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Welcome to Colorado College. Let's start our tour here on Tava Quad, the heart of campus. Tava Quad is named for the mountain we see west of campus, known to the Ute People as Tava, or Sun Mountain. Regardless of the day or the season, you'll find students out here engaging in activities ranging from intramural soccer or campus golf to watching movies on the quad, or slacklining and sitting in hammocks.Tava Quad will be a fixture of your CC journey. You'll cross it on your first day to get to Opening Convocation, on your last day to get to graduation, and just about every day in between as you move between classes, meals, and activities with friends. Tava Quad really is the heart of the CC campus!
Cutler Hall Admission Office
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Founded in 1874, Colorado College has been both progressive and innovative from the very beginning. Our first class graduated 25 students — 13 male and 12 female. At that time, the entire college, which consisted of a small library, science labs, a chapel, and a few classrooms, was housed in Cutler Hall. Today, Cutler serves as the Office of Admission and is likely the first stop you'll make when visiting campus. The Block Plan is one of the greatest examples of our innovation, and affords students the opportunity for immersive learning by focusing on one and only one subject for three-and-a-half weeks. Our campus community beats to the rhythm of the block.
Worner Campus Center
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Worner Campus Center is home to a variety of campus resources, including the Campus Activities office, Student Government offices, and the Butler Center — our hub for diversity, inclusion, intercultural exchange, equity, and empowerment for all students. Worner also houses CC's popular Arts & Crafts studios where students to explore their creative side and practice problem solving outside a strictly graded environment. Perhaps most importantly, Worner houses Rastall Cafe, our largest on-campus dining option. Every weekday at noon, when most classes end, a herd of students, faculty, and staff head over to have lunch together inside Rastall. And, several times per year, Rastall opens for Midnight Breakfast, a late night campus tradition!
Adam Press Fitness Center
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CC's 30,000 square foot fitness center is one of the finest of its kind among liberal arts colleges. With floor to ceiling windows that offer panoramic views of the Front Range and Pikes Peak, the setting provides an inspiring environment to stay in shape. The upper floor is dedicated to cardio training, with all kinds of aerobic equipment. The lower level focuses on strength training, and also houses exercise studios for classes like yoga and pilates, a climbing gym, raquetball courts, a gym where you'll find intramural basketball, dodgeball, and volleyball games, and the Schlessman Natatorium, home to our kayak-rolling workshops and intramural innertube water polo.
The Preserve Cafe
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The Preserve is one of the best places on campus for locally-sourced meals and fresh organic snacks. Many students also come by to study or spend time with friends. You'll often find classmates enjoying the unobstructed view of Pikes Peak on the Alumni Plaza.
It's likely you'll see students having a group study session over Preserve pizza, members of the Carnivore Club brainstorming what they'll grill for the upcoming campus music festival, or catch TWIT, our student improv club, planning their next 24-hour sketch. If you’re lucky, you may even find one of our acapella groups or the Bluegrass Ensemble doing a sunset performance for the students on the plaza.
Loomis Hall
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Let's talk about housing at Colorado College. To start, CC students are required to live on campus for their first three years. In your first year, you'll live in one of our three large residence halls, like Loomis Hall, where we are right now. Within those residence halls, you can apply to live in a Living Learning Community, or LLC, which is an intentional community centered on a theme or topic of interest, like Pride or Outdoor Ed.
Enrolled first year students fill out their housing request during the summer prior to arriving on campus. The majority of first year students live with a roommate in a double room. Students are welcome to request a specific roommate or be paired with one based on their living preferences.
Tutt Library
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Renovated in 2017, Tutt Library became the largest American academic library to achieve net-zero energy construction, which saves Colorado College $83 million dollars annually. Once you're finished admiring the building, you can swing by Suzie B's cafe for a coffee break with sweeping views of the Front Range, stop into the Colket Center for academic excellence for help with an essay or a problem set, conduct research in the GIS lab, or make use of our 3D Printers in the Tech Sandbox.
In addition to Tutt's tech services, the library is the hub for academic support services. The Colket Center for Academic Excellence, housed in Tutt, works with between 75 and 80% of CC students each year. And, when you just need a quiet place to study, Tutt's fourth floor stays open until 4am during the week, and 24 hours a day the last few days of each block, so you have access to a quiet study space almost any time you want.
Tutt Science Center
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LEED-certified and built as part of our continued campus initiative on sustainability, the Tutt Science Center contains an advanced HVAC control and operation system, erosion and storm runoff control, xeriscaping, wind-generated electricity, and even showers for cyclist commuters.
Academically, Tutt Science houses the Environmental Science, Mathematics, and Computer Science departments, as well as our Psychology and Neuroscience department. Here you'll find neuroscience students dissecting brains from various species, geology students examining samples, psychology students examining the behavior of rats, computer science students designing new programs, and math majors getting together over pizza to discuss impossible problems. Research experience is paramount, and Tutt Science is a hub.
