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Rochelle Dickey to Retire in Spring 2023
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After more than 30 years at Colorado College, Rochelle T. Dickey ’83, P’19, dean of students and vice president for student life, will retire in Spring 2023. Dickey has worked to improve the lives of students by fostering constructive conversations and building bridges throughout her time at CC. Her commitment to antiracism, diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging have been steadfast through the decades.
Dickey grew up in Colorado Springs and was a first-generation student, earning a bachelor’s degree in drama from CC and a master’s in educational counseling and human services from UCCS. Since joining CC in 1990, she has served as senior associate dean of students, associate dean and director of minority student life, and director of minority and international students. Her involvement in community projects has focused on enhancing education and access for youth so that they might have the kind of support she received as a first-generation college student.
We congratulate Dickey on her remarkable career and thank her for her decades of dedication and service to CC and the entire Colorado Springs community.
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Sociology Professor Partners with Community Members to Study Food Insecurity
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By Julia Fennell ’21
Florencia Rojo, assistant professor of sociology, and her co-authors, recently published findings from a food insecurity study in Colorado Springs. As part of the research, community partners conducted 35 interviews with residents of three food-insecure neighborhoods in Colorado Springs between 2019 and 2020. Rojo and other members of the research team then collaboratively analyzed the information.
Food to Power, a Collaborative for Community Engagement High Impact Partner, was a community partner on the research. “Food to Power is a local food justice organization working to cultivate equitable food systems in our community,” says Rojo. “Being invited to collaborate with them as a research partner has been a transformative experience for me and has shaped how I think about food, community, collaboration, and knowledge-production.”
“I was really excited to use my two blocks of thesis to contribute work already happening in the Colorado Spring community. I’ve been involved with various food justice projects since early high school, and it just so happened that when I reached out to Food to Power, they were in the middle of their work on the Food Systems Assessment,” says Guion. “I am so grateful I had the opportunity to continue working with Food to Power after my thesis, and to co-author this paper. It allowed me to see how many of the concepts we talk about in sociology and in community-based research actually play out in the real world.”
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Staff and Faculty Portrait Day
Do you need to update your portrait? Now is the time. Staff and faculty portrait day is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 27 from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. in the Cornerstone Arts Center Main Space. Be sure to sign up for a spot quickly before they are filled.
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Concerts At Colorado College Honor Composer’s Life, Legacy
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The Crumb Legacy is a two-day event at Colorado College featuring works composed by George Crumb, who died earlier this year, and by nine of his former students, including CC Music Department co-chair Ofer Ben-Amots. The compositions will be performed by CC performance faculty, students, and special guests.
The concerts are Oct. 12 and 13, at 7:30 p.m. in Packard Hall. A pre-concert lecture starts at 6:30 p.m. prior to each concert. All events are free and open to the public and include a display in Packard lobby titled The Crumb Connection, with photographs and composition samples that provide insight into Crumb’s life, works, and special connection to Colorado College.
Crumb’s work earned him widespread acclaim, including the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Music, the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers Award (1971), membership in the Deutsche Akademie der Künste, the Prince Pierre of Monaco Gold Medal in Composition (1989), the MacDowell Colony’s 1995 Gold Medal for Artistic Achievement, a 2001 Grammy Award, Musical America’s Composer of the Year Award in 2004, and a BMI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.
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In-Demand Physics Class Pushes Students to Think Beyond the Stars
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Photo by Mila Naumovska ’26
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By Julia Fennell ’21
PC133 Astronomy was co-taught by Professors Austin Hinkel and Dhanesh Krishnarao, of the Physics Department. Hinkel oversaw the class lectures and Krishnarao directed the lab portion. Hinkel says he hopes that students take away two main concepts from this course.
“First, astronomy offers students a chance to exercise their critical thinking skills and build scientific literacy in a fun, collaborative environment. For example, students will work together to understand the immensity of the cosmos and how stars ‘manufactured’ the elements that make up you and me,” says Hinkel. “Critical thinking skills and scientific literacy are critical in any democracy, and what better way to strengthen those muscles than learning about the mysteries of the universe?”
Secondly, astronomy offers an incredibly unique perspective of life here on Earth, says Hinkel. “In PC133, we learn about planets with a runaway greenhouse effect, crushing gravity, or sulfuric acid in their clouds — completely inhospitable to life as we know it — and develop an appreciation for our home planet and the life we share it with.”
Astronomy on the Block Plan offers flexibility in scheduling so that classes can meet at night to observe the stars and planets from outside the city lights, without conflicting with other classes, says Hinkel.
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Free trips for friends & family
Want to share the joy of PikeRide with your family and friends during Homecoming Weekend? If so, simply have them enter the code “CCFAMILY22” under their profile in the PikeRide app.
Code is valid for two free trips up to 20 minutes in duration.
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Cutler Hall on Oct. 4.
Photo by Lonnie Timmons III
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