Student leadership has been the core of Collins since the university campaigned to bring a living-learning center to the Quad in 1972. Today, Collins is the home of the most active student government on campus. There’s much more, though: students manage budgets and arts facilities, run a not-for-profit café, teach classes, and select the Collins courses. You can even earn internship credit while engaging in student leadership at Collins LLC.
Sustainability underlies the way Collins students think about their place in the world. Many of them are active in SustainCollins, a program (with a wide variety of majors) devoted to the study and practice of sustainability. Others are active in E-Force, our community-wide, long-standing environmental awareness group. Throughout the year, classes and events invite Collinsites to engage with their environment and to work to make it better.
The arts and humanities are everywhere in Collins, from our entryway to our art gallery. Collins has studios for art that you may be familiar with, and other art forms you may not have tried, but would like to. Our Arts Council brings together residents interested in the visual, performing, and literary arts. The Board of Educational Programming oversees course selection at Collins and other academic activities.
The College of Arts