To a substantial degree, CC’s ability to achieve its educational mission today and in perpetuity is dependent upon the performance of our endowment. At the surface level, an endowment is a continually growing collection of financial assets that can be used to cover an array of costs. But, as you dig in deeper, the complexities of endowment spending, funding, and management begin to appear. Please join us in Gaylord Hall on Monday, Jan. 20 from 2-3 p.m. for the next Work of the College Series event – a presentation on CC’s Endowment with Lori Seager, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

For more information on the series, or to check out the schedule of events for this academic year, please visit Work of the College Series.

On Monday, Jan. 20, from 3-4 p.m. in Kathryn Mohrman Theatre, research partners Dr. Jennifer Greenburg, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Sheffield, and Dr. David Vine, Board of Directors Member for the Costs of War Project and Former Professor of Anthropology at American University (2006-2024), will give an overview of the human toll of war, including death and displacement, injuries to mental and physical health, and sexual violence, as well as the budgetary and other economic consequences of war and military spending. On this day honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, we invite our community to gather for reflection on one dimension of Dr. King’s legacy: his analysis of the unequally borne burdens and injustices of war.

This event is sponsored by the CC Departments of History, Political Science, and Economics and Business, and the H. Chase Stone Fund.

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Photo by Jennifer Coombes

On Friday, Feb. 7, at 6:30 p.m. in Cornerstone, students are invited to compete in CC’s Tiger Look-Alike Contest. Contestants will dress up as their best “tiger” self and perform to a song of their choice for our four guest judges: President Manya Whitaker, CCGSA President Koray Gates, Mike from Benji’s, and Business Professor Lora Louise Broady.

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(Left to right) Abby Le ’25, Havalin Haskell ’26, Ashley Entwistle ’26, Ella Reese-Clauson ’26, Megan O’Brien ’25, Jessica Legaard ’25, Isabella Childs Michael ’25, and Jamie Harvie ’25 next to the Caspian Sea. Photo provided by O’Brien.

By Julia Fennell ’21

Eight students recently returned to campus after spending two weeks in Baku, Azerbaijan, where they attended the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29). CC’s delegation was led by Dr. Sarah Hautzinger, Professor of Anthropology, and Myra Jackson, Mindfulness Fellow for Creativity and Innovation.

“I was seeing and learning so much that even though COP is over, I am still thinking about things I heard in a new light,” says Megan O’Brien ’25, an Environmental Studies major with a double minor in Studio Art and Classics. “I went into COP looking for hope. I wanted to be able to put together a plan for myself on how to move forward in the face of the climate crisis. I am not actually sure if I accomplished this, and I don’t think I will until I’ve had some time to really think and reflect about what I have learned. COP reaffirmed my interest in law, and I am confident that I would like to go to law school. Even though the negotiations could be lengthy, it was amazing to see the process and how much work goes into the making of monumental legislation like the Paris Agreement.”

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Adolph Dehn, South Park, Colorado, watercolor on paper, 1951. Gift of the Adolf and Virginia Dehn Foundation.

Museum collections are often composed of artworks given as gifts. Join Michael Christiano, Director of Visual Arts and Museum of the FAC, today, Friday, Jan. 17 from 1–2 p.m. to explore the gifts of art process at the FAC and how we steward the creative legacies they represent. From 2–4 p.m., guests are welcome to view recent gifts of art in the Agents of Care gallery. This program is free and open to the public.

Finley Schoenbeck ’28 on the soccer field, September 2024. Photo by Charlie Lengal/Colorado College