Benefits & Wellness Events
2023-2024 Wellness Events
Check back frequently as items will be added throughout the year!
SEPTEMBER EVENTS
Take control of your financial life: 5 steps to managing money and debt
Date: September 28, 2023
Location: Tutt Library Timothy Fuller Event Space 201
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Drinks and light snacks will be provided.
If you’re just starting out or want to improve your day-to-day financial skills, this webinar will help you learn how to manage your money and balance your priorities so you can enjoy life now and save for the future. We’ll discuss how to:
- Balance income and expenses and prioritize your spending
- Create a spending plan
- Know how to use debt wisely
- Get your debt under control
- Build your credit score
Email Gina at elujan@coloradocollege.edu to RSVP
OCTOBER EVENTS
Emotional Well-Being Lunch & Learn Seminar – Cigna
Date: October 19, 2023Location: Bemis Great Hall
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Drinks and light snacks will be provided.
- Learning the difference between mental and emotional health and what could be the cause of Stress, Depression, Loneliness, and Anxiety
- Identifying conditions that contribute to emotional well-being
- Understand the risks of unhealthy stress and how to change your outlook
- Building resilience by learning various stress management and relaxation techniques
- Discuss available resources
Email Gina at elujan@coloradocollege.edu to RSVP
Take control of your financial life: 5 steps to managing money and debt
Date: October 25, 2023
Location: WCC WES Room
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Drinks and light snacks will be provided.
If you’re just starting out or want to improve your day-to-day financial skills, this webinar will help you learn how to manage your money and balance your priorities so you can enjoy life now and save for the future. We’ll discuss how to:
- Balance income and expenses and prioritize your spending
- Create a spending plan
- Know how to use debt wisely
- Get your debt under control
- Build your credit score
Email Gina at elujan@coloradocollege.edu to RSVP
Live with confidence in retirement: 5 steps to creating your retirement income plan
Date: October 30, 2023
Location: Bemis Great Hall
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Drinks and light snacks will be provided.
If you’re thinking about making the transition to retirement, this webinar is essential for understanding how to create an income plan that helps you maximize your savings. In five steps you’ll learn how different sources of income work, how to build your strategy for lifetime income and what to consider when planning withdrawals from your retirement assets.
We’ll help you prepare by discussing how to:
- Estimate your expenses
- Understand your income sources
- Build your strategy for lifetime income
- Withdraw your retirement assets
- Review and adjust your plan when needed
Email Gina at elujan@coloradocollege.edu to RSVP
NOVEMBER EVENTS
Wellness Bingo
Date: November 6 – December 1, 2023
To play, just get one (or both) of the Bingo cards from Gina Lujan at elujan@coloradocollege.edu and complete the tasks in 5 squares in a row (horizontal, vertical, or diagonal) between November 6, 2023 – December 1, 2023 for entry into a drawing for fabulous prizes (like a Kindle, Apple Watch, Neck Massager, Yeti Rambler, Camping Chair, etc.) You may return your card each time you have a different row completed or you may complete the entire card and return it for five entries. There are two cards for a maximum of 10 entries (5 per card) per employee. To mark your card, simply highlight or cross out the squares you completed. Print your name and email on the card(s) and return your completed card to Gina Lujan at elujan@coloradocollege.edu. All cards must be turned in by close of business on December 4, 2023. The drawing for the prizes will be held in early December. (Prizes over $50 are subject to taxes).
Physical Well-Being Lunch & Learn Seminar – Cigna
Date: November 6, 2023
Location: Barbara Yalich Board Room
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Drinks and light snacks will be provided.
Focus on Knowing Your Numbers, and what you need to know for a long, healthy life. Provide reasoning behind knowing your numbers and ways you can improve and maintain them.
Email Gina at elujan@coloradocollege.edu to RSVP
Emeriti Meetings at CC
Emeriti and Aetna will be at the college on Wednesday, November 8, 2023 to review the Emeriti benefit and anticipated changes to the Aetna plans for 2024. If you participate in the Aetna/Emeriti plans or if you are thinking about retirement you are encouraged to attend.
