Rooted in Legacy, Reaching for the Next 50
Fifty years of B/AACC legacy is a foundation, not a finish line! Your gift helps us go further. With your support, we can provide more mentoring, educational, and leadership development opportunities for students. This is how we build the next fifty years.
Rites of Passage: Empowering Our Students
Try to remember what it was like being on campus for the first time.
Our Rites of Passage Mentoring Program (ROP) supports a cohort of incoming first-year and transfer students as they transition to campus. Our mentees get paired with an upperclass student who helps them develop skills for social and academic success.
Through mentorship, community gatherings, and workshops, students go deeper into African diasporic cultures and leadership theories in ways that build the foundation for thriving, not just surviving.
*Established in 1977
How You Can Help
$50 — Can provide supplies for meaningful skill-building workshops
$125 — Can cover a “mentor family” group meal
$275 — Supports programming and community-building experiences for mentees
$400 — Sends one mentee to the Rites of Passage Retreat
Faculty Affiliate Program: Deepening Our Understanding
Mentorship doesn’t only happen between students. Their relationships with faculty also deeply matter to their learning and success.
Our Faculty Affiliate Program partners with faculty members to directly support the B/AACC community. They hold weekly office hours where students get intentional academic mentorship.
Our Faculty Affiliates also lead workshops and discussions rooted in research related to the African Diaspora and design learning opportunities that bring those topics to the wider Colorado community.
Your gift supports our bridge between B/AACC, students, the classroom, and the community.
How You Can Help
$25 — Can sponsor a 1:1 meeting for a student and Faculty Affiliate.
$50 — Can cover a meal for a small group gathering.
$500 — Supports the development of an opportunity that brings learning to the broader Colorado community.
$1,000 — Funds one year of Faculty Affiliate research support. This helps our Faculty Affiliate share their work in ways students and the community can really engage with.
Dr. Blanche Hughes Legacy Endowment: Expanding Our Impact
The Dr. Blanche Hughes B/AACC Legacy Fund ensures we can meet the growing needs of our students and remain a place where they can belong, lead, and succeed. Every dollar helps B/AACC show up for students in impactful ways.
This fund supports initiatives like our Care Corner, Student Organizational Excellence workshops, Real Talk discussions, and our Pursuits of Excellence end-of-year celebration.
How You Can Help
Give to the Dr. Blanche Hughes B/AACC Legacy Fund and help sustain the meaningful, everyday work that makes B/AACC home.
Upcoming Events
Check out our calendar and explore all the ways to connect, or reconnect, with your friends, former faculty and staff.
Explore Your Story
In close collaboration with Colorado State University Archives, we have pulled together a few memorable pictures.