Colorado College President Jill Tiefenthaler has named Sandra Wong as dean of the college/dean of the faculty. Wong, an associate professor in the sociology department, will assume her new role on July 1. “Sandi Wong is a forward-thinking leader who will work with faculty and staff collaboratively to strengthen the academic program at Colorado College,” [...]

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Professor of History Anne F. Hyde has been awarded the prestigious Bancroft Prize for her book “Empires, Nations and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860.” One of the most celebrated awards in its field, the Bancroft Prize is awarded annually by the trustees of Columbia University.  Winners are judged in terms of [...]

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Colorado College Dean of Students and Vice President for Student Life Mike Edmonds has been elected by the KEY Society, one of the nation’s most prestigious forensics educator honor societies, as an honorary KEY coach. Edmonds accepted the honor at Emory University, where the society is housed, on Jan. 27. Edmonds was cited as a [...]

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Six Colorado College students and two staff members spent their winter break on a service trip in rural India. The group worked with Maitri, a non-government organization based in India to pilot a residential school program called the 100-Day School. While there, the CC students worked with 43 children, teaching classes ranging from water erosion [...]

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Richard Skorman ’75 and his wife, Patricia Seator, conducted a two-day workshop titled “How to Start and Grow a Community-based Small Business” during the break between Blocks 5 and 6. Using their own local businesses as models, Skorman and Seator, owners of Poor Richard’s, Little Richard’s, and Rico’s in Colorado Springs, discussed with CC students [...]

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Daniel Junge ’92 won the Academy Award in the category of “Documentary Short” for his film “Saving Face,” while “The Descendants,” based on the book of the same name by Kaui Hart Hemmings ’98, won for “Writing (Adapted Screenplay).” Both Junge and Hemmings attended the 84th Annual Academy Awards event in Hollywood, Calif. “Saving Face” [...]

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It’s not often that a class assignment becomes a tangible enterprise, but CC’s new on-campus bar is the direct result of an economics course. Seniors Lee Carter, Ryan Patterson, and Luke Urban, and juniors Bryce Daniels and Tyler Thorne (not pictured) took Economics and Business Professor Larry Stimpert’s Block 1 class “Entrepreneurship” in which the [...]

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  Colorado College has initiated “First Mondays,” a campus-wide event held at midday on the first Monday of the block, designed to bring the entire campus community together around a shared academic experience. CC President Jill Tiefenthaler says the series allows the campus to gather, build community, and unify around a common theme. “First Mondays” [...]

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Rebecca Tucker, associate professor of art at Colorado College, has been selected as   the 2012 recipient of the Ray O. Werner Award for Exemplary Teaching in the Liberal Arts. Tucker specializes in Renaissance and Baroque art of Northern Europe, and emphasizes student collaboration and discussion in her class. She integrates new technology, group learning, and [...]

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