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Colby’s 714-acre campus helps define the school’s atmosphere by offering extraordinary natural and man-made facilities for students and groups. The Colby experience is characterized by intellectual challenge, a strong sense of community, a friendly campus atmosphere, global reach, and efforts to embrace diversity.

Students are offered a wealth of opportunities outside the classroom to complement their academic experience. The Colby 360 program establishes a setting for student life designed to achieve five specific learning outcomes:

1) development of life skills
2) appreciation of and engagement with diversity and human difference,
3) understanding democracy and civic responsibility,
4) promoting wellness and healthy lifestyle choices, and
5) leadership education for the 21st century.

Programs that define and advance the Colby residential experience include:

• Faculty/staff residents: Eight faculty and/or staff families live in residence halls.
• Faculty/staff associates: Numerous faculty/staff members affiliate with a residence hall and participate in the life of the students.
• Take a Professor to Lunch: Students invite professors to dining halls for informal interaction, and the Office of Campus Life pays for the professor’s meal.
• Off-campus engagement: Through the Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs and Civic Engagement, the Colby Volunteer Center, Colby Cares About Kids, civic-engagement learning in courses, and other programs, students are engaged in the world beyond campus.
• Mixed class-year halls: With class years integrated (there are no first-year dorms), students are more quickly acclimated and better immersed in the life of the College.
• Planned hall activities: More than 600 social, cultural, intellectual, recreational, and public service activities are planned in the residence halls each year, fostering bonds among hall mates.
• Events and activities: Each year academic departments, administrative offices, student government, and myriad student groups sponsor a rich variety of cultural, intellectual, and arts events.

Student organizations have been formed to satisfy almost every interest imaginable. The College sponsors lectures, films, arts presentations, and performances each week, and there are endless recreational possibilities afforded by the Maine mountains, lakes, and coast.

Students may choose to become involved in intercollegiate varsity and club teams or intramural sports; Outing Club; instrumental or choral groups; dramatic productions; Student Government Association, Student Programming Board, or College committees; student publications or the College radio station; and service, religious, or ethnic organizations.

September 16, 2009

 

Dear Parents and Families,

We hope to have the opportunity to visit with you this weekend during Family Homecoming Weekend. There will be many opportunities for you to hear from students about their co-curricular and academic involvements at various panels and discussions, to engage with faculty and staff and learn more about student services and support, and to participate in events and activities during the weekend to join in the campus community.

A few student life sponsored programs/events to keep in mind are:
Friday          1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.  Open Office Hours - Advising Deans/Dean of Students Office
        3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.  What I Know Now and Wish I Had Known Then
        4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.  It's More Than a Room-It's a Residential Experience

Saturday           9:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. State of the College Conversation with President Adams

Saturday        10:30 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.Life Outside of the Classroom: Navigating New Territory
 
In addition to the programs listed above, there will be athletic competitions and terrific presentations by faculty. Should you have any further questions about Family Homecoming Weekend, please contact the Alumni Office at 207.859.4317 or visit to register.
 
Additionally, Saturday, October 10th through Tuesday, October 13th is Colby's Fall Recess. The Residence Halls do not close over the break though the College operates at a reduced capacity. A Dining Hall will remain open as well as the Student Union. Students take this opportunity to get ahead on their studies or travel to visit home or with friends.   
 
We hope that you will take a few moments of your time this week to complete a short survey about your experiences during the First-Year Arrival Day on September 1. We will use this feedback in planning for next year. Please fill out the short survey located here.

We appreciate your feedback.

We are very much looking forward to seeing you this weekend!

Sincerely,
Barbara Moore
Associate Dean of Students

and

Kelly Wharton
Assistant Dean of Students/Director of Campus Life