Hybl Community Center
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After your first year on campus, you can choose to continue living in a traditional residence hall, or you might want to live in one of our on-campus small houses — many of which are renovated mansions built during the gold boom at the turn of the 19th century – or you could choose to live in one of our many on-campus apartment complexes.
The East Campus Housing Complex, where we are right now, is one of the newer additions to campus, boasting six modern apartments, courtyards, collaborative spaces, and the Hybl Community Center — the residential hub for student gatherings, table games, video games, study groups, and of course, laundry machines.
Lennox House for Multi-Cultural Programming
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The Lennox House is home to the Glass House Program — one of several themed Living and Learning Communities, or LLCs. The Glass House Program provides an environment for the promotion of multi-cultural awareness, support, and programming and works in collaboration with The Butler Center, Residential Life, and Campus Activities.
Each LLC is advised by a student staff member and a staff Program Coordinator. The communities meet regularly over dinner to discuss a topic related to their theme. They also engage in outreach with the local community and organize campus projects and programs. LLCs can be found in both traditional residence halls and small houses like the Lennox House.
Ahlberg Outdoor Education Center
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In Colorado, we're lucky to call the Rocky Mountains our backyard — and we make sure to take advantage of our surroundings. While at CC, you'd have the chance to participate in a number of Outdoor Education activities, whether it's getting Wilderness First Responder certified, getting your Leadership Certification in order to lead outdoor trips, or taking lessons in climbing, kayaking, and other outdoor activities.
Through Outdoor Education, students also have the chance to rent all kinds of gear, from campstoves to snowshoes to rafts, and much more. Outdoor Ed also plans adventurous, outdoors-oriented Block Breaks, our four and a half day academic exhale between classes.
Ed Robson Arena
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Hosting the CC Tigers Men's Division One hockey team, Ed Robson Arena is a state-of-the-art, sustainable sporting event venue built in partnership with the City of Colorado Springs. Robson Arena seats around 3400 Tiger Hockey fans on game days, but also hosts some of our larger campus events, like Arts at the Arena, admission open houses, and graduation.
On the south side of the arena building you'll find the Yalich Student Services Center, which houses the CC bookstore, the mail center, the student health center, the counseling center, and the wellness resource center. CC students are encouraged to connect with the wellness resources and programs that meet their needs. This includes wellness workshops and educational opportunities, as well as visits with medical and mental health professionals right here on campus.
Cornerstone Arts Center
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Walking into the main space of the Cornerstone Arts Center is quirky; a constant rotation of student creativity can be found throughout. In addition to classrooms and media art tech labs, Cornerstone houses thrust and studio theaters, rehearsal rooms for drama, music and dance, and the IDEA Space — all promoting and facilitating the interaction of artists and performers with audiences from the College and local community.
Student artists utilize facilities in both Cornerstone and in Packard Hall to engage, create, and exhibit their work. Whether your artistic passion revolves around a lens, a brush, a wheel, or a stage, there is a creative outlet for every student to embark upon.
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College
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Aligned in 2017 and renamed the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, the addition of the CSFAC is an established city landmark with a permanent museum art collection of more than 20,000 pieces, including an expansive indigenous art collection – Art of the Southwest. Free for student visitation, this extraordinary resource enriches the student experience with object-based teaching, field trips, visiting artists, internships, and experiential education.
In addition to the permanent collection and extensive learning opportunities, the FAC houses the 400-seat SaGaJi Theatre, the Bemis School of Art, an unprecedented tactile gallery, and rotating work from internationally traveling exhibitions.
Downtown Colorado Springs
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The heart of downtown Colorado Springs is less than one mile from campus — the center of a community that more than 700,000 residents call home. Accessible on foot, by shared bike or scooter, or on a free shuttle, you can find yourself searching through record or book stores, feeling inspired by the country's only Olympic and Paralympic museum, grabbing a great bite to eat, or studying at your new favorite coffee shop.
Within minutes, you can escape downtown to bike through Garden of the Gods or begin your ascent up Pikes Peak, our local 14,000 foot mountain. Easy to access and navigate, Colorado Springs provides the resources of an urban environment, with close proximity to the outdoors for both field study and personal enjoyment.
CC Cabin
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Whether it be for field study or a club retreat, a trip to the CC Cabin is a welcomed excursion for all students. Located an hour west of campus in Divide, Colorado, the main floor of the cabin features a living room, fireplace, large kitchen, dining space, and a large wraparound deck. Easily accommodating an entire class, the CC Cabin provides stunning access to field study and bonding exercises like the ropes course.
Baca Campus, located 175 miles southwest of Colorado Springs at the base of the Sangre de Cristo mountains, offers students and faculty another off-campus classroom and the opportunity to delve into and truly experience course material.
