Jasmine, Class of 2025

Editorial Team — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 17:34:50 +0000

It is not really cliquey, but a lot of POC choose to surround themselves when they can with people who look like them and are from the same community just because they don’t see people like them hardly ever during the day and in classes at a predominately white institution. The resources for Black students are the Black African American Cultural Center, National Society of Black Engineers, African American Studies classes, NPHC’s, black events, black faculty, Africans United, Black Students Alliance, United women of color, united men of color. I wish CSU had more black students, black faculty, and black studies classes. I feel a little represented at CSU. You have to know that you belong anywhere and everywhere you choose to go as exactly who you are and it will be hard, but you have to hold on to that.

Savannah Johnon, Class of 2023

Editorial Team — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 17:33:07 +0000

It can be hard connecting with my white peers. I work at the Black African American Cultural Center (B/AACC) and we provide many resources and build community among black-identifying students. CSU supports Black students solely through the B/AACC. It is very hard for students with intersecting identities at CSU, we try to support them at B/AACC but I worry we fail too often. I wish there were more resources for BIPOC students in the stem fields, it can be very isolating. Also, I wish they would teach more about BIPOC contributors in the sciences. I do not feel represented. My advice is to find your people, whether that is folks who share your same race, ethnicity, gender identity, interests, or major. Find your tribe, it makes college so much easier.

CSU Fort Collins

Jasmine, Class of 2025

Savannah Johnon, Class of 2023