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Three biology majors. Three different generations. And three completely different paths.

Alex Hernandez-Siegel joined CC as the new chaplain and associate dean of students on Aug. 1. Previously he was at Harvard University, where he served as university chaplain since 2012 and advised graduate students in the organismic and evolutional biology Ph.D. program. Additionally, he worked for two years as a community associate director with the…

I’m standing on the porch of the Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center log-cabin lodge, looking out at New Mexico’s Tusas Mountains when one of my fellow retreatants turns to me and asks, “Did you say you went to Colorado College?” “Yeah,” I answer. “Why?” “Heidi went there too,” he says. I’m not sure which of the…

Members of CC’s incoming Class of 2021 and transfer students are reading “Citizen: An American Lyric” by Claudia Rankine as part of Colorado College’s Common Book Read program. Rankine was on campus in February as the Block 6 First Mondays speaker and delivered the capstone address during New Student Orientation. She is the author of…

Associate Professor of Political Science Corina McKendry was in Vancouver in May attending the Art of Cities workshop, where she met Gregor Robertson ’86, the mayor of Vancouver. The two were at a reception for workshop participants and 50 or more people from around Vancouver who have worked with and supported the workshop, including Robertson.…

The theatre at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College received a record 11 Henry Award nominations (more than double the nominations from the previous year) and went on to win a record five awards, tying for first place this year with the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. The Henry Awards are…

The Butler Center, CC’s hub of diversity, equity, and inclusion, celebrated students, staff, interns, and faculty at the center’s awards banquet, held at the conclusion of the 2016-17 academic year. Those recognized with awards, named after key figures* in the college’s history of diversity, included: Judy Fisher ’20 and Breanna Elyse Conwell ’19: Taizo Nakashima Emerging Leader…

Live and Let Live By Evelyn M. Perry ’98 Subtitled “Diversity, Conflict, and Community in an Integrated Neighborhood,” this book by Perry, an associate professor of sociology at Rhodes College, shifts the conventional scholarly focus from “What can integration do?” to “How is integration done?” Through examination of life “on the block” in a multiethnic, mixed-income Milwaukee neighborhood, Perry…

The Board of Trustees welcomed five new members at their June meeting. They are Sam Bronfman P’11, ’19; Carolyn Cullen ’91, P’20, ’21; Jesse Horn ’07; Jenny Love Meyer ’88; and student trustee Ben Kieklak ’18. Other changes included Susie Burghart ’77 assuming the position of chair; Jeff Keller ’91 as vice chair; and Marc…