Arts, Creativity and Innovation

Colby is taking a bold, integrated approach toward delivering a modern liberal arts education to produce future global leaders. Using intentional, strategic partnerships and connections, our initiatives leverage our existing assets and improve our student experiences everywhere they occur. Whether through multidisciplinary research, or civic engagement, or the fostering of networks of friendships, internships, and careers, Colby will bridge gaps, encourage strong cultural awareness, and make an immediate, and lifelong, impact.
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Opportunities surround us in abundance

At its core Colby must be the best of what it wants its students to become—intellectual, engaged, equitable, ethical, inclusive, and innovative. Colby is committed to aggressively recruiting highly-qualified students from every social, cultural, and geographic background. Students experiencing a diverse campus population are afforded the opportunity to develop enriched points of view born of robust social discourse that help shape values and a commitment to civic engagement. Financial aid awards can promote student college success by fostering student engagement without regard to financial hardship.


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Our ambitions in action

A powerful foundation for creativity, dialogue and risk-taking, the arts at Colby are integral to empowering individuals and preparing them to deal with complexity, diversity and change. More than a space, a place or hub, the Arts and Innovation Center will serve as a creative laboratory for the performing arts as well as for envisioning new ways of interpreting the curriculum. This includes building uniquely flexible, multipurpose spaces for teaching, performing, working, and creating, and the use of multimedia and interactive technologies.


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We prove what’s possible

Since our founding, Colby has been committed to community. Today, this means engaging with Waterville and others to create an ecosystem in our city conducive to long-term economic growth and where our students and community can be engaged, supported, and successful—all while encouraging investors to participate. To catalyze investment and growth, Colby and our partners have a plan for revitalizing Main Street that imagines multiple concurrent development projects to create residential density, attract high-tech jobs, increase visitors, and improve quality of life. The plan calls for short- and long-term actionable items to radically improve downtown Waterville. As we see it, soon the city will be alive with pivotal activities where history is honored, and new stories are written in reimagined spaces brimming with promise and civic opportunity.


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