College of Agricultural Sciences: Admitted Student Q&A

Awesome welcome everybody. I am going to wait for some names to pop up. Let's see if we have anybody. If you're here and you want to pop your name and what major you've been admitted as into the chat, that would be great.

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I'm not seeing anyone on the participant list, but I'm going to go ahead anyway, so if you're joining us, feel free to put your your name where you're from and what you've been admitted As for your area of study. That would just help us out today.

Little bit about what we're going to do. We're going to go ahead and go over a little bit about the student success model here in the College of Agricultural Sciences. And then we, if we have any questions, we're going to have one of our current students care it. Hop on and answer some of your student questions.

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Let's see awesome. I still don't see any participants between keep going anyway, so if you're here, pop something in the chat so I know it looks like our principles of Community got put aside here or got tilted to the side. But here in the Dragon Cultural Sciences we really do live by these principles of Community of integrity, inclusion, social justice, service and respect. And so we encompass those by using a phrase that is new to our college called Come to the table.

And so, as we come to the table as a group, we want you all to bring all of your experiences and what you've learned in your background, in how you have gotten to CSU your path to CSU. We want to make sure that all of all of those identities are being represented at our table, and so that you can share about Sharon and help others learn about you and your background and where you come from and your experience.

And hopefully you can do the same and learn from others in that same way.

And so whether that's coming together in your looking at, going into veterinary school, you're coming around around, coming, coming to disable around a vet surgery table, whether that's a drafting desk in landscape architecture, and you're coming around to work on design. Whether you are coming to the table too.

Lab bench and horticulture. Working on aquaculture or anything like that. No matter what that is for you, you're coming to the table and making sure that you are heard and that you are learning from others. One of my favorite ways to come to the table in the College of Agricultural Sciences is in the more traditional sense of gathering for a meal. So, whether that is our Egg Day barbecue, which happens before a home football game or that is.

Our our fall picnic and you're coming together to share a meal out on the Mumford Quad. No matter what that is, I really like those moments to share community with you all.

And learn a little bit more about each other that way.

So I'm going to the next slide.

Looking at our student success model, So what we're looking at here in the continuum of care is this cycle, right? So connection, you you've made the connection, you're here, you've been admitted into the next step in that is building community. So whether that's through the admitted student portal or you are connecting with myself and other current students, no matter what that looks like, you are building that community coming together to share space, learn more about each other.

And I'm really, really build those connections within our community. Next. We also have advising and learning. So once you would get here in the fall conversations with your advisors and with your professors and in the classroom, all sorts of those conversations that happen to forget progress you in your learning karere so your academic advisors are here to help you along the way. Find the path and help you find your passions. After that, come experiences. So whether that's in labs in your classes or you are out on our research farm, North of.

Or Collins or you've talked with our core education manager Sam Holzhauser and you are in an internship or a job after graduation. This is a really great way for you all to get involved and have those experiences and so we provide a lot of those. A lot of those opportunities for you and with you and work with you to make your dreams a reality on those. And then you go into placement alumni. So your.

List in a job. Hopefully you have an idea of what you want to do and we're able to help with that. Once again, with Sam, the career education manager, and so we really want to make sure that your passion is followed and also you become an alumni, right? So you then as an alumni are able to help start making some more connections for people right? So maybe that's a son or daughter of someone you work with or whatever that looks like for you.

At those connections kind of brings us full circle and you can continue to make connections with us once you are graduated as well. All of our services are welcome to be used by our alumni as well.

So that really is a continuum, and it's a really great way for us to look at how we help you through this and how we help get you from this point where you have connected with us and you're here. But what do we do beyond that? So we've thought about it and we are here to help you with the connections that come with Community advising, learning experiences and beyond your college career as well.

So with that I will go along with it or go along to where people who help us help us make these connections. So up in the top left you see a picture of me. I'm Susan Brown. I'm the recruitment coordinator for the college. I don't believe I introduced myself in the beginning just because I got lost in the in the recording of this and the fact that I don't see any participants. So my apologies. But I am Susan Brown, recruitment coordinator. I am a CSU RAM. I graduated in 2018 with degrees in wildlife, biology and zoology.

During my time as a student, I was the president of a few different organizations on campus as well as I worked in the Office of Admissions as a ambassador. So giving tours as well as I helped out coordinate for that office as well and the student role. But here you see me with, I think our fluffiest coworker in the college, Kim, the Ram. He hangs out a lot with the Aggies.

