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One of Northwestern's oldest residential colleges, CCS has historically encouraged the exploration of urban communities, social issues, and Chicago's cultural diversity. These interests remain strong at CCS, inspiring frequent group outings to Chicago's ethnic neighborhoods, including Chinatown, Little Vietnam, Devon Avenue's Asian Indian community, and Pilsen's Mexican community. These visits often include sampling myriad cuisines at ethnic restaurants, a favorite college pastime. CCS members express their social concerns through philanthropic activities. The college hosts an annual Halloween event for Asian Youth Services, and many residents volunteer at local food depositories, for Habitat for Humanity, and in mentoring programs such as Project Jam and African Sunlight. Located just north of the Technological Institute, near the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion, CCS has a homelike atmosphere that is conclusive to community life. Nearly all of Northwestern's six undergraduate schools are represented in CCS, and members come from across the country and around the world. They attend the theater and visit museums together, play intramural sports, ice skate at Chicago's Millennium Park, gather for study breaks, and begin the year with a fall camping trip. At student-run firesides, CCS members often report on their experiences studying, living, and traveling abroad.
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Visitors
Because CCS's faculty fellows
also represent a wide range of disciplines, residents have
the chance to talk over lunch with, for example, a physicist,
an art historian, a civil engineer, or a political scientist.
Fireside topics have ranged from Big Bang theory to Tchaikovsky's
operas to the history of women at Northwestern. CCS members
also enjoy the company of fellows at the popular quarterly
game nights or faculty teas.