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Posts from the April 2016 issue

Caleb Spear ’05

Caleb Spear ’05 is on a mission to help people turn bicycles into opportunities that build pathways out of poverty. Portal Bikes, a U.S. registered nonprofit based in Kathmandu, Nepal, is his creation. The organization designs and builds bicycles to haul cargo that are used by local Nepali entrepreneurs to increase business capacity. Using a…

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Opening Doors to a CC Education

Colorado College aims to raise $90 million in new scholarship support.

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Go Beyond the Block

Discover how crowdfunding is helping students like CC Nordic Ski Club members Rowan Kowalsky ’18 and Grace Ford ’19 share their passion for the sport with others. Find out more about them and others at: crowdfund.coloradocollege.edu

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Survey: CC Becoming a Greater Place to Work

What makes a great place to work even better? For many at Colorado College, it’s being part of a culture that emphasizes an inclusive community, one that helps each person develop as a professional, and promotes enthusiasm for lifelong learning, flexibility, open-mindedness, and other 21st-century skills — the same skills students develop during their four…

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From Good to Great

Two years in, The Butler Center works as a campus catalyst.

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The Gritty Truth: The Story of the Grits Collective

The Grits Collective is using storytelling to challenge societal prejudices about the homeless.

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Bill Clinton Draws Crowd on Campus

More than 1,100 people attended a rally in Cornerstone Arts Center to hear former President Bill Clinton campaign for his wife, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. EMILY KOHUT ’16, an English and classics major, and EMILY DODERER ’17, a molecular biology major, were in line at 8:07 a.m. waiting for the doors to open at 12:30…

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Experimentation, Engagement, Interdisciplinarity

Alumni return to campus to teach Summer Institutes.

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Celebrating Winter Graduates

CC piloted a new event, WINTER CELEBRATION, honoring the students who were eligible to graduate in December. A graduation ceremony and dinner were held in their honor on Sunday, Dec. 13 in Bemis Great Hall. Congratulations to CC’s mid-year graduates!

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‘Just Hanging Out, Baking Pies in Jill’s Kitchen’

The historic “Battle on Blake” between CC and DU in February ended in the “Battle on Bake” – with CC taking the heat and forking over five strawberry-rhubarb pies as the payoff in a friendly wager between the two schools. CC President Jill Tiefenthaler and DU Chancellor Rebecca Chopp took the long-simmering rivalry between the…

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