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Issue: December 2011

Opening Convocation Welcomes New Students, Recognizes Alumni

Colorado College welcomed 491 first-year students and 22 transfer students at its Opening Convocation on Sept. 5, which marked the beginning of CC’s 138th academic year. Ryan Haygood ’97, co-director of the Political Participation Group at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), gave the keynote address, titled “For Such a Time as This.” Haygood, Susan Patrick ’92, a national leader in online educational learning, and Kim Simon ’92, managing director of the Shoah Foundation Institute at the University of Southern California, were awarded honorary degrees. Opening Convocation begins the academic year and helps to welcome the Class of 2015. This year’s incoming class features: Students who speak 30…

Issue: August 2011

Class of 2011 Commencement

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Issue: August 2011

The Truth About Sucking Up: How Authentic Self-Promotion Benefits You and Your Organization

by Gina Hernez-Broome, Cindy McLaughlin, and Stephanie Trovas ’90 Why do organizations often reward the most vocal or most visible even if they aren’t the most qualified? Beyond bruised egos and a sense of unfairness lies a larger organizational problem: When the wrong people get rewarded, organizations suffer, projects fail, employee morale and motivation disintegrate, and cynicism festers. This book can help you prevent those outcomes by making authentic self-promotion part of your everyday work life. ISBN-13: 978-1604910674. Center for Creative Leadership Press, 2009.

Issue: August 2011

The Wishing Trees

by John Shors ’91 Almost a year after the death of his wife, Kate, former high-tech executive Ian finds a letter that will change his life. It contains Kate’s final wish — a plea for him to take their 10-year-old daughter, Mattie, on a trip across Asia, through the countries they had planned to visit to celebrate their 15th anniversary. As they travel, the two tie paper wishes to trees as messages to Kate to help them come to terms with their grief. ISBN-13: 978-0451231130. Published by NAL Trade, 2010.

Issue: August 2011

Miracles: Wonder and Meaning in World Religions

by David Weddle, CC professor of religion Weddle examines the stories of miracles among the gurus, rebbes, bodhisattvas, saints, and imams of Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam through the centuries, analyzing each tradition through the same lens. The book explores the mysterious healings in the waters at Lourdes, those affected by evangelists, and explains why Sunnis, Shiites, and Sufis disagree about the nature of miracles in Islam. ISBN-13: 978-0814794166. Published by New York University Press, 2010.

Issue: August 2011

Truck

by Eric Hall West ’98 West knew nothing about trucking, in fact, had never even driven a stick shift, before quitting his desk job to captain an 18-wheeler. In “Truck,” a humorous, fish-out-of-water memoir, he relays the (mis)adventures that take him cross-country more times than he can count. Along the way he encounters characters and situations completely foreign, despite never being more than a few hundred yards from the long strips of concrete that make up the American highway system. ISBN-13: 978-1432743765. Published by Outskirts Press, 2010.

Issue: August 2011

Seeking Refuge: Birds and Landscapes of the Pacific Flyway

by Robert Wilson ’94 Wilson, assistant geography professor at Syracuse University, examines the development and management of refuges in the wintering range of migratory birds along the Pacific Flyway. Many of the key places migratory birds use — the Klamath Basin, California’s Central Valley, the Salton Sea — are sites of recent contentious debates over water use. Migratory birds connect and depend on these landscapes, and farmers face pressure as water is reallocated from irrigation to other purposes. ISBN-13: 978-0295990026. Published by University of Washington Press, 2010.

Issue: August 2011

Why It Is Good to Be Good

by John Riker, CC professor of philosophy Talk about irony: Just as he completed the first draft of “Why it is Good to be Good,” Riker’s computer and all the backups were stolen. Yet he forged on, and in this book Riker shows how modernity’s reigning concept of the self undermines moral life and lays the basis for the epidemic of cheating that is devastating social and economic institutions. The aim of the book is to provide a compelling answer to the question of why persons living in modern society should want to adopt an ethical way of being in the world. ISBN-13: 978-0765707901. Published by Jason Aronson, 2010.

Issue: August 2011

Art in Our Lives: Native Women Artists in Dialogue

by Cynthia Chavez Lamar ’92 and Sherry Farrell Racette Chavez Lamar is director of the Indian Arts Research Center at the School for Advanced Research (SAR) in Santa Fe, N.M. This book grew out of the conversations of a group of Native women artists who spoke frankly about the roles, responsibilities, and commitments in their lives while balancing this existence with their art practice. The artists participated in three seminars at SAR in 2007–2008, culminating in a one-day exhibition with an artist panel discussion at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. ISBN-13: 978-1934691373. Published by SAR Press, 2010.

Issue: August 2011

Microstock Moneyshots

by Ellen Boughn ’64 Today’s amateur and professional photographers are sharing photos on websites like Flickr, but few amateurs realize that they could be making money from their images, thanks to the booming young microstock industry. This book demystifies the world of microstock, sharing behind-the-scenes secrets for posting images that will get viewed, downloaded, and sold. Boughn has worked in microstock and stock photography for more than 30 years, with experience in nearly every facet of the industry. ISBN-13: 978-0817424978. Published by Amphoto Books, 2010.