Society of Women Engineers (SWE)

SWE is a national professional organization that supports and promotes women in science and engineering. Our chapter has more that 270 undergraduate and graduate student members, making it the 2nd largest student chapter in the country and the largest professional student group on campus. SWE activities include:

• Evening With Industry & Networking Night
• Weekly Lunch Meetings
• Girls Scout Badge Day
• The Continuum

How to join SWE:

• Complete an application. You can pick up one at a weekly meeting or click here to go online.
• Bring the completed application with your $20 membership fee to the next meeting or take it to the SWE Advisor’s Office (Candy Sulzbach, Brown Building, Room 283).

MentorNet

MentorNet is a national e-mentoring program available for female students at Mines. Founded in 1997, MentorNet provides highly motivated protégés from many of the world's top colleges and universities with positive, one-on-one, email-based mentoring relationships with mentors from industry and academia in the U.S. and around the world.

How to sign up:

All CSM female students are eligible and encouraged to participate. There is no cost to CSM students for this service. To apply:

• Go to http://www.mentornet.net/join
• If you are a current member, click on the “Sign in here" or "Sign in now” button. If you are a new member, fill in the requested links to create a protégé profile.

Society of Women Physicists (SWP)

CSM female undergraduate and graduate female students are invited to join SWP. The purpose of this group is to:

• Give students the opportunity to learn about careers in physics.
• Build a network of resources for interviews and jobs.
• Teach professional skills.
• Increase the enrollment, retention, and academic performance of female physics students.
• Provide a welcoming place for female physics students at CSM.

Contact the Physics Department for more information.

Women in Geophysics Mentoring Program

The Women in Geophysics Mentoring Program is sponsored by the Department of Geophysics and is open to all women Undergraduate and Graduate Geophysics Students at Colorado School of Mines. The program pairs the student with a woman mentor from the geoscience industry.

Sororities

Mines has three sororities on campus, each with new, beautiful houses.

• Alpha Phi
• Pi Beta Phi
• Sigma Kappa
  

Minority Engineering Program

MEP was established in 1989 to recruit, retain, and graduate African American, Asian American, Native American, and Hispanic undergraduate students. Minority students comprise over 12% of the student population at Mines. Women make up 31% of the total minority student enrollment at Mines.

International Students Information

• INTERLINK Language Center
• International Institute for Professional Advancement
• Office of International Students & Scholars
• Office of International Programs

Diversity Committee

Be part of the CSM Diversity Committee and make a difference in the Mines community. The mission of the Diversity Committee is to:

• develop strategies and programs to recruit and retain faculty, staff and students,
• foster educational and work environments that welcome different perspectives, backgrounds and life experiences,
• and encourage all members of the campus community to develop mutual respect, teamwork and appreciation for multiple perspectives, and promote the principle of equal opportunity in both the educational and work environments.
  

Athletic Programs - Varsity Sports and Recreational Sports

Mines has six female varsity sports, 23 club sports, and 12 female & four coed intramural sports teams.