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Posts from the Summer 2017 issue

Alex Hernandez-Siegel Joins CC as New Chaplain

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…

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CC Connections

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.…

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Class of 2021 Reads ‘Citizen: An American Lyric’

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…

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Beyond the Classroom

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Fine Arts Center’s Theatre Nets Five Henry Awards

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…

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On The Bookshelf

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…

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Butler Center Awards Recipients

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…

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Congratulations, Class of 2017!

Class Motto, 2017 There is no passion to be found playing small — in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” – Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)

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New Trustees Announced

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…

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Family & Friends Weekend 2017: Oct. 6 – 8, 2017

Family and Friends Weekend, one of Colorado College’s largest annual on-campus events, embraces the myriad ways family can be defined. It’s an opportunity for students to celebrate the CC community and share it with their families — including parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles … and friends! Come spend time reconnecting with your student, and experience…

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