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Each week this month, ITS is sharing topics to help the community understand the risks associated with sharing personal and organizational information, and keeping that data secure. Here are the previous messages on doxxing and smishing.
This week’s topic: Mobile Device Attacks
Mobile security threats are commonly thought of as a single, all-encompassing threat. But, there are actually four different types of mobile security threats that organizations need to take steps to protect against:
Mobile Application Security Threats
Application-based threats happen when people download apps that look legitimate but actually skim data from their device. Examples are spyware and malware that steal personal and business information without people realizing it’s happening.
Web-Based Mobile Security Threats
Web-based threats are subtle and tend to go unnoticed. They happen when people visit affected sites that seem fine on the front-end but, in reality, automatically download malicious content onto devices.
Mobile Network Security Threats
Network-based threats are especially common and risky because cybercriminals can steal unencrypted data while people use public WiFi networks.
Mobile Device Security Threats
Physical threats to mobile devices most commonly refer to the loss or theft of a device. Because hackers have direct access to the hardware where private data is stored, this threat is especially dangerous to organizations. Here’s what you can do to protect your device, yourself, and the college:
Wi-Fi
Don’t allow your device to auto-join unfamiliar networks.
Always turn off Wi-Fi when you aren’t using it or don’t need it.
Never send sensitive information over Wi-Fi unless you’re absolutely sure it’s a secure network.
Apps
Only use apps available in your device’s official store; NEVER download from a browser.
Be wary of apps from unknown developers or those with limited/bad reviews.
Keep them updated to ensure they have the latest security.
If they’re no longer supported by your store, just delete!
Don’t grant administrator, or excessive privileges to apps unless you truly trust them.
Browser
Watch out for ads, giveaways, and contests that seem too good to be true. Often these lead to phishing sites that appear to be legit.
Pay close attention to URLs. These are harder to verify on mobile screens but it’s worth the effort.
Never save your login information when you’re using a web browser.
“Why is creativity important for culture? Because it is the main engine behind cultural change and transformation. Whenever old solutions no longer apply or new problems emerge, creativity is called upon to add, change, enrich, simplify or purely to beautify the world. And it is not only the ‘few great creators’ who play a role in this process but each and every one of us.”
– Vlad Petre Gläveanu “Creativity as Cultural Participation”
Welcome to Kris Stanec as Faculty Fellow in Creativity & Innovation 2021-2022.
Interview with SethWilson Gray, (‘19)
Could you speak a little bit about the different roles you’ve had at Colorado College and your time here?
I’m a CC alum. I was a Psychology major and minored in Theory and Practice of the Arts. When I was a 4th year, trying to figure out what to do next, I saw a career counselor who gave me a battery of tests and said, ‘Creativity is one of your biggest strengths. You need a job that really involves creative aspects.’ I also wanted to work directly with people. Teaching at that point in time had a lot of flexibility to explore pedagogies and put curricular pieces together yourself – this was before standards and testing.
I’ve always utilized arts integration when I teach, because of the capacity for the arts to pull people into conversations, engage them in learning, and increase access to content. I started teaching a class in the MAT program at CC on Arts Integration, which became a course on curriculum design for undergraduates as well. I’ve taught many other Education courses, including one that I developed as a Cornerstone Arts Initiative course, ED210: Power of the Arts.
As Director of Education at the Fine Arts Center Museum, I received funding through the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop a project called Multiple Narratives. This program shifts the art historical approach of looking at art to a more inclusive pedagogy that supports students’ identity development, fosters authentic relationships and values students’ lived experiences and cultural knowledge. I’ve continued to research how this pedagogy works in various contexts with children through adults.
I believe that part of the culture at CC encourages people to try new things. Course development grants and other funding opportunities provide resources and permission to cultivate and apply innovative ideas.
What’s exciting to you about your role in C&I this year? What do Creativity and Innovation as broader themes mean to you when it comes to your role this year?
I’m so excited to be working with faculty and students across disciplines. I spend time with professors to converse about their course goals; then we work together to construct a creative component that aligns with their objectives.
I enjoy divergent thinking and the challenge of connecting abstract concepts to something concrete. Students talk about how motivating it is to have the freedom to generate ideas. Granted, it takes a certain kind of risk, often putting oneself in a vulnerable position to share thoughts that might seem outlandish. The creative process can feel unsettling. But the discoveries that come from relating random ideas to prior knowledge can lead to unique and meaningful learning. There is power in understanding that failure is simply part of a process and that iteration leads to better outcomes. Creative methods and approaches, while maybe uncomfortable at first, have a real way of freeing us from the ways of thinking that we’re locked into for whatever reason.
