5/30/22 | The Gazette | 10-year-old Colorado Springs boy launches business of creating chalk art greetings
“As a history professor at Colorado College, Danielle Sanchez focuses on popular culture, health and urban life in 20th-century Africa. She studies and knows stories of struggle.”
5/29/22 | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Fox Chapel graduate wins highest Marine aviation honor
“After graduating from Fox Chapel High, Capt. Wolff studied economics at Colorado College before moving back to Pittsburgh and obtaining his private pilot certificate in June 2013 with the intention of joining officer candidate school.”
5/27/22 | Medium | Interest Group Politics, Preserving Biodiversity, and Achieving 30X30
“For example, Colorado College’s 2021 (Hay, 2021) poll found that 77 percent of voters in western states ((Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming) supported Biden’s program goal.”
5/27/22 | The Denver Gazette | Goodwin makes surprise exit from Fine Arts Center
“Goodwin, who has been associated with Colorado College for eight years including his time as a professor, is a successful playwright whose play “Blackademics” is currently being staged at Vintage Theatre in Aurora through June 19.”
-5/27/22 The Gazette
5/23/22 | The Denver Gazette | Colorado Springs Sports Corporation announces 2022 Sports Hall of Fame class
“Ted Castaneda: After his own cross-country career, first at Palmer High School and then at the University of Colorado, Castaneda went on to coach at Colorado College for 39 years.”
5/22/22 | The Gazette | Colorado College holds inaugural commencement at Robson Arena
“But this was not a sporting event. The stars of the show, numbering greater than 500, was the black-and-gold clad Colorado College graduating Class of 2022.”
5/22/22 | KOAA | Colorado College 2022 Graduation
“Some 450 members of the Colorado College Class of 2022 are graduates tonight. The campus held its 148th Commencement Ceremony inside the new Ed Robson arena Sunday morning.”
5/21/22 | The Durango Herald | Gridlock in Congress stymies land protection in Colorado
“Polls like that of Colorado College’s State of Rockies survey document unwavering support for action on public lands conservation, and repeated surveys show support of 70% or more for action on the CORE Act and the Colorado Wilderness Act.”
5/21/22 | The Gazette | Beloved Colorado College professor/dean turns 100 | Cronin and Loevy
“Richard Crane Bradley, born on May 14, 1922, taught physics at Colorado College in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. He also served for six years as a much-admired dean of the faculty.”
5/20/22 | Fox 21 News | Celebrating Asian American History Month: Clifford Nakata
“In response to the growth of Colorado Springs, he completed numerous education buildings including the Centennial Campus of Pikes Peak Community College, multiple buildings on the Colorado College campus, the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, and the United States Air Force Academy.”
5/19/22 | The Koppelman Group | Best Liberal Arts School for Pre-Law
“Students looking to study in the Mountain West can turn to Colorado College, a small school located in Colorado Springs, CO. Colorado College (CC) has a block-format for courses instead of semesters or quarters–students take one course per month. Classes are small and have no set end time: CC’s education is a little bit unconventional, to say the least.”
5/18/22 | One Green Planet | Cruel Virginia Zoo Forces Asha the Elephant to Give Rides Everyday
“Bob Jacobs, Ph.D., Professor of Neuroscience at Colorado College, conducted a study about the consequences of captivity on elephants and summarized it as,
‘Zoo captivity damages elephant brains. There’s a vast gap between the rich environment nature provides for elephants’ thoughtful brains versus zoo captivity, which is impoverished and robs elephants of their social, mental, and neural needs. Decades of neuroscience research show that an impoverished brain is a damaged brain. Whether it is the 10 Worst Zoos or the ten best, all zoos are detrimental to elephants’ brains and cause physical and mental suffering.’ ”
5/18/22 | The Gazette | PHOTOS: Colorado College seniors celebrate with champagne shower
“Colorado College seniors spray champagne in celebration of the end of their undergraduate careers during the annual champagne shower at the flag pole on campus on Wednesday, May 18, 2022. Graduation is set for Sunday, May 22 at 8:30 a.m. at Ed Robson Arena on the Colorado College campus.”
5/18/22 | Westword | The Last Resort: Lincoln Hills Has a Colorful Past and an Invitation-Only Future
“ ‘Because there were kind of safe spaces for Black people, I think you did lose a certain community, and community that went beyond the borders of the region,’ says Claire Oberon Garcia, a Colorado College professor who was recently appointed to the State Historian’s Council.”
5/16/22 | The Utah Statesman | Randy Rahe retires from college basketball coaching
“Rahe, age 61, has spent the last 34 years coaching college basketball. His career started at Colorado College in 1988.”
5/13/22 | The Durango Herald | Bayfield art students earn honors at IML Art Show
“Hinojosa also was recently named a Boettcher Scholar, a statewide honor that provides students with tuition and fees at a Colorado college or university for four years. He plans to attend Colorado College in Colorado Springs.”
5/12/22 | The Criterion | Professor Emeritus visits CMU
“Monroy spent his career at Colorado College teaching social sciences and researching migration. He started at the college in 1978 and now holds a department head position.”
5/12/22 | The Rink Live | Heather Weems ‘grateful and excited’ to be named NCHC commissioner
“Weems will be the third commissioner overseeing a league that features UND, Denver, Colorado College, St. Cloud State, Minnesota Duluth, Omaha, Western Michigan and Miami.”
5/10/22 | American Press Institute | Need to Know: May 10, 2022
“The news ecosystem in Colorado has fractured greatly in the past decade, writes Corey Hutchins of Colorado College’s Journalism Institute.”
5/10/22 Bozeman Daily Chronicle | Chronicle to add agriculture reporter through Report for America
“Hicks is a recent graduate of Colorado College with a degree in environmental studies and journalism. She led the college’s student newspaper. She has also written for The Sopris Sun, a weekly paper in Carbondale, Colorado.”
5/9/22 | Albuquerque Journal | Navajo Nation composer Raven Chacon wins the Pulitzer Prize for music
“He has also taught at UNM, Bard College, Colorado College and the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.”
5/9/22 | Leader Publications | Local poet wins 2022 Pulitzer Prize
“She has taught at institutions such as her alma mater Kalamazoo College, Colorado College, the University of Michigan, Washