Fine Arts Center Museum

• Class Visits
• Unblocked Gallery
• Visiting Artists and Scholars
• Museum Faculty Fellows Program
• Collections Access and Research

Unblocked Gallery This teaching and exhibition space within the Museum is available to CC faculty in all disciplines who wish to build sustained engagement with material and visual culture into a Block course. Unblocked Gallery projects may include: mini-exhibitions of objects pulled from the Museum's permanent collection; student research and/or creative response to objects; iterative displays wherein objects may be re-ordered or reinterpreted to create new curatorial narratives, or student research is continually added and modified; or the creation of a gallery/laboratory setting in which research on the composition, history, or condition of objects is conducted and information shared with the public. Learn more about academic engagement at the Fine Arts Center.

Contact
Alie Ehrensaft, Museum Education Assistant
aehrensaft@coloradocollege.edu
(719) 477-4322

Outdoor Education

Incorporating experiential learning opportunities into existing academic curriculum. Depending on the season we are able to assist or design custom programs utilizing the outdoors as a medium for unique pedagogical learning opportunities around critical thinking, risk management, problem solving, communication, and team development.

Various experiential activities including orienteering, rock climbing, rappelling, and stand-up paddleboarding for English courses with Professor Hayward. Formats have included a "read, do, write" where students would read some literature around mountaineering/climbing, then climb for a day, and finally write their own piece having experienced that activity allowing the emotions to play out in their assignment.

Contact
Ryan Hammes
rhammes@coloradocollege.edu
x8131

Arts and Crafts

• Classes and workshops are offered in ceramics, fiber arts, and metals.
• The Fiber Studio features 17 floor looms at 4, 8, 12 and 16 harness capacities and a complete dye studio.
• The Clay Studio is equipped with 6 wheels; 2 electric kilns; gas; raku and salt kilns; a slab roller; and a Soldner Clay Mixer.
• The Jewelry Studio offers a wide variety of hand tools, along with a rolling mill, 2 polishing machines, enameling kilns and silversmithing equipment.

Contact
Lynnette DiRaddo, Interim Arts & Crafts Program Director and Fiber Instructor
ldiraddo@coloradocollege.edu
(719) 389-6608

Wellness Resource Center

• Blockly Journaling Workshop
• BADASS (Be Aware, Decide to Act, Say Something) Active Bystander Intervention Workshops
• Trauma-Informed Care Workshops
• Science of Substances Series
• Good Sex Series

"Project ZZZZZ" Sleep Researcher Dr. Roxanne Prichard The WRC, Crown Faculty Center, and Campus Activities and Residential Life collaborated to bring sleep researcher Dr. Roxanne Prichard to campus. While on campus, she consulted on best practices with the WRC staff and Residential Life Coordinators, presented at a Crown Faculty lunch about the connections between sleep and academic performance/success, facilitated a "Sleep 101" workshops for students, staff, and faculty, and gave a public lecture titled, "Cell Phone Use: a Mediating Factor of Undergraduate Health and Wellness." This set of programs highlighted the connections between well-being and academic success and performance, and engaged faculty in embracing and modeling healthy behaviors. This collaboration has also grown into an ongoing collaboration we are calling "Project ZZZZZ" aimed at providing education about healthy sleep habits, intersections of sleep with mental health and cognitive performance, and engaging the campus community in embracing healthy sleep strategies and patterns.

Contact
WRC Assistant Director Molly Hadley
mhadley@coloradocollege.edu
719-389-7315

Creativity and Innovation

• The Risk Project
• Creative Process and Problem-Solving
• Faculty Grant Program
• Mindfulness Resident
• Innovator in Residence

Advanced Genomics Laboratory This course, primarily taken by upper-level students majoring in molecular biology introduces students to laboratory methods in advanced molecular biology and genomics. Within this rigorous science course, students participated in a workshop led by Innovator in Residence Reiko Yamada, designed to highlight the ways in which science can intersect with artistic expression and creativity. Students used RNA sequencing data they obtained to create a graphical score, assign sounds to it using materials available in the lab, and then perform their pieces for the class. The ultimate goals for the workshop were to explore value of play in the learning process, and also to invite students to think about the ways in which re-framing their perspectives on a piece of knowledge, in this case a data set, might provide space for new approaches. Professor Sara Hanson commented: "I was very excited about bringing this opportunity to the students in my class. It provided the opportunity for them to think about and engage with their data in a completely new way. They got to be creative and have some fun with the data that they had worked so hard to generate and analyze during the block".

Contact
Jessica Hunter-Larsen, Associate Director
jhunterlarsen@coloradocollege.edu
719-389-7083

Collaborative for Community Engagement

• Faculty Service Committees
• Engaged Faculty Lunches
• The Community Engaged Scholars Program
• Public Achievement
• Community Engaged Leaders (CEL)
• The Community Engaged Fellowship (CEF)
• Community Based Research (CBR)

Block 8 Political Science Class The CCE connected Peak Partnership, a local nonprofit that works on ballot initiatives, with Political Science Professor Dana Wolfe to analyze polling data collected in advance of a ballot initiative to increase city council pay. Students in the course worked with Peak Partnership to analyze the data in order to understand how the ballot question might be framed, and whats kinds of messaging and outreach might resonate on this important issue. The CCE played a critical role as a matchmaker and thought partner in this process.

