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The Student Opportunities and Advising Hub, better known as “the hub,” opened with the start of the academic year as part of CC’s efforts to be equitable, inclusive, and supportive of all students. The hub, on East Campus at 1014 N. Weber St., serves as the center of holistic support for all CC students, academically…

Colorado College has been named a top contributor to Teach for America, with six recent CC graduates participating in the program. Charlotte Jacobson ’19, Luis Quiles ’18, Cristina Garcia ’19, Chelsie Dang ’19, Jessianne Blake ’19, and Patrick Mahoney ’19 join the 149 CC alumni who have participated in the nationwide program since 1991. Jacobson,…

As the dean of library services at Colorado State University-Pueblo and one of just five people at that leadership level, Rhonda Gonzales ’89 often is asked to participate in campus-wide initiatives. Three years ago, the initiative on the table was related to cannabis — and thanks to Colorado’s status as a legal state (both for…

As an anthropologist, my research focuses on the everyday lives of individuals and communities as they engage in the consumption of psychoactive substances and the accompanying policies and practices that attempt to control, regulate, and police access to these substances. I rely on a multidimensional analysis of the legal and social life of marijuana as…

Colorado-based PrintReleaf tracks paper use all the way from a mill order to a vendor’s supply chain to print production, giving users an accurate count of exactly how much paper they have used for a print project. The company then replants trees in developing countries proportionate to paper use. CC Communications joined the PrintReleaf program…

’36 Vanessa Morgan Reid raised a family with her husband Clifford in Los Angeles, then went on to work for the California Department of Health. She died July 28 at age 105. ’42 Leanna Allen worked for the War Production Board and then the Civilian Production Administration until she married in 1948 and became an…

In the past year and a half, CC has committed to taking up the work of antiracism, which means actively opposing racism in all of its forms. It is an effort crucial to changing higher education and the world for the better. Over the summer, a small group comprised of members of the faculty, student…

George Simmons, who taught mathematics at CC from 1962 to 1990, died Aug. 6 in Colorado Springs. He was 94 years old. George studied Banach algebras for his dissertation work at Yale University and focused his later work in classical analysis. He taught at Williams College, the University of Rhode Island, the University of Maine, Yale,…

Dwanna McKay, assistant professor of Indigenous Studies in Colorado College’s Race, Ethnicity, and Migration Studies program, recently was honored as Elder of the Year at the 10th Annual Garden of the Gods Rock Ledge Ranch Powwow. McKay, a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation whose research focuses on social inequality and Indigenous identity, says she…

Barry Sarchett, professor of English at Colorado College, says that over the last decade, he has been “personally distraught” about social inequality in higher education. “It became quite clear over the last decade or more that elite institutions of higher education — and I include CC in that category — had become, despite their own best…