- Session 1: Already Retired? What's New in 2024
- November 8th, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
- Barbara Yalich Board Room, 1st floor Spencer Center.
- See what’s new with Emeriti’s Health Insurance, Medicare, and Health Care Reform.
- Drinks and light snacks will be provided.
- Session 2: Thinking about Retirement? What the Emeriti Plan Provides in Retirement
- November 8th, 11:00 - 12:30
- Barbara Yalich Board Room, 1st floor Spencer Center
- Learn about how Emeriti’s Health Insurance and Reimbursement Benefit work for you and your dependents
- Drinks and light snacks will be provided.
Email Gina at elujan@coloradocollege.edu to RSVP
Live with confidence in retirement: 5 steps to creating your retirement income plan
Date: November 10, 2023
Location: Tutt Library Timothy Fuller Event Space 102
Time: 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Drinks and light snacks will be provided.
If you’re thinking about making the transition to retirement, this webinar is essential for understanding how to create an income plan that helps you maximize your savings. In five steps you’ll learn how different sources of income work, how to build your strategy for lifetime income and what to consider when planning withdrawals from your retirement assets.
We’ll help you prepare by discussing how to:
- Estimate your expenses
- Understand your income sources
- Build your strategy for lifetime income
- Withdraw your retirement assets
- Review and adjust your plan when needed
Email Gina at elujan@coloradocollege.edu to RSVP
January/February 2024 (Dates TBD)
Make the move toward long-term financial security: Your mid-career retirement check-in
Date: TBD
Location: TBD
Time: TBD
Drinks and light snacks will be provided.
For anyone halfway down the road to retirement, this webinar is a critical checkpoint. It takes you through the keys to successful money management, how to juggle competing financial demands and retirement saving strategies that can help put you on the path to lifelong financial security.
We’ll look at how to:
- Understand what you’re aiming for
- Consider your priorities
- Put your spending plan together
- Know the ways to save
Email Gina at elujan@coloradocollege.edu to RSVP
Write your next chapter: 5 steps to setting your retirement date
Date: TBD
Location: TBD
Time: TBD
Drinks and light snacks will be provided.
For anyone starting to think seriously about when to retire, this webinar takes you through five steps to deciding when the time is right, including estimating retirement expenses, closing any income gap and understanding key milestones that can impact your retirement finances.
We’ll help you think through how to:
- Estimate what you’ll need
- Adjust as needed
- Consider key milestones
- Protect your savings
Email Gina at elujan@coloradocollege.edu to RSVP
APRIL EVENTS
Benefits Health Fair
Date: April 4, 2023
Location: South Hall Commons
Time: 11:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Drinks and healthy snacks will be provided.
(more details coming soon)
MAY EVENTS
Bike to Work Day
Date: Friday, May 17, 2024
Location: Tented Area on Worner Quad facing N. Cascade Ave.
Time: 6:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
This year, it's celebrated on Friday, May 17, 2024 as millions of commuters get a workout going to work on TWO wheels! Hitting the trail more than a half-century ago.
Colorado College is partnering with the City of Colorado Springs for a city-wide bike to workday. Join us at the tented area on Worner Quad facing N Cascade Ave for free grab-n-go breakfast burrito, and a chance to win a bike. To enter, stop by with your bike and register for the giveaway! Bike to Workday encourages bicycling for personal and community health, alternative transportation, recreation and sustainability.
Many local businesses have signed up to provide breakfast stations along the trail network and city streets as well. These locations are designed to support how people ride their bikes to work while highlighting local businesses that support bicycling in the community. Breakfast stations are first-come, first-served
Ongoing Wellness Events
Personal Financial Counseling Sessions
Ivana Stanisic, Senior Financial Consultant at TIAA-CREF will be on campus for one-on-one meetings with CC faculty and staff (at no cost to you!) to engage in a confidential discussion of your personal financial situation. She will explore ways to help you achieve your financial goals and increase your knowledge about investing.
Dates will be announced in the Digest.
Click Here to Register Online or call 800- 732-8353
TIAA Webinars
TIAA offers webinars on a variety of financial topics, with different options each month. Please check their schedule at http://www.tiaa.com/webinars.