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Calendar of Events
Spring 2013:
All FYE events are free and open to the public. To learn more about an event or to participate, please contact FYE at fye@csuchico.edu.
The Chico Great Debate
April 12, 9:00am-8:30pm
The Chico City Council Chambers and City Plaza
Beginning at 8:00am and lasting throughout the day, students from first-year Communication Studies courses at Chico State and Butte College give presentations, conduct debates, and present information focused around their research on this semester's "hot topic": Water and Agriculture Policy. The evening debate among community members begins at 6:30pm in the Main Chambers and will focus on water metering of agricultural land. To learn more or to find out how you can participate, email us at greatdebate@csuchico.edu or follow us on Facebook and Twitter!
The CSU, Chico Town Hall Meeting
April 24, 6:00pm-9:00pm
Bell Memorial Union Auditorium
Students from the first-year Political Science courses discuss current policy issues through participation in breakout sessions and roundtable discussions. Participants include students, faculty, administrators, community members, local and regional officials, and activists. If you are interested in participating, becoming a consultant or a moderator, or learning more, please contact the Coordinator for the Town Hall Meeting, Ellie Ertle. Click here to see a full list of topics.
University 105 Water Fair
April 29, 11:00am-1:00pm
Selvesters/Colusa Courtyard
Featuring local and regional groups and organizations who work on water issues, interactive booths will provide visitors with fun, practical ways to conserve water and work toward increased sustainability. Campus and community members are encouraged to stop by the courtyard outside of Colusa Hall for this engaging event, presented by students in University 105: Self, Identity, and Sustainability.
Economic Challenges Series
May 1 and 2, 6:00 pm-8:00pm
Location TBA
Embedded in an entry-level Economics class, the Series is a two-night event featuring student presentations on current budget problems, followed by table discussions among small groups about possible solutions. Students emerge with a critical capacity for judging often simplistic public rhetoric about complex problems.
Rough Cut Film Festival
May 8, 5:00pm-7:30pm
PAC 144 & PAC Courtyard
The Film Festival features a set of short documentaries made by student teams from the first-year academic writing course. The students spend the semester researching and writing about digital identities; their films are built on knowledge they gain and persistent questions they have during the reading and writing process. Films will be shown in PAC 144 from 5:00pm-6:30pm. A reception follows in the PAC courtyard from 6:30pm-7:30pm.
Sense of Place Exhibit
May 15, 8:00am-5:00pm
Colusa Hall & Colusa/Selvesters Courtyard
After studying Communities of Practice learning, students from University 105: Self, Identity and Sustainability present short films about their own groups functioning as a Community of Practice (COP). They analyze their own group as a functioning COP and present their findings. This event also includes presentations by students in another Sustainability Pathway course, History 341: American Environment. The students from this course hold panel presentations applying the information from the course to the specific natural setting from which they come.