When people understand that they can bring their whole selves to discussions,
assignments, or group work, collectively more opportunities and options arise. When
we compassionately listen to each other, we increase the realm of possibilities based on the fact that each unique person brings different ideas.
What are some of your hopes and dreams for the academic year when engaging students, and what is something that you want to accomplish?
I have questioned how to provide sustainable creative components for courses, in addition to the single visits I often have with a class. Trying to go beyond one visit was an issue in my community-based learning courses as well as school visits at the Fine Arts Center. I’m interested in how we can create something that can be used throughout an entire course, as well as how we can provide an option for students to utilize creative methods across blocks, across semesters, and across disciplines.
As an educator of art and creativity, and now innovation, do you engage in any creative practices yourself?
Yes, all the time. I explore various crafts, making things that are basically for myself. I find such joy when I try new processes. For example, I took a workshop that Melanie Yazzie offered a few years ago when she was a visiting artist. She taught printmaking with gelli plates and stencils. I’m enamored by the process and am experimenting with the materials to get different results.
I often ask myself, “What more?” as opposed to “what else?” There’s a distinction. Years ago, Jessica Hunter introduced me to Visual Thinking Strategies, which repeatedly asks us ‘What more we can find when we look at a work of art?” I use that as kind of an underlying philosophy in many ways; ‘what more’ can be found?
I actually collect ampersands in a variety of sizes and materials; they remind me to think about ‘what more.’ I play with all sorts of mediums, which then becomes a creative challenge. How can I take random, disparate methods, and put them together? I can find such flow when immersed in the textures, shapes, and colors of beads. I then try to figure out how to combine them with copper pipe, ceramic pieces, or gelli prints until I find something that feels pleasing to me.
Do you have advice you’d like to share with the Colorado College community at this time, whether it be in regard to creativity or something else that you find important?
I hope that we as a campus learn how to sit in things that are uncomfortable and remain open to possibilities. We need to figure out how to hold space for things beyond our own experience. The creative process can help us practice this capacity. It is exciting to think about where we could then go as a community. So, my advice – to myself as well – is to risk failure, to be vulnerable and to create a wide variety of options as a way to begin to address challenges.
Creativity & Innovation’s Innovators in Residence Connect Creative Minds
Jessica Hunter, Associate Director of Creativity & Innovation
Since its inception in 2016, the Innovator in Residence program has quickly become one of Creativity & Innovation’s signature programs. Our goal is to embed creative professionals from a range of fields deeply into the Colorado College community. The residency is flexible in duration and scope. It allows for structured and spontaneous teaching opportunities and collaborations with faculty, staff, and students. We’ve hosted a diverse group of Innovators who represent a wide variety of professional and personal backgrounds, including activists, artists, architects, designers, filmmakers, scientists, and spiritual leaders. Across this diversity, Innovators share characteristics of flexibility, curiosity, and the desire to work collaboratively.
As part of their residencies, Innovators work closely with faculty to develop activities and assignments that support students to engage their creativity and make dynamic connections between ideas. Notable curricular collaborations in our first five years include: sound composer Reiko Yamada working with professor Sara Hanson’s Molecular Biology students to translate yeast RNA into musical scores; game designer and theater professional Janani Balasubramanian working with Physics professor Natalie Gosnell and a student group to iterate and test an astrophysics-based immersive theater piece; Dr. Bon Ku discussing principles of Heath Design Thinking with students in science and art classes; and interdisciplinary artists Senga Nengudi, Eddy Kwon, Crow Nishimura, and Joshua Kohl conducting workshops that explore individual and collaborative creativity for students in multiple courses.
