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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.…

Issue: August 2015

Veggie Trails

Take a run-of-the-mill, 15-passenger Ford E-350 with a 6-liter diesel engine, add a student with a sense of ingenuity, toss in some waste vegetable oil, and the result is CC’s new Veggie Van. A pet project of Tom Crowe ’15, the van is a joint effort between the Office of Sustainability and the Department of…

Issue: August 2015

From Solar Panels to French Fry Fumes

Sustainability efforts on campus have made big strides lately. See how CC is diverting waste, saving resources, and cutting CO2.

Issue: August 2015

Athletics

CC-DU to Take Coors Field in ‘Battle on Blake’ The 302nd meeting between in-state rivals Colorado College and the University of Denver will certainly be unlike any other in the 65-year history of the series. The schools announced they will play an outdoor hockey game at Coors Field in Denver on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016. Dubbed the “Battle on Blake,” this will be the first collegiate hockey game ever played at Coors Field and marks the first time that CC and DU have faced off in an outdoor match. “We are thrilled to be taking our rivalry with the University of Denver outside in 2016,” CC Athletics Director Ken Ralph…

Issue: August 2015

‘Possibly the Last’ Tour Choir Reunion

Cornerstone Arts Center Flex Room was crowded. Packard Hall risers couldn’t accommodate everyone. Dust from long unused pillows (stuffed in Shove Chapel choir loft aisles for more seating) rose when singers sat down, setting off fire alarms at Baccalaureate. Billed as “Possibly the Last Tour Choir Reunion,” and held May 15-17, it was likely the…

Issue: August 2015

Four CC Faculty Members Retire

Four faculty members, with more than 150 years of teaching experience at CC among them, retired at the end of the 2014-15 academic year. They are: Richard Agee, Music: Agee joined CC in 1982, after receiving his Ph.D. from Princeton University. Courses taught include Music History, Introduction to Counterpoint and Diatonic Harmony, and Beethoven, or ‘Da-Da-Da-DUMMM’. Music will continue to play a major role in his post-retirement life, although with upcoming moves to Denver and Palm Springs, he’ll be selling his Italian-style Renaissance harpsichord (“Anyone interested in purchasing — only $10,000?”) During his tenure at CC he served as Music Department chair, Rocky Mountain Chapter of the American Musicological Society…

Issue: August 2015

Florian Cajori Classroom Dedicated

Associate Dean Mike Siddoway cuts a ribbon at a ceremony marking the renaming of Palmer Hall Room 126 as the Florian Cajori Classroom. Cajori taught math at CC from 1889 to 1918 and was instrumental in the creation of the Mathematical Association of America, serving as one of its first presidents. More than 200 members…

Issue: August 2015

60 Faculty : 49 courses

Summer Courses: Sixty faculty members taught undergraduate courses this summer; 49 taught scheduled courses, of which 33 were on-campus and 16 were abroad or off-campus. There were 29 independent study courses, with nine faculty members involved while teaching another course and 11 faculty members solely involved with the independent study courses. CC had 16 faculty members teaching in the MAT program; 10 in the experienced teacher program, and six in the 5th-year teacher program.

Issue: August 2015

Students Serve Up Real-World Answers to Complex Questions

Four teams of CC students presented proposals aimed at innovative and long-term solutions to food insecurity, homelessness, and chronic poverty at CC’s Soup Project Challenge this spring. The Soup Project, a collaboration between the Collaborative for Community Engagement and the Innovation Institute, seeks to build on the Community Kitchen’s legacy of working to address the needs of the local community. Grits: Paige Clark ’16, Ben Criswell ’16, and Caitlin Canty ’16 received $13,000. The students will partner with a local community outreach program to run a weekly writing and visual arts program. The workshops will culminate in a publication titled Grits, to be included in a weekly Colorado Springs newspaper,…

Issue: August 2015

Nepali Fundraiser Nets $7,500 – and Counting

Four students from Kathmandu, Nepal, launched a fundraising campaign immediately following the earthquakes in their country to raise money for humanitarian relief. Sidharth Moktan ’15, Niyanta Khatri ’17, Anubrat Prasai ’17, and Abhushan Kadka ’18 organized a photo display of Nepali photos — before, during, and after the earthquake — in the Worner Campus Center.…