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A Tiger Can Change Its Stripes

CC Athletics Unveils Refreshed Logos and Mascot Several different versions of a tiger have found a home on Colorado College athletics uniforms, facilities, and offices throughout the history of the school. In addition, two interlocking Cs as well as many forms of wordmarks have been sprinkled around campus. In 1938, when the hockey team made its debut, the squad’s uniforms had a running tiger in between the words Colorado College. The national champion team in 1950 had its tiger running the other way, but still in between the words. When the 1957 NCAA team won the national title, the uniforms didn’t even have a tiger on them, just the players’…

Issue: Spring 2020

Carbon Neutrality Q&A

How does the Rocky Mountain weather make moving toward carbon neutrality easier or harder? “Well, our sunshine affects it in a positive way. Solar is pretty financially viable in most places in the world anymore, but in a place like Colorado where we’ve got on average 300 days of sun, it’s especially good. However, it’s challenging in that we’re still a heating-driven climate. Most of our buildings need more heating than cooling throughout the year and that requires a substantial source of energy.” — Ian Johnson, director of sustainability How can alumni get involved? “Join Tiger Link (coloradocollege.edu/tigerlink). Once on the website it will take only seconds to copy…

Issue: Spring 2020

Alumni Across the Country Support CC Students

The City Scholars program, launched in November 2019, provides scholarship funds to Colorado College students who live in specific regions. These 10 funds across the country serve to connect alumni and parents to the on-campus community. The program already has sparked nationwide interest, with 95 donors spanning 10 cities. CC event attendees have the option to support their city’s scholarship during event registration. Through the recent Hometown Homecoming Happy Hour in San Francisco, 40% of attendees (all young alumni of the past 10 years) gave to the San Francisco City Scholar fund. “My hope is that the fund can help local students discover the unique opportunity of a liberal arts…

Issue: Spring 2020

Design Thinking in Healthcare

Dr. Bon Ku, a practicing emergency medicine physician and director of the Health Design Lab at Thomas Jefferson University, created the first design thinking program at a medical school. Ku held a lecture and question-and-answer session in early March, followed by a convergence class the next day. The class included students from Amanda Bowman’s Advanced Inorganic Chemistry class, Kristin Moore’s Molecular Biology class, and Rachel Paupeck’s Art Studio class. Ku’s program tackles healthcare inequalities as a form of social justice and teaches future physicians to apply human-centered design to healthcare challenges. The lecture and convergence class workshop were sponsored by Creativity & Innovation at CC.

Issue: Spring 2020

Tigers Crossing Paths CC Connections

Daniel Boron-Brenner ’07 writes, “It was a pleasant surprise for us to discover how small the world is, and how much of an impact CC has made on us as people as well as healthcare providers,” says Dan. Additionally, a fourth CC grad is at Albert Einstein Medical Center: Lily McKoy ’13 is a medical student currently rotating through the hospital. “We thought this was an interesting coincidence,” says Dan. I had a chance meetup with CC alum Michelle Gabrieloff-Parish ’00 at the New York State Sustainability Conference in Rochester, New York, in November. She gave the keynote address on Friday, while I presented about my funded project in a concurrent session on…

Issue: Spring 2020

From the President

Dear Alumni, Parents, and Friends, While this time of year is usually marked by celebration as our seniors prepare for Commencement, the past few months have been filled with anxiety and disappointment as the Coronavirus has taken hold in our communities. Colleges have suspended face-to-face instruction and emptied campuses to slow the virus’ spread and…

Issue: Spring 2020

Student Discourse

About 50 students participate in Forensics on one of three teams: Speech and Debate, Model United Nations, and Mock Trial. Unfamiliar with competitive communications? Here are the basics, per CC’s Speech and Debate Coach Sarah Hinkle. Speech and Debate: This team offers 11 different competitive public speaking and performance-based events. Students choose up to six events to design and write for competition and travel one to two times a block to universities around the nation. This year, the team of five varsity members and five JV/club members earned numerous sweepstakes awards and qualified in 17 events to the American Forensic Association National Individual Events Tournament, the most rigorous nationally qualifying tournament…

Issue: Spring 2020

Idris Goodwin Named Director of the Fine Arts Center

Idris Goodwin, an accomplished playwright, poet, director, educator, and organizer, has been named the next director of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, effective May 1, 2020. He will lead strategic direction and manage operations for the FAC, serving both Colorado College and the Colorado Springs community. Goodwin, who most recently worked as producing artistic director of Stage One Family Theater in Louisville, Kentucky, has strong connections to the Colorado Springs and Denver arts communities. He taught for six years in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Colorado College. During that time, he wrote plays and poetry, directed, and performed at the Fine Arts Center; CC; University…

Issue: Spring 2020

How $10 Million for Scholarships Grew to $43 Million

As Endowed Scholarship Challenge 101 Reaches a Successful Conclusion, Will Smith ’74 Announces New Gift For Will Smith ’74, alumni giving is a key philanthropic focus. Smith launched the Endowed Scholarship Challenge 101 in 2015 with a $10 million commitment to inspire others to join him in supporting Colorado College students. The goal of the challenge was to encourage 100 other donors to participate and to raise at least another $10 million, for $20 million total. The challenge resonated so strongly with the 100 donors who participated that the fundraising wrapped up in January 2020 with more than $43 million raised for CC scholarships, including Smith’s initial commitment. “This challenge…

Issue: Spring 2020

Faceoff at Falcon Stadium

The CC hockey team played the second outdoor game in program history on Feb. 17 in the “Faceoff at Falcon Stadium” against the U.S. Air Force Academy. The contest was held two days after the Colorado Avalanche and Los Angeles Kings played on the same rink as part of the NHL Stadium Series. Grant Cruikshank ’22 posted the first hat trick of his career and Matt Vernon ’23 finished with 27 saves to lead the Tigers to a 4-2 victory over Air Force. More than 7,000 fans attended the game. Nearly four years earlier, the Tigers played the University of Denver in the “Battle on Blake” in front of 35,144…