We are delighted to welcome our Innovators in Residence for academic year 2021-2022. For more information about upcoming Innovators or explore ideas for collaborations, please contact Associate Director Jessica Hunter at jhunter@coloradocollege.edu or 719-389-7083
Michelle Gabrieloff-Parish (’00)
Block 3, 2021
Michelle has over 20 years of experience uniting the fields of sustainability, justice, culture, nature, and art. She serves on the leadership council for the food justice organization “Frontline Farming.” She is the founder of “Candelas Glows,” a community group that raises awareness about the nuclear superfund site Rocky Flats. She served as a US delegate for the Colorado River in Mexico and is a former US State Department BoldFood fellow in Uganda. While Assistant Director for Energy and Climate Justice at the University of Colorado Boulder, Michelle created projects that partnered students and low-income community members for sustainability projects and green job training. She co-founded the “Just Transition Collaborative” to advocate for equitable climate policies in local governments. As Senior Program Manager for Climate Innovation at Movement Strategy Center,
Michelle facilitates community-driven planning using transformative community and ecological design tools. Her poetry was featured in the Jaipur Literary Fest and at the Joanna Macy Center. She is also a featured poet in “The Dreamer” room at Meow Wolf, Denver.
Teresa is an Associate Professor in the University of New Hampshire’s Department of Natural Resources and the Environment and a climate change fellow at the Harvard Divinity School. She is also a co-founder of the “Confluence Lab,” which brings together scholars in the humanities and sciences with community members to engage in environmental issues in rural communities. Teresa is a geographer
specializing in hydrosocial relations, emphasizing Tribes of the Western United States, human dimensions of fire, science communication, and the environment. Her research and outreach projects have been funded by the National Science Foundation, NASA, and Milkweed Press. Teresa earned her BA from Colorado College, an M.S.c from Schumacher College, and a Ph.D. from Montana State University.
Jessica Lynne
J Block, 2022
Jessica is a writer and art critic. She is a founding editor of ARTS.BLACK, an online journal of art criticism from Black perspectives. Her writing has been featured in Art in America, The Believer, Frieze, and The Nation. She is the recipient of a 2020 Research and Development award from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and a 2020 Arts Writer Grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation. She is currently working on a collection of essays about faith, art, and the US South. Her podcast series Care + Criticality animates the various forms that criticism may occupy in contemporary art.
Myra Jackson, often described as a Renaissance woman, has enjoyed a diverse array of hefty careers as an Electrical Engineer, Organizational Development Professional, Systems Thinker, and Master Trainer. She has lived abroad and studied many of the world’s religious and spiritual traditions in service to her lifelong fascination with the belief structures and cosmologies that captivate people and inform their lives. She holds the title of Diplomat of the Biosphere awarded by Stockholm Resilience Centre. Linking local and global policy-making, she is a founding wisdom council member of the Gaiafield Project and Subtle Activism Network. She is also a senior advisor on Whole Earth Civics and Focal Point on Harmony with Nature with Geoversiv Foundation.As UN Permanent Representative in New York, Myra serves as the focal point on climate change for the Commons Cluster of NGOs. She recently facilitated Oprah Winfrey’s Belief series initiative as an official program of the United Nations hosted by the President of the General Assembly in October 2016.
Erin Elder is an artist, curator, and writer guided by interests in land use, experimental collaboration, and non-traditional modes of expression. Her research-driven projects take highly participatory forms, working with a broad definition of art to bring audiences into a direct experience of particular places. Underscoring
Erin’s work is a commitment to the creative process and direct support for artists. From 2009 – 2013, she cooperatively founded and directed PLAND, an off-the-grid residency program near Tres Piedras, NM. From 2012 – 2015, she was the Visual Arts Director at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe, where she curated 50+ exhibitions and many public programs. Under her direction, the program worked directly with artists on exhibitions of new work designed specifically for the unique gallery spaces at CCA. Erin is contributing faculty at several universities and colleges and serves on several arts boards in Albuquerque.
Queer Nature is an education and social sculpture project based on Arapaho, Ute, and Cheyenne territories that actively dreams into de-colonially-informed queer
‘ancestral futurism’ through mentorship in place-based skills with awareness of post-industrial/globalized/ecocidal contexts. Place-based skills include naturalist studies, handcrafts, “survival skills,” and recognition of colonial and indigenous histories of land and are framed in a container that emphasizes deep listening and relationship building with living and non-living earth systems. Co-envisioned by Pinar Ateş
Sinopoulos-Lloyd and So Sinopoulos-Lloyd, Queer Nature designs and facilitates nature-based workshops and multi-day immersions that are financially, emotionally, and physically accessible to LGBTQI2+ people and QTBIPOCs.
Momentix won the Big Idea in 2019 and are based in Denver. They make toy kits that use chain reactions to teach critical engineering and design skills to kids. In their current Kickstarter, they have far surpassed their goal.
