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CC’s Sense of Place trips are a field series exploring the cultural, natural, and historic features of Colorado Springs and the Pikes Peak region. The series provides students, faculty, and staff with “backstage access” to and critical examination of some features of the college’s unique location that often go overlooked. “We believe this examination is…

The Morris Miller Memorial Garden, one of the specialty gardens of CC, was created in memory of Morris Miller Jr. ’70 after he passed away in April 1990. The garden was established through gifts made by family and more than 45 alumni and friends, including members of the Class of 1970 and the Phi Delta…

Six Colorado College faculty members were promoted and granted tenure by the CC Board of Trustees at their annual February meeting to take effect next academic year. CC President Jill Tiefenthaler and Dean of the College and Dean of the Faculty Sandra Wong visited each promoted faculty member, congratulating them and bestowing a gift. Promoted…

The Career Center is launching a two-day symposium, May 12-13, to help rising seniors develop a strategy for making the most of the upcoming summer months and their senior year, as well as navigating the transition from college student to college graduate. Sessions will focus on standing out to potential employers and developing a network.…

LIZ CHENEY ’88 met with students in two political science classes in March for a spaghetti lunch and discussion at the home of Political Science Professor Tom Cronin who was Cheney’s thesis adviser when she was at CC. About two dozen students from Cronin’s American Presidency class and Political Science Professor David Hendrickson’s The American…

LINDSEY SALHUS ’18 and DAVID TREVITHICK ’17 are among a group of CC students participating in CC’s interdisciplinary Latin American Semester. The students spent Blocks 5 and 6 in Lima, Peru (which included a trip to Machu Picchu) and are spending spend Blocks 7 and 8 in Santiago, Chile. (The block break trip? Easter Island.)

CC’s NPR-member station KRCC received the Colorado Broadcasters Association Award for best mini-documentary or series for “Episode 10: After the Evangelical Vatican” in KRCC’s “Wish We Were Here” series, co-produced by Noel Black and Jake Brownell ’12. The series received national and international play in recent months. In December, WBEZ in Chicago aired Episode 6:…

Albab Seifu ’11,  Ashley Johnson ’06 (holding Prowler), Nick Rogerson ’08, and Cullen Hughes ’94 celebrated the co-incidence of four CC alums living and working in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, last summer. Johnson, who is pursuing a master’s degree in international development at Georgetown University, was working with the U.S. Agency for International Development and based…

More than 125 members of the Colorado College community gathered for the dedication of the Kathryn Mohrman Theatre in Armstrong Hall in early November. Mohrman served as the 11th president of Colorado College — and the first woman to hold that position — from 1993 to 2002. Speaking at the ceremony were Trustee Ryan Haygood…

The Barbara L. Yalich Class of 1953 Boardroom, located on the ground floor of the renovated Spencer Center, was dedicated at a ceremony on Sept. 9. Barbara Yalich ’53 served as an alumni trustee from 1971-73; director of alumni support from 1973-75; director of alumni affairs from 1975-85; director of development from 1985-91; and vice…