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Native American Counselor and Spiritual Guide Al Striplen discusses ceremonial blades during a three-day event, kicking off Native American Heritage Month at Cosumnes River College on Nov. 5. Native American Higher Education Resources hosts the event on campus from Nov. 5-7 in Winn-150 and the quad, educating students and staff about California’s Native American history.

Three-day event honors Native American Heritage Month

Alexa Luna, Staff Writer
November 13, 2024
Professor Ryan Perez Adame, the Pride Center coordinator, unpacks microaggressions in a workshop on Oct. 17. Adame teaches students what microaggressions are and the impact they can have on people.

Pride Center unpacks microaggressions during event

Colbey Parker, Staff Writer
October 21, 2024
The concert band and orchestra performed four pieces on the fountain stage on Monday as a way to recruit new members. Professor Maxwell Kiesner, department chair of music, said teaching at Cosumnes River College allows him to stretch the limitations of what a band can do.

Concert band and orchestra recruit students through performance

Avani Kumar, Staff Writer
October 19, 2024
A prayer and meditation space is now open in room 106E, on the first floor of the library, featuring cubbies for personal items, floor mats, a chair and more. The Center for Inclusion and Belonging manages signups for the prayer room and students may use the space for up to 15 minutes at a time.

Prayer and meditation room opens on campus

Noah Seid, Staff Writer
October 14, 2024
Students form a buffet style line with flowers and decorations to participate in a bouquet-making event inside of the Center for Inclusion and Belonging, held by the Pride Center in the library on the first floor on Oct. 1. The Pride Center is hosting multiple events throughout October for LGBTQ+ History Month.

Campus kicks off LGBTQ+ History Month with bouquet-making event

Colbey Parker, Staff Writer
October 14, 2024
Students gather in the quad of Cosumnes River College on September 23 for Transfer Day. President of Administrative Services Theresa Tena said the campus is seeing increases in classes offered in person.

Campus sees pre-pandemic enrollment numbers

Daniel Corkery, Staff Writer
October 7, 2024
Cosumnes River College students talk with a transfer coordinator on Transfer Day on Sept. 24. Students can learn more about transfer opportunities at CRC's transfer center.

Transfer day brings over 50 colleges to recruit on campus

Colbey Parker, Staff Writer
October 2, 2024
The Cosumnes River College library offers copies of some textbooks on reserve, which means students can use them to study while in the library. It’s one of the many resources the campus offers to support students.

Campus provides resources to help back-to-school transition

Valencia Luviano, Editor in Chief
September 8, 2024
Construction workers prepare the infrastructure for the new culinary arts management kitchen, adjacent to the cafeteria on May 7 at Cosumnes River College. The cafeteria and CAM kitchen will be fully operational for spring of 2025, Director Administrative Services Chris Raines said.

Cafeteria projected to open spring 2025, students react

Seth Henderson, Editor in Chief
May 8, 2024
Cosumnes River College President Dr. Edward Bush cuts the ribbon outside of Building B at the Elk Grove Center on Wednesday. The new facility is a $20 million facility housing classrooms and laboratories for biology, chemistry and other science courses.

Elk Grove Center holds ribbon cutting event, celebrates new science building

Seth Henderson, Editor in Chief
May 8, 2024
Students participate in the "Drop a Pen" creative writing workshop, hosted by 916 Ink, a Sacramento non-profit committed to empowering youth through literature. Sacramento Poet Laureate Andru Defeye, the official poet of Sacramento (right), stands and talks to students about the project.

Nonprofit hosts storytelling workshop, offers chance to be published

Seth Henderson, Editor in Chief
May 1, 2024
Therapist intern Demond Washington hands out a “Childhood Experience Questionnaire for Adults” for students to fill out during a workshop addressing trauma on April 3. The hosts and students discuss results of the questionnaire and normalized traumatic childhood experiences.

Workshop educates students on trauma

Valencia Luviano, News Editor
April 10, 2024
The first Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander leadership conference in the Sacramento-San Joaquin region is held on March 22 at Cosumnes River College. Seven different educational institutions attend and guest speakers present nine different workshops educating students about AANHPI culture and community.

Students from Sacramento-San Joaquin region meet for first collaborative conference on campus

Melina DeBolt, Special to The Connection
March 27, 2024
Students gather around the Student Support Services table in the quad for the Hawk CARES Care Fest event on March 19. A food truck, gifts and resources were provided to students to promote different services on campus and in the community.

Hawk CARES Fest highlights student resources

Seth Henderson, Editor in Chief
March 20, 2024
A vision board created by the Connection's Gabriella Groves at the CIB's Vision Board Workshop on Wednesday. Many students said they felt the event was a time to relax before finals week.

Students relax, get creative at vision board workshop

Ella Pearman, Staff Writer
December 9, 2023
College Nurse Michelle Barkley in her office on Monday looking over a harm reduction kit offered to students that includes Narcan nasal spray. In 2024 the kits will include fentanyl testing strips as required by AB 461.

Campus opioid-overdose prevention plan rolls out as harm reduction dialogue gets louder

Helen Harlan, News Editor
December 6, 2023
'Electricidad' is Luis Alfaro’s modern, Chicano adaptation of Sophocles’ 'Electra'. It runs through Dec. 10 at CRC's Black Box theater.

Designers use color to bring director’s vision to light in ‘Electricidad’

Valencia Luviano, Special to The Connection
December 5, 2023
Author Helen Harlan in New York City in 2004 outside the real exterior used in the sitcom "Seinfeld.” CRC needs more opportunities for students to gather and connect over food and coffee, much the characters did on "Seinfeld."

This campus has a loneliness problem. Upping its food and coffee game might fix that

Helen Harlan, News Editor
November 29, 2023
Students gather for National First-Generation College Day on Wednesday in the quad. The event featured campus resource tables for students, food, speakers and raffle prizes.

Campus turns out for National First-Generation College Student Day

Ella Pearman, Staff Writer
November 13, 2023
Native Heritage Week committee member Dr. Crystal Martinez-Alire presents speaker Nia Gregory with a gift on Monday. Gregory spoke on education as one of six keynote speakers planned for CRC's American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month.

American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month kicks off

Helen Harlan, News Editor
November 8, 2023
Malik Amos, Student Personnel Assistant for the Umoja Diop Scholar Program, works at his desk in the Umoja Center. The center is located at L-215 on the first floor of the library and provides community to African American and other students.

Umoja staff member provides aid to campus and beyond

Sharmarke Holif, Staff Writer
November 6, 2023
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