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A Daily Digest for Colorado College

Freedom of Expression
Dear Faculty, we wanted to make you aware of this email that went to all senior students today. We have also sent this to parents and familes.

Dear Seniors,

Congratulations on your upcoming graduation! We look forward to celebrating all of your accomplishments from the past four years at Commencement 2023. As we approach this exciting time, I wanted to take a moment to remind you of certain campus guidelines related to freedom of expression and the concerns many of you have noted about this year’s chosen speaker.
At Colorado College, we understand that freedom of thought and expression are essential to any institution of higher learning and are vital components of academic freedom. Please see the CC Freedom of Expression Policy for complete guidelines. At the same time, we need to maintain the regular operations and the safety and security of individuals on our campus.
In line with that intentionality, we want to make you aware of what you can and cannot do.
Entrance to Graduation
You may NOT bring anything with you to the graduation ceremony except your phone. Students who choose to protest disruptively may face code of conduct infractions and their transcripts may be held by a leadership committee. Attendees and graduates may be subject to search before entering Robson Arena as part of security protocols. For further details regarding entrance policies, see the arena’s FAQs.
Demonstrations or Protests Outside the Arena
The college encourages its members to be engaged citizens of their community and the nation, which may include participation in protests and demonstrations. However, the exercise of these rights should not endanger others, disrupt the normal business or activities of the college, damage property, or constitute illegal activity.
For graduation, any external protests must stay on the sidewalks. Tejon Street and Cache La Poudre will be shut down for the graduation ceremony and security will guide protestors to Cascade Ave. or Nevada Ave.
Demonstrations or Protests Inside the Arena
We recognize that not all our CC community will agree with the positions, philosophies, or political leanings of our speakers. However, because we believe in freedom of expression, we ask that everyone respect that right for the speaker as well as the rights of others in the audience. We will not allow audience members to interrupt, shout down, or otherwise disrupt an event. It is also a violation to obstruct anyone’s view of the speaker with banners or placards.
Upon the conclusion of Liz Cheney’s keynote speech, graduating seniors will walk up to the stage to receive their diplomas. If a graduate leaves their seat for any other reason during the ceremony and misses their name being called, the ceremony will continue without delay and the student will have missed their moment to cross the stage.
For those interested in exercising their right to peacefully protest, please visit Rosalie Rodriguez on the second floor of Worner Campus Center, room 234. She can instruct you on ways to protest peacefully, including raising money for peaceful causes.
I look forward to celebrating your big day with you and the rest of the Colorado College community.
Congratulations, Class of 2023!

Pedro de Araujo

Dean of the College
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Freedom of Expression

Dear Seniors,

Congratulations on your upcoming graduation! We look forward to celebrating all of your accomplishments from the past four years at Commencement 2023. As we approach this exciting time, I wanted to take a moment to remind you of certain campus guidelines related to freedom of expression and the concerns many of you have noted about this year’s chosen speaker.
At Colorado College, we understand that freedom of thought and expression are essential to any institution of higher learning and are vital components of academic freedom. Please see the CC Freedom of Expression Policy for complete guidelines. At the same time, we need to maintain the regular operations and the safety and security of individuals on our campus.
In line with that intentionality, we want to make you aware of what you can and cannot do.
Entrance to Graduation
You may NOT bring anything with you to the graduation ceremony except your phone. Students who choose to protest disruptively may face code of conduct infractions and their transcripts may be held by a leadership committee. Attendees and graduates may be subject to search before entering Robson Arena as part of our security protocol. For further details regarding entrance policies, see the arena’s FAQs.
Demonstrations or Protests Outside the Arena
The college encourages its members to be engaged citizens of their community and the nation, which may include participation in protests and demonstrations. However, the exercise of these rights should not endanger others, disrupt the normal business or activities of the college, damage property, or constitute illegal activity.
For graduation, any external protests must stay on the sidewalks. Tejon Street and Cache La Poudre will be shut down for the graduation ceremony and security will guide protestors to Cascade Ave. or Nevada Ave.
Demonstrations or Protests Inside the Arena
We recognize that not all our CC community will agree with the positions, philosophies, or political leanings of our speakers. However, because we believe in freedom of expression, we ask that everyone respect that right for the speaker as well as the rights of others in the audience. We will not allow audience members to interrupt, shout down, or otherwise disrupt an event. It is also a violation to obstruct anyone’s view of the speaker with banners or placards.
Upon the conclusion of Liz Cheney’s keynote speech, graduating seniors will walk up to the stage to receive their diplomas. If a graduate leaves their seat for any other reason during the ceremony and misses their name being called, the ceremony will continue without delay and the student will have missed their moment to cross the stage.
For those interested in exercising their right to peacefully protest, please visit Rosalie Rodriguez on the second floor of Worner Campus Center, room 234. She can instruct you on ways to protest peacefully, including raising money for peaceful causes.
I look forward to celebrating your big day with you and the rest of the Colorado College community.
Congratulations, Class of 2023!

