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Department of Construction Management
College of Health and Human Sciences

Construction Management Advising and Support

The mission of the academic advising office is to foster academic growth, personal development, and career readiness so that students may find their fit and make a positive impact in the construction management industry.

Advising Contacts

Construction Management Undergraduate Advising

Adding a Major

If you are a current CSU student wanting to add or change your major to Pre-Construction Management, please email gianna.bueno@colostate.edu, who will meet with you to discuss the program and initiate next steps to change your major.

Adding a Minor

If you are a current CSU student wanting to learn about or add the CM Minor, please contact one of our advisers:

Current Pre-CM and CM Students

If your last names starts with A-L your adviser is Michael Kallsen

If your last names starts with M-Z your adviser is  Courtney Lavin

Schedule an appointment with your adviser through the online scheduler.

Prospective Students

If you are interested in becoming a CSU student, and would like to meet with Construction Management’s Outreach and Student Recruitment Coordinator for more information, or to discuss your plans to pursue the Construction Management major at CSU, contact Gianna Bueno at gianna.bueno@colostate.edu.

Masters and Doctoral Programs Graduate Advising

General Advising

The Construction Management graduate advising liaison is available to assist graduate students. This adviser processes all administrative documentation for CM graduate students as well as answers questions and provides support for class registration.

The graduate advising liaison meets with new and continuing CM graduate students.

Get in touch with us today at cmgradadvising@colostate.edu.

Faculty Advising

Upon admission to the graduate program students are assigned a temporary faculty adviser. Your faculty adviser will assist you in investigating research interests, potential committee members, and permanent adviser options.

Once research interests are considered you’ll select your permanent adviser, who also serves as chairperson of your graduate committee. You must notify the Department in writing once your permanent adviser has been selected. Take a moment to learn about our Faculty and their areas of interest.

Paying for Graduate School

This is you’re guide to all of the funding opportunities available to you, from graduate research and teaching assistantships to scholarships and financial aid.

Steps to Your Graduate Degree

Commitment to Inclusive Excellence

The Department of Construction Management embraces CSU’s mission to foster a campus environment that welcomes, values, and affirms the contributions of all its members.

CSU’s longstanding commitment to diversity reflects its role and mission as a land-grant institution. Only through the inclusion of the rich diversity of students, staff, faculty, administrators, alumni, and CSU’s partners can we truly be excellent in our pursuits.

As such, the Department of Construction Management is committed to:

  • Providing an inclusive and welcoming educational and working environment for everyone in our community.
  • Strengthening the diversity of students, staff, faculty, alumni, and industry partners in our teaching, research, and engagement endeavors.
  • Enhancing access and opportunities for all students, staff, and faculty to promote their professional growth and success.
  • Rejecting any act of hate, bias, sexual misconduct, sexual assault, gender discrimination, and gender-based violence within our community.
  • Assessing departmental efforts in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) to continually recognize and focus on areas needing improvement, while also highlighting and celebrating areas where work is being done.

Resources regarding university policy, reporting options, and support services may be accessed at:

Office of Inclusive Excellence
College of Health and Human Sciences

Campus Resources

CSU Health and Medical Center Counseling Services

Provides counseling and spiritual care services.

Learn more about how to get connected with CSU counseling services.

Student Diversity Programs and Services

A selection of programs and services designed to support students in a variety of ways and provide opportunities to successfully participate in, and contribute to, the diverse campus environment.

Contact CSU’s student diversity programs and services to learn more.

Resources for Students with Disabilities

Facilitate the educational pursuits of students who have disabilities by coordinating a variety of services that support the unique academic needs of students with disabilities, both permanent and temporary.

Discover more about the Student Disability Center.

Adult Learner & Veteran Services

Supports the personal and academic success of adult learners and student veterans by establishing an environment conducive to learning.

Find out more about ALVS.

Title IX: Student Resources and Reporting Options

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any education program or activity that receives federal funding. Discrimination on the basis of sex includes: Excluding, separating, denying benefits to, or otherwise treating a person differently on the basis of gender (including discrimination based on pregnancy); Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence which includes sexual assault, relationship violence and stalking.  This includes behavior on and off campus.

Learn more about Title IX, find resources, or file a report.

Incidents of Bias: Information and Reporting

A bias incident is any conduct, speech, or expression, motivated in whole or in part by bias or prejudice that is meant to intimidate, demean, mock, degrade, marginalize, or threaten individuals or groups based on that individual or group’s actual or perceived identities.

Learn more about CSU’s efforts to reduce bias or to report an incident of bias.

Advising and Support Additional Resources

Careers, Internships, and Recruiting

The Phelps Placement Office works with students throughout their academic careers.

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Student Organizations and Involvement

Construction Management has a number of clubs and award winning competition teams. Join today.

CM 2018 Commercial Team

Construction Management Academic Integrity

Construction Management Academic Integrity Policy

Department of Construction Management – Academic Integrity Policy

Students in the Department of Construction Management are afforded a variety of opportunities to be involved in clubs, compete on teams, hold leadership positions, attend career fairs, and represent one of the best Construction Management programs in the country. Each time you, as a student, interact with a community or industry member, you serve as an ambassador for your peers, faculty, and staff of the CM program and Colorado State University.

You have an opportunity to mold people’s opinions, including those of industry members, recruiters, private scholarship donors, CM Cares recipients, the Dean of our college, or donors to the department as a whole. Needless to say, a positive impression of CM is preferable to a negative one.

Participation in clubs, teams, leadership, career fairs, CM Cares, and receipt of department scholarships are privileges and an honor, and we cannot accept anything less than the very best from those who represent us. Our ambassadors must be responsible, organized, motivated, and professional.

But beyond that, the most important quality our student representatives must possess is integrity. While there are many indicators of integrity, academic honesty is perhaps the most relevant to the student body.

Academic integrity is fairly straightforward: we do our own work. We don’t take work from other students or alumni, and we don’t give our work away to someone else.

As a construction management student, it is essential that you take pride in your education and hold yourself to the highest ethical standards. You are privileged to be part of one of the best construction programs in the country, and it is an honor to represent your peers and the department within and outside of CSU.

As a program, we have an opportunity to create a culture of honesty and integrity, and we have the responsibility to expect nothing but the best from each other.

Effective Dec. 1, 2014, the Department of Construction Management will adhere to the following policy and consequences regarding academic integrity. A breach in academic integrity will result in an evaluation to determine the context and severity of the breach.

Following the evaluation, the breach of academic integrity will result in a loss of privileges within the department for an appropriate period of time. These may include, but are not limited to:

  • Loss of participation in the CM Career Fair and on-campus recruitment services provided by the CM Placement Office
  • Loss of participation in a competition team
  • Loss of leadership as a club officer
  • Loss of leadership as a member of the CMBoD
  • Loss of participation in the CM Cares class
  • Failure of the class (potential effect on graduation)

These penalties are in addition to any and all penalties assessed by the University in accordance with the Academic Integrity Policy found in section 1.6 of the General Catalog

University Academic Integrity Policies

All CON courses will adhere to the CSU’s Academic Integrity Policy as found in the General Catalog and the Student Conduct Code. At a minimum, violations will result in a grading penalty with instructor option to report to the Student Resolution Center – Conduct Services.