Black History Month 

Black History Month is an annual celebration of African Americans' achievements and their central role in U.S. history. This year's theme is, "Black Family: Representation, Identity and Diversity." To learn more about Black History Month, visit history.com. 

The Office of Black Student Affairs (OBSA)  

The Office of Black Student Affairs is a cultural center and service unit for all seven of The Claremont Colleges. We offer a range of programs, services and activities for students of African descent enrolled at the Claremont Colleges. These include identity based workshops, skill building activities, mentoring, arts engagement, heritage month programming and a range of collaborative events in partnership with 7C colleges, departments and organizations.

To learn more, please visit their website.  
To join their mailing list to receive their newsletter, please email obsa@claremont.edu.

7C Health  

Did you know that both full-time AND part-time TCC students have access to free, no-cost 24/7 telehealth through 7C Health. If you have further questions or would like to sign up for FREE, please visit https://www.timely.md/faq/7c-health-the-claremont-colleges/.  

If you are outside of the U.S. in a country without internet restrictions, you may be able to access TalkNow (immediate emotional support) by using a U.S. based VPN or calling customer service at 1-833-484-6359.

2021 Kravis Concept Plan Competition  

Each year, the Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University hosts the Kravis Concept Plan Competition, an opportunity for alumni and current students of the Claremont Colleges to pitch their business ideas to a panel of experienced judges with the chance of winning seed funding to further those ideas. Finalists in the virtual 2021 competition could win up to $9,500 in prize money.

Interested in competing? Read more about submission requirements and important dates.

Submit your Intent to Compete here. 

Mark your calendar for the following important dates:

• Concept Plans Due: Thursday, March 11
• Finalists Announced: Monday, March 22
• Final Competition Day (aka Pitch Day): Friday, April 9

For questions, please contact Brittany Pervorse, assistant director of programs and student life, at brittany.pervorse@cgu.edu.

How to Support Your Kids During COVID | Parenting Tips​  

How can we best support our children during COVID? These 5 parenting tips will promote wellbeing and help you and your family manage stress from the pandemic.

Claremont Hillel Pandemic Pals​ 

Hillel is relaunching our Pandemic Pals program! Get paired with a current Hillel member who will welcome you to the community and stay in touch throughout the semester. Sign up here to get paired today!

SLDL Social Media Challenge​ 

Follow us on social media! If you follow us on Instagram or Facebook, you'll be entered into a monthly raffle for a gift card.

​SLDL - Let's Connect! 

Unfortunately we can't connect with people normally during this pandemic. Look out for an email in the upcoming weeks on ways we can connect with each other! 

Sprintax Open Tax Webinars  

Tuesday, February 2nd | 1:30 PM EST
Tuesday, February 16th | 3 PM EST

Given the current challenges of remote students trying to access tax information this season, the Sprintax team will be hosting a series of free open tax webinars once again to provide helpful information around nonresident tax filing obligations.

We have set up a series of tax webinars across the season and you can find the details and registration links below for each (these are all in EST). Please feel free to share these details with your international population and they can register for the date and time that suits them best via the below details or you can decide to highlight just the dates that make sense for you!:

• Tuesday, Feb 2nd, 1:30pm EST – Register here
• Tuesday, Feb 16th, 3pm EST – Register here

The Drucker Difference and Your Familiy Business

Wednesday, February 3rd | 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM 

How can family business continuity be used as a force for good? Cindi Bigelow, CEO of family-owned Bigelow Tea, and Professor Pramodita Sharma, the Schlesinger-Grossman Chair of Family Business at the Grossman School of Business at the University of Vermont, will share their insights at the second seminar in "The Drucker Difference and Your Family Business" series on Wednesday, February 3. Attendees will have a chance to engage in small group discussions led by Interim Dean Katharina Pick and Professor Vijay Sathe.

Register here. 

OPT Workshops

Wednesday, February 3rd | 12 PM - 1 PM
Friday, Feburary 26 | 10 AM - 11 AM  

SLDL will host an Optional Practical Training (OPT) workshop, open to all current F-1 students, especially those who are planning to apply for pre/post completion OPT during the current or upcoming semester. During the session, we will cover information on what OPT is, and the application process including eligibility rules, timeline and required documents for submission.

Register for Feb 3rd here. 
Register for February 26th here. 

International Students: Games and Networking

Friday, February 5th | 12 PM - 2 PM

Join SLDL and fellow international students for some fun and get to know fellow students from around the world.

Register here. 

CWR Qualifying Exams Preparation Weekend

Saturday, February 6th | 8:45 AM - 4 PM
Sunday, Feburary 7th | 8:45 AM - 4 PM

The Center for Writing & Rhetoric is offering an event just for students at the qualifying exam stage. Designed for students doing timed exams, written assignments, dissertation chapter drafts, and portfolios, the event will provide the options of either dedicated work time with peers or a combination of work time and facilitated sessions on exam preparation topics.

Register here. 