Pedro de Araujo

Dean of the College
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14 E. W. Cache La Poudre St.
Colorado Springs, CO | 80903 US
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Instructional Coaching Program and MAP Announcement

The Crown Center for Teaching  

Call for Instructional Coaches, Instructional Coaching Program Participants Mentoring Alliance Program Conveners  

Instructional Coaching Program 

In line with our institutional anti-racism commitments, The Crown Center for Teaching Instructional Coaching Program is designed to support CC educators’ anti-oppressive pedagogical development.  The program leverages CC faculty knowledge and skills by hiring interested CC faculty who then serve as coaches to fellow faculty seeking instructional coaching support.   

Become a Coach: The IC program seeks to hire three-five new instructional coaches for the 2023-2024 school year. Instructional coaches serve as pedagogical thought partners who are responsible for observing and supporting the development of one “coachee” colleague throughout an academic year through four coaching cycles.  Coaching cycles include a pre-observation conversation, a 2-stage classroom observation using the Inclusive Pedagogies Observation Protocol (IPOP foundations and advanced), and a post-observation debrief.   

New coaches are required to attend an instructional coach training from 10-3 on August 18, 2023.   

All coaches, including returning coaches, are required to attend a semesterly check-in on Thursday November 30th from 3:30-5pm and Friday April 26th from 12:15-2pm. 

Instructional coaches are paid $2500 each academic year to support the professional growth of one coachee.  

Apply to become a coach here. 

Get a Coach: The IC program invites faculty and instructors of all ranks including visiting instructors, to sign up for the Instructional Coaching Program. Instructional coaching includes use of the Inclusive Pedagogies Observation Protocol (IPOP foundations and advanced) but is also flexible depending upon your goals and needs.  

The coachee’s teaching challenges and successes revealed through this program are not shared with department/program chairs, mentors, or colleagues.  Privacy and confidentiality are taken very seriously because we want this program to be a space where educators can be vulnerable, can experiment with new teaching approaches, and feel supported as they learn and grow as teachers.   

Participants in the coaching program must commit to two coaching cycles per semester, proactive scheduling, and communication with their Instructional Coach. Participants are also required to attend a coaching program orientation on Thursday August 24th from 2:30-4pm, and semesterly check ins on Tuesday November 28th from 3:30-5pm and Tuesday April 23rd from 3:30-5pm.  

Apply for an instructional coach here.

Questions? Contact Lead Instructional Coaches Tina Valtierra and/or Santiago Guerra . 

Mentoring Alliance Program (MAP) 

The Crown Center for Teaching MAP is based on ADEI values and principles. The program supports early career faculty by fostering collaborative and non-hierarchical relationships and by honoring their new ideas, energy, and experiences. The program also provides faculty with opportunities to develop their capacity for robust, intentional, collective, and interdisciplinary mentoring to strengthen the college’s retention efforts. The program is available to early career tenure-track and full-time visiting faculty. 

Learn more about the program here.  

Become a Convener:  MAP convener commitments include: 1) convening your assigned team of early career faculty to meet blockly in the team’s first year and at least an average of every other block for year 2 and beyond; 2) engaging in a one-day mentor development workshop (August 21st , 10-3pm); and 3) participating in check-in meetings during Blocks 3 and 6. 

