Students

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.

Winter 2024/Spring 2025

Letter from the Dean: Winter 2024/Spring 2025

Meet our new dean Kjerstin Thorson, read her reflections from her first semester at CSU, and get an update on the Clark project.

Winter 2023

Letter from the Dean: Voice

This issue’s theme of voice elevates the voices we may not hear so that collectively we gain broader awareness of the world around us.

Stewarding Art, Creating Dialog

CSU students in ‘Arapaho & Cheyenne Art and Historyʼ used anthropology, museum studies, history, and ethnic studies to provide a more holistic view of Indigenous arts.

Using the stage to engage societal challenges and democracy

CSU Theatre explores democracy with productions that address community building, fighting injustice, representation, and humor to engage with societal challenges.

Approaching democracy differently: Western and Indigenous approaches

CSU students redefine democracy by using western and Indigenous principles and ultimately crafting a manifesto that emphasizes communal responsibility over individual rights.

Multilingual voices in a small town

CSU Extension intern and French major Abi Somers is creating a medical guide for French-speaking residents in Fort Morgan, Colo. to improve access to healthcare.