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New Names, Faces, and Visual Works

Recipients of various CC communications, including emails, videos, social media messaging, and the Bulletin, may notice a range of new works. New to CC Communications are Jessi Burns ’06, Julia Fuller, and Lonnie Timmons III. As the college’s content and social media manager, Burns, who joined the staff in July 2021, manages the college’s overall social media plan and strategy. A CC anthropology major with a focus on archaeology, she later earned an M.S. in communications from Pepperdine University, where she studied mass media, rhetoric, and social change. Fuller joined the Communications team as the video producer in August 2021. Originally from Oakland, California, she earned her B.A. in cognitive…

Class of 2022 in block formation on an athletic field.

Issue: Winter 2021/22

Get to Know the Class of 2025

Colorado College welcomed 628 incoming members of the Class of 2025 and 26 transfer students in August 2021. Students participated in a range of orientation activities, including discussing the Common Read book, “No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free in America” by Darnell Moore, and taking part in the service-oriented Priddy…

Issue: Winter 2021/22

15 Graduates Celebrated at Winter Commencement

CC celebrated 15 graduates at its Winter Commencement on Dec. 19 in Shove Memorial Chapel, with President L. Song Richardson welcoming the students and bestowing their degrees upon them. Assistant Professor of Sociology Florencia Rojo gave the Commencement address, titled “Cultivating Hope: Community Care in Challenging Times.”

Issue: Winter 2021/22

The President’s Message: How can we do what we do better?

Dear Alumni, Parents, and Friends, In Just Over Six Months At Colorado College, I have learned that community is everything. We felt joy in the air as students, faculty, and staff gathered on Tava Quad for Opening Convocation on the first day of classes. That day — the beginning of a new academic year —…

Issue: Winter 2021/22

Arts Engagement at Colorado College

The 2021 Installation Performance Class Showing featured the work of eight students in an advanced design/installation course, with the final installation projects on display in a variety of locations around campus during October 2021. The public installations/performances highlighted the academic engagement of The Arts at CC and the work created on campus during Arts Month. Students whose work was on display include Colby Poston ’22, Madison Dillon ’23, Holly Wenger ’23, Caeleigh O’Connor ’23, Al Lo ’23, Haley Wright ’22, Kiara Butts ’23, and Will Burglechner ’23. The course was taught by Lecturer in Dance Patrizia Herminjard ’96 and visiting artists Joshua Kohl and Crow Nishimura of Degenerate Art Ensemble,…

Issue: Winter 2021/22

CC Launches Year-Long Series Addressing Anti-Asian Racism

A violent incident of anti-Asian racism early last year has inspired the launch of a new series of lectures, discussions, film screenings, and reading groups at Colorado College: “Forever Foreign: Asian America, Global Asia, and the Problem of Anti-Asian Racism.” Following the mass killing of Asian-Americans in Atlanta on March 16, 2021, an act of violent anti-Asian racism that shook the nation, a group of CC faculty felt it would be helpful to host a series of events that highlight the histories, narratives, and voices from Asian societies and of Asian diaspora communities in the United States to increase knowledge and awareness of these communities. Yogesh Chandrani, assistant professor of…

Issue: Winter 2021/22

Hitting the Fertile Ground Running at the FAC

Meet Pirronne Yousefzadeh and Michael Christiano, the two new directors at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.

Issue: Winter 2021/22

Because of CC: Jeremy Zucker ’18

From pre-med major to songwriter, producer, artist, and singer embarking on a world tour in March 2022.

Issue: Winter 2021/22

Get to Know Claire Oberon Garcia

Professor of English and former dean of the faculty and acting provost answers some insightful questions.

Issue: Winter 2021/22

Letters to the Editor

I’m reading through the Colorado College Summer Bulletin. I am gobsmacked to realize I am within days of hitting 50 years since I left Oregon to embrace Colorado College and its groundbreaking / unusual / weird Block Plan, then only in its second year. My mom, a schoolteacher and single parent, said she could only afford for me to go three inches away from home on the Rand McNally Atlas. I studied every college that met the geographical parameters, attended the CC recruiter’s meeting in Portland, and applied to just one. Thanks to a generous scholarship from the Woman’s Educational Society, loans, and a part-time job at Tutt Library shelving…