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CC’s New Student Orientation trips are a massive undertaking that reap great rewards for the students and the college.

The college is celebrating the accomplishments of the Vision 2010 campaign and thanking donors for their support. Learn about recent developments in the campaign that will shape the college for years to come.

In 2007, the Mellon Foundation awarded CC a self-study grant to learn about best practices at comparable institutions. The grant has enabled CC to highlight its mission, unique academic system, and commitment to building community across the campus.

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On Oct. 17, 1930, eight-year-old Bob Funk ’54 attended the cornerstone dedication at Shove Memorial Chapel. Almost exactly 80 years later, on Sept. 10, 2010, Funk returned to CC and presented the original dedication programs to Chaplain Bruce Coriell.

Colorado College is launching an ombudsman office in August as a one-year pilot program. Jane Cauvel, professor emerita of philosophy, was recommended by the Faculty Executive Committee for the position. The ombudsman provides an informal, confidential, independent, neutral, off-the-record alternate channel of communication for faculty and staff to resolve workplace issues, and works to ensure…

They climb the stairs in Palmer Hall eager for the  discussion, book in hand. Last year it was “Nickel and Dimed” by Barbara Ehrenreich. This year it will be “Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World” by Tracy Kidder. These are students in the truest sense…

I am often taken aback by the suggestion that a liberal arts education limits rather than expands the intellectual horizons of students. My non-academic friends often imagine that college professors enlist students in an ideological mission to remake the world. Such assumptions fail to appreciate the great diversity of academic thought and inquiry that students…

Between the academic demands of the rigorous Block Plan, collegiate sports, and down time with friends, there are few hours left in a day for Colorado College students. But many make room for volunteer commitments. During the 2009-10 school year, several CC athletes set aside their lacrosse sticks, soccer balls, and hockey jerseys, and donated…