Virtual Club Fair & Organization Fair

Monday, February 8th & Thursday, February 11th 
11 AM - 1 PM 

Join us for a virtual club fair. Are you interested in getting involved with one of our many student clubs or starting a club of your own? Get to know the organizations on campus, meet their leaders, learn about their missions and the upcoming events they are hosting this spring. Our student club and organization leaders will be there to chat with you along with Katie Fierro from the Office of Student Life, Diversity and Leadership.
Schedule forthcoming.

GSC General Meeting

Monday, February 8th | 12 PM - 1 PM
Monday, Feburary 22nd | 12 PM - 1 PM

The Graduate Student Council (GSC) hosts biweekly general meetings where they will be discussing open matters and initiatives to help support the CGU community. This meeting is open to all students. We hope to see you there!

For the February 8th Zoom link, visit here. 
For the February 22nd Zoom link, visit here. 

SDRC Workshops

Wednesday, February 10th | 12 PM - 1 PM
Wednesday, Feburary 24nd | 12 PM - 1 PM

The SDRC will be resuming our workshops for students to attend and gain helpful tools to help them succeed during this challenging time. 
On February 10th, we'll go over how to "Get and Stay Connected While Learning Online." 
On February 24th, we'll go over "Tips for Virtual Learning."

We hope to see you there! 

Join Zoom here. 

"Am I a Racist?" – A Micro-Level Discussion

Thursday, February 11th | 12 PM - 1 PM

The SCGH Student Association Board is proud to announce the continuation of our Talk Series: Racism in Public Health in Spring 2021. Talks in this series will occur monthly via Zoom and will discuss the ways in which racism has impacted different sectors of Public Health as well as other areas in our society. This event is free and open to the public via Zoom, registration is required.

For the month of February, we welcome Speaker Marcus Duarte Smith, MA from the University of LaVerne

Join Zoom here. 

Happy Lunar New Year! 

Friday, February 12 

For those celebrating, we wish all good health and prosperity in the new year! 

Keep an eye out for Lunar New Year virtual celebrations available like this one by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Be sure to tag @studentlife.cgu in your posts celebrating the lunar new year.

Strengths, Character, and YOU: A recipe for living a full and fulfilled life

Friday, February 12 | 10 AM - 11 AM  

Hosted by FLOURISH in your First Year program, this workshop will increase your awareness of the strengths and characteristics that makes you a scholar and professional.

All first year students will receive a personal invitation to their CGU email. For more information, or to receive the zoom link, please contact us at student.engagement@cgu.edu.

People and Cultures

Friday, February 12 | 7 PM - 9 PM
Friday, February 26 | 7 PM - 9 PM 

This workshop will allow students exchange of cultural information regarding their own culture and customs, as well as listen to and learn from their their fellow students. We will discuss American culture and customs, and students will have the opportunity to ask questions about the nuances of life in the U.S.

Register here for February 12th. 
Register here for February 26th.
Or email isp@cgu.edu. 

THE FIFTH ANNUAL BLACK INTERSECTIONS CONFERENCE: JUSTICE & BLACK JOY
CALL FOR DIGITAL SUBMISSIONS

Monday, February 15 

We are excited to present a hybrid event for the 5th annual OBSA Black Intersections Conference: Justice and Black Joy

This year we welcome digital content of ANY kind—including but not limited to video performance and presentation, digital documents, power point presentations, art, mixed media and other work that broadly fits the theme(s) “Justice and Black Joy” for a special exhibit. Each year our goal is to highlight the many accomplishments of Black students, faculty, staff and alumni while engaging in dialogue around issues and ideas surrounding Black identities, lived experiences and forms of expression­­. Media will be uploaded to a platform for public viewing.

For questions or to register, please email obsa@claremont.edu. 

Submit here. 

Financial Literacy & Budgeting

Friday, February 19 | 12 PM - 1 PM

Hosted by the FLOURISH in your First Year program, this workshop will introduce tips on budgeting and financing while enrolled in a graduate program.

All first year students will receive a personal invitation to their CGU email. For more information, or to receive the zoom link, please contact us at student.engagement@cgu.edu.

Hack for Black Lives

Friday, February 19 - Sunday, Feburary 21
12 PM - 1 PM

We invite you to bring your skills and passions, whatever they may be, and we will work with you to empower you to create something that supports the Black Lives Matter movement and to give you the confidence you need to know that you can continue to do so after the completion of the hackathon.

Registration is now open on our website or through this sign-up form! You can sign up with a team of 2-5 people, or as an individual and we will help place you on a team with similar goals and interests! We hope you will join us and we are looking forward to seeing what you can create!

CWR Students of Color Writing Retreat 

Sunday, February 21 | 8:45 AM - 4 PM 

The Center for Writing and Rhetoric has recently started offering Students of Color Writing Retreats. With a Writing Consultant facilitating breaks and debriefs, this retreat will be a collaborative space for students of color to mutually support themselves in all stages of the writing process and gain invaluable feedback for their work.

Registration for this event opens two weeks prior to the event date and closes the Wednesday before the event. Information for joining the event via Zoom will be distributed to registrants on the Thursday prior to the event.

