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RESIDENTIAL CREATIVE COMMUNITY
City Heights is home to the CAM Residential Creative Community (RCC), a special residential experience for College
of Arts & Media (CAM)
students to live in a supportive environment of artists, filmmakers,
musicians, and scholars.
CAM RCC members have distinct academic and co-curricular
experiences to connect with the arts and creative industries. The CAM RCC
communal spaces are designed and equipped to foster making, creativity,
and collaboration amongst peers and classmates. Students may opt-in to participate in the RCC.
Learn More About the CAM RCC
The Residential Creative Community is a way for CAM freshmen to connect with other CAM students, faculty, and staff on campus. Any CAM freshmen who will be staying at the City Heights Residence Hall can opt-in to being a part of the CAM RCC. Here what students in the RCC receive:
- A CAM RCC roommate - Students who join the RCC by May 31, 2024 will be placed in a room at City Heights with another CAM RCC student.
- A monthly RCC Community Dinner. CAM faculty and staff will attend the meetings and community dinners to present about their areas and the college.
- Socializing and networking with other RCC students.
- A CAM faculty mentor.
- Access to a CAM music room at City Heights.
- A monthly CAM RCC newsletter highlighting arts events on and near campus.
- The opportunity to participate in an UNIV 1110 class for first semester CAM students. This class prepares students for college success.
- RCC members will have the opportunity to be a part of the RCC Leadership Group; these students serve as the voice for all RCC students.
How to Apply to the CAM RCC for Fall 2024
Incoming CAM freshman for Fall 2024 should first accept their CU Denver admission in their application portal. They can then apply to CU Denver Housing. We will then send an email out to all incoming Fall 2024 CAM students with a City Heights housing contract on file sometime in May 2024 inviting them to be in the CAM RCC. Students can also fill out the CAM RCC application form here.
Any student who has a City Heights Housing contract for the 2024-25 academic year and completes the CAM RCC application will be admitted to the RCC. Be sure to check your email regularly for information from CU Denver Housing & Dining Services and the College of Arts & Media.
The First-Year Experience
First-Year Experience (FYE) courses are designed to ease students transition to university life and guide them into this world of social, academic, and professional possibilities. Members of CAM RCC are strongly encouraged to register for one of the CAM UNIV 1110 classes. The CAM UNIV 1100 courses are tailored to the unique experience of art, film, and music students. The CAM-UNIV is a required, one-credit course for all RCC members. This is a tuition free first semester course!
RCC Faculty Mentors
Each CAM RCC student will be matched with a College of Arts & Media Faculty Mentor! Here are some of our recent RCC Faculty Mentors.
Leslie Soich
Senior Instructor
- Music and Entertainment Studies (CAM)
Email Address:leslie.soich@ucdenver.edu
Primary Phone:303-315-7441
Mailing Address:
- CU Denver
Arts Building
1150 10th Street
Denver, CO 80204
Leslie Remmert Soich has been a faculty member of the Music & Entertainment Industry Studies at CU Denver since 2006 and the Commercial Voice Program Director since 2012.
She has been a Metropolitan Opera Auditions Regional Finalist in both the Midwest and Rocky Mountain regions. She has been the recipient of the Denver Lyric Opera Guild (DLOG) competition’s Norwest Fund and Berenbeim Scholarships, the 1996-1997 recipient of the Galen & Ada Belle Files Spencer Fellowship at the University of Colorado, the Third Prize Winner in the Meistersinger Competition in Graz, Austria, a finalist in the Bel Canto Foundation Vocal Competition in Providence, Rhode Island and a quarterfinalist in the American Traditions Competition as part of the Savannah Music Festival, Savannah, Georgia.
She has been an apprentice artist with the Sarasota Opera, a member of the Joseph and Loretta Law Artist Center of Opera Colorado and is currently an active member of the Central City Opera Touring Artists, the St Martin’s Chamber Choir and Augustana Vocal Ensemble.
Areas of Expertise
Classical to Contemporary Vocal Coaching
Education, Licensure & Certifications
University of Colorado Boulder
MA; Vocal Performance
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
BA; Voice Performance
Affiliations
The College Music Society
National Association of Teachers of Singing, Mu Phi Epsilon
The RCC CAM Staff
Leslie Soich
Senior Instructor
- Music and Entertainment Studies (CAM)
Email Address:leslie.soich@ucdenver.edu
Primary Phone:303-315-7441
Mailing Address:
- CU Denver
Arts Building
1150 10th Street
Denver, CO 80204
Leslie Remmert Soich has been a faculty member of the Music & Entertainment Industry Studies at CU Denver since 2006 and the Commercial Voice Program Director since 2012.
She has been a Metropolitan Opera Auditions Regional Finalist in both the Midwest and Rocky Mountain regions. She has been the recipient of the Denver Lyric Opera Guild (DLOG) competition’s Norwest Fund and Berenbeim Scholarships, the 1996-1997 recipient of the Galen & Ada Belle Files Spencer Fellowship at the University of Colorado, the Third Prize Winner in the Meistersinger Competition in Graz, Austria, a finalist in the Bel Canto Foundation Vocal Competition in Providence, Rhode Island and a quarterfinalist in the American Traditions Competition as part of the Savannah Music Festival, Savannah, Georgia.
She has been an apprentice artist with the Sarasota Opera, a member of the Joseph and Loretta Law Artist Center of Opera Colorado and is currently an active member of the Central City Opera Touring Artists, the St Martin’s Chamber Choir and Augustana Vocal Ensemble.
Areas of Expertise
Classical to Contemporary Vocal Coaching
Education, Licensure & Certifications
University of Colorado Boulder
MA; Vocal Performance
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
BA; Voice Performance
Affiliations
The College Music Society
National Association of Teachers of Singing, Mu Phi Epsilon