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Statements from Board of Trustees Plenary Session, Feb. 21, 2009 Lots of people are working very hard to figure out ways to get the college solvent and to keep it that way. It helps me to reflect on what exactly it is that we’re committed to sustaining. It is the season of personnel reviews. On…

An overview of how the economic downturn has affected CC and how the leadership is responding and building a budget to sustain Colorado College into the future.

They are graduating during one of the worst job markets in U.S. history, but while this year’s CC grads are realistic about the challenges, they find many reasons for optimism.

On May 18, 446 undergraduates and nine master of arts in teaching students received their degrees in Colorado College’s 128th commencement ceremony. Michael Bennet, the new U.S. senator from Colorado, addressed the CC graduating class of 2009. Bennet began his public service career as an aide to Gov. Richard Celeste of Ohio, who is now CC’s president.

Auguste, Blaustein named top senior athletes Seniors Melanie Auguste ’09 and Billy Blaustein ’09 were named recipients of the annual Laura Golden and Van Diest Awards as CC’s top female and male student-athletes among the 2009 graduating class. Men’s Hockey Defenseman Jake Gannon, who served as captain of the hockey team as a senior during…

The recently launched New Media Dashboard provides an overview of what’s happening with CC from all around the Web. See the latest news, photos, videos, student blog posts, and more at http://www.ColoradoCollege.edu/communications/dashboard/

We were asked what President Dick Celeste was reading this summer for possible inclusion in a national story on college presidents’ summer reading lists. We thought you might be interested as well. He collected a stack of used books at Powell’s Bookstore in Portland, Ore., on his last visit. They include his usual load of mysteries —…

The 2009 senior class gift was three trees, presented and planted in memory of Whitney Hendrickson, the daughter of Political Science Professor David Hendrickson ’75 and Clelia Deane deMoraes ’75. Whitney was killed in an accident while home over spring break from her first year at Grinnell College in Iowa. The three weeping Siberian pea…

Colorado College’s location near the foot of Pikes Peak has always been a source of pride. But during the spring semester, CC students and staff built a different kind of mountain on campus. This one was made of trash. Colorado College participated in RecycleMania, a nationwide competition among colleges and universities aimed at promoting waste…

Four Colorado College graduates have now been tapped by President Barack Obama to serve in his administration. Lori Garver ’83, a political science and economics major, was nominated in May as the deputy administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Former Colorado senator Ken Salazar ’77 serves as Obama’s secretary of the interior…