MAP conveners must be tenured faculty.  MAP conveners who anticipate semester-long sabbaticals may serve as conveners and be temporarily replaced by another tenured faculty member who has completed the mentor development workshops. Those who anticipate year-long sabbaticals may serve as conveners and be temporarily replaced during their sabbatical only if their sabbatical is not scheduled during the team’s new early career faculty members’ first, third, or sixth years (for tenure-track faculty teams).  

MAP conveners are compensated $2500 stipend per academic year of service in this role. 

Apply to become a MAP convener for tenure-track early career faculty. 

Questions? Contact Peony Fhagen, Director of the Crown Center for Teaching 
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Around the Block – A Busy End to the Academic Year

Senior Spotlight
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In the weeks leading up to Commencement, we are honoring the outstanding achievements of our senior students in Senior Spotlight 2023!

Carmen Villalba ’23

Major: Organismal Biology & Ecology

Q: What is your hometown?

A: Tempe, AZ

Q: What are your plans for the future after graduation?

A: I’ll be interning at a small nonprofit, Hope Seeds Intl. Their aim is to work to alleviate poverty and share the Gospel. I am so excited to be part of their mission! 
The Senior Spotlight is open to all seniors in the Class of 2023. If you are a senior who would like to be featured, fill out this form.

Did you know…
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“Culturally and Linguistically Diverse” is a preferred term for an individual or group of individuals whose culture and language differ from that of the dominant group.
Everything is culturally contextual. The way we learn, teach, and work is a product of our culture, and that has implications for CLD learning. For students navigating a different culture, each part of college life can have challenges. In some international and domestic school systems, there is high emphasis on exams or lectures. At Colorado College, we view students as co-creators of knowledge via critical thinking, discussion-based learning, and collaboration – not just a one-way transfer of knowledge from professor to student. The Office of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) Education, located in the Colket Center for Academic Excellence in Tutt Library, offers one-on-one consultations with students to equip them with necessary culturally-contextualized skills to be successful at CC. Students can meet to discuss reading, writing, studying, and oral presentation strategies; workshopping assignments; applications and resumes; and more. The Office of CLD Education also offers one-on-one workshops for faculty, including department-wide strategies and approaches to working with CLD students. Come in and visit with staff to get more information!

CC Celebrates Inaugural Cohort of Stroud Scholars
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Colorado College honors its inaugural class of Stroud Scholars graduates in the Bemis Hall Great Room on Monday, May 1.

Photo by Andy Colwell
By Alexa Gromko

Nineteen high school seniors from various schools around the Pikes Peak region are the first group to complete the Stroud Scholars college preparatory program at Colorado College. The program is named after two of the first Black students to graduate from CC in 1931. The scholars were honored at a college signing day event May 1 at Bemis Great Hall.

The students who completed the free, three-year program are from Colorado Springs school districts 2, 11, 8, and 20. These students can earn admission to CC with significant financial aid and scholarships or another chosen college or university.

“This inaugural cohort was in their first year of high school when COVID hit,” says Jim Burke, director of CC’s Summer Session. “And I believe the Stroud Scholars program contributed to these students’ success by offering summer coursework and academic-year mentoring that provided them with the essential tools to excel and thrive in a college environment. Their success serves as a reminder of the transformative power of education and the importance of programs like Stroud Scholars that help pave the way for greater access to higher education.”

Colorado Springs Mayoral Runoff Election
At CC we practice critical thinking, courageous conversations, civil discourse, and creative problem-solving. The act of voting can help build a more just world, and every vote counts .  
The mayoral candidates are Yemi Mobolade, who owns Wild Goose Meeting House and Good Neighbors Meeting House, and Wayne Williams, an attorney who is currently a member of City Council. 
Students’ ballots should be in their Worner boxes, and employees who live within city limits should have received their ballots by mail. Ballots need to be turned in at a ballot drop box by Tuesday, May 16. The closest drop box is at:
City Administration Building
30 South Nevada Ave., Suite 101
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
If you need help getting to the ballot drop box, or determining if you are eligible to vote in Colorado Springs, please visit the CCVotes website for more information or email ccvotes@coloradocollege.edu.
You can also obtain a ballot and vote at the City Administration Building between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays or between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. on election day, May 16.

