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Lots of Opportunities to Engage!
Lots of Opportunities to Engage!

Black History is American History

Virtual Event ✊🏾

Ernest Crim III is a Black History Application Specialist who uses Black History to empower and educate families and train educators on how to best reach their students in a culturally compliant manner. Mr. Crim is a former high school educator of 12 years, who now teaches Black History to the world through social media with a reach of nearly 500,000. Additionally, he is the CEO of Crim’s Cultural Consulting LLC, an international speaker, an author of two bestsellers and a passionate progressive education activist, who has been featured on PBS, CBS, NBC & Newsweek amongst various other outlets. To Ernest, his purpose is to creatively strategize how we can use our glorious past to create a better future, entrenched in equitable practices. 

Mr. Crim will facilitate an engaging VIRTUAL conversation on February 28th at 3:30 PM MST. The conversation will focus on past and present-day occurrences that show how Black History is repeating itself. Topics include affirmative action, policing, black history bands, and more. Mr. Crim will provide a vivid account using his own lived experience to provide a captivating and insightful dialogue that illuminates how Black History is, in fact, American History! 

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Connect with Diverse Minds Across CC

We are looking to check the temperature about a couple of unique opportunities and ways to engage the CC community in conversations about ADEI-related topics. We encourage you to take 5 minutes and complete this interest survey to offer insight into how we can best support professional development by mobilizing innovative strategies across our institution.

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Introducing the ADEI Stewardship Certificate!

Investing in Knowledge.  Building Skills.  Changing Attitudes.

Overseen by the ADEI Leadership Team, and signed by the College President, the ADEI Stewardship Certificate celebrates your commitment to continuous learning and unlearning practices that foster a deeper understanding of antiracism, diversity, equity, and inclusion.

A series of events designated as ADEI Stewardship eligible throughout the school year will be presented.  These events include but are not limited to The Dismantling Hate Series, The Antiracist Book Club, Butler Center Workshops, Crown Center Development Series and others. Sign in at any six designated events to begin working on yours today.
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Join us for the Block 5 Dismantling Hate Speaker

It Takes More than a Food Drive: Thinking Transformatively about Poverty, Class, and Economic Justice

Join us for the Block 6 Dismantling Hate speaker, Paul Gorski. Gorski is the founder of the Equity Literacy Institute. After a 20-year career in academia, he started the Equity Literacy Institute to work directly with schools, nonprofit organizations, and other organizations to use antiracism as a core value for transformation.
Some of the barriers to progress on all social justice issues revolve around efforts to sustain injustice and privilege, and the tendency for people to address its symptoms but not its root causes. In this workshop, Gorski will discuss these kinds othese kinds of barriers and basic principles that can inform more serious efforts and commitments to antiracism.
Wednesday, March 8
7-8:30 p.m.
McHugh Commons/Virtual Zoom 

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Dismantling Hate: An Educational Series Toward Understanding and Action is a campus-wide initiative that provides programming for Colorado College students, faculty, staff, alumni, parents and families, and community members from the Colorado Springs area.  Now in its second year, the purpose and goal of this educational series is to support our communities to better understand hate — its roots and outcomes, and to motivate people to take action to dismantle hate.  Each educational program in the series features a conversation with an activist, broadly defined, who shares their work and experience dismantling hate against marginalized communities.
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Launching Speak Up Colorado College

Colorado College has partnered with OneTrust to develop Speak Up Colorado College, an anonymous reporting platform

Speak Up Colorado College is our 24-hour reporting system where you can confidentially and anonymously submit your concerns. To make a report at any time, go to speakup.coloradocollege.edu or call toll free 1 (800) 461-9330.

Starting today, you can use Speak Up Colorado College to confidentially speak up, share your perspective, ask challenging questions, and raise concerns about behaviors that conflict with the college’s values without fear of retaliation. This is all done while protecting individuals who bring concerns forward.

Concerns can cover a variety of topics, including, but not limited to:

  • Misuse of college assets or funds
  • Misuse of confidential information
  • Violations of giving and receiving of gifts covered under the Code of Ethical Conduct and Conflict of Interest Policy
  • Retaliation from any member of the college for bringing a concern forward
  • Discrimination or harassment, including violations of Title IX and Title VII
  • Violation of any college policy or handbook rules or regulations

After submission, you can follow the status and anonymously communicate with the college through the platform about your report. We recognize that it can sometimes take a lot of courage to speak up; any information you provide to Speak Up Colorado College is stored privately and securely and will be treated with sensitivity and respect.

Do you have questions or things you’d like to know about the platform? Email Lyrae Williams, lwilliams@coloradocollege.edu. All questions will be answered and will also help inform a list of FAQs on the platform.
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Don’t Forget Your Gold Card

Remeber to carry your Gold Card:

Colorado College is committed to balancing safety and access concerns. Based on community feedback, we are changing the hours that doors to academic buildings are locked to reflect low-traffic periods more accurately.

At the start of the Block 5 block break (Thursday, Feb. 23) doors to academic buildings will be locked at all times during block breaks, college breaks, and Summer Session. During the blocks, they will be locked overnight from 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. 

