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Tara Thomas Receives Award for Art of Accessibility Project

Tara Thomas, director of Bemis School of Art at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, was awarded the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region’s Community Support for Arts Education Award. Andy Vick, executive director of the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region, presented the award to Thomas for her Art…

Issue: Summer 2019

Mike Edmonds Inducted into National Speech and DebateHall of Fame

Dean of Students and Vice President for Student Life Mike Edmonds has been inducted into the National Speech and Debate Association Hall of Fame. Edmonds has been involved in competitive speech for most of his life. His work in speech and debate earned him induction into the Gold Key Society at Emory University. He also…

Issue: Summer 2019

Canadian Drugs Aren’t the Solution to High U.S. Prescription Prices

Drug importation schemes are again being offered up as a remedy to high U.S. drug prices. Recently proposed legislation in Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Maine, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, and West Virginia aims to reduce spending on pharmaceuticals by importing them from Canada. Advocates reason that American patients can lower their drug costs by importing…

Issue: Summer 2019

History Steps Up: Amy Kohout Addresses Problematic Nike Ad

When people think of historians, they don’t often think of marketing and advertising. Assistant Professor of History Amy Kohout doesn’t have experience in marketing, but she does think about how historical context is essential for successful advertising. This spring, Kohout saw a Nike trail running ad with a problematic slogan and was able to get it taken down within six hours using her Twitter network and the #twitterstorian community. The ad, which showed up online in late March, depicted a solo runner on a bluff above the ocean with the slogan “the lost cause.” The final sentence said “Because the lost cause will always be a cause worth supporting.” Kohout…

Issue: Spring 2019

Allen Bertsche is New Director of Global Education

Allen Bertsche joined CC in January as the director of global education after eight years serving in a similar capacity at Augustana College in Illinois. Prior to transitioning full-time to the field of global education, Bertsche was a faculty member in Augustana’s Spanish Department for 14 years, with a specialization in modern Spain. Originally from Long Island, New York, Bertsche received his B.A. from Indiana University, with a year spent at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, before receiving both his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He has worked, lived, or traveled in more than 35 countries — and hopes to reach 50 before he retires.

Issue: Spring 2019

New Director of Alumni and Family Relations Named

Tiffany Williamson Kelly has been named the new director of alumni and family relations at Colorado College. An experienced constituent relations and events manager, she has a strong background in both independent schools and higher education. Kelly was the associate director of admission and financial aid as well as the director of tuition assistance at the Agnes Irwin School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and was the director of admission and financial support at The Colorado Springs School, where she also is an alumna. She has held numerous positions at The Broadmoor hotel in conference services and in sales including as an executive meetings manager and has served on nonprofit boards,…

Issue: Spring 2019

From the President

Dear Alumni, Parents, and Friends, It has been an exciting start to the spring semester! We welcomed 52 Winter Start and transfer students and saw record participation in this year’s Half Block. This spring has been especially rewarding for me, as I co-taught the Economics of Higher Education with my husband, Professor Kevin Rask, during…

Issue: Spring 2019

Student Perspective

Issue: Spring 2019

Teaching and Learning by Creating Art

A “messy collision between the theory and the practice of teaching community-based studio arts” had seven students wheel-throwing, sculpting, painting, and making collages during a 10-day Half-Block course, Art Education and Learning Laboratory. “We practiced how to identify, and fill, the gaps between what a student already knows and what they are about to learn,”…

Issue: Spring 2019

Cornerstone Arts Week 2019

Oglala Lakota poet, writer, and artist Layli Long Soldier read from her book “Whereas,” winner of the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry, during Cornerstone Arts Week. The weeklong series of free talks, film screenings, performances, and exhibits, which ran Jan. 29-Feb. 3, examined this year’s theme, “Can We Get Real?” The week kicked off with a faculty reading and open mic session, and included student art, the Native American Student Union screening of “We Shall Remain,” a discussion by cultural arts worker and Native American visual artist and curator Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, and two theatre productions, Mike Bartlett’s “Contractions,” directed by Emily Gardner ’19 and performed by Jessie Berger…