Creativity & Innovation at Colorado College
Creativity & Innovation is now part of the Crown Center for Teaching. This more formal partnership will enable C&I and Crown to:
- heighten faculty awareness of the collective programming offered by Crown and C&I
- leverage unexpected opportunities for engagement
- provide opportunities for faculty to explore new approaches to teaching
- identify, support, and disseminate innovative and inclusive pedagogies at CC
- research CC’s signature pedagogies for internal and external audiences
- facilitate long-range planning
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
Goal: To provide students with multiple opportunities, within and outside of classes, to develop the essential building blocks of creativity, which include:
We do this by collaborating with faculty to integrate creative thinking and creative problem-solving activities into classes across divisions 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
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
creativityinnovation@talbertfenceanddeck.com