Celebrating Community Engagement

As the year draws to a close, we’d like to highlight the ways our students, faculty, and staff have invested in the common good and shared democratic futures of communities within and beyond our campus this past year.  Below, we recognize the efforts of Community Engagement Recognition Night (CERN) awardees and celebrate the seniors who are about to embark on new chapters of their engaged journeys.   
In addition to these highlights, we share data to give you a better understanding of our community work. Within these numbers are hundreds of people and community partnerships working to move their commitments to purposeful action
We are doing more than you might think, with space to do more and deepen our impact.  We emphasize these efforts as an expression of gratitude, and an invitation to join in and continue.

CERN Awardees

Student Transformations

Senior Highlights: What’s Next

Congratulations Class of 2024! Where are some of our CCE seniors going next?  
  • Peace Corps in Columbia 
  • Connecting with Indigenous communities in New Zealand, the Philippines, South Africa, and Peru through the Watson Fellowship
  • Serving as the U.S. Department of State Foreign Service Officer through the Rangel Graduate Fellowship
  • Teach for America in California
  • Working with Inside Out Youth Services through the Public Interest Fellowship Program
  • Mental health Case Manager in Colorado Spring
  • Graduate School
We know that their community engaged experiences at CC have made a huge impact on the change that they want to make in the world. We wish all of our graduating seniors luck in whatever comes next. May you continue to make change and be changed! 

Community Engagement by the Numbers

CC at Campus Compact Conference

The CCE team along with colleagues from the Career Center and Education Department spent a few days in Denver at the 2024 Campus Compact Conference. 

Dr. Jordan Travis Radke, CCE Director, presenting on Community Engaged Learning on the block.

Community Engaged Learning

Have you heard people refer to “community-engaged learning” courses, but aren’t sure what that means? Community-engaged learning (CEL) courses promote student learning and community impact.  Practically, CEL courses include collaborations with community partners for applied projects, assignments, or experiences that aim to help students learn course content and benefit communities beyond the college. Community-engaged learning aims to do more than “get students off campus” (a common myth). Its larger purpose is to prepare students for lives of engaged citizenship through experiential learning, and to bring the resources of academia to bear on real-world challenges through applied knowledge and public problem-solving.  While service-learning is the most common form nationally, CC has creatively adapted CEL to project-based strategies that work on accelerated timeframes.  See below for seven pathways of CEL that work on the block, and click here to read more.

Stay Involved

Students 

Volunteer and Internship Opportunities 

Staying in Colorado Springs and looking for opportunities to remain engaged with the community this summer? Keep an eye on our Opportunities to Volunteer webpage

Faculty and Staff Educators 

CCE Grants 
The CCE invites you to apply for grants to support your community-engaged learning and research. Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis through the CCE Summit website, with a maximum award of $500 until funds are exhausted. The CCE offers a community-engaged learning (CEL) curriculum support grant as well as a community-engaged research (CER) support grant.  
The PEAK Project 
Are you interested in transitioning a course you’re teaching this fall to community-engaged learning, but don’t feel you currently have the community connections to do so? If so, you’re invited to participate in the Publicly Engaged, Actionable Knowledge (PEAK) Project by filling out this brief interest form

Don’t miss out! 

We offer a number of ways for you to stay informed on issues and opportunities that align with your interests.

Sign up for the CCE Digest
Join an Issue Based Coalition Listserv
Join the Engaged Faculty Listserv
Subscribe to Campus Compact Newsletter

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Olin Incident Friday May 3

Dear Campus Community,

We wish to inform you of an incident that occurred this weekend. 

On Friday night, May 3, Campus Safety responded to a call reporting the sound of breaking glass in the vicinity of the Olin Fishbowl. They found a person inside Olin 270a surrounded by damage to the building and property inside the classroom. Olin 1 was also affected. In addition to the damage, Campus Safety detected the smell of natural gas and called 911. CSPD, CSFD, and Colorado Springs Utilities responded. The gas was shut off to the building and the building was cleared for occupancy.

No security or safety threats to our campus community remain.

As always, the safety of our students, staff, and faculty remains our number one priority. Special thanks to Facilities, especially Marcus Moreno, Luke Scott, and all the other staff involved, for the hard work they did over the weekend repairing the damage and keeping our community safe.

It is important to note that this was an isolated incident and is completely unrelated to the encampment on Tava Quad or anyone associated with it.

Sincerely,

Pedro

Dean of the College and Chief Operating Officer

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It’s an Ice Cream Social!

Join Us for the 150th Celebratory Ice Cream Social

To further honor CC’s commitment to our students for the past 150 years, the campus community is invited to a special sesquicentennial ice cream social on Worder Quad by the flagpole, immediately following Honors Convocation tomorrow, Tuesday, May 7, starting at approximately 12:15 p.m. 

Note: Rastall hours will be extended to 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 7 to accommodate students and employees attending the all-campus events set for this day.   

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TOMORROW: Honors Convocation

CC Community, 

Don’t forget – You’re invited to celebrate the achievements of our students and recognize faculty and staff mentors tomorrow at 11 a.m. in Shove Memorial Chapel at Honors Convocation 2024. 

Honors Convocation marks the traditional beginning of the Commencement season. Join President L. Song Richardson, Dean Emily Chan, and the Academic Events Committee as we recognize outstanding students and faculty in this special ceremony that includes departmental awards, all-college awards, and awards from the CC Student Government Association.  

All members of the campus community are invited and welcome to attend. This will happen in place of the usual First Mondays event and classes will adjourn at 10:30 a.m. so all may attend the event and celebrate the individuals being honored.  

There will be a livestream available on our website for those who are unable to attend in person. There is no need to register for the livestream. 

Immediately following Honors Convocation, the CC community is invited to a special Sesquicentennial Ice Cream Social on Tava Quad (approx. 12:15 p.m.) to further honor CC’s commitment to our students for the past 150 years. This will also be an opportunity for students, faculty, and staff to bid farewell to our outgoing President, L. Song Richardson. (If inclement weather is expected, this event will be moved to Armstrong Great Hall.) 

Note: Rastall hours will be extended to 2:30 p.m. tomorrow to accommodate students and employees attending these all-campus events.  

We hope to see you at the celebration!  

For the most up-to-date information on Commencement and other related end-of-year festivities visit: https://www.coloradocollege.edu/other/commencement.

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