Each year, a Student Leadership Conference is planned by CCCS, the State Student Advisory Council, and Student Life staff from across the System. The conference brings over 100 of our Colorado community college students together to engage in skill-building activities, leadership development exercises, and peer networking opportunities. The conference is open to any student enrolled at a CCCS college and is provided at no cost to students.
A Special Thanks to the Volunteer Presenters for Making this Event Possible
All breakout session presenters have volunteered their time, talent and experience within their fields to provide this exceptional professional development experience for the emerging student leaders of the Colorado Community College System.
For this, we offer our tremendous thanks and gratitude.
2022 Conference Planning Committee
- Stacie Amaya, Executive Assistant and Program Coordinator for the Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs, CCCS
- Dan Balski, Director of Student Life, Arapahoe Community College
- Leena Elmiladi, Student, Community College of Denver
- Kathleen Marty, Student, Northeastern Junior College
- Tim Stahley, Director of Resident Life and Student Activities, Northeastern Junior College
- Astrid Villalobos, Student, Front Range Community College
Conference Learning Objectives
- Leadership Development: The ability to effectively plan for the future and respond to unanticipated challenges in the process of guiding others towards a set of desired outcomes based on organizational needs.
- Engaged and Responsible Citizenship: The ability to identify and understand ways to engage in one’s community, act in service to others, and find one’s voice in community systems and organizations.
- Critical Thinking and Problem Solving: The ability to analyze, evaluate, and infer from one’s own thinking and that of others in order to form well-reasoned and informed solutions.
- Cultural Responsiveness, Equity & Inclusion: The ability to understand one’s own lived experiences and seek understanding of the lived experiences of others in an effort to foster a welcoming environment and be a positive member of a diverse, global community.
- Effective Communication: The ability to construct and interpret clear messages while demonstrating understanding of audience and context.
- Resiliency: The ability to develop healthy behaviors and strategies for wellness to rebound from and positively transition after setbacks in all facets of life.
- Self-Awareness and Interpersonal Connectedness: The ability to develop an honest and authentic assessment of one’s own abilities, to utilize feedback to improve upon those abilities, and to use such internal and external awareness to develop oneself while sustaining healthy, mutually beneficial relationships.
Conference Sponsors
In collaboration with the Colorado Community College System office and the Student Life Development Council, this event is planned and sponsored by student representatives of the State Student Advisory Council.