Please remember to carry your Gold Card with you, so you have access as needed.
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Career Center Newsletter 2/21/23

Career Center Newsletter

Events and Opportunities

The Summer Internship Funding Application is open for 2023. All applications must be submitted through Summit (under the Office of the Dean of the College).

Funding is intended to increase the ability of CC students to participate in internships that are unpaid or underpaid. Each Colorado College student is eligible to receive one award during their four undergraduate years. All internships must be away from the CC campus, and all travel for internships outside of the U.S. must be approved. Third-party programs are not eligible for funding. 

The first deadline for consideration is March 24, 2023. The sooner you start your search, the more proactive you can be for this application. It is unlikely all funds will be distributed at this deadline. Applications will continue to be accepted until funds run out or May 19, whichever comes first. 

Watch the Career Center Funding Website for full details and updates.

Upcoming Events

Website Building Workshop with Lilly Chen ’19

Date: Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023; 1-3 p.m. MST 
Location: Armstrong Lab 208
Join Lilly Chen ’19 to learn how to build and deploy your own website on a MacBook! In the workshop, you’ll get first-hand experience with the modern industry web stack, meaning Netlify, Gatsby, and Github. No coding experience is necessary to participate. However, this workshop is only compatible with MacBooks, so attendees are required to bring their own MacBooks; participation will not be possible otherwise. Before the event, please install https://code.visualstudio.com/download. 

Technology Alumni Panel

Date: Feb 28, 2023; 12:30-1:30 PM MST
Are you interested in a career in technology? Do you want to network with and learn from Colorado College’s computer science alumni? If so, attend the Technology Alumni Panel on Feb. 28 from 12:30-1:30 p.m. Hosted by the Coding Club and the Career Center, the event will be a great way to meet and learn from alumni working at Lockheed Martin, Cisco, Qualtrics, and more!

Engaged Career Panel: Making a Difference while Getting Paid

Date: Wednesday, March 8, 2023; 3:30-5 p.m. MST
Location: Yalich (Spencer) Board Room

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Join the CCE for a panel of local CC alum in public good careers! Come see how alum translate their CC degrees into careers for the public good.  Panelists will share their experience working in the nonprofit and public sectors, reflect on their journeys to that work (including their CC experience), and give advice to students seeking to find a career path in which they can make a difference AND get paid.

Panelists represent nonprofits, city government, public academia, foundations, social entrepreneurship, and organizing :
  • Meg Yevara ’10 (Program Coordinator, Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum)
  • Sergio Portesan ’16 (Big Futures Program Specialist, Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Pikes Peak Region)
  • Ryan Trujillo ’06 (Deputy Chief of Staff, City of Colorado Springs)
  • ­­Candace Woods ’13 (Owner, Woods + the Wild)
  • Phoenix Chang Roper ’22 (Program Associate, El Pomar Foundation)

Positions


U.S Figure Skating – Marketing & Communications Intern Spring Semester 2023

The Intern, Marketing & Communications Intern will be responsible for supporting the Director of Marketing with ongoing programs and events. Responsibilities also include:
  • Managing the tagging of social posts through our social media vendors,
  • Providing copywriting/editing support
  • Contribute to U.S. Figure Skating’s social media strategy including but not limited to content creation, and branded campaigns.
  • Contribute to SKATING magazine, Learn to Skate USA blog, and other publications as assigned, including the opportunity for feature writing.
  • Create and grow our Quarterly Fan Newsletter and find ways for fans to sign up
  • Research potential partners for U.S. Figure Skating and their tent-pole events
  • Gathering insights from survey results and other data collection methods
  • Program ideation and implementation

    In addition, all tasks that are assigned by the Manager, Marketing Analytics and Insights will be the responsibility of the Intern, Marketing. Emphasis will be placed on the candidate’s ability to work both independently and in a team environment, accuracy, customer service, creativity, and timeliness.

    Application: Send letter of application and resume to Robert Stabenau, Manager of Marketing Insights and Analytics at 
    rstabenau@usfigureskating.org. 

    https://www.usfigureskating.org/careers

Don’t forget: Visit Us During Drop-ins Monday-Thursday, 1 to 4 p.m.


You can use the Career Center to connect your academia to your professional goals. Don’t forget that you can schedule an in-person or virtual appointment through Handshake to discuss major exploration, review your application materials, or practice mock interviewing. 
The Career Center is happy to support you: 

Full-Time Jobs, Internships, and Other Opportunities

  • AmeriCorps Summer Teaching Fellowship (May 15)
  • Charlie Blumenstein Stewardship Assistant (Apply by March 17)
  • Dynatrace Sales Development Representative – Summer 2023 (Apply by March 30) 
  • Dynatrace Product Specialist Intern (May 5)
  • Dell Technologies Sales Strategy & Planning Graduate Internship
  • Industria Partners Summer Analyst Intern (Apply by Feb. 24)
  • Northwestern Mutual Financial Representative Intern (May 26)
  • Special Olympics Colorado Special Events Intern 
  • Quadriga Partners Investment Banking Internship (March 31) 

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