It's where where he came from, where his heritage is an. He has some pretty cool different coats that he wears around campus, but it's a really big tradition to get a picture with him as much as you can before you graduate, and even after so. This is actually about a year ago when I started in this in this classroom coordinator. So Muma Fluffy friend, Kim, we maybe you've had a conversation with me.

Prior to this, maybe you've talked to one of our current students. I helped coordinate all of that and then moving over to the top right that soleus quinones. He is our manager for student life and diversity, so once you get here, he's really here to help you make connections. So whether you have a have a student organization that you're really passionate about bringing to campus, or you want to meet people with similar backgrounds as you have or.

Um, if you're you know, if you're looking for more of that connection, excuse me. Elias is here to help make those connections for you and with you. So Elias really, really focuses on that and helps with that aspect. Posting success, helping you all find connections and find community.

Down in the bottom left, that's Sam Holzhauser. She's a crew education manager. I've mentioned her a few times before as I was talking bout connections to community and things like that. But Sam is a really awesome resource for finding internships and jobs. She can help you kind of figure out, maybe where your where we're good. We're good. Steps are for you in finding your passion, so maybe you're in animal science and you thought you wanted to be privett

but now you're not so sure seem to help you figure out what those next steps are for taking steps forward into an industry where you are passionate so Sam's are really great resource for you there.

And then moving on, we have a Mac camper and Addie Elliott. Matt Camper is the associate Dean for teaching practices and academic affairs, so he really helps make sure that classrooms are inclusive an that.

I have a equitable learning experiences in those classrooms, so he's been a really big, really big resource for our faculty as they transitioned to online learning last spring and then this fall as well. So Matt's been a really great resource. He's always available to talk and specifically has a passion in those classroom settings, so if you know you're having trouble with classes or you know if there's

anything that you you think that could improve the classroom experience, that's where mass passion realize he's also an instructor in our agricultural biology Department with a focus in entomology. So if you like all of those different creepy Crawley's and you want to hold it rantula and those kind of things. Max Passion also lives there. I highly recommend taking his entomology course. I've heard him lecture just a few times. I unfortunately did not take his classes undergraduate student, but.

His class is one of the most fun classes that I've sat in on so.

Highly recommend that and then we also have Addie Elliott who is the associate Dean for student success in academic advising, so she works with our academic advisors in our college to make sure that they all have the resources they need to support you. And then in addition to that, also just working with student success initiatives. So scholarships and other other important things like that that help keep you all going and help.

Provide resources to you all on a daily basis.

So along with along with this, just looking at the list along the side, the five of us are really here to help you with everything that you do and help you build pipelines across the College of Agriculture so you know you can come to any of us and tell us about your passion and what you want to do. And we have resources that we can point you towards at to help you build those pathways and also help you make those connections. So maybe you want to talk to someone in.

Soil and crop Sciences, which is also where Addie teaches as well, but you don't know who to talk to. Great, we can help you find those resources and connect you to the right people.

The focus on academic Cookery, Clear Co curricular and career education excellence. So whether it's in the classroom, whether you are working with a club or organization related to agriculture or you are looking at getting some career education, that's really what we focus on as a team and we really want to know how we can best serve you so we're always open to feedback. We're always open to figuring out, you know what works best for you all as students.

And we also want to be able to serve you in the best way possible. So whether that's you just need to sit down and grab a Cup of coffee with one of us or coming to any of our events for finals Week will be holding some virtual events, which will be really awesome to be able to just have some time with our current students. And, you know, sit down and relax a little bit during this stressful time, so that's the kind of things that we do, kind of on a semester basis so that we can help them.

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In addition to this, I just want to mention that the the college very cultural Sciences has different opportunities as well as called as CSU in general. So looking at the College of Agricultural Sciences, we have different opportunities for student employment internships, once again talking to Sam and getting getting an idea of what is available there. We have over 30 student organizations that are directly tide to the college. So whether you're looking to go into let's say meat judging or you're looking to go into.

Uh, and work with the bug zoo, which is a student organization that does outreach with live specimens of arthropods, or you are looking at, you know, doing really anything, anything related to the College in that sense, we have those opportunities for you, and we have advisors within the college so that you can get to know staff and faculty a little bit better that way. And then we also host events. So I mentioned the Agday barbecue I mentioned, the.

Uh, on the picnic on the mom for quad every fall, the welcome back picnic. We also have a ton of other things that are happening throughout this semesters, especially when we're able to be on campus. So we really like to have those community building events and have you all be apart of those.

