Colorado State University
Commitment to Action for 7th Generation Awareness and Education: HIV/AIDS Prevention Project (CA7AE: HAPP) provides healthy community change through the use of community specific interventions based on the Community Readiness Model, developed at Colorado State University. Our focus is on building the capacity of a community to implement HIV/AIDS prevention interventions. CA7AE has also established a collaborative relationship with NMAETC (National Minority AIDS Education Training Center) based out of Howard University. In this collaboration CA7AE will promote cultural competency in HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and training. CA7AE is part of the Ethnic Studies Department at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado.
The Ethnic Studies Department critically examines the interlocking forces of domination that are rooted in socially constructed categories of gender, sexuality, class, and race. Our faculty and researchers are committed to theoretical, empirical, qualitative, textual, and community-based research, pedagogy, service, and outreach. Utilizing interdisciplinary, international, and comparative approaches, we challenge paradigms that systematically marginalize the experiences of diverse populations. In doing so, we bring to bear issues of power, privilege, and social justice pertinent to aggrieved groups in the United States and abroad. We are especially committed to nurturing civic-minded and culturally informed students who strive to strengthen the communities in which they reside. In support of the land-grant mission of Colorado State University, Ethnic Studies engages with communities on and off campus in order to effect meaningful change in public policy and social life.
It is an honor for CA7AE to be part of the Colorado State University (CSU) community. CSU is a land-grant institution and a Carnegie Doctoral/Research University-Extensive. It was founded as the Colorado Agricultural College in 1870, six years before the Colorado Territory gained statehood. It was one of 68 land-grant colleges established under the Morrill Act of 1862. It is located in Fort Collins Colorado at the western edge of the Great Plains and at the base of the Rocky Mountains. The doors opened to a freshman class of 19 students in 1879 and today hosts approximately 24,700 students. In 1935, the school became the Colorado State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, or Colorado A&M, and was renamed Colorado State University in 1957. CSU is one of the nation's leading research universities with world-class research in infectious disease, atmospheric science, clean energy technologies, and environmental science. It was founded in 1870 as the Colorado Agricultural College, six years before the Colorado Territory became a state.
Last year, CSU awarded degrees to more than 5,000 graduates, and this year, it attracted nearly $300 million in research funding. Colorado State University is the “university of choice” for Colorado residents – 30% of all of Colorado's science, math, engineering and technology majors pursue degrees at CSU. In addition to its excellent programs in those areas, CSU offers among the very best professional programs in the United States in veterinary medicine, occupational therapy, journalism, agriculture and construction management.