{"id":17350,"date":"2021-08-10T11:00:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T17:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=17350"},"modified":"2021-08-17T16:13:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T22:13:32","slug":"celebrating-the-class-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2021\/08\/celebrating-the-class-of-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the Class of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a combination Commencement and a first-year class reunion. Nearly 370 members of the Class of 2020 \u2014 including 11 Master of Arts in Teaching graduates \u2014 reunited on Sunday, May 30, for their long-awaited in-person Commencement ceremony. There was joy among classmates who had not seen one another, or their professors, since they were abruptly separated by the pandemic in March 2020. The class motto, \u201cHindsight is 2020,\u201d may have been chosen with a sense of humor last year, but its poignancy a year later could not be missed. See highlights of the Class of 2020 Commencement \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

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Students from the Class of 2020 gathered at Weidner Field on May 29, 2021 for a socially distanced ceremony, 15 months after having to leave due to the pandemic. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Students from the Class of 2020 gathered at Weidner Field on May 29, 2021 for a socially distanced ceremony, 15 months after having to leave due to the pandemic. <\/div> <\/div>
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Students from the Class of 2020 gathered at Weidner Field on May 29, 2021 for a socially distanced ceremony, 15 months after having to leave due to the pandemic. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Students from the Class of 2020 gathered at Weidner Field on May 29, 2021 for a socially distanced ceremony, 15 months after having to leave due to the pandemic. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Students from the Class of 2020 gathered at Weidner Field on May 29, 2021 for a socially distanced ceremony, 15 months after having to leave due to the pandemic. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Students from the Class of 2020 gathered at Weidner Field on May 29, 2021 for a socially distanced ceremony, 15 months after having to leave due to the pandemic. Darryl Filmore <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Students from the Class of 2020 gathered at Weidner Field on May 29, 2021 for a socially distanced ceremony, 15 months after having to leave due to the pandemic. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

Class of 2020<\/h2>\n

7,997 <\/strong>applicants (a record at that time)<\/p>\n

540 <\/strong>students enrolled<\/p>\n

15.8% <\/strong>acceptance rate<\/p>\n

31 <\/strong>QuestBridge students<\/p>\n

25% <\/strong>self-identifying as students of color<\/p>\n

22 <\/strong>transfer students<\/p>\n

55 <\/strong>gap-year students<\/p>\n

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  • Commencement speaker:<\/strong> Richard Lariviere, former president and CEO of the Field Museum in Chicago<\/li>\n
  • Common Read Book:<\/strong> \u201cWhistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do,\u201d by Claude Steele<\/li>\n
  • Lived<\/strong> through the development of the East Campus Housing Community, renaming of South Hall, naming of Tava Quad, and renovation of Tutt Library<\/li>\n
  • Saw<\/strong> the expansion of the alliance between the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and Colorado College and the partnership between CC\u2019s NPR-member station KRCC and Colorado Public Radio<\/li>\n
  • Contributed<\/strong> to CC\u2019s goal of carbon neutrality by 2020 by installing a solar array at Baca Campus; carbon neutrality celebrated Jan. 22, 2020<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    The class includes two Erasmus Mundus Scholars, a Watson Fellow, winner of The Denver Press Club student award, and seven Fulbright semifinalists, three of whom went on to become finalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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