New Student Orientation Begins Monday, Aug. 21

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While we have already welcomed a number of new students to campus, we are looking forward to greeting the entire Class of 2027, as well as incoming transfer students, on the first day of NSO on Monday, Aug. 21! Many students will arrive in Colorado Springs early and may choose to stop by various campus offices to take care of outstanding business; we thank you for helping to welcome these new CC community members when you see them on campus.

On Monday, Aug. 21, we encourage staff members who will be on campus to be aware of increased traffic in the C1 (Tutt Library) Lot and the Ed Robson Parking Garage; these will be used as unloading zones for residence halls and the mailroom, as well as visitor parking.

English Professor Claire Oberon Garcia Named Colorado State Historian

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Doctor, professor, dean, Woman of Distinction, and now Colorado State Historian. In her three decades of teaching English at Colorado College, Dr. Claire Oberon Garcia has held many titles and earned numerous accolades. On Colorado Day, August 1, exactly 147 years to the day the state was created, Garcia received her biggest honor yet—being named Colorado State Historian.

Chris Sheley Named Producing Artistic Director of the Fine Arts Center

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The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College is proud to announce that Christopher Sheley, who has been with the Fine Arts Center Theatre Company for 19 years, has been promoted to producing artistic director, effective immediately.

Sheley has been serving as interim producing artistic director for the past nine months. In that time, he launched the Send a Student initiative, grew the theater’s subscription base by 50 percent, brought back children’s theater programming, and deepened community partnerships with Colorado Springs School District 11, Lutheran Family Services, and the Colorado Springs School for the Deaf and Blind.

PikeRide Memberships – Renew Now

All returning Colorado College staff and faculty FREE PikeRide memberships were revoked on Fri., Aug. 4 at 2 p.m. in PikeRide’s system via the CC email address.

Each returning and new person associated with a coloradocollege.edu email address will need to have the latest PikeRide app version, then verify their email address through the PikeRide app and their CC email account.
If the person does not verify their email address, they will not have access to a free annual membership.
Once the email address is verified the app will auto-assign a free annual membership.

All students, staff, and faculty can ride PikeRide bikes for FREE for 90 minutes per day once the account has been set up.

Alum Provides Creative Bridge for VCFA Students at CC

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Photo submitted by Sammi LaBue Hatch

By Megan Clancy ’07

The arrival of the Vermont College of Fine Arts Summer Residency last month brought many new faces to the CC campus. And one very familiar one. Sammi LaBue Hatch ’12 spent the nine-day summer residency as the program’s Student Support Liaison as well as leading several of the residency’s place-based generative workshops.

Hatch, who majored in creative writing at CC with minors in religion and India studies, went on to graduate from VCFA in 2017. She now lives in Brooklyn, NY and is the founder of Fledgling Writing Workshops, a creative community of writers where she teaches creative writing classes for adults.

Hatch, who spent much of her childhood on campus as her mom worked in the CC Physics department, feels like this is very much a summer homecoming. When asked what it was like to be back at CC, leading a group of writers and artists, Hatch couldn’t help but smile.

“I loved my experience here which has everything to do with my role at VCFA now. This campus really shaped me as an artist. This feeling of belonging in this place is what I wanted to share,” says Hatch. “I love sharing this creative space with my students. I feel honored to be a part of it on this side and to get to come back.”

Rikki Held ’23 Wins Landmark Lawsuit Regarding Climate Change

On Monday, a Montana judge ruled in favor of young environmental activists led by Rikki Held ’23 who had raised concerns about the violation of their constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment. They argued that state agencies were allowing fossil fuel development without adequately considering its impact on the climate.

This groundbreaking ruling stems from a unique trial, marking the first of its kind in the United States. It joins a limited set of global legal decisions that have established a governmental obligation to safeguard citizens from the consequences of climate change.

In this context, District Court Judge Kathy Seeley declared that the state’s policy for assessing requests for fossil fuel permits was unconstitutional. This policy currently restricts agencies from evaluating the ramifications of greenhouse gas emissions.

Video of the Week

Video by by Vitaly Capellan ’26

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