Creativity & Innovation

Creativity & Innovation at Colorado College

Creativity & Innovation is part of the Crown Center for Teaching. Together, we:

  • heighten faculty awareness of the collective programming offered by Crown and C&I
  • provide opportunities for faculty to explore new approaches to teaching
  • leverage unexpected opportunities for engagement
  • identify, support, and disseminate innovative and inclusive pedagogies at CC
  • research CC’s signature pedagogies for internal and external audiences

We invite the campus community’s participation and thoughts as we utilize the creative process to pilot new programs and experiment with systems that maximize our collective service to the college.

Mission

Mission: C&I supports, cultivates, and amplifies creative teaching and learning across campus. 

Goal and Mindsets

Goal: To provide students with opportunities to develop the essential building blocks of creativity, which include both mindsets and practices. We do this by collaborating with faculty to integrate creative thinking and creative problem-solving activities into classes across disciplines and by working directly with students in curricular and co-curricular contexts.  

approach

Creativity & Innovation’s approach emphasizes creative thinking processes instead of original products. Unlike skill acquisition or content proficiency, creative development rarely follows a linear path. C&I utilizes a multi-pronged, campus-wide approach that reaches students directly through our work with faculty to develop discipline-specific exercises and assignments and through our non-curricular programs. When students are exposed to creativity-building pedagogies in multiple contexts, they are better able to integrate creative thinking practices into new situations.

initiatives

Our initiatives reconnect students with their innate curiosity and cultivate their capacity for the kind of possibility thinking that transforms uncertainty into multiple options for creative thought and action. As the world becomes increasingly more complex, students will need to step outside of what is already known in order to effect positive change in the world. 

Contact Us

Mailing Address

The Colorado College
14 East Cache La Poudre St.
Colorado Springs, CO 80903

Physical Address

Creativity & Innovation
232 E Cache la Poudre St.
Colorado Springs, Co 80903

See the location page here. 

Call or Email

(719)389-7082
innovation@coloradocollege.edu

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C&I Opportunities

cSpace:

  • cSpace is a welcoming, student-designed space where CC members can explore their creativity through prototyping, experimentation, and play. It is located in the Creativity & Innovation building, 232 E Cache la Poudre St (the northwest corner of Weber and Cache).
  • Creativity drop-ins happen on the second Monday of each block from 3:00 - 4:00 pm.

For faculty/staff:

  • We start new Creative Courage Cohorts each August before NSO and NFO. In AY25-26 the cohort commences with a two-day immersion on Aug. 11-12. Email Kris Stanec to reserve your spot today. 
  • Our blockly workshop series is open to anyone teaching a course at CC. Creativity workshops will start up again in Block 1 on Sep. 11.  
  • Possibility Books Workshopping opportunities will occur on May 29, and Aug. 14. 
  • Crown Center events and workshops take place throughout the academic year. Formal lunch gatherings on a range of relevant topics will take place on the second Tuesday of each block. Informal breakfast conversations will take place on Thursdays following the conclusion of each block. 
  • The C&I classroom in Honnen Arts is available for course assignments; faculty participating in C&I programming have priority, followed by faculty teaching a course that fulfils the Creative Process (CP) critical learning requirement.

For students:

 

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