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Posts from the Spring 2022 issue

State of the Rockies Project Nets $385,000 Grant for Poll, Student Engagement

For the 12th year, Colorado College’s State of the Rockies Project was awarded a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The award of $385,000 supports the 2022 Conservation in the West Poll and related student programming. The bipartisan poll surveys voters’ views regarding the conservation of public lands, energy, water, wildlife, wildfire, and…

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Pair of Tigers Earn All-America Accolades

Colorado College women’s cross country runner Elliot Singer ’25 and volleyball player Georgia Mullins ’22 joined an exclusive club of Tiger student-athletes to earn All-America honors for their exemplary athletic performances last Fall. Photos by Charlie Lengal. Singer, a first-year from San Francisco, California, achieved All-America status by placing 29th at the 2021 NCAA Division…

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What We’re Learning

Book: The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights New York: Oxford University Press, 2021 By Thomas C. Holt P’21 Recommended by Bryant “Tip” Ragan, Ph.D. — William R. Hochman Professor, Department of History, Executive Director of the Society for French Historical Studies Thomas C. Holt’s “The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil…

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Making of Mythic Proportions

The multimedia performance piece ‘Boy mother/faceless bloom’ was conceived and premiered at CC.

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Vintage-Style Posters Send Contemporary Conservation Messages

CC Students Riff Off Old National Parks Posters in the State of the Rockies Vintage Poster Contest The State of the Rockies Project encourages students to explore environmental and social challenges in the Rocky Mountain West through collaborative student-faculty research, coursework, and stakeholder engagement. Students embark on interdisciplinary investigations around the region to discover the…

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CC Receives Mellon Foundation Grant to Address Demand for Diversity, Social Justice

Claire Oberon Garcia

Colorado College has been selected as one of the recipients of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Humanities for All Times grant. This initiative will support the college’s new General Education curriculum to teach students about social justice issues and give them the tools to tackle injustices head-on. CC will receive $1,024,000 over three years for…

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Because of CC… Ellen Weir Casey ’71, MAT ’77

Ellen Weir Casey

Ellen Weir Casey ’71, MAT ’77 reflects on her odyssey through infertility, the earliest days of in vitro fertilization, and giving birth to her daughter, Colorado’s first “test-tube baby.”

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A Diverse Leadership

From left, Edwin Hamada; Brenda Soto; Rochelle T. Dickey ’83, P’19; L. Song Richardson; Debbie Howell; Mike Edmonds; and Peony Fhagen.

Black, Indigenous, people of color, and women now hold more influential positions than ever before at Colorado College.

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Tenure and Promotion Awards for CC Faculty

The Board of Trustees approved two associate professors for tenure and approved 13 assistant professors for tenure and promotion to associate professor in February 2022, with changes effective as of July 1. Dean of the Faculty Emily Chan, in her presentation of these faculty members to the board, highlighted the “immense talent and scholarly achievement…

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