Contact
Anthony C. Siracusa
719-389-6885
asiracusa@coloradocollege.edu

The Butler Center

• National History/Heritage Months & Awareness Days
• September 15 - October 15. "Hispanic-Latino Heritage Month"
• October "LGBT(QIA+) History Month"
• November "Native Heritage Month"
• February "African American/Black History Month"
• March "Women's History Month"
• May "Asian Pacific Heritage Month"

The Butler Center and Sociology Department work together to design and develop a series of events that include bringing renown activists as speakers and workshop presenters to campus. Professor Popkin invites collaboration for this project. The collaboration includes meeting to develop ideas, inviting the speakers, communicating expectations and co-designing the workshop topics, logistical planning, marketing and outreach, shared funding sponsorship. The key partners meet post-event to debrief and consider next steps.

Contact
Amairani Alamillo
aalamillo@coloradocollege.edu
(719) 389 6338

Career Center

• Dynamic Half Block
• Mock Interviewing for all pathways/job types
• Technical Skills: Resume and cover letter
• Personal values and creating an individualized career path
• Transferable skills: connecting the CC experience to the workplace
• Leadership development - including, not limited to: resilience & integrity in the classroom and beyond, receiving & giving feedback, presentation skills
• Mock Interviews in classes
• Edge Faculty Mentors for Edge intern students

Principles of Decision Making (EC114) & Negotiation (EC113): This collaborative project is intended to help students to investigate the decision-making and negotiation theories they are learning in a variety of organizational cultures, while engaging in informational interviewing and networking skill development. Through this two-block FYE engagement, students are introduced to work-place practices and develop relationships with professionals in their fields of interest.

Campus Activities

• Student Organization Advising & Event Support
• Block Break Programming - free low key and local day trips that provide students the opportunity to rest, relax, and reconnect
• Evening & Weekend Programming - free, alternative social programming
• Annual Signature Events
• Arts & Crafts Program
• Competitive Communications
• New Student Orientation
• Leadership Development & Skill Building Workshops

An Evening With Ron Stallworth, The 'Black Klansman'

(719) 389-6800
Campusactivities@coloradocollege.edu
The Campus Activites Office is located on the 2nd floor of the Worner Campus Center, room 230.

Colket Center for Academic Excellence

• Quantitative Reasoning Center (QRC)
• The Writing Center
• Cultural and Linguistic Diversity (ESL)
• Thesis Writing Specialist
• Sophomore Jump Program

Contact
Traci Freeman, Director
719-389-6726
traci.freeman@coloradocollege.edu

Crown Faculty Center

• New Faculty Orientation Series
• Crown 3rd Thursdays Faculty Luncheon Series
• Teaching & Learning Circles
• Support for Scholarly & Creative Work
• Support for Pedagogy
• Early Summer Faculty Retreat
• Digital Liberal Arts at Colorado College

Contact
Jane Murphy, Director
(719) 389-6986
jmurphy@coloradocollege.edu

Center for Global Education and Field Study

• Block Away Workshops
• Faculty Development workshops
• Course and field trip evaluation/research
• Sense of Place trips
• Site Familiarization Grants
• Study Away Leader Lunches

Field Study workshop: Collaborated with experienced faculty to create sessions on best practices for field study elements.

Build Your Block Away Workshop: Assists faculty new to study away to the design, budgeting and recruitment processes for CC's block away offerings.

Contact Global Education
Allen Bertsche
abertsche@ColoradoCollege.edu
794-8280

Contact Field Study
Drew Cavin
dcavin@coloradocollege.edu
389-7613

Chaplains' Office

Guest lecturers on religious pluralism, Block retreats with themes related to wellness, spirituality, and intercultural awareness. Examples include: Holocaust Memorial, Muslim Student Association annual Muslim Culture Night, Buddhist themed retreats, Taos Initiative for Life Together (TiLT), and Bridge Program collaboration.

Taos Initiative for Life Together (TiLT) Block retreat: The retreat for students during a Block break in the Fall of 2018 was designed to incorporate themes of spiritual practice, peace initiatives from the Anabaptist perspective, self-reflection, and care for the limited resources in our environment. The program was also one which gave students the opportunity to learn more in terms of cross-cultural communication, transformative economics, and innovative education. In our era of significant environmental and economic crisis, TiLT has promoted alternative ways to promote sustainability of our resources and communities. The program was of special interest to students studying in the Departments of Religion and Environmental Studies. In the future, we would like to also include Southwest Studies since the academic themes of this department also align with the themes of TiLT.

Contact
Chaplains' Office