Getting involved is a great tool in navigating your way through college. Here are some resources to help you get started!
Leadership Opportunities
CSU offers a wide range of leadership opportunities on campus! As a CSU student living in the residence halls, you will have the chance to be involved with the following programs and groups:
President’s Leadership Program
Service Opportunities
If you are looking to get involved in service opportunities during your first year as a student at CSU there are a number of volunteer opportunities throughout the academic year. As a student living in the residence halls or a member of NRHH, you will have the chance to be involved with the following programs and groups to name a few:
CSUnity & Fall Clean Up – A one-day service experience. Each spring & fall over 2,000 CSU students gather for a day-long service plunge in and around the Fort Collins community! Join fellow students in planting trees, painting houses, visiting with senior citizens, sorting food, and much more. Services are provided to neighbors in the community, the City of Fort Collins, state, county and federal agencies, and local non-profits. A bountiful variety of volunteer opportunities are available.
Cans Around the Oval – is a CSU tradition, where students, faculty and staff partner with community members, local media and area businesses to raise awareness about the facts surrounding the issue of hunger, as well as raise food and monetary donations. This event is Larimer County’s largest single-day food drive.
Ramcorps program is a regional effort to engage students in meaningful service with local communities.
Alternative Breaks are an immersion experience into different cultural, environmental and socioeconomic communities across the nation. Students provide service in exchange for education about current social and cultural issues facing the host communities.
Project Homeless Connect is a one-day event that provides individuals and families currently experiencing homelessness with access to vital services such as: rapid-re-housing, basic medical exams, legal advice and much more. It’s a one-stop shop for assistance that helps families stop struggling and paves the way for their success.
Academic Support
Students come to CSU for academics pursuits of excellence. CSU provides students with countless resources and support groups to make sure students are supported and encouraged in all forms of learning throughout the year. Some of those resources are:
The Institute for Learning and Teaching (TILT) – offers 16 programs that work together to enhance learning, teaching, instructional innovation, and student success at CSU. TILT works with a wide range of programs across the University to pursue its mission, including its primary partners, the Center for Advising and Student Achievement (CASA) and the Transfer Student Center, which are also housed at the TILT building.
Study Skills Workshops – several times each week, TILT’s Learning Programs offers face-to-face academic and study skills workshops.
Success Coaching – work 1-1 with a Learning Programs staff members who can help you make a plan for your successful semester, or just give you some tips on getting organized and studying effectively.
Writing Center – CSU Writing Center is a free service open to CSU students, faculty and staff as well as the local Fort Collins community. The goal is to engage the community in conversations about writing; to that end, provide face to face and online consultations for writers in all disciplines working on all types of writing from traditional research papers to electronic texts such as websites and blogs. Beginning with writers’ needs and concerns, using knowledge and expertise to enhance writers’ understanding of a variety of rhetorical issues, such as purpose, audience, style and conventions. The center strive to help writers develop the confidence to make effective writing choices in any writing situation. In these ways, the center wants to create better writers, not just better writing.
Adult Learner & Veteran Services (ALVS) – Supports the academic success of adult learners and student veterans by providing programs that educate students about the value of using resources that are available at CSU and in Fort Collins. ALVS also provides many services that support student parents, such as a breast feeding room and Ram Kidz Village in Morgan Library.
Career Center – Empowers students to pursue satisfying careers through the development of individualized career plans. Whether students are just beginning their college experience or approaching graduation, the office is available for help.