Colby Trail

On the Colby Trail, your first year journey (FYJ) explores: discovery, difference, dialogue, community, and care.

Throughout your first year, we invite students to understand these five features as fundamental to the offer of a liberal arts education at Colby.

• Discovery refers to our quest for meaning and purpose through the exchange of ideas, narratives, and shared experiences.
• Difference refers to our reflection on the multiple intersecting factors that shape each person’s unique perspective and experience at Colby and beyond, and our commitment to embrace and explore these perspectives and experiences as  sources of collective learning and growth.
  Dialogue refers to our efforts to learn from each other through critical inquiry and empathetic listening.
• Care refers to our commitments to social responsibility, care for others, and care for self.
• Community refers to our intentional efforts to build and strengthen connections, navigate conflicts, and repair harm.
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