As shared previously, we are creating a mental health and wellness task force comprised of parents, alumni, students, staff, and faculty to further our efforts to create a thriving CC community for all. Numerous alumni and parents have already volunteered their professional expertise toward our collective work.

We now invite you to do the same. Colorado College’s Task Force on Mental Health and Wellness will launch in January as part of a larger strategic approach to wellness.

The focus will be on: 1) identifying existing barriers to wellness support for CC students, staff, and faculty; 2) determining related action steps to mitigate those barriers and integrate wellness into cultural norms; and 3) providing a structure for sustained attention to our campus climate by developing outcomes and metrics by which we may hold ourselves accountable.

We will use recent letters from students, staff, and faculty as the starting point for conversations about what we can do better to use wellness as one avenue through which we create a more just world.

As a first step to addressing our wellness climate, we have elevated mental health to an institutional commitment. Experts from across the country are beginning phase one of an external review on our mental health and wellness practices at CC.

We will hire an associate vice president for wellness who will provide strategic direction and oversight for CC’s efforts to build a healthy campus community. The task force’s work will evolve in response to external review recommendations and guidance from our new colleague and be completed by the end of the academic year.

If you are interested in being a part of the task force, please complete this form  by Dec. 31. We hope you will join us in creating the Colorado College we wish to be.

Sincerely,