Alumni Dinner
We hosted a small Collins MRC/LLC Alumni Dinner on Saturday, May 17th, 2025 from 6:00PM-9:00PM in the Dottie Collins Commons at Collins Living-Learning Center (541 N. Woodlawn Ave) on the Bloomington campus.
Collins Qualifies for Little Five
Collins LLC is back in the Little 500.
2025 Viennese Ball
Collins Living-Learning Center’s annual Viennese Ball, sponsored by the Board of Programmers, took place Saturday, February 22 in Edmondson Hall’s Dottie Collins Commons.
SustainCollins at the Bloomington Community Orchard
Over Fall Break, campus was a little bit more quiet than usual. But not at the Bloomington Community Orchard! Students, families, and furry friends alike turned out to celebrate the Orchard’s fifteenth anniversary at the Cider Festival. And so did Sustain Collins!
Gen Z Votes Event
Collinsites had the opportunity to learn more about voting
from the BOEP-sponsored Gen Z Votes event.
Welcome Week 2024 at Collins
Collins Living-Learning Center welcomed freshman and returners alike into our buildings the week before classes.
Director Transitions
Lara is pleased to pass the director’s baton back to her friend and colleague Carl Ipsen.
Collins Annual Soup Bowl Benefit
The Collins Soup Bowl Benefit is an annual fundraising event that helps support our service-learning course, Spring Break for Kids. Collins Student Government’s Philanthropy & Action Council and Collins LLC’s Arts Council combine forces in this philanthropic effort each spring. This year’s soup bowl benefit took place on Friday, April 12th, from 8:00pm-9:00pm in the Dottie Collins Commons.
Fireside Chat with Author, Poet, Playwright, and Professor, Angela Jackson-Brown
Early in the evening of Tuesday, March 26th, author and IUB English professor Angela Jackson-Brown visited the Collins Living Learning Center for a fireside chat in the Edmondson formal lounge.
SustainCollins Blind Taste Test
SustainCollins had the opportunity to participate in a blind taste test for IU Dining and Sustain IU.
From a SustainCollins Peer Mentor: ISRC Conference Review
I attended the Indiana Sustainability and Resilience Conference with Sustain Collins at IUPUI on February 9. It was a really awesome event, and I was able to learn so much about so many different topics!
Fireside Chat with Visiting Artist Christina Stohn
Members of the Collins Living-Learning Center community, faculty and staff at Indiana University, and the larger Bloomington community, gathered on the evening of February 8th for a Fireside Chat with visiting artist and scholar, Christina Stohn from Germany in Tate Holt Tower Lounge.
Collinsites Reenact The Princess Bride
On the evenings of November 11th and 12th, Collinsites gathered in the Dottie Collins Commons to watch their peers perform a dramatic re-enactment of a beloved classic. The Princess Bride was adapted for this re-enactment from the script of the 1987 film written by William Goldman.
BOEP Fireside Chat with Dean Hardy
For BOEP's first Fireside Chat of the season, Dean Richard Hardy comes to Collins.
Jello 3: The Jellening Event
Jello 3: the Jellening was the long-awaited recapitulation of Collins’s jiggliest event of the year!
Students enrolled in the ASPIRE OAXACA program offered through Collins and Anthropology visited Oaxaca, Mexico in May
One highlight of Collins’ spring 2023 course listings was the joint Collins/Anthropology international ASPIRE course, Self-Governance, Sustainability, and the Arts in Oaxaca, Mexico.
2023 Alumni Reunion: 50+1 Years
In May of 2023, over 250 alumni from the Collins Living-Learning Center and its predecessor, the Men’s Residence Center, gathered together for an anniversary celebration.
Awards Night and Senior Dinner
We honored students and selected staff for their engagement and commitment to the Collins LLC.
Collinsfest
Collinsfest persevered on April 22nd.
Publications Release Party
The Publications Release Party was held on the 20th of April in the Dottie Collins Commons.
Celebration of Academics
Collins celebrated 47 members named Founders Scholars this year.
Fireside Chats Bring Key Visitors to Collins
The BOEP Fireside Chat program brings prominent visitors from across campus to chat with students.
Academia Week
The Pipe and The Barrow staff led a week of themed programming for the community.
Modern Metamorphs: Collins LLC Collaborates with the Jacobs School of Music
Collins LLC Collaborates with the Jacobs School of Music
In-person Dickens Dinner returns with great success
Collins LLC hosted a successful return to an in-person Dickens Dinner event this December.
A new season of theatre at Collins LLC
Find out what's been going on for the 2021-2022 theatre season at Collins LLC and what's coming up next.
Collins LLC settles in at Foster
Collins LLC has made its move to our temporary home Foster-Shea and enjoyed an eventful Welcome Week.
Collins Living-Learning Center award winners for 2020-2021
Announcing the Collins Living-Learning Center award winners for 2020-2021.