For the registration link, visit here. 

OBSA Black Intersections Conference: Justice and Black Joy​

Monday, February 22nd - Saturday, February 27th 

Attendees will be able to navigate the exhibit on their own time throughout that week alongside chatrooms and streaming experiences, culminating in an  closing zoom-based workshop with Professor Carolyn Ratteray (Pomona, Theatre & Dance) and special guests on the conference’s final day.

The event is free (there are no associated costs for presenters or attendees) and open to the public.  

For questions or to register, please email obsa@claremont.edu. 

Overcoming Imposter Syndrome in Graduate School 

Tuesday, February 23 | 12 PM - 1 PM

All students experience some form of doubt, or better known as imposter syndrome, during their graduate studies. Hosted by FLOURISH in your First Year, this event invites a professor, current student, and an alumni to share how they have experienced imposter syndrome and how they overcame or are currently overcoming them.

All first year students will receive a personal invitation to their CGU email. For more information, or to receive the zoom link, please contact us at student.engagement@cgu.edu.

How to use the Library as a Graduate Student – Starting Your Research and The Art of Searching​

Thursday, February 25 | 2 PM - 3:30 PM

You’ve been assigned a research project. Now what?

How to use the Library as a Graduate Student is a two-part workshop series co-hosted by Kendra Macomber and Adam Rosenkranz, Librarians from The Claremont Colleges Library and FLOURISH in your First Year program.
In this session you will be introduced to library resources, discuss how to come up with a research topic and make a plan to start searching for sources.

All first year students will receive a personal invitation to their CGU email. For more information, or to receive the zoom link, please contact us at student.engagement@cgu.edu.

EmPOWER Center Services 

The EmPOWER Center offers the following services: 

1. Phone/video sessions with our Project Sister counselors located at EmPOWER: To schedule, please call (909) 607-0690.
   (Ongoing sessions are available to students currently receiving our counseling services OR to students living within CA. Students living outside of CA receive intial emotional support and referrals in their local communities,in keeping with CA mental health licensing laws.)
2. Phone/Zoom sessions with the EmPOWER director, Rima Shah (she's a confidential advocate). To schedule, please call (909) 607-2689 or email rshahempower@claremont.edu (available to students no matter where they are located in the world). 
3. EmPOWER's 7C-wide educational programs will be offered via Zoom, videos, and more. 

Hanging with the Chaplains

Thursdays | 2 PM - 3 PM

Join us for our Office Hours! Drop in virtually to our Zoom. A Chaplain will be available to chat, answer questions, and support you through these unique times. There are no time requirements, stop in for a few minutes or the full hour. See you there!

Join Zoom Here.

Coffee with the SDRC 

Every other Tuesday at 3 PM! 
(2/12, 2/16, 3/2, 3/16, 3/30, 4/13, 4/27)

Join us for some coffee and conversation! 

Join Zoom here. 

Monsour Counseling & Psychological Services 

Spring 2021 Virtual Workshops

• Drop-In Coffee Hour with MCAPS for Grad Students: BYOC (Bring Your Own Coffee)
  First Monday of every month 11-11:50 AM (2/1, 3/1, 4/5, & 5/3). Drop in with Drs. Dana Reyes and Beth Perlman to chat about the unique experience of graduate school, get support from peers, and identify strategies for managing stress. To register contact: ​Dana.Reyes@claremont.edu or Beth.Perlman@claremont.edu.
• Anxiety Management on Tuesdays 11-11:50 AM (2/2, 2/9, 2/16, 2/23, & 3/2). This is a 5-week workshop series in which students will explore ways of coping with anxiety by living in full experience rather than running from the stressors of life. To register contact: To register contact: Grant.Goodman@claremont.edu.
• Healthy Relationships Wednesdays 3-4:30 PM (2/10, 2/17, 2/24, & 3/3). This is a 4-week workshop series on different topics about healthy relationships. To register contact: Miao.Li@claremont.edu or Shalom.Alaichamy@claremont.edu.

   

• Managing Stress Wednesdays 12-12:50 PM (weekly). This drop-in hour is for those who need to quarantine due to virus exposure, those worried about the health of self/others, and those who are feeling stress due to the pandemic in other ways. During the hour, students will be provided with tools to manage stress. Come together to find strength through solidarity and connection. To register contact: LisetteSa@claremont.edu.
• Yoga Postures for Stress Relief Wednesdays 3-3:50 PM (3/17 & 5/5). Join Drs. Dana Reyes and Beth Perlman for a workshop which explores postures, breathing, and stretches that help reduce stress. Perfect for short zoom and study breaks! To register contact: Dana.Reyes@claremont.edu or Beth.Perlman@claremont.edu.
• Creative Expressions Thursdays 1- 2 PM (2/4, 2/18, 3/4, 3/18, 4/1, 4/15, & 4/29). This biweekly drop in workshop will focus on developing healthy coping through artistic expression. Recommended materials: pen, paper, markers or color pencils, scissors and tape. To register contact: Emily.Bragg@claremont.edu LisetteSa@claremont.edu.