On the Colorado State University side, maybe you're seeing some of these other other options today, but looking at multi at the multicultural centers are located and the Lory Student Center looking at sports teams in general Sports which are hosted through at the Rec Center fraternity and sorority Life are great Community builders as well as honor societies which are are which are offered through our student leadership involvement in Community Engagement Office.

Uh, that might be referred to on anything that you all are seeing today with the admitted student day. That will probably be referred to as the Slice Office, and that's a great way to find really any of the student involvement opportunities that you see. Whether they are tide to the College of Agricultural Sciences or not sliced usually has some good information on them as well. And there's a way to get connected with presidents of clubs and organizations and advisors of public clubs and organizations.

Through the slice office as well.

So with that, that's all of the information I have for you all on support in the College of Agricultural Sciences and kind of what we're here to do. So I would like to welcome our current student, Garrett, on to the call Ann. If you have questions for you. If you want to put them into the trip. Otherwise, I can ask a few questions and will call today. But Gary, if you want to share your video, Ann will ask you for that.

Hello awesome.

I want the ram gear morning. I'm waiting on you.

So you're going to introduce yourself, everybody.

Yeah hi everyone. My name is Garrett. I am currently a second year student an now double majoring in animal science and education with a teaching concentration.

I'm also one of our ambassadors and I currently serve on the exact team as the Vice president of external recruitment. So yeah, any questions you have about CSU in general.

More about the College of AG and Boughton club involvement. Anything I can definitely help you on that. I've definitely had quite a few major and minor changes, so if you have any questions on that I can definitely help with that too.

Awesome, thank you Garrett. I'll wait. I'll see if we have any questions. Come into the chat, but in the meantime.

How so? I guess, why did you choose CSU and what made you settle on the college bag?

So basically my story always begins with I was very involved in FFA in high school. That's where my first kind of opening into agriculture was, and so I kind of had an idea of what I wanted to do something in agriculture. And so it was kind of looking with between a bunch of different schools and finding the right fit. I thought I had found like the perfect fit at Washington State, which I won't bash them too much, but I definitely fell in love with CSU once I came to visit.

Jeff, definitely. The community aspect was very big for me and I definitely love the community that we have at CSU. And it's something that's different and I think especially during these like.

Unforeseen times that community at CSU is definitely shown to be very strong because we're still connected even when we have to be physically distanced.

Awesome, thank you. Hear it so within your first year at CSU and moving forward, how did you find activities that you wanted to get involved in an what had I know that you mentioned a few but what have you really dived into in terms of involvement in the College of AG and outside?

Yeah, so the basically the first kind of big thing that would typically happen with are of course our big event fairs. I definitely, that's where I kind of like at least was able to kind of like put my feelers out and trying to figure out if there is a club or organization that I liked. That's where I found actually my church group was with our student. We do a kind of religious fair as well to connect you to groups like that. So that's where I found my group there and I'm really happy with that group.

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Kind of where I got more involved with the College of AG, of course, was at ambassadors and that all stemmed from kind of going out to National Convention with the college. So there's different service opportunities that you can get within the college. Whether or not you're in add capacitor or not to kind of talk to perspective students and that kind of eventually led me on a path to applying for ambassadors and then getting in that first year. And that's really been a good sense of community for me throughout that.

But then also, just like meeting people in classes, forming study groups, those are all really good ways to be connected and you don't really have to like attend club meetings, so there's definitely lots of ways to kind of.

Get connected with other people. Whether it's getting coffee in Lori, excuse me, or just finding different ways around Fort Collins to just hang out with other people.

Awesome, thank you, let's see.

What has been your favorite class that you've taken at CSU so far and why?

I'm really liking my intro to education course that I'm taking this semester. I kind of like switched into it right when I added the major 'cause it's only half a semester long, but it's really fun and it kind of gives you a really good basis on.

Every aspect of education and a lot of your intro courses will do that. It will kind of just give you little bits of everything that you can kind of think of. So if you're starting animal science and you take the intro to Animal science course, that'll kind of give you all aspects so you can really determine if there's something that you want to do before you put too much of your time and effort into that major, and that's kind of the biggest thing about CSU in something that we like to say is what you really get to like craft.

Our experience and whether it's taking certain classes or maybe even taking classes that are necessarily outside of the college, but will help you get on your path to whatever career you want. There is definitely plenty of opportunity like don't feel like you're kind of stuck in one thing. If you want to go try another major, go take a couple of courses in that class and you'll be able to figure out really quickly. If it's something that you really like to do.

Maps

Absolutely yeah. Thank you for sharing.

