Come celebrate our CERN nominees and winners on Thursday, May 1 from 4:30-6 p.m. in Bemis Great Hall and Lounge. 

This event is open to everybody in the CC community! Drinks, appetizers, and live music provided. A light program at 5 p.m. will be followed by an opportunity to mingle, celebrate one another, and peruse the award gallery. Please RSVP by emailing cce@coloradocollege.edu. Feel free to attend the full event or drop by at any point. Families are welcome. 

We look forward to celebrating the various ways in which our campus engages in community-based work, democratically invests in shared futures, and develops our students into engaged citizens.   

Join the CC community on Friday, Apr. 25 from 2-5 p.m. on Yampa Field for a fun, end-of-year celebration honoring our queer community on campus with food, music, games, and a variety of outdoor skills clinics and games. Plus, the Outdoor Ed Annual Gear Sale will be happening from 3-5 p.m.! Learn more about the available gear.

Enjoy hands-on activities and connect with campus partners like the Wellness Resource Center, Arts and Crafts, the Butler Center, CCE, the Chaplains’ Office, and local organizations including Inside Out Youth Services, Ladyfingers Letterpress, and Drag King Mario Wanna. Learn about campus and local resources for LGBTQIA+ students and allies.

Outdoor Ed will offer clinics on survival skills like trap setting, fire building, and natural cord weaving, along with landscape water coloring, camping demonstrations, and a mini mountain bike skills park. There will also be a 50’ inflatable obstacle course (challenge your friends to a race!), a food truck, snow cones, s’mores, and tons of crafts and activities.

Pride Outside is open to all members of the campus community and is a fantastic opportunity to connect with friends—new and old—learn something new, and celebrate the end of another year here at CC!

A big thank you to CCSGA and the Antiracism Community Engagement Grant for the financial support that made this event possible.

Sodexo, CC’s custodial services provider, is asking for your feedback to help improve services. Please take this survey by Monday, Apr. 28.

Dr. Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart

Join us Thursday, Apr. 24 from 6-7:30 p.m. in Kathryn Mohrman Theater for “Where Hawaiʻi Ends,” the 2024-25 Timothy C. Linnemann Memorial Lecture on the Environment with Dr. Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart.

This talk analyzes the eviction of the Sand Island community in the context of the techno-social forms of property-making that transpire through the process of land reclamation. Grounded in the Indigenous environmental politics of stewardship and care, this talk emphasizes the economic and ecological debts that are set into motion when fresh lands are brought to the surface. For more details, check out the email sent earlier this month.

There will be a book signing before the lecture from 5-5:45 p.m., also in Kathryn Mohrmann Theater.

Mike Shum ’07. Photo by Jackson Solway

By Mandy Bray ’09

Mike Shum ’07 was working as a CC Admissions counselor in 2009, saving up money to buy a camera, when he connected with CC alum and producer Neal Baer ’78. Seeing Shum’s interest in film, Baer invited him along as a director’s apprentice for an episode of Law & Order: SVU.

On set, Shum found encouragement from an unlikely source – actor and rapper Ice T – to follow his passion for documentary filmmaking. That was the inciting incident for Shum to quit his Admissions job, sell most of his possessions, and head to East Africa.

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Photo by Phillip Spears

Celebrate Mom with brunch on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 11, at Taste in the FAC! Indulge in a bountiful buffet with breakfast pastries, salads, charcuterie, an omelet bar, a pasta bar, waffles, assorted breakfast and lunch foods, a prime rib carving station, and desserts, including a bananas foster bar. In addition, moms receive two mimosas or Bellinis with their reservation. Seatings are 9 a.m., 9:30 a.m., noon, and 12:30 p.m., and reservations are required.

There will also be a craft station for children to make mom a special card, pompom, or felt succulent. On this special day, the museum will be open, so make a day of it and stick around to check out the current exhibitions or add on tickets to Sister Act!

Student ambassadors take a trip downtown. Left to right: Lilly Asano ’27, Audrey Pozen ’27, Verónica González Paris ’26, Olivia Weinstein ’26, Alyna Dao ’27, Kalie Chang ’26, and Nico Martinez ’27. Photo by Jamie Cotten