Bulletin

Dear Alumni, Parents, and Friends of Colorado College, With a brilliant Colorado blue sky and several inches of vividly white snow on the ground as I write this, I am struck by how deeply the Colorado College community is connected to this special place. Of course we are, given this incredible natural beauty! Combine our Rocky…

The Geology Department recently looked at what its majors have gone on to do since graduation, specifically examining reports provided by the HEDS (Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium). They focused on reports documenting the U.S. undergraduate institution from which Ph.D. recipients in Earth Sciences earned their bachelor’s degrees. The results: During the 1970s (1971-1980), eight…

Colorado College has been in the news a lot lately. Perhaps you caught the Colorado College men’s basketball team on NBC Nightly News’ “Making a Difference” segment on Dec. 18. The Tigers added 9-year-old Carter Gates, who is battling leukemia, to the team with a symbolic letter of intent at a ceremonial draft event. The…

Hatch Family Scholarship Increases Access Without a scholarship, Mark Hatch, CC’s vice president for enrollment, never would have attended Bates College, where he majored in psychology and held a work-study position in the Admission Office. If it wasn’t for that scholarship, Hatch may have never found his calling — a career in admission and financial…

The April 2014 issue of the Bulletin won a bronze award in the Council for Advancement and Support of Education’s “Magazine Publishing Improvement” category for the eight-state region. “Our editors, designers, writers, and photographers worked hard to revamp the Bulletin into a piece that is brilliant, compelling, inclusive, and beautiful, like CC,” said Jane Turnis,…

Does the number 8,054 mean anything to you? If not, then it soon will. With all it has to offer, Colorado College has always been a desirable destination for students, faculty, and staff. That desirability has never been more obvious than in the 2014-15 application cycle. This year, at the time of writing, CC has…

The History Department is launching a new initiative aimed at exploring how the past informs current efforts to remediate urgent social concerns, and is beginning by examining criminality and correction. The new Social Issues and Historical Contexts initiative, funded by a three-year, $200,000 grant from an anonymous donor, recognizes that in recent decades, professional scholarship…

Graduate Fights Ebola from Key Spot in Liberia

A renovation project is underway to improve facilities for the Office of Outdoor Education, which will soon open its doors at the former Children’s Center at 931 N. Nevada Ave. After an initial $250,000 contribution from an anonymous donor and additional donations from many subsequent funders, the project is scheduled to be completed in April.…

Brendan Boepple ’11, assistant director of Colorado College’s State of the Rockies Project, gave a presentation at the World Parks Congress, organized by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature in Sydney, Australia. Boepple attended the conference to represent the project, which was recognized by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy as a “Conservation…