Timely Warning: Vehicle Thefts

Over the last week Campus Safety and the Colorado Springs Police Department have received reports of two motor vehicle thefts (stolen cars) and six thefts from parked vehicles.

These crimes have occurred off campus near Monument Valley Park parking lot and along Mesa Avenue to the west of campus and on Wahsatch Avenue to the east of campus.

If you are a victim of any crime, please report it immediately. If you have any information regarding these recent crimes, please contact Campus Safety at (719) 389-6707, or CSPD non-emergency, (719) 444-7000 or make an anonymous report through Crime Stoppers at (719) 634-STOP (719) 634-7867.

Please observe the following safety tips to help protect yourself and your property:

Park in a well-lit area with high pedestrian traffic when possible.
Always lock your car doors and roll up the windows.
Never leave a spare set of keys or key fob in your car.
Thieves will look for magnetic hide-a-key boxes.
Be mindful of leaving anything of value visible in your car.
Remove your registration and insurance information with personal data from your car.
If you are securing valuables in the trunk of your car, do it before you arrive to park your car as thieves will watch parking lots at parks and trailheads.
Do you have any perceived valuables such as a gym bag, lunch box, or packages visible in your car? These are still appealing to a thief who does not know the contents.
If you don’t drive your car often, please check it as often as possible.
Report any suspicious behavior, activity, or circumstances you observe on or around campus immediately.

CSPD Non-Emergency (719) 444-7000

Campus Safety Emergency (719) 389-6911

Campus Safety Non-Emergency (719) 389-6707

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Post-Fall Break COVID-19 Update

Block 4 is underway, and we would like to remind you of the steps we are taking to ensure that the remainder of the Fall Semester goes as smoothly as possible.

Key Reminders

Students are participating in post-Fall Break testing.
Students with symptoms should not go to class and should call the Student Health Center, (719) 389-6384.
Masks are required in all public indoor spaces on campus when not actively eating or drinking.
Always wear a mask indoors, on or off campus, when in public spaces or gatherings.
Avoid unmasked social gatherings indoors where viral transmission is likely to occur.
Stay vigilant to reduce the risk of COVID-19 spread and avoid disruption this block and for Winter Break.

Testing
All students, except those who have received positive test results in the 90 days prior, are taking an initial COVID-19 test this week. Thanks to all who have already taken their test! You are helping to keep our community healthy. If you haven’t yet, please pick up your test kit at the library, or, for this initial testing only, at your residence hall if you reside in South, Mathias, or Loomis Halls. Students, please contact us at covid19@coloradocollege.edu if your name/email address/CCID are not displayed correctly in your eMed or Navica app and need to be edited.

As of Wednesday, more than 1,500 students have already taken their initial test (or are within their 90-day window, on leave, or studying abroad), with only one positive test result. The CC COVID-19 dashboard is updated with new numbers. Based on results from initial screening testing, beginning next week, 33% of vaccinated students will participate in screening testing each week; students with exemptions will continue testing twice a week.

Please re-familiarize yourself with campus COVID-19 protocols, including updated information regarding screening and symptomatic testing.

Masking and Socializing
Masking guidance remains the same: universal indoor masking on campus; indoor masking strongly recommended off campus, as COVID-19 transmission levels continue to be high in El Paso County. Community transmission levels county by county are available here. Please check this website periodically to inform your masking practices.

As a reminder, food should not be served during meetings, unless outdoors.

We are monitoring the emerging situation regarding the new Omicron variant and will keep you updated on any developments that may affect our campus operations. We hope to know more within a few weeks.

Boosters
CDC recommends that all people 18 and older receive a booster shot if they are at least six months out from their second dose of an mRNA vaccine (Pfizer or Moderna) or two months out from receiving a dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Details about an on-campus booster clinic in Block 4 are coming soon.

Classes are being held in person. Student activities, programming, and athletic practices are proceeding as planned. All campus dining facilities are open.

Our goal for Block 4 is to allow students to complete their academic work without disruption and return home for Winter Break. Students with positive test results after Dec. 12 would still be in isolation after the end of Block 4. Continue to practice good public health behaviors such as consistent indoor masking, particularly in the last two weeks of the block, to minimize disruption to travel plans and reduce elevated stress levels toward the end of the block.

Thank you for doing your part to reduce the spread of COVID-19! If you have questions, please contact covid19@coloradocollege.edu and check our Coronavirus Updates and Resources webpage.

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Join the Antiracist Book Club This Block

Dear CC Community,

The diversity, equity, and inclusion leadership team is happy to announce that our second Antiracist Book Club selection, “You are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame, Resilience, and the Black Experience” by Tarana Burke and Brene Brown, is now available in the CC Bookstore. It’s free with your CC Gold Card.

We also highly recommend listening to the Audible version of the essays, as each of the books are read by the authors themselves. That version can be accessed for free when you sign up for an Audible account. If you are a student who is unable to access the audio book via Audible, please email the Butler Center.