Benjamin Murphy ’25 Wins Newman Civic Fellowship
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By Alexa Gromko

In his second year at Colorado College, Benjamin Murphy ’25 is already putting his business, economics, and society major to good use. And his work is getting noticed. Campus Compact recently named Murphy as one of 154 student civic leaders from 38 states, Washington, D.C., and Mexico to the 2023 cohort of Newman Civic Fellows.

The Newman Civic Fellowship recognizes students who stand out for their commitment to creating positive change in communities locally and around the world. Murphy was nominated by Colorado College President L. Song Richardson, who nominates a student every year as a Campus Compact member.

“I hope to explore how business and economic growth can coexist with greater equality and benefit the greater good,” Murphy wrote in his Personal Statement on his nomination form. “My hope to make a bigger impact on both Colorado Springs and the nation revolves around the idea that business requires a larger purpose than just making a profit, and this purpose for me is minimizing the negative impacts of development.”

Read more about what’s inspired Murphy to excel at CC.

Emilia Wright Accepted into Two Summer Classics Programs at Harvard
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Photo submitted by Emilia Wright ’26. 
By Julia Fennel ’21
Emilia Wright ’26 has been accepted with full funding into two prestigious and competitive summer programs in classics at Harvard University.
“Emilia is a student who, from her first moments at Colorado College, has shown a remarkable degree of academic dedication, curiosity and ambition,” says Richard Fernando Buxton, associate professor and chair of the Classics Department. “To identify and successfully pursue these opportunities so early in her undergraduate career is extraordinary, and we all look forward to how her work at Harvard will enrich our own classics community when she returns in fall.”
Wright, a classics major, was awarded a grant from the Harvard Classics Scholars-in-Training Summer Program to study ancient Greek and live on the Harvard University campus.
“This program is intended to diversify the study of classics, supporting disadvantaged students who plan to make contributions to historically underrepresented topics within classics,” says Wright.
Wright will also work on an independent research program one-on-one with a Harvard faculty member for 10 weeks, with full funding from the Summer Research Opportunities at Harvard Internship.

Former Prime Minister of South Korea to Lecture at Colorado College

Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea, Nakyon Lee, will present a lecture entitled “A Realistic and Pragmatic Approach for Denuclearization and Peace on the Korean Peninsula” in McHugh Commons on Friday, May 12 at 10:30 a.m.

Lee will first meet with President Richardson for a fireside chat, then she will introduce the former prime minister at the lecture. The visit is arranged by Professor Jiun Bang, who teaches international relations and Asian studies. Bang says the topic is of great interest to her students and that hearing directly from a foreign dignitary can make a big impact on their understanding of international relations.

Lee will share rare insights into the U.S.–South Korean Alliance and the important lessons that must be learned by policymakers to build a lasting peace in East Asia. Lee will suggest “realistic and pragmatic policy recommendations” that are necessary to build a well-defined, long-term roadmap to reduce threats and build peace in East Asia.

Add this lecture to your calendar.

Photo of the Week
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Alexander Rhodes ’25, left, and Sam Johnson ’25, right, during the Capstone Concerts in Cossitt Amphitheatre on Saturday, April 15.

Photo by Mila Naumovska ’26
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A Daily Digest for Colorado College

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COVID-19 Health Emergency Ends and What it Means for CC

COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Ends for Colorado College Students

With the federal government ending the COVID-19 public health emergency today, May 11, Colorado College will be removing the COVID-19 vaccine requirement. This means incoming students will no longer be required to provide proof of completing a COVID-19 vaccine series or request an exemption.

COVID-19 vaccines are an effective tool to prevent severe disease, and CC will continue encouraging students to receive their COVID-19 primary series and all recommended boosters. As a reminder, Colorado College ended the COVID-19 vaccine requirement for new faculty and staff in April 2023.

This change is in line with national trends and aligns with higher education institutions in El Paso County. Colorado College will continue to provide COVID-19 testing through the Student Health Center. Additionally, rapid tests are widely available at multiple locations across campus.

For more information on the changes and how they affect the CC community, please visit our COVID-19 Update webpage.
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