Student Engagement

Is Key to Student
Success
At Colorado College, our focus is on
engaging students in learning across
their diverse experiencesboth
curricular and co-curricular. Student-
to-student interactions are an important
component of student engagement.
The Wellness Resource Center strives
to increase campus capacities for
active bystander intervention strategies
through our B.A.D.A.S.S. (Be Aware,
Decide to Act, Say Something)
Campaign. This campaign teaches
community members how to identify
potential problems or dangers, as well
as the skills and resources to intervene
in order to maintain safety and to
support community members in
distress in getting appropriate support
and assistance. Learning how to
intervene in difficult situations provides
our students with valuable critical
thinking and communication skills, as
well as with the confidence that they
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Campaign works hand-in-hand with
other educational and prevention
programs, including sexual health,
mental health first aid, ally and cultural
competency trainings.

A healthy, engaged
community contributes to 14 E. Cache La Poudre St.
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
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The Wellness Resource Center
promotes a holistic model of wellness
through coordination and integration of
campus efforts to advance health and
prevent health problems. We focus
our work around 7 dimensions of
wellness, which overlap and impact
one another.
7 Dimensions of Wellness
Intellectual
Socio-cultural
Emotional
Physical
Spiritual
Environmental
Career/Financial
We work to help students make
connections between these
domains of their lives and to
make choices with wellness in
mind. We want students to
connect their academic
experiences with their co-
curricular experiences, and to
recognize the impact that their
decisions in one domain have on
the other domains of their lives.
Making Connections
Across Campus
In promoting a holistic model of wellness,
we collaborate with many offices and
departments across campus, including
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Residential Life, The Butler Center, the
Chaplains Office, Outdoor
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Campus Activities, and academic
departments. We also serve as a point of
connection and support for student groups
working on wellness-related activities
ranging from violence prevention, to
mental health support, to support for
specific medical concerns.
Areas of specific programming developed
by the Wellness Resource Center include
education for campus constituents on a
range of wellness related topics, such as
healthy relationships, healthy sexual
engagement, alcohol and other substance
use and abuse, mental health and life
balance, and disease prevention.
Programming takes many forms, from big,
campus-wide events, to smaller trainings
for specific student groups, to web-based
information, and even poster campaigns.
This project enables us, as
members of the CC
community, to produce new
cultural meaning within our
sphere and question the
accepted CC lifestyle.
--Student member of the Press Project
The Press Project:
An Example of a
Collaborative, Wellness-
Focused Program
The Press Project was a collaboration between
2 Student Life Division offices, faculty members
from 2 different academic departments and the
Printer of the Press. The project was designed
to engage students around issues salient to
their lives here on campus. Students spent
time discussing the effects of media on
consciousness and identity, as well as the art
of raising awareness through text and image.
They then chose topics, which included healthy
emotional engagement, substance use and
abuse, and sexual violence, and created
posters at the Press. The posters, designed to
raise awareness and create dialogue, were put
up around campus. Students then developed
presentations to further engage the community
in conversation about the impact of their
posters and the issues of concern to them.
The Press Project is a great example of our
goal of helping students to connect different
domains of their lives in making decisions or
thinking about a problem. In this project,
students connected academic knowledge sets
with socio-cultural and emotional wellness
issues that they identified as salient within their
own lives, and then worked to engage their
peers in difficult conversations about those
topics.