Bulletin

Issue: April 2015

Outdoor Education to Add Avalanche Transceiver Beacon Park

A renovation project is underway to improve facilities for the Office of Outdoor Education, which will soon open its doors at the former Children’s Center at 931 N. Nevada Ave. After an initial $250,000 contribution from an anonymous donor and additional donations from many subsequent funders, the project is scheduled to be completed in April. “This project will enhance the Office of Outdoor Education by allowing for more equipment storage and programming space to conduct workshops and trainings, including CPR/first aid and avalanche awareness,” said Ryan Hammes, director of the office. The Ahlberg Gear House also will relocate to the center. The renovation project includes the first year-round avalanche transceiver beacon…

Issue: April 2015

History Department Grant Looks at Prisons, Punishment

The History Department is launching a new initiative aimed at exploring how the past informs current efforts to remediate urgent social concerns, and is beginning by examining criminality and correction. The new Social Issues and Historical Contexts initiative, funded by a three-year, $200,000 grant from an anonymous donor, recognizes that in recent decades, professional scholarship in history has tended to shift from national, political, and period-specific investigations to transnational and transhistorical issues common to human experience across time and space. “Historians work in the past, but they work about the present,” said History Professor Carol Neel, who coordinates the program. “Few issues in the United States today are as wrenching…

Issue: April 2015

Alumni Magazine Wins Awards

The April 2014 issue of the Bulletin won a bronze award in the Council for Advancement and Support of Education’s “Magazine Publishing Improvement” category for the eight-state region. “Our editors, designers, writers, and photographers worked hard to revamp the Bulletin into a piece that is brilliant, compelling, inclusive, and beautiful, like CC,” said Jane Turnis, vice president for communications. The same issue also received a silver “Addy” award for magazine design from the American Advertising Federation’s Colorado Springs chapter in March.