2024-25 Academic Year

Block 1 - Opening Convocation

Join us as we come together as a campus community to embark on the 2024-25 academic year during Opening Convocation 2024, taking place at Shove Memorial Chapel, Mon., Aug. 26, at 9 a.m. 

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Block 2

Colorado in Context: Democracy, Representation, Fairness, and Math
Monday, September 23, 2024
11:15 am - 12:00 pm

Join us for the Block 2 First Monday, "Colorado in Context: Democracy, Representation, Fairness, and Math." Colorado College Associate Professor Beth Malmskog will discuss how math can help identify and prevent partisan gerrymandering and share her research group's work for fair maps in Colorado's 2021 redistricting process. We will also look briefly at what mathematics can say about other ways to pursue better representation, including alternative voting methods and multi-member districts. Math can offer surprising insights into democracy and fairness. 

Learn more about Colorado in Context: Democracy, Representation, Fairness, and Math.

Block 4

Activism after CC
Monday, November 18, 2024
11:15 am - 12:00 pm

Many people seek social and political change for a better world. How have CC students carried that aspiration forward to do good works after graduation?

For the Block 4 First Monday, three CC alums will talk about their career paths and the varied ways in which they have sought to make the world better after leaving CC. Come to Kathryn Mohrman Theater on Monday, Nov. 18 from 11:15 a.m.-noon to hear what these alums have to say.

Learn more about First Monday Block 4: Activism after CC

Block 5

The Costs of War
Monday, January 20, 2025
3-4 pm

What are the multiple costs and consequences of the ongoing wars of the 21st century? For over a decade, researchers at Brown University’s Costs of War Project - in collaboration with over 60 scholars, experts, human rights advocates, and physicians from around the world - have sought to answer this question.

Learn more about First Monday Block 5: The Costs of War

Block 7

Building a Multiracial Democracy
Monday, March 24, 2025
11:15 am - 12:00 pm

For Block 7 First Monday we are excited to continue the Sondermann Presidential Symposium. Please join us to hear Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist Wesley Lowery discuss “Building a Multiracial Democracy.”

Learn more about First Monday Block 7: Building a Multiracial Democracy