Momentix is continuing their exciting momentum with a feature on Westword. This article touches on the foundation of their idea, their product, as well as the importance it holds in our society.
Jessica Hunter, Associate Director Creativity & Innovation
I have been fortunate to work with many professors who teach innovative classes in my time at Colorado College. As a former CC student, I am frequently tempted to drop everything and join a class for the duration of the block. Professor Liliana
Carrizo’s CC100/120 course, Music, Food, and the Senses, is one such class.
In Blocks 1and 2, three C & I team members have had the opportunity to work with this class, which brings together ethnographic and literary studies
with acoustemology to examine the engagement of sound and human sensory systems across a range of global contexts. Over two blocks, students explore the sonic, visual, tactile, and culinary practices among different individuals and communities as a way of understanding how musical and culinary expression
intertwine with memory, migration, and resistance.
I sat down with Liliana to talk about the philosophies that undergird the course and how it intersects with her own research. I’m delighted to share excerpts from our conversation.
Jessica Hunter: What motivated you to develop this course?
Liliana Carrizo: It’s very inspired by what I write about and what I do as a researcher. Everything that I do is rooted in sensorial and musical embodiment, cultural understanding, and belonging. A lot of my research addresses how songs follow pathways of migration. You can write alternative histories of human movement and experience by following the paths of songs or recipes. So, the idea for the course came from me asking myself, “Well, what if I applied that kind of lens of inquiry while working with students?”
JH: How does the course unfold over two blocks?
LC: I begin the class by introducing students to ethnographic theory — I kind of front-load the course with that. And then, we take the theories and dig deep by
tracing the paths of recipes and songs in our own lives. This involves a lot of self-reflection, writing, and discussion so that we understand ideas and experiences intuitively and intellectually. This is really where I resonate with what you all do at Creativity & Innovation. I think that it is essential to create space for intuitive and creative understanding.
Once we’ve done a lot of internal work to figure out what these theories mean and how they play out in our own lives, we move it outwards. We start to ask, “What does community-responsive work look like in terms of ethnography? How do we apply the methods of listening we’ve learned as we take our lens outwards? What does it really mean to listen?” So, listening to other people, centering other voices, becomes
essential. And this is where we start bordering on social justice issues: how do we amplify the voices of marginalized communities?
In the third week of block 1 in collaboration with four different CC100 classes, we had a large event focused on music, food, and social justice. The event featured
the Chicanx bands Los Mocochetes and The Pink Hawks from Denver, who do a lot of work in musical education and social justice. And, we partnered with CC Professor Florencia Rojo and Food to Power, as well as the Mobile Arts Truck. Together we started to brainstorm and envision how we can reflect on music and foodways as forms of knowledge that can also serve as sites of resistance to protest systems of inequality and enact social change. What future possibilities do they allow us to envision beyond our current place of social inequality?
JH: What has excited you about this class so far?
LC: I’ve been pushing the boundaries of what we consider academic practice and constantly encouraging the students to take risks. I’ve tried to approach this from a place of respect and care. So, I’m always privileging vulnerability while supporting
students to step outside of purely analytical thinking and learning and embrace theory from an embodied perspective.
At the end of block 1, the students produced ambitious creative projects that
synthesized all that they’ve been learning, thinking, and feeling. The projects took a wide variety of forms, including an ethnographic audiobook, a synesthetic biography of David Bowie through a series of drawings, and the creation of a fictional ethnographic world accompanied by three original songs. The students really ran with the creative project!
I could sense in the early weeks that the students had some fear-based reactions to this open-ended creative project that engages the course’s theories. It was a big experiment because I also hadn’t done something like this before. It was extremely helpful to have the staff from Creativity & Innovation come in and help the students start to access their creative ideas. It got the wheels rolling.
JH: What is coming up in block 2?
LC: The CC120 portion of the class is a writing seminar in which we will continue to play with the ideas of compassionate listening and empathic ways of knowing to learn about the human condition. I see at the forefront of ethnographic disciplines like anthropology and ethnomusicology work that intersects with creative nonfiction. And I think that’s what’s helping to decolonize these disciplines because we’re
throwing away this antiquated idea of an objective knower who can tell a story from an outsider’s perspective. So, we will refer back to some of the questions we explored in block one: What does it really mean to listen and amplify the voices of people who don’t usually get to tell the stories? And what perspectives emerge when we make space for those stories to be told? Block two asks students to start looking deeply at those themes in terms of self-reflection in an even more concentrated way.