As always, the study guide is available to you on the Antiracist Book Club Microsoft Teams platform starting next week. Please be aware that this book contains sensitive content including firsthand accounts of abuse, trauma, and racial and transgender antagonism and violence that may be distressing to readers/listeners. The Wellness Resource Center has assembled an extensive list of resources and supports available to you and listed on the study guide.

We hope you will also mark your calendar for 11:15 a.m., Monday, Jan. 24, when one of the authors, Austin Channing Brown, joins us for a virtual conversation, “Finding Joy in the Resistance,” with Dr. Manya Whitaker. This conversation will challenge us to remember humanity in the midst of the struggle, in the struggle itself, and in each other. As our Block 5 First Mondays presenters, Brown and Whitaker will discuss strategies for embracing, cultivating, and amplifying joy, while simultaneously acknowledging the work that needs to be done.

As a reminder, the ABC is meant to be self-led and asynchronous. We encourage you to create space to discuss these books and their topics in the spaces you already currently inhabit (e.g., department meetings, athletics teams, student clubs/organizations, etc.) and at your own pace.

Happy reading!

Peony Fhagen

Senior Associate Dean of Equity, Inclusion, and Faculty Development

Eric Lee
Assistant Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Staff and Administrative Operations

Rosalie Rodriguez
Senior Associate Dean of Students for Equity and Inclusion
Director of the Butler Center

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President’s Holiday Party

Please join President L. Song Richardson to celebrate the end of the Fall Semester at the President’s Holiday Party.

Celebrate with fellow faculty and staff on Friday, Dec. 10, 2-4 p.m. in the Brian Young Concourse in Ed Robson Arena. This event is a chance to meet up with colleagues, experience the new arena, and be grateful for our campus community as the Fall Semester nears an end.

Warmest thanks to our Board of Trustees for bringing us all together to celebrate.

See you Friday, Dec. 10!

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View From A Barber’s Chair – An Evening With Dr. William Cross Jr.

View From a Barber’s Chair

You’re invited to an evening with Dr. William (Bill) Cross Jr., renowned African-American psychologist and racial identity scholar.

Cross is professor emeritus of higher education and counseling psychology at the University of Denver. He has received numerous honors and awards in the field of psychology and is one of the most frequently cited names in Black racial identity literature. In his lecture, Cross will revisit his ground-breaking model on Black Identity and discuss his new understanding of the psychology of slavery.

The first 24 students who arrive in person for the event will receive a free copy of his latest book, “Black Identity Viewed from a Barber’s Chair: Nigrescence & Eudaimonia.”

View from a Barber’s Chair

Thursday, Dec. 9, 7-9 p.m.

Lecture, Q & A 7-8:30 p.m.

Book Signing 8:30-9 p.m.

Cornerstone Screening Room

You can also join the event virtually via Zoom. Please register here.

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Reminder: “Calling In the Call Out Culture with Dr. Loretta J. Ross” is tomorrow

Calling In the Call Out Culture with Dr. Loretta J. Ross

On Wednesday, Dec. 1, at 6 p.m. MT, remember to join activist and public intellectual, Dr. Loretta J. Ross in calling in the call out culture and in the fight against white supremacy.

In this virtual webinar, Ross asks us to contemplate how we can intentionally and collectively shift our culture in order to build a united movement for human rights. She notes that in our well-intentioned activism we often use our radical consciousness to harm each other, while we are together hurting and healing, instead of coming together to fight a common oppressor. In this talk, Ross will discuss how calling out/calling in is not another false binary, but rather a continuum of accountability.

Ross is associate professor of the study of women and gender at Smith College, where she teaches courses on white supremacy, human rights, and calling in the call out culture.

This event is open to all Colorado College students, alumni, faculty, and staff and community members from the Colorado Springs area and beyond.

This is a virtual event. Register in advance for this webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

This event is part of Dismantling Hate: An Educational Series Toward Understanding and Action. This series, for the academic year 2021-22, is a campus-wide initiative that provides programming for CC students, faculty, staff, and alumni and community members from the Colorado Springs area. The purpose and goal of this educational series is to support our communities in better understanding hate — the root and outcomes — and to motivate people to take action to dismantle hate. Each educational program in the series will feature a conversation with an activist, broadly defined, who will share their work and experiences dismantling hate against marginalized communities.

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Staff and Faculty Climate Survey Begins Tomorrow

“Doing What We Do Better:” Watch for Survey Link Tomorrow

As the college prepares to embark on Project 2024, we will soon gather valuable input from you so we can do what we do at CC even better.

CC is committed to being a great place to work. To do that, we periodically ask staff and faculty how they feel about their sense of well-being; the college’s mission, values, and direction; the shared-governance model we rely upon in making many decisions; and the stewardship and shaping of our campus culture, among other things.

