Beyond Start-Ups and Tech: Innovation at CC Takes a Holistic Approach
Mindfulness, design thinking, and creative confidence play a major role in Colorado College’s approach to innovation.
Issue: Spring 2018 • Tags: FeaturesMindfulness, design thinking, and creative confidence play a major role in Colorado College’s approach to innovation.
Issue: Spring 2018 • Tags: FeaturesColorado College students in the TREE Semester live and take classes at the Catamount Center and apply their lessons to the environmental science curriculum they create and teach.
Issue: Spring 2018 • Tags: FeaturesThough small in participation numbers, CC’s minor in psychoanalysis punches well above its weight in terms of reputation and output, and the popularity is growing constantly. Nationally recognized as a flagship program in psychoanalysis at the undergraduate level, the minor has been featured in several national publications, received a highly selective foundation grant, and serves…
Issue: Winter 2017 • Tags: FeaturesThe campus community celebrates Diwali, the festival of lights, hosted by Students for the Awareness of South Asia. Participants enjoy dance performances and South Asian food. Photos by Vivian Nguyen ’20
Issue: Winter 2017 • Tags: FeaturesCC honored 10 distinguished former students at a ribbon-cutting and dedication of the East Campus Housing Community during Family and Friends Weekend. Eight residential buildings, a community center, and a central courtyard bear their names. Residential Buildings Marcellus H. Chiles, Colorado College’s only Medal of Honor recipient, was a student at CC when World War…
Issue: Winter 2017 • Tags: FeaturesI can think of nothing I would rather do on a daily basis than get up in the morning and explore a musical masterwork with 16 intelligent, artistic and eager CC students. We can talk about how it makes us think and how it makes us feel. We can do a ‘close reading’ by discussing…
Issue: Winter 2017 • Tags: FeaturesJoAnn Jacoby joined Colorado College Aug. 1 as director of the newly renovated Tutt Library. Before that, she served as associate dean for user services in the University of Illinois Library, the largest publicly funded academic library in the U.S. Jacoby has spent most of her professional career at Illinois in a number of roles…
Issue: Winter 2017 • Tags: Features1st Library built for the Block Plan 94,317 Square feet of space (a 35-percent increase) 12,976 Square feet of glass 1,078 Seating capacity 7,040 Cups of coffee served at Susie B’s café during Block 1 220 Pounds of beans to make that coffee 1,174 Electrical outlets 80 Geothermal wells on Armstrong Quad (each 400 feet…
Issue: Winter 2017 • Tags: FeaturesA physics major and studio art minor at Colorado College, Alana Aamodt is from Minnesota. She came to CC for a good education and for an exciting adventure. She’s found both. In her first physics class, she and her classmates played hockey every Thursday, something she describes as “one of those things you can only…
Issue: Winter 2017 • Tags: Features, Peak Profiles