Community for Excellence (C4E) Competencies
Our goal is to provide you with a holistic experience. In addition to your one-on-one meetings with your Scholar Contact, C4E aims to ensure every student demonstrates competency in key skillsets that will empower you in your collegiate journey at CSU and in your future endeavors. We’ll do this by introducing you to CSU resources early on, giving you the tools to connect to your career field, and sharing skills that will support your success in the classroom and beyond.
Your experience in C4E will focus on the following 6 competencies:
- Academic Success
- Your academic success includes understanding academic expectations, utilizing resources that support you in the classroom, developing effective study strategies and skills, and ultimately defining what success looks like for you.
- Career & Professional Development
- Your financial well-being is an important part of being a student. C4E will support you in understanding financial aid requirements and policies, effective budgeting, and developing skills that will set you up to meet future financial goals.
- Financial Wellness
- Your financial well-being is an important part of being a student. C4E will support you in understanding financial aid requirements and policies, effective budgeting, and developing skills that will set you up to meet future financial goals.
- Leadership & Involvement
- An important part of your college experience is getting involved on campus and in the community. Whether you’re an active member of a student organization, learning through an education abroad opportunity, or developing your connections within your academic department, being engaged will help you thrive as a member of the CSU community and prepare you for life at graduation.
- Life Management
- The life management competency focuses on skills like navigating conflict in your living situation, meal prepping or cooking on a budget, understanding and signing a lease, finding affordable housing or childcare, and commuting. C4E supports you in developing the everyday skills you’ll continue to use for years to come.
- Personal Growth & Identity
- The personal growth and identity competency is about understanding yourself, setting personal goals, caring for your mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health, and finding a community who will support and challenge you to be the most authentic version of yourself.
Program requirements
- Meet with your Scholar Contact 2 times a semester (fall/spring); 1 time a semester if enrolled in summer
- If you are not maintaining 2.0 GPA, meet with your Scholar Contact every month
- Attend 2 Scholar Engagement Opportunities each fall and spring semester (workshops, internships, events on campus, research opportunities, working, etc.)
- Workshops must be completed by April 12th for the spring
- Semester of graduation: Attend some type of transition to workforce workshop or meeting (resume, cover letter, grad school plans, job planning, etc.)
- Send graduation plan to Scholar Contact, with estimated graduation of no later than Spring 2026
- Complete FAFSA/CASFA by March 1st
- Continue making Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP)
Scholar engagement opportunities
Important Dates
Jan. 15 | Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday – offices closed |
Jan. 16 | Snow Day – no classes; offices closed |
Jan. 17 | Classes Begin |
Jan. 19 | Restricted Drop Deadline |
Jan. 21 | Add without Override Deadline |
Jan. 22 | Add with Override Begins |
Jan. 31 | Census: Add/drop deadline; Grading Mode changes (S/U and Audit) Deadline |
March 8 | Fall 2024 Plan Ahead Begins |
March 9 | Spring Recess Begins – No Classes Next Week |
March 18 | Classes Resume |
March 19 | Summer 2024 Registration Begins |
April 1 | Fall 2024 Registration Begins |
April 12 | Individual Course Withdrawal Deadline; Repeat/Repair Deadline |
May 3 | Classes End; Semester Withdrawal Deadline |
May 6 | Final Exams Week |
May 10 | Commencement |
May 13 | Summer Classes Begin |
May 15 | Spring 2024 Grades Available on RamWeb |
May 27 | Memorial Day Holiday – offices closed; no classes |