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August 2015
WES: The Organization That Keeps Giving
The Woman’s Educational Society has a long and storied history at CC, stretching all the way back to 1889.Read more
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August 2015
Students Prep for CC in Bridge Scholars Program
Scholarships established through the challenge have helped diversify Colorado College’s student body by attracting high-need, first-generation students, broadening the college’s base from which it can draw talent and diversifying the student body. Once these students have decided to enroll, the college aims to prepare them for academic success and personal fulfillment. That’s where the Bridge…Read more
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August 2015
Answering the Call: Colorado College Raises $21.6 Million, Endowing 56 Scholarships
In 2010, Colorado College was challenged to establish scholarships for high-need or first-generation, four-year college students to make CC more financially accessible. The Walton Family Foundation pledged to match contributions up to $10 million. Alumni, parents, and friends of the college answered the call, not only exceeding the challenge’s goal by $800,000 in commitments, which…Read more
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August 2015
Peak Profile: David Buck ’83
Working toward a “more caring” approach, Dr. David Buck ’83 believes it’s possible to save billions of dollars while giving the needy better healthcare. “It’s quite a cruel system that can precipitate and maintain homelessness,” said the family physician and healthcare-reform advocate. For more than 25 years, Buck has worked to improve treatment for the impoverished. He’s president of Healthcare for the Homeless-Houston, which he founded in 1999 as a two-room medical clinic and developed into a collaboration of organizations. Last year the group provided care through clinics, outreach initiatives, and support services to 10,000 disadvantaged clients. Homeless people serve on the organization’s governing board “so we don’t lose the…Read more
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August 2015
Promoting Gender Diversity in the Sciences
Despite the calls from politicians and corporations for more women to pursue science, technology, engineering, and mathematic (STEM) fields, there remains a gender gap: Women and other minority groups are consistently under-represented in many areas of science and engineering. According to the National Science Foundation, women received 57 percent of all bachelor’s degrees in 2012…Read more
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August 2015
The Road Rises to Meet Them: Rockies Project Refocuses on Water Across The West
Over the last 12 years, the Colorado College State of the Rockies Project has engaged the campus, local, and regional communities in meaningful dialogue on issues that affect us all. From wolf conservation to melting alpine glaciers, the Rockies Project provides an objective voice on regional issues. Facilitating collaborative student- faculty research partnerships, as well…Read more
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August 2015
It’s All About the (Alumni) Base
With my sophomore year behind me, that is, my second year as director of alumni relations here at CC, it’s constructive to take stock of our program in order to move forward, and I am excited about what lies ahead. A long overdue redesign to the alumni website is in progress. With the aid of a new web writer on the Advancement team staff, Brenda Gillen, we intend for the website to be easy to navigate, helpful, simple, and designed with alumni needs in mind. Over the weeks and months to come, please take a look and send us your feedback: www.coloradocollege.edu/alumni. We realize that we communicate with you about…Read more
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August 2015
A Special Ops Force
While there’s one Facilities project at the top of Campus Operations and Plant Manager Mark Ferguson’s mind right now, the list of sustainability-related changes happening on the operations side is lengthy. “I got here at the end of ’12, and so really in ’13 we started organizing and analyzing” benchmark data, Ferguson said. “Since then we’ve been just busy, busy, busy doing everything we can. There’s just a lot of good opportunities. We’ve got multiple things going.” Just a handful of projects recently completed include: Improving the ventilation, and therefore indoor air quality, in Packard Hall, and improving the fume hoods at Barnes Science Center to optimize indoor air quality…Read more
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August 2015
Taking Care with Carbon
When it comes to hitting carbon neutrality on campus, Sustainability Director Ian Johnson says electrical, power, and natural gas emissions are of concern, but are not the biggest challenge. The biggest challenge relates to emissions due to waste, emissions due to business travel (by air), and faculty, staff, and student commuting. All of these pieces are captured in the campus’ carbon footprint, but they’re not necessarily directly controlled by CC. For that reason, offsets become important — but not necessarily in the way one would expect. “My preference, by far, is to find ways in the community to generate offsets rather than just go out and buy offsets on the…Read more
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August 2015
Shift Happens
The week after the Class of 2015 graduated, eight faculty members gathered for a two-day workshop in Cossitt Hall. The list of departments represented by this group of professors was eclectic: kinesiology, education, history, environmental studies, religion, math and computer science, business and economics, and German. But they all came to learn about one thing: sustainability. Or more specifically, how to incorporate the college’s Sustainability Learning Objectives, as defined by recommendations from the Strategic Knowledge Development process established in 2013-14, into their courses. Ian Johnson, campus sustainability director, couldn’t have been more thrilled about the range in the room — something he’d also seen during the previous year’s inaugural workshop.…Read more