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Elliot Mamet, a sophomore at Colorado College and a member of the Extending Our Reach strategic planning committee, offers a visualization of the strategic planning process that is truly fitting, “grounded in the unique character of Colorado College, strategic planning allows us to draw a roadmap of where we are headed and how we are…

I am a partly haunted war veteran. In the Second World War, I was a junior officer on a landing ship tank. My ship was in the North African campaign and in the invasions of Sicily, Italy, and Normandy, where it was torpedoed and sunk. I was fished out of the English Channel by a…

Ken Burns’s most recent documentary, “The Dust Bowl,” which premiered in November on PBS, interviews 26 survivors of what he calls the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history. Among those interviewed is a 21-year-old social worker who recently graduated from college. That young social worker is Dorothy Christenson Williamson ’34, and the college is…

It’s an incredible view of the Rocky Mountains 100,000 years ago,” said Gussie Maccracken ’11. “It’s unprecedented,” said Ian Miller ’99. “This is giving us a crystal clear window into Colorado’s recent past. It can tell us about climate, fire frequency, drought, and pine beetles,” said Miller, discussing what scientists are learning now from the…

Several professors at CC incorporated parts of the 18,000-acre Waldo Canyon wildfire area into their coursework during the fall semester. Eric Perramond, associate professor of Southwest Studies and Environmental Science, took his Political Ecology of the Southwest class to the burn site during Block 1, barely nine weeks after the fire raged on the west…

When friends and parents of the Colorado College extended family saw the dramatic pictures of the Waldo Canyon Wildfire just west of campus last June, they were stunned and alarmed over what they were seeing. How could this happen? Was our beloved campus in danger? Some called in and were relieved to learn that the…

Three CC grads had a whirlwind encounter during the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Isaac, which struck the northern Gulf Coast in late August. I had been asked to join a pilot project studying the flooding effects of the hurricane through my work using Terrestrial LiDAR (T-LiDAR) as a post-doc at the United States Geological Survey…

President Jill Tiefenthaler gained many insights during her conversations with students, faculty, and staff on campus and over the course of visiting alumni and parents in cities around the country. She was interested in learning more about how CC is distinctive from other colleges in the U.S., as well as identifying areas for improvement and ideas that should guide us as we offer an outstanding liberal arts education to future generations of students. After analyzing the responses — more than 2,000 comments in all — she identified some common themes that will inform the planning work in the year ahead.

They come by the hundreds, these people down on their luck. They arrive at Shove Memorial Chapel knowing they’ll get a hot meal and a warm welcome.

Antonio Rosendo ’02 helped found Atlas Prep School in Colorado Springs after an influential experience at CC.