An anonymous employee climate and engagement survey will be distributed during Block 4. From Dec. 1-22, you’ll have the opportunity to share your thoughts, ideas, and feedback on what you like most about CC, what you think the college could improve, and how to make the best of CC’s strengths — as individuals and as an institution — to achieve goals.

The results from previous campus climate surveys prompted major initiatives including the Excel@CC professional development program; a four-year, $1 million investment in staff compensation to bring it up to market levels; a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion; a policy and compliance website; improved internal communications; and onboarding for new employees.

The survey will arrive in email inboxes beginning tomorrow, December 1. Watch for this message — it will come from ModernThink — and thank you for your participation in this anonymous survey.

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Thank You For Sharing Your Thoughts

This message was sent to all students today, thanking them for taking the National Assessment of Collegiate Campus Climates survey. Thanks to all of you who encouraged students to take the survey. Similar surveys will be conducted for staff in Spring 2022 and for faculty in Spring 2023.

Dear Students,

I want to take a moment to thank you. We recently administered the National Assessment of Collegiate Campus Climates, a survey asking students about the racial climate on our campus. Nearly 1,000 of you — or 41.5% of the student body — responded to the survey. Thank you for engaging in this important work.

Your valuable input will help us to better understand your experiences on campus and how you feel about the college’s commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Our survey partners at USC’s Race and Equity Center will analyze the results and provide recommendations based on their analysis. We will share both with the CC community.

Again, thank you for your commitment to antiracism at Colorado College and for taking the time to complete this important survey. Your participation will help to make our community more inclusive and welcoming for all.

Sincerely,

L. Song Richardson
President

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Thank You For Sharing Your Thoughts

Dear Students,

Sincerely,

L. Song Richardson
President

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Need to Know Post-Break Information

Dear Students,

Welcome to Block 4! We hope you enjoyed a restful Fall Break.

Please take a moment to review the COVID-19 risk mitigation protocols that all CC community members are expected to follow. Indoor masking remains in place on campus as COVID-19 transmission levels continue to be high in El Paso County. You can look up the community transmission level county by county here to inform your off-campus masking practices. We strongly recommend following CDC guidance to mask indoors when transmission levels are substantial or high.

As you return to campus for the final block of 2021, please remember that all students (except for those who have received a positive COVID-19 test result in the 90 days prior) are required to take a COVID-19 test at the beginning of Block 4.

If you have symptoms today such as cough, fever, sore throat, headache etc., please do NOT go to class. Stay away from others, and call the Student Health Center, (719) 389-6384, to make an appointment at your earliest convenience.

COVID-19 asymptomatic screening testing is now administered by eMed, a telehealth provider. You should have received an email from covid19@coloradocollege.edu prompting you to pick up a BinaxNow test kit.

For this initial testing after Fall Break only, students residing in Mathias, South, and Loomis Halls should pick up their test kit at their hall’s front desk beginning TODAY, Nov. 29, during desk hours.

Students residing in other residence halls on campus or off-campus should pick up their BinaxNow test kits at the Tutt Library circulation desk beginning TODAY, Nov. 29,at 8 a.m. You must bring and swipe your Gold Card to pick up a test kit.

As a reminder, please follow the instructions provided with each test kit and take the test by Tuesday, Nov. 30, at 5 p.m. Do not open your test kit until prompted to do so during the telehealth session with eMed.

In order to participate in the testing program, you must download the Navica app, create an account, and enter the Connect Code to connect your account to Colorado College. If you didn’t receive the email invitation to download the app (sent Nov. 16), check your junk email folder; contact us at covid19@coloradocollege.edu if needed.

It’s important to follow these instructions because we will not receive test results until after you have connected your account to Colorado College and your test results won’t count toward the testing requirement, resulting in your key card access to campus being turned off.

Feeling Sick?

If you are experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, do NOT go to class. Stay home and away from others.
Call the Student Health Center as soon as possible to make an appointment with a health care provider: (719) 389-6384.
In addition to COVID-19 testing, the provider will be able to test for a range of other illnesses, such as influenza, strep, etc., to help you recover as quickly as possible.

Think you may have been exposed to the Coronavirus?

Wear a mask when around others.
If you’re asymptomatic, make an appointment at the Student Health Center, (719) 389-6384, for testing on day 5-7 after the last known exposure. If you test sooner, the test may not accurately detect an infection because of the incubation period.
If symptomatic, call the Student Health Center and make an appointment with a provider.

All members of the CC community are encouraged to get a COVID-19 booster shot. We will share details soon about an on-campus COVID-19 booster clinic.

If you have questions, please contact covid19@coloradocollege.edu and check our Coronavirus Updates and Resources webpage.

We are excited for you to be back on campus and wish you a healthy and rewarding Block 4!

Sincerely,

Andrea Bruder
Chief Public Health Advisor to the President

Mateo Muñoz
Chair, COVID-19 Policy and Implementation Committee

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