Winter 2025/Spring 2026
Why Our Work Matters
Hear how the liberal arts make an impact in a special podcast version of the Liberal Arts Magazine
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Letter from the Dean: Winter 2025/Spring 2026
Highlighting new podcasts, rising student interest, innovative AI courses, and opportunities like the President’s Art Prize and Colorado Democracy Prize—reflecting a year of growth, creativity, and civic engagement.
College of Liberal Arts Winter 2025/Spring 2026 News
An update on the latest research, faculty achievements, alumni spotlights, and other recent news from the College of Liberal Arts.
Alumni Survey Results: Liberal Arts provides versatility, confidence, and careers with impact
More than 1,600 College of Liberal Arts alumni responded to our career survey last year. The results were clear: A liberal arts degree from CSU leads to meaningful work, adaptable careers, and lasting confidence.
Conversations on agricultural labor in prisons and cannibalistic behavior from early humans
CSU anthropology and geography research explore power, place, justice, and humanity’s past.
Art, Activism, and a Campus Transformed
An interactive exhibition reveals the activism, improvisation, and community power behind CSU’s Visual Arts Building.
Meaningful friendship, civic action, and pop culture as economic storytelling
From building deeper connections to empowering communities, Communication Studies faculty discuss how communication shapes the world.
The alchemy of finance and the economic obstacles to lowering emissions
From Wall Street to climate policy, CSU economics faculty explore inequality, power, and the challenges of tackling climate change.
Why does point of view in art matter?
From the classroom to theatrical stages past and present, English faculty explore how perspective in art shapes meaning in our world right now.
Medieval lessons on bees and reshaping Colorado classrooms
Get the buzz on medieval bee-keeping and discover how telling untold stories can reshape classrooms, with insights from History’s faculty.
Access to Air Quality Information and Local News Media Habits
Journalism and Media Communication
Journalism faculty take you inside their research on improving air quality communication and using deliberative journalism to spark stronger civic engagement.
Connecting Pilgrimage and Migration
International Studies | Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Ancient pilgrimage stories and modern migration reveal the shared human experiences that connect us across cultures.
Philosophy, Science, and the Practice of Disagreement
A philosopher of science explores why public trust breaks down and how better reasoning can help repair it.
Exploring representation in policy, correctional facilities, and table gaming
From environmental policy to prisons to Dungeons & Dragons, political science faculty podcasts reveal how power, agency, and decision-making shape our world.
Symbols of Hate on University Campuses
Race, Gender, and Ethnic Studies | Women's Studies
CSU scholars explore race, gender, identity, and symbols of hate on campus — challenging discrimination and imagining inclusive futures.
Performing arts as a tool for human connection
School of Music, Theatre, and Dance
From studio to stage, music, theatre, and dance faculty podcasts explore the performing arts as a tool for fostering human connections, healing, and growth.
Conversations on cultural stereotypes at zoos and the Prison Agriculture Industry
How do zoos reinforce cultural stereotypes we may not know we hold and what is prison agricultural labor and why does it exist?
Connecting communities through interdisciplinary Catholic studies
College of Liberal Arts | School of Music, Theatre, and Dance
As the endowed Willette Chair of Catholic Studies, Joel Bacon has spent his first year in the role exploring how religious studies can spark dialogue and bridge differences through music, education, new experiences and open conversation.