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Issue: April 2013

What Are Recent Grads Doing?

How are recent Colorado College grads faring in a challenging job market? We asked, and we found them pursuing exciting and meaningful new adventures all across the globe. A feature on our website at http://www.coloradocollege.edu/recentgrads has recent grads telling their stories about their transition from CC to career. The webpage was created by Arielle Gross ’12, video and digital media specialist at CC, who said she felt the project was important so that “people realize many of our most recent grads are putting the skills they learned at CC to use.” 

The interviews were conducted by student writing interns Kelly Varian ’13 and Laura Blackett ’13. Caroline Janeway ’11, a…

Issue: April 2013

Looking for the Untold Story

As a reporter and editor at the Forward, a national Jewish news organization, I call on my Colorado College education constantly, whether I’m seeking out a single human story in an immense tragedy like Newtown or if I’m on deadline editing a dozen stories for Forward’s annual education section. First, there are the obvious ways: I got involved with The Cipher during my freshman year and stuck with it until graduation. I can think of no better training ground for learning to execute big, ambitious stories than CC’s independent magazine. Now that I’m in my first editing job, I think often about those late night production sessions with an inventive…

Issue: April 2013

Choosing Sensitive Details in One Sandy Hook Story

Reporter Naomi Zeveloff ’06 of the Jewish Daily Forward reflects on interviewing the mother of the youngest victim in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and on writing a complicated portrait of grief. This piece was originally commissioned for The Dart Society, an association of journalists who cover violence and tragedy.  Nine days after her son, Noah, was killed in the Newtown shootings, I interviewed Veronique Pozner for a story about the family’s grieving process for the Forward, the national Jewish news organization. The family had just finished observing the official Jewish mourning period, called shiva. I spent over an hour with Veronique; she talked me through her experience on…

Issue: April 2013

A Year of Planning: By the numbers

Colorado College’s “Year of Planning” has come quite a long way. Quickly. Instead of offering a detailed description of each and every event that has brought us to where we are now, we’ve provided an overview of the Year of Planning based on the “numbers.” So, let’s reflect on the data that drove the Year of Planning process throughout: The Numbers: To refresh your memory and offer some comparison to the “Initiate Something!“ phase, here are the numbers for the “Goals & Outreach“ phase: 37 different committee meetings 133 outreach meetings, including some 1-on-1 meetings 1,831 people participated in the 133 meetings 892 web responses were received, catalogued, and considered…

Issue: April 2013

Blending Technology and Teaching

I was introduced to the concept of blended learning a year ago while attending a conference on next-generation learning. Blended learning is an approach to education that combines traditional classroom pedagogies with online activities and resources. In some of my courses (e.g., Sociology of Health and Medicine; Environmental Sociology; Quantitative Research Methods), students regularly work with GIS, a spatial analysis/mapping program, and STATA, a statistics program, to test hypotheses and examine issues of sociological concern. The problem, of course, is that teaching the software programs and other skills, such as accessing and preparing census data, is time-intensive and often repetitive. Throw in high student enrollments and it was difficult to…

Issue: April 2013

‘New’ Sports Center Shines

Generosity of Alumnus, Foundation are key The year 1970 was a banner one for Colorado College. It introduced the innovative Block Plan, which allowed students to devote all their time to one subject every three and a half weeks. Also new that year? El Pomar Sports Center, on Cache La Poudre Street near Cascade Avenue. The building included a large gym and a practice gym, and an artificial turf area to allow CC athletes to move their practices indoors during inclement weather. The Block Plan was revolutionary, and to this day, it continues to attract students. The sports center didn’t age quite so well. CC’s student body has grown, and students’…