The re-opening of the Cheshire Café
Sorely missed by Collinsites during the pandemic, the Cheshire Café re-opened for business in mid-March.
Collins LLC honors Founders Scholars
At a ceremony and reception on Sunday, April 11, 2021, Collins Living-Learning Center Director Lara Kriegel congratulated the 29 Collins LLC members named Founders Scholars this year.
Taylor-Paige Guba honored with Kate Hevner Mueller Senior Award
Collins senior Taylor-Paige Guba is receiving the Kate Hevner Mueller Award.
Collins raises funds for the RISE! at Middle Way House with soup, ceramics
While adapting to pandemic precautions, the annual soup bowl benefit at Collins LLC raises over $200.
Uncovering Artists’ Books at Wells Library
Associate Director Yara Clüver was recently part of an online program through the Wells Library about the unique genre of Artists’ Books.
Collins Renovation to move forward in 2021-2022
Collins Living-Learning Center is on the books for renovation, starting May 2021 and lasting through July 2022. While the buildings are closed, the LLC will be hosted in Foster-Shea.
Collins LLC's Bicentennial Medal Recipients
Three members of the Collins LLC family are honored with IU Bicentennial Medals.
Arts Council Engages With New Students
Collins LLC Arts Council draws in new members and participants with programming in fall 2020.
Collins 2019-2020 Awards Night
Students and staff gathered at the IMU Jordan River Open Air Venue to celebrate our annual awards night, re-scheduled from the spring semester.
BOEP Begins Course Proposal Process
The student-run Board of Educational Programming begins review of 20 course proposals for the fall 2021 semester this week.
Student course project in time of COVID-19
Students shine in final projects for Mastro’s Collins course, Haunted and Possessed: Children in Horror.
Collins Living-Learning Center award winners for 2019-2020
Announcing the Collins Living-Learning Center award winners for 2019-2020.
Renovation update 4-20-2020
An update on Collins in fall 2020.
CollinsFest is happening!
CollinsFest is happening online this weekend!
Arts Council Meets on Zoom
Arts Council holds meetings online to handle business, and generates online programming ideas.
Collins Community Goes Virtual
The Collins community moves online amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Associate Director Yara Clüver on Earth Eats
Associate Director Yara Clüver's Food Photography class (CLLC-L210, Food Photography: Concepts & Practice, Fall 2019) was featured on a recent episode of WFIU's Earth Eats.
Medieval Play Premieres in Collins Dining Hall
The 15th-century The Second Shepherd’s Play drew an audience of students and faculty to Collins Dining Hall for two performances December 6 and 7.
New web page for Self-Governance, Sustainability, and the Arts in Oaxaca, Mexico
Check out the new web page for the Collins summer expedition course in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Students in Food Photography class visit local goat farm
Students learn about sustainable practices and exercise their photo taking abilities through a visit to Bloomington’s Goat Conspiracy goat farm.
Collins Celebrates Historical Marker
Collins received its Bicentennial Historical Marker on October 25th, 2019. The marker celebration included a reception to welcome friends of Collins from near and far, a dedication ceremony with an unveiling of the new marker, and an afterparty hosted by student historian Aaron Sizemore.
Collins Renovation Set For 2020-2021
Collins Living-Learning Center is on the books for renovation, starting May 2020 and lasting through July 2021. While the buildings are closed, the LLC will be hosted in Foster-Shea.
LLC hosts visiting scholar Alyosha Gorshkov this fall
Alyosha Gorshkov will be a scholar in residence this fall semester (first 8 weeks) at Collins Living-Learning Center, where he will teach a course (joint listed as REEI R-300) called "Russia Queer Politics and Gender Outlaws: Revolution or Devolution."
Collins LLC 2017-18 Dancing Star Wins Award
The 2017-18 edition of our literary and visual arts magazine, The Dancing Star, has won the top award for Best of Category for Novelty Books in the 2019 Great Lakes Graphic Association (GLGA) Print Competition.
Collins LLC represented on College Diversity Committee
Collins President and LLC Director named to College diversity and inclusion committee.
Collins LLC Celebrates 72 Founders Scholars
Collins LLC honored 72 Founders Scholars at the annual Celebration of Academics.
Introducing SustainCollins: Live and learn with like-minded students on Collins’ new Sustainability Floor
Beginning this fall, residents at Collins Living-Learning Center have an opportunity to live on a new sustainability floor.
Introducing the Collins Neighborhood Liaisons
Meet the student liaisons appointed to help make connections and collaborate with the cultural centers in our neighborhood.
Collins alumnus returns for Connect '19
This one day conference brings 25 distinguished alumni from the College of Arts + Sciences back to IU.
Seeking nominations for Teaching Award
Collins is seeking nominations from fall seminar students for the Annual Carl H. Ziegler Teaching Award.
New Collins internship
Collins is pleased to announce a new internship program for our students in self-governance and management, Internship in Student Self-Governance and Management (CLLC-X 273).
The College of Arts