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Progress continues on the Colorado College and Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center alliance as the three subcommittees — Museum, Bemis School of Art, and Performing Arts — shared draft program plans at two community presentations in early February. Over the past seven months, each subcommittee held community listening sessions and small-group sessions to seek input…

CC will honor eight distinguished former students by bestowing their names on residential buildings in the new East Campus housing community during CC’s Family and Friends Weekend, Oct. 6-8. The individuals honored represent a broad array of fields, including academic, art, government, military, and mountaineering. “Naming the buildings of this new student housing community for…

Colorado College has tied for seventh place this year among the Peace Corps top volunteer-producing colleges, with 11 CC alumni serving. CC is tied with Smith College, Spelman College, St. Lawrence University, Evergreen State College, and Oberlin College in the small colleges and universities category, defined as those with fewer than 5,000 undergraduates. Since the…

91.5 KRCC, CC’s National Public Radio-member station, is moving closer to downtown Colorado Springs. The new building at 720 N. Tejon St. will have a large recording studio that allows for forums, music events, talk show tapings, NPR personality visits, interviews, community gatherings, and more. “We will be on downtown Colorado Springs’ ‘main street,’ connecting…

CC’s fifth annual Big Idea competition, with $50,000 in seed money at stake, yielded three very different – and very creative – winners. First-place winner FlyPhone took home $30,000. FlyPhone was developed by a team of seniors: Ben Tweedy and Kiki Kauffman, who pitched the concept, along with John Silvester, Dan Keogh, Teddy Corwin, and…

New York Times-bestselling author and CC’s Journalist-in-Residence Hampton Sides P’16, acclaimed for his works of nonfiction adventure, will be this year’s Commencement speaker and receive an honorary degree on Monday, May 22. Also receiving honorary degrees are Brenda L. Bass ’77, a pioneer in the field of RNA research, particularly the editing process; and Van…

Love those big, gorgeous trees on the CC campus? So do others. The college, which has more than 2,100 trees, has been recognized by the Arbor Day Foundation’s Tree Campus USA program as a campus that effectively manages its tree populations, works with the greater community to facilitate healthy urban forests, and engages students in…

Marika Viragh ’13 saw 5th block break photos on CC’s Instagram and was inspired to send one as well. A few members of the Class of 2013 got together for a block break of their own (except post-CC it’s called “a long weekend”) and ran into two groups of CC alumni in Taos, New Mexico.…

We celebrate your uniqueness, diversity, and accomplishments. 7,997: Number of applications 1,270:  Number accepted 540: Students enrolled 15.8%: Overall admit rate 22: Transfer students 25: Winter Start students 55: Gap year students 31: QuestBridge* students 25%: Students of color 55%: Women 45%: Men 30: Students founded a club or organization 11: Entrepreneurs 4: Potters 2:…

A new initiative on campus aims to support and welcome refugees arriving from all over the world to the Colorado Springs area. The CC Refugee Alliance is partnering with Lutheran Family Services, an area organization that assembles cultural mentoring teams that “adopt” incoming refugee families and individuals for their first four to six months in…