(Re)start and Renew

Welcome, all, to 2017. I hope and trust your new year is starting well. I know mine has started with wonderful adventures and I know, too, that I am ready to settle back into the routine of the cool job I have which is, at its base, hanging out with all of you. Over the […]

Join CMST and ACT at the Dr. MLK Jr. March and Celebration Jan. 16

Staff, volunteers, and friends of the ACT Human Rights Film Festival, produced by CSU’s Department of Communication Studies, will join the annual Dr. MLK Jr. March & Celebration in Old Town Square at 11 a.m. on Monday, January 16, 2017. Participants will march from downtown Fort Collins to the Lory Student Center for a community […]

An amazing semester

And now the Friday of exam week. Commencement services are beginning. Final grades are getting entered. Students are leaving. Bells are ringing. Are you listening? Listening to the increasing quiet on campus and the growing craziness in Old Town? An amazing semester, don’t you think? Let’s talk money for just a second. CPD just received […]

Center celebrates decade of student-cultivated public dialogue

A program that gives CSU students real-world experience facilitating group discussions on difficult community issues celebrated its 10th anniversary this week. CSU’s Center for Public Deliberation marked its first decade at a Nov. 30 reception in the Lory Student Center attended by prominent guests such as Fort Collins Mayor Wade Troxell and state Sen. John […]

Laura Buser Profile

By Lindsay McNeish Senior Laura Buser graduates next spring with a world of experiences under her belt. As a communication studies major and honors program student, Buser has worked for SLiCE as an involvement advisor, been a student associate with the Center for Public Deliberation, participated in marching band, studied abroad in Italy, and gone […]

Quick Thanksgiving Note

I hope all is well on this gorgeous day after Thanksgiving. I was privileged to see so many pictures of you and your families enjoying yesterday’s festivities. For me yesterday included breakfast with Elizabeth and my parents in Walla Walla and then traveling home from Eastern Washington through Salt Lake City to DIA and then […]