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Founder of Google’s Empathy Lab to Offer Insights for CC

CC was like a refuge for Danielle Krettek Cobb ’00 as a student. But not every student has that experience or feeling, especially now. Krettek Cobb hopes to help the college by parlaying her skills and experience “building heart — care and love — into technology.” “Your ability to deeply learn and integrate is based on your emotional resilience and capacity. We need to acknowledge all the visible and invisible factors of being that play into our mental health and inherent sense of wholeness: at any given moment parts of us can feel like they’re vast, shining, rooted, and connected or diminished, lacking, lost, and outside of ourselves. How can…

Issue: Winter 2023

On the Block Plan, Emergencies Snowball Quickly

How We Begin to Improve Mental Health A “culture of exhaustion,” “unwellness in isolation,” and “competition for perfection”: These are the troubling terms Colorado College faculty members use to describe the state of mental health on the CC campus. The national mental health crisis is real and present at CC, and faculty, staff, and college leaders are all in a position to support and assist students. But how bad is the problem? And how do we get to effective, lasting solutions? Kristi Erdal is a professor in the Department of Psychology and chair of the Department of Human Biology and Kinesiology. A clinical psychologist, Erdal’s research interests include cross-cultural issues…

Issue: Winter 2023

Because of CC

In her senior year, pre-med student and collegiate runner Megan Koch ’22 advocated for 250,000 of her fellow collegiate student-athletes.

Issue: Winter 2023

Cindy Hyman ’82 Hired as Associate Vice President for Engagement

Cindy Hyman ’82 joined the Colorado College Advancement staff in October as associate vice president for engagement. In her role, Hyman leads the Alumni and Family Relations, Annual Giving, and College Events teams, focusing on creating meaningful engagement with alumni, parents, families, and members of the wider CC community. Hyman spent her first days on the job at Homecoming and Family Weekend, where she was celebrating her own CC reunion. Hyman most recently served as director of alumni career and professional development at the University of Denver, having worked in advancement at DU for over a decade. She brings extensive experience in career services programming with a track record of…

Issue: Winter 2023

Psychology Professors Show Benefits of Social Media Fast in Recently Published Article

Tomi-Ann Roberts, professor of psychology, and Jason Weaver, associate professor of psychology and Asian Studies, studied the benefits of a short-term social media fast among pre-teen and teen dancers. Their resulting article, titled “‘Intermission!’ A short-term social media fast reduces self-objectification among pre-teen and teen dancers,” was published in the Elsevier ScienceDirect Journal, Body Image. They found that when girls took three days away from social media, their body image and self-compassion improved. Sixty-five girls between the ages of 10 and 19 rated measures of self-objectification, self-esteem, and self-compassion both prior to and following three days of abstaining from all social media. As part of the study, the girls participated…

Issue: Winter 2023

Primatology Class Utilizes Cheyenne Mountain Zoo for Research Projects

A Block 1 primatology class taught students how to put together formal research proposals, ensure accurate data collection, and appreciate non-human animals, all while traveling to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo almost 10 times. This six-person class allowed for an intimate class setting, where students not only learned the ins and outs of putting together formal…

Issue: Winter 2023

Nobel Prize Laureate Oliver Hart Visits Campus

About 20 Colorado College students had the opportunity to have lunch with Oliver Hart, Nobel Prize laureate, on Sept. 29. In 2016, Hart, of Harvard University, was awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Hart has developed theories on contracts, including the theory of incomplete contracts. “The Carey Lectureship…

Issue: Winter 2023

A Vision for Colorado College

Dear Alumni, Parents, and Friends, We’ve learned that we are not immune from the national mental health crisis affecting communities around the country. We are experiencing it on our campus, in our community, and in our day-to-day lives. In keeping with our history of taking bold and courageous actions, earlier this year, our students sounded…

Issue: Winter 2023

Letters to the Editor

From the Editor Presidents Past We received several letters asking about the Colorado College presidents on the last issue’s cover. Learn more about them I am writing both as a Colorado College alumnus and a staff member for five years. I was reading the recent edition of the Bulletin (Summer 2022) and found some things disturbing and not representative of the values of the college I have given nearly 10 years of my life to. To begin, I find the placement of disgraced former-president William F. Slocum on the cover of the magazine to be disrespectful. Slocum was accused of sexually harassing and assaulting numerous members of the campus community…

Issue: Winter 2023

CC Welcomes Seven New Faculty Members, Two New Riley Scholars

In Fall 2022, CC welcomed seven new faculty members and two new Riley Scholars to our community. New faculty members at CC include: Anbegwon Atuire Race, Ethnicity, and Migration Studies Atuire’s research lies at the intersection of Africana critical theory, Pan-African social movements, and indigenous Ghanaian Studies. Celeste Diaz Ferraro Economics and Business  Ferraro is a qualitative researcher in organization theory and entrepreneurship, with particular interest in the roles of power and agency in shaping the governance and social orientation of emergent fields and ecosystems. Varsha Koushik  Mathematics and Computer Science Koushik won the 3MT Thesis Competition at the University of Colorado Boulder this year, and the Hope Schultz Jozsa…