CCC boasts a national award-winning forensics program. Students may enter debate, oral interpretation, persuasion, informative, extemporaneous and expository events. The Music Department has both instrumental and vocal performance groups and encourages participation in both for music and non-music majors.
Students have opportunities to perform and tour locally as well as internationally.
The Clackamas Print is the CCC weekly paper. It is written, edited, and produced entirely by students. Students involved in The Print can receive transferable credit for their work. Editors receive tuition waivers. The magazine features student winners of the annual Writers' Club contest.