Bulletin

Dear Alumni, Parents, and Friends of Colorado College, Now I really know what the Block Plan is all about. For three and a half weeks in January and February, my husband and fellow economist, Kevin Rask, and I taught a class about the economics of higher education. Before the class I understood the concept of…

Dear Alumni, Parents, and Friends of Colorado College, As the crisp air settles on Colorado Springs, I am drawing great energy from the “Year of Listening” events that are taking place on campus and in cities such as Seattle, Los Angeles, Denver, and Boston. These highly interactive sessions are enriching our vision to make Colorado…

Dear Alumni, Parents, and Friends of Colorado College: It is a great honor to address you as the new president of Colorado College. Thanks to those who have served before me, and to the contributions of countless faculty, staff, and alumni, your college is a beacon of liberal arts education. My family and I already feel…

Jill Tiefenthaler, provost and professor of economics at Wake Forest University, will become Colorado College’s 13th president on July 1. The trustees unanimously elected Tiefenthaler after a nationwide search conducted by a presidential search committee that included trustees, alumni, faculty, staff, and students.

Dear Alumni, Parents, and Friends of Colorado College:
It has been eight and a half years since I wrote my first “President’s Page” for the CC Bulletin. I am honored, thrilled, and privileged to be the 12th president of Colorado College. I wrote of the extraordinary CC people I met early on – students, faculty, staff, parents, and alumni (some of whom I had known before I knew anything else about CC).

Dear Alumni, Parents, and Friends, “(T)he invitation of liberal learning,” said Michael Oakeshott,  is “…the invitation to disentangle oneself, for a time, from   the urgencies of the here and now and to listen to the conversation in which human beings forever seek to understand themselves.” Oakeshott delivered his words in his 1974 Abbott Memorial Lecture,…

Dear Alumni, Parents, and Friends of Colorado College, Over the past few years, “a unique intellectual adventure” has become the descriptor for the Colorado College experience. What does that really mean? In his article about creating a safe place for dissent in the classroom, Professor John Gould writes, “As they progress through their majors and…

Dear Alumni, Parents, and Friends of Colorado College, The Crestone Peaks. Layers of sky, clouds, and bison. There is an unusual magic about our own Steve Weaver’s photography, and particularly so in this issue’s cover shot. A poster version graces the front door of my office, and every day students, faculty, staff, and other visitors…

Dear Alumni and Parents, Each year when I greet the new class of Colorado College students, I urge them to orient themselves around the mountain. Pikes Peak was here long before CC and will be here long after, and in the meantime we get to claim it as our own — the touchstone against which…

Dear Alumni, Parents, and Friends, Like virtually every college president in the country, I have had many occasions to communicate with the Colorado College community about how we are dealing with the effects of the economic downturn. It has been helpful to put our circumstances into historical context. We often hear and read the word…