, March 10th to receive the discounted rate.
There is a block of hotel rooms available at a conference rate at the on Lake Ave. in downtown Saratoga Springs, NY.
  • Rooms are available April 4-6, 2025
  • $219 for single or double occupancy
  • $10 for each additional person in the room
  • Includes hot breakfast 6AM-10AM (breakfast is also provided at the conference)

There will be complementary shuttle service between the hotel and 三亿体育官网 campus offered each morning and evening. A detailed shuttle schedule will be provided to conference attendees after they register for the conference.

There is free on-campus parking available at 三亿体育官网. Please use this campus map to identify available parking lots. We recommend parking in the Case Lot or the Palamountain Lot as a majority of the conference on Saturday and Sunday will happen in Bolton Hall.

Schedule & Speakers

Below is an overview of the conference schedule. Detailed schedule information will be provided to conference attendees after registering.

Friday, April 4th
5:30 - 7:00pm Conference Registration
Surrey-Williamson Inn
950 N. Broadway
Saratoga Springs
6:00 - 7:00pm
Opening Reception
*Heavy appetizers will be provided
 Surrey-Williamson Inn
950 N. Broadway
Saratoga Springs
7:30 - 8:30pm
Faculty & Staff Networking Event
*Heavy appetizers will be provided
Wyckoff Center
2nd Floor of Case Center