Sage is committed to the pursuit of lifelong learning, to ongoing personal, professional and intellectual development and to the enrichment and engagement of the campus, local and global communities.

As an expression of that commitment, Sage regularly welcomes prominent and accomplished writers, researchers, artists, academics and activists from diverse disciplines to speak on its Albany and Troy campuses. The disciplines represented are both free-ranging and closely tied the Sage mission: from poetry to women's history, from health sciences to international awareness, from pedagogical practice to cultural production.

The lectures, readings and presentations echo Sage's motto, "To Be. To Know. To Do."

Annual Lecture Series

• The Esteves School of Education Spring Speaker Series
• The Sherman David Spector Lecture Series
• The Solomon Jochnowitz-Kahn Memorial Lecture, an Annual Lecture by the Visiting Professor from the Shanghai Institute for Foreign Trade
• Olga Andruskiw Distinguished Nursing Lecture
• Armenian Lecture Series
• Nutrition Lecture Series
• The Carol Ann Donohue Poet Series
• Women's History Month Convocation
• Founder's Convocation
• Russell Sage Convocation
• Northeast United States Annual Conference on Character Education
• What in the World? Current Transforming Events that Shape Our Lives