Connect and engage
Our learning community provides a campus home for first-year students in Warner College. Students live in Summit Hall with peers who share similar career goals and interests and take the same courses. The RLC offers exclusive activities, community, and leadership development in sustainability and the environment. If you are majoring in any one of Warner College’s majors or you’re in Exploratory Studies’ Environmental and Natural Resources track, you are eligible to apply!
Program benefits
Live
Live together with like-minded students focused on leadership in natural resources.
Learn
Learn in special sections of natural resource courses that allow you to explore the interests in your specific track. Students needing CO 150 will also take part in a linked section of composition focused on natural resource food, energy, and water issues.
Engage
Engage with natural resources faculty, graduate students, and student leaders as well as community leaders working in natural resources leadership at CSU and beyond. Gain important professional development knowledge and networking connections.
Connect
Connect to all students in the Warner RLCs through special programming at the CSU Environmental Learning Center, service learning projects, and out-of-class events and activities to support your leadership development and engagement in community.
50
Warner Rams participate in the RLC each year.
3
Exclusive sections of CO150 reserved for RLC students.
2018
The year the Natural Resources RLC was established.
Hear from our alumni
Natalie McConnell
B.S., Natural Resource Management ’24
The RLC helped me start off my college career with the right intentions and helped me start thinking about my impact in day-to-day life. Most of my friends throughout college came from the learning community.
Preston Lim
B.S., Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology ’23
I am most proud of the connections I have made with employers, professors, and friends. The RLC helped direct me into a certain path, but was still able to refine that path that was unique to me. I realized that everybody collectively within the program was on the same page without needing to say a word.
Helen Flynn
B.S., Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, ’23 and M.S., ’26
The RLC was probably the best thing that happened to me at CSU. I met so many friends and interesting people that I still talk to. I was exposed to different areas of my major that I had not discovered before attending CSU.
Interested?
Applications for 2027 open in late January!
For more information contact:
Dr. Kaye Holman, WCNR Learning Communities Director
(970) 491-2139
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Warner Residential Learning Communities are open to students declared in one of WCNR’s major programs or Exploratory Studies: Environmental & Natural Resources major track.