The President’s Office invites you to contribute to the 2024-25 Conflict & Community series. This year-long academic initiative aims to foster dialogue across diverse viewpoints, ideologies, and identities. Through workshops, lectures, book discussions, and small group dinners, participants will explore new perspectives, cultivate empathy, and deepen their understanding of the human experience.

We are seeking proposals for gatherings that encourage participants to think critically, feel deeply, and cultivate empathy. Visit our website for more information, to submit your proposal, and join us in building a stronger, more connected community through thoughtful engagement.

CC has released the new ADEI Strategic Plan, “The Strategy for a More Just CC”. This is a living document that will grow and change over time as people on campus, and in the broader community, contribute to and carry out its initiatives.

Building on the 2019 AIP, this strategic plan focuses on three main themes, each with specific goals, ways to measure success, and tools to track progress. This plan is part of a larger vision led by Interim President Whitaker, her cabinet, and the CC community. For more information and to read the full document, please visit our website.

Marynn Krull ’26

By Julia Fennell ’21

As a Colorado Springs native, Marynn Krull ’26 has wanted to give back to the community that raised her since entering college. In fact, one of the reasons she chose to attend CC was because she wanted to remain local and continue to help her hometown thrive.

Krull is doing just that and more, as she’s spending three months this summer working as a Public Interest Fellow with Educating Children of Color (ECOC), a 501(c)(3) organization working to dismantle the cradle-to-prison pipeline for children of color and children in poverty through education. Krull has experience in activism and grassroots organizing with youth and issues around education in Colorado Springs, so working with ECOC was a natural fit for her.

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While we have already welcomed a number of new students to campus, including Fall athletes and Bridge Scholars, we are looking forward to greeting the entirety of the Class of 2028, as well as incoming transfer students, on the first day of New Student Orientation, Monday, Aug. 19! Many students will begin arriving in Colorado Springs early and may choose to stop by various campus offices to take care of outstanding business; we thank you for helping welcome these new CC community members when you see them on campus.

Detailed arrival instructions and directions, including a parking map can be found on the NSO web page. We encourage staff members who will be on campus Monday, August 19 to be aware of increased traffic in the C1 (Tutt Library) lot and the Robson Parking Garage; these will be used as unloading zones for residence halls and the mailroom, as well as visitor parking.

Audience members watch a student matinee of In The Heights at the Fine Arts Center. Photo provided by the FAC.

By Julia Fennell ’21

The FAC’s new initiative, Send a Student, provided 135 local children access to theatre in the program’s inaugural season last year.

“Our hope is to bring each and every child in the Pikes Peak region through these doors, especially those who would not otherwise have the opportunity,” says FAC Producing Artistic Director Chris Sheley. “Theatre allows us all to see the world through someone else’s eyes. It makes us more empathic, more inclusive, and quite simply, it makes us better humans.”

The goal of Send a Student is to expose more children to live theatre by providing transportation and a free ticket for students from local Title 1 schools to see a show at the FAC. By increasing access to live theatre, the FAC hopes to help build the path to the next generation of theatre artists and viewers.

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Interim President Manya Whitaker gets her face painted at the Historic Uptown Neighborhood Block Party on Saturday, July 27. Photo provided by Cathy Buckley