Ultimately, the goal is for students to produce a large body of written work by the end of the block that answers the question, “What does your life look like if told from the perspective of music and song?” It’s an auto-ethnographic dive deep, and it’s
creative.
JH: What do you hope the students will take away from this class?
LC: They may come out of this class excited to write an academic ethnographic paper, or they might also want to write a podcast or write a blog. I’m hoping that the course will offer them tools that are transferrable in a relevant way that will serve them. Most of these students probably won’t go to musicology grad school. Still, they will likely apply their skills to personal essays, blog posts, websites, memoirs, travel writing, literary journalism, or even cultural criticism. So, I’m always asking myself, how can I apply the tools of the discipline in a way that’s helpful for the students, long-term?
Each week this month, ITS is sharing topics to help the community understand the risks associated with sharing personal and organizational information, and keeping that data secure.
This week’s topic: Smishing.
Smishing, or SMS phishing, is the act of committing text message fraud to try to lure victims into revealing account information or installing malware. Similar to phishing, cybercriminals use smishing, the fraudulent attempt to steal credit card details or other sensitive information, by disguising as a trustworthy organization or reputable person in a text message.
With smishing, cybercriminals use a text message to try to get potential victims to give out personal information. The text message, which typically contains a link to a fake website that looks identical to the legitimate site, asks the recipient to enter personal information. Fake information is often used to make the texts appear to be from a legitimate organization or business.
Smishing has grown in popularity with cybercriminals now that smartphones are widely used, as it enables them to steal sensitive financial and personal information without having to break through the security defenses of a computer or network. Public awareness about phishing, smishing, and other attacks continues to grow, as many incidents are reported on in the news.
So be aware of messages that may appear to be legitimate. Verify the message with the organization. Most will not message you in this format. The pandemic has led to many more actors portraying themselves as medical organizations, government agencies, or financial institutions.
Get your flu shot at the on-campus flu shot clinic on Saturday, Oct. 16.
All members of the CC community are strongly encouraged to get a flu shot. Colorado College’s Student Health Center partners will be offering an on-campus flu shot clinic for students, staff, faculty, and dependents over age 2 tomorrow, Saturday, Oct. 16, from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Cornerstone Arts Center Main Space. Please bring a PAPER COPY of your insurance card. No appointment necessary.
The Academic Events Committee Requests Your Nominations for Honorary Degrees
We are looking for nominations for honorary degree recipients to be honored in the 2022 Commencement ceremony. Honorary degrees are awarded to individuals who have rendered distinguished service to society or made extraordinary achievements in their own profession. Nominations can be added to the pool of candidates at any time, however only those received prior to the end of Block 2 can be considered for the 2022 ceremony.
Information about how to nominate a candidate can be found here.
Our mailing address is: Colorado College 14 Cache La Poudre St. Colorado Springs, CO 80903
“CC’s commitment to academic engagement with the arts is one of the things that excited me most about joining this community,” says Colorado College President L. Song Richardson. “As we think about how we can do what we do better, we have an incredible opportunity to stand as a model for the role of the arts in the liberal arts experience.”
Introducing The Arts at CC, a renaming of the existing Office of Performing Arts.
More than just an office, The Arts at CC seeks to make the arts an integral part of all members of our community. It will amplify the important work being done with the arts within the academic mission of the college and find new ways to collaborate across campus for greater impact and access.
Colorado College has a longstanding tradition of excellence in the arts. We provide robust curricular offerings through our visual, performance, literary, and media arts departments as well as offer rich and diverse programming in formal and informal spaces across campus. Our alliance with the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center brings these opportunities for connection and engagement to a whole new level.
For the past three years, Associate Professor Ryan Raul Bañagale has served as chair of the FAC Performing Arts Implementation Committee and then as director of the performing arts for the college. He has accepted President Richardson’s invitation to serve as the director of The Arts at CC until 2024.
“Thinking about the long arc of the arts and arts collaborations at Colorado College, I’m incredibly honored to play a small role in whatever comes next,” affirms Bañagale. “We would not be at this point without the efforts of countless contributors over many years — both as creators and thought leaders.”
