The annual Flash Photography Club contest is underway, which means it’s time to turn the lens on Colorado College. The contest is open to faculty, staff, and students, and the club has $800 worth of prizes available, including a fully manual Canon Powershot S95 and a waterproof digital camera. The theme this year is “focus on CC” …
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“Tiger Pride – Eight Decades of CC Hockey” to Air on Television Nov. 26
CC hockey fans, if you haven’t already seen the recently released film featuring your favorite hockey team, you’ll get your chance over the Thanksgiving holiday. “Tiger Pride – Eight Decades of CC Hockey,” available on DVD since last month, makes its prime-time premiere on the NHL Network at 7 p.m. EST (5 p.m. MST) Friday, Nov. 26. The movie, …
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Venture Grant Program Receives Equivalent of $2 Million Endowment
Colorado College’s venture grant program, in which students are awarded up to $1,000 for research or other academic projects of their choosing, has received a grant from the Keller Family Foundation that will fund the program indefinitely. The program, which will be named the Keller Family Venture Grant Program for Student Research, allows approximately 100 …
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Does Your Office or Department Have What it Takes to Be “CC Fridays Best Dressed”?
by Erin Thacker, Coordinator of Sports Services Are you an avid wearer of your black and gold CC gear each Friday? Do you find yourself having a hard time picking out exactly what you will wear each Friday because your wardrobe is now bursting with black, gold, Colorado College or tiger print wear? Do you …
Colorado College Receives $10 Million Matching Grant for Financial Aid
The Walton Family Foundation has awarded Colorado College a $10 million matching grant for high-need and first-generation students. The college’s goal is to match the grant with an additional $10 million from other donors, creating a $20 million infusion of new endowed scholarship funds over the next five years. When this affordability initiative is fully …
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Public Interest Fellowship Program Receives Boost with $250,000 Grant
Colorado College’s Public Interest Fellowship Program (PIFP) was awarded a $250,000 Special Opportunities grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The grant will go toward the challenge match, issued by the Randleigh Charitable Trust in January 2008, to establish a $1 million endowment for the program. The Randleigh Challenge deadline is Dec. 31, 2010, …
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Michael O’Riley Publishes “Cinema in an Age of Terror”
Michael F. O’Riley, Colorado College associate professor of French and Italian, has recently published “Cinema in an Age of Terror: North Africa, Victimization, and Colonial History.” The book looks at how cinematic representations of colonial-era victimization inform our understanding of the contemporary age of terror. By examining works representing colonial history and the dynamics of …
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Board of Trustees Meeting Actions
The CC Board of Trustees met September 23-25 at the El Pomar Foundation’s Penrose House and conducted the following business. Swore in newly elected alumni trustee Karen Pope ’70 and young alumni trustee Isabel Werner ’08 (new pilot category). Voted to approve: A bequest acceptance policy. A resolution formally establishing the presidential search committee and …
80 Years Later, Original Shove Dedication Program Presented to CC
On Oct. 17, 1930, eight-year-old Bob Funk attended the cornerstone dedication at Shove Memorial Chapel with his mother and two brothers. Funk’s great-uncle, Horace Mitchell, was the grand master of the Masonic Lodge and, as such, was to lay the cornerstone. Almost exactly 80 years later, on Sept. 10, 2010, Funk returned to CC and …
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Square Dance Rounds Out Block 1
The beautiful Block 1 weather inspired a group of CC faculty, staff, and students to do some square dancing right in front of Tutt Science Building. The caller, Gregg Anderson, got everyone organized and dancing like a pro in no time (even though some in the group professed to have two left legs). After 90 minutes of …
