Music’s Impact on Community Spaces: CSU Students’ Ethnographic Studies

A new School of Music, Theatre, and Dance course, Music of the 20th and 21st Centuries (MU 430), offers music majors the opportunity to produce original ethnographic research, which includes observing or interacting with people moving through their chosen environments. The research took place online and in the Fort Collins community – settings where the students found music and/or sound to be an aspect of the human experience – including a local record store, The R Bar, a YouTube channel, and the Harbinger coffee houses.

Founders Day Medal awarded to the late Joe Blake, prominent donor and first chancellor of the CSU System

This year’s Colorado State University Founders Day Medal is being awarded posthumously to Joe Blake, who was the first chancellor of the CSU System, a former member of the Board of Governors and a prominent donor to the College of Liberal Arts.