Food for Thought Program

Our Food for Thought program provides students, faculty, and staff the opportunity to share a meal and get to know each other. In either one-on-one conversations or small group gatherings, you (members of the CRC community) can share stories, interests, and questions over lunch. Or breakfast or dinner! While you can talk about papers and course work, we encourage you to discuss any variety of topics, from sports to politics, or hobbies and hopes, to cooking techniques, favorite music, and more.

Ready to take one of your instructors to Rheta's? Ready to join a student for lunch? CRC covers the cost of the meal for the faculty or staff member. Everyone in the CRC community is encouraged to participate. For logistical details, please stop the CRC Office on the main floor of Chadbourne Hall.

For students, developing relationships with faculty and staff beyond the classroom enhances your experience in CRC and the UW. These "wise adults" can become mentors, allies, research role models, references, and facilitators of your intellectual development, to name a few! You spend nearly 90% of your time during college outside the classroom, so here's one of the ways to make the most of it.

For faculty and staff, developing relationships with undergraduate students helps you stay in touch with student life and gain new perspectives on your work and life. CRC students are often recognized as enthusiastic, motivated, and engaged learners. We invite you to join us.

"Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience and celebrate our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living from mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend."

-- Wendell Berry (1934 - present)