Um, let me see what has been your favorite activity that's a student success team is hosted, but you've been to and what are the things that you're excited about?

The student success team and with the College of AG once we're back on campus in person.

I always really liked the the brain breaks before finals. Those are always really nice. Of course I only got to do one in person before things kind of changed, so I'm interested to see what the student success team has for this upcoming finals week virtually. And when we get back on campus, it's really just kind of.

That sense of community. Again, like it's always just nice to kind of go in there and see different people from around the college, especially if you probably don't have a class with a friend or something that there's a places to like catch up with people. So the student success team what they do there is definitely like really good for, uh, students.

Definitely one thing I didn't mention in the slides before is that we all do have. Am I echoing?

A little bit.

OK, I'll turn down my sound little bit.

One thing that we I didn't mention is that we do have a new building being built right now on the Mumford Quad. It should be open at least about a year from now, so the nutrient agricultural Sciences building will be a new space for our students, so it'll be the home to our horticulture and landscape architecture Department, as well as our Department of Agricultural Resource Economics. In addition to that, it will host the main office and then also the student success team, and so in that new space will have spaces for student organizations.

Can you?

Meet will have a few different areas for you to just sit with with coffee and hang out. In addition to the classroom in the round, which we're going to be calling the well, which is a new learning experience. There's one other classroom based like this in the country, so it's a circle where the instructor will instruct the class from the middle of the room so that everyone can be engaged and there can be a lot of collaborative.

Within the classroom and it'll have movable desks and chairs so that you know working groups every second in the election settings, so it'll be a really, really unique building and it will be a great new kind of convening space for college. We do have a lot of buildings around the room for Quad which is really beautiful area of camping if you haven't taken a virtual tour with admissions, I would highly recommend it, but the mom for quad has pretty much all of our our on campus.

Cultural spaces, so you're really able to kind of center around that space and that new building we're going to bring us back there right now. We have some people who are kind of all over campus, but with that new space will be able to convene and have more of those spaces. Like Garrett said that we can just kind of gather and be together and have you know, in between class interactions. So we're really looking forward to that as well.

Um, I don't see any questions coming in, so there it is there anything else that you'd like to share for admitted students? Whether it's advice on you know, kind of looking at at the different schools and making decisions or anything that you wish you would have done in terms of you know, huers or helping with with students or faculty, what advice do you have for the administrator?

Yeah, my best advice would really be that you're your own best. You know yourself very well so you know which college is going to be the right fit for you an we do really hope it'll be us at CSU, but if it's not, that's totally OK. This is all about your experience, so wherever you end up, that's the most important part is that I just trust your gut and know that you're going to make.

The right decision.

Yeah, thanks for sharing that Garrett. I completely agree and if you can feel the home that Garrett and I feel at CSU somewhere else, like we really value that for you. And if you're unsure what that feels like, or you know, if you haven't found a space that feels like that yet, feel free to reach out to us in the College of Egg to have some more conversations about resources and any any other clarifying things that we can help with for you to help feel comfortable at CSU. I know it's difficult right now with not being able to come see the campus.

And things like that. But we really want to help you figure out what that feels like, even within the circumstances. So please let us know about how we can help with that. My information is on our website and it's just susan.brown@color.edu.

On the website there's also a phone number that you can call or text if you want some quick information that way too.

Work with there being no questions. I don't want to take up too much more time from y'all's day, but I do just I know that Garrett you shared why you chose CSU and throughout your answers definitely heard a little bit more about why you did, but then for one final question, what is the reason that you stayed at? See if you into your sophomore year?

I really just stayed at CSU because I just fell in love with the area and the people around it. I definitely Miss Colorado and I'm not there. I'm back home in California right now, but it's definitely just a special place and it's something that we talked about in ambassadors. Just our heart homes and that it's definitely become my heart home. There is in Fort Collins and at Colorado State.

Thanks for sharing period and I know this is being recorded, so if you're watching this at a later time like I said, feel free to reach out if you'd like to talk to myself or if you'd like to talk to Garrett or another current student, but we're more than willing to set up those appointments, so feel free to reach out to susan.brown@colostate.edu, but with that we'll call it a day. Thanks for joining. If you're participating in some of the other admitted student events that are happening this week, feel free to stop by our booth.

We'll all be hanging out out there will have someone from each Department at the booth, so.

And ask questions there too. And then we also have another Web and RI believe on Thursday. So come ask us questions and let us know if you have anything in the meantime but have a great rest of your Monday and go ramps.