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Issue: Summer 2018

Lani Hinkle ’83 Retiring From PIFP

Lani Carroll Hinkle ’83, director of the Public Interest Fellowship Program, is retiring at the end of October after being with the program for 12 years. The Public Interest Fellowship Program, founded by Professor Emeritus of Sociology Jeff Livesay in 2004, places Colorado College students and recent graduates in paid positions with Colorado nonprofits in summer or yearlong fellowships. Hinkle reports that 382 CC students have held fellowships through the program. She says she has loved being the director of PIFP and is grateful for all the wonderful fellows, nonprofit organizations, and alumni she has had the opportunity to work with. She also is excited to explore the next step…

Issue: Summer 2018

CC Adds Thematic Minor in Indigenous Studies

CC recently approved a new thematic minor in Indigenous Studies. Students have expressed a strong desire for this minor, and the college has an active group of students, faculty, and staff with current and growing connections to First Nation communities in North America who helped bring the proposal to fruition. “An Indigenous Studies thematic minor sends a message to everyone on campus, in our larger community, and throughout academe that we value and need Indigenous perspectives alongside a full picture of the land’s history to understand and accept our role as global citizens,” notes the proposal. The interdisciplinary minor also addresses the college’s mission and initiatives toward diversity and inclusion…

Issue: Summer 2018

Four Faculty Promoted to Full Professor

The Colorado College Board of Trustees approved promotion to full professor for four faculty members at their June meeting. Associate professors promoted to full professor are Tamara Bentley, Art; Genevieve Love, English; Gail Murphy-Geiss, Sociology; and Rebecca Tucker, Art. Bentley earned her B.A. in history and her Ph.D. in art history at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She has taught Introduction to Asian Art; Art of China and Art of Japan, as well as Art and International Trade 1550-1800, Print Culture and International Exchange in Early Modern Art, and a First-Year Experience course, Conflict and Confluence in Asian Culture. Love earned her B.A. in English, with high honors, from…

Issue: Summer 2018

West in Time Requirement Dropped

The CC faculty voted overwhelmingly to eliminate the college’s Critical Perspectives requirement, the West in Time, at its April faculty meeting. The Curriculum Executive Committee proposed the change after multiple requests that it review and reconsider the requirement. Students had voiced concerns in recent years that the requirement put too much emphasis on Western culture and civilization while neglecting or marginalizing other bodies of knowledge, ideas, and experiences that challenge the centrality of Western thought. The West in Time as a general education requirement was adopted during the 2005-06 academic year. Each West in Time course was a two-block, two-unit course that covered the Western experience over a significant period of time, for…

Issue: Summer 2018

Five New Members Appointed to Board of Trustees

Colorado College has named five new members to its Board of Trustees. They are Joe Ellis ’80, president and CEO of the Denver Broncos; Natalie Pham ’99, an education consultant for numerous international, private, and public schools; Tafari Nia Lumumba ’05, a litigation associate in the Denver offices of Gibson, Dunn, and Crutcher, LLP; Jarod Rutledge ’17, who will begin a Ph.D. program at Stanford in genetics this fall, having served as a genetics research associate at Northern Arizona University during 2017-18; and student trustee Eyner Roman-Lopez ’19, a native of Peru who is majoring in mathematical economics with a minor in dance. Trustees finishing their terms and moving off…