During the 2021-22 academic year, The Arts at CC will undertake a full accounting of all the artistic endeavors of the college. Faculty, students, and staff will have numerous opportunities to participate in this process and the community is encouraged to reach out directly to highlight particular endeavors or priorities by emailing thearts@coloradocollege.edu. Additionally, the existing CC Arts Council will continue to develop creative and collaborative programming for both our campus and our community.
To stay up to date on all the arts programming endeavors at CC, follow “theartsatcc” on Instagram and Facebook.
Our mailing address is: Colorado College 14 Cache La Poudre St. Colorado Springs, CO 80903
The President’s Leadership Awards Program recognizes colleagues who make an impact as strong leaders, innovative role models, and positive collaborators.
Previous winners of the President’s Leadership Awards were nominated by faculty or staff colleagues.
Check out examples of winning nominations to help inspire you in drafting a stand-out submission. Tips include telling a detailed story about the person or group and how they demonstrated the qualities of the award namesake, the college’s leadership philosophy, and CC’s antiracism efforts.
Now is the time to honor individuals or groups who have made a difference in your life and the lives of others at CC.
Submit nominations now through the end of Block 3. The deadline to submit nominations is November 19, 2021. As part of our strategic initiative to foster workplace excellence, it’s important to recognize those who are making a difference.
Nominate a deserving colleague or team of individuals, based on the following criteria:
Brian Young Community Service Award: This awardee demonstrates a continued pattern of voluntary service to the college and exceeding their job duties, as demonstrated by former Vice President for Information Technology Brian Young. The awardee must have been employed by the college for five years or more. Submit a nomination.
Victor Nelson-Cisneros Diversity and Inclusion Award: This awardee exemplifies the qualities of former Associate Dean of the College Victor Nelson-Cisneros in supporting diversity and inclusion on campus. Submit a nomination.
Glenn Brooks Innovation and Courage Award: This awardee displays the courage and innovative qualities of former Dean of the College/Dean of the Faculty Glenn Brooks, who was one of the founders of the Block Plan. Submit a nomination.
Jane Cauvel Cultivating Collaboration and Community-building Award: This awardee cultivates collaboration on campus and is a community-builder, as exemplified by Jane Cauvel, professor of philosophy emerita, and the college’s first ombudsperson. Submit a nomination.
Winners each year will receive: $2,500 cash prize, a feature on the President’s Leadership Awards website, and a leadership trophy to display for a full year. Winners will be announced in Block 5.
The individuals who submit winning nominations will also be recognized.
Thank you for helping to recognize CC’s exceptional leaders, and to honor the individuals who strive to make our college great.
For questions about the awards program or the nomination process, please contact Lyrae Williams.
Our mailing address is: Colorado College 14 Cache La Poudre St. Colorado Springs, CO 80903
Mark your calendar for Monday, Oct. 25, at 11:15 a.m. and start Block 3 together, virtually, with the campus community and our First Mondays speaker.
Carl Wieman, professor of physics at the Graduate School of Education at Stanford, has pioneered the use of experimental techniques to evaluate the effectiveness of teaching strategies in the sciences. He joins us as the featured First Mondays speaker to present “Better College Teaching and Learning Through Research.”
This First Mondays event will take place via Zoom. Please register in advance. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
The First Mondays Event Series is a campus-wide forum that aims to engage all members of the CC community, including students, staff, administrators, and faculty. The series creates opportunities for the whole community to gather, encouraging everyone to be part of the intellectual life of the college, and facilitating discourse among students, faculty, and staff, across courses, disciplines, and divisions. Classes are dismissed early on the first Monday of each block so that all may attend the First Mondays event.
Our mailing address is: Colorado College 14 Cache La Poudre St. Colorado Springs, CO 80903
After a beautiful weekend of alumni, family, students, friends, staff, and faculty uniting and reuniting during Homecoming and Family Weekend, my heart is full. Thank you so much for the planning and work required to make Homecoming and Family Weekend such an enormous success.
You hosted more than 2,000 visitors – our extended CC family – and made them feel appreciated. Academic departments held open houses, there were student performances and panel discussions, and Tigers fans cheered on our athletics teams. Classes reunited, and we honored alumni with awards.
You created a welcoming environment and meaningful opportunities to connect. You helped our guests make wonderful memories at this special place. I am deeply grateful to you all. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Song
Our mailing address is: Colorado College 14 Cache La Poudre St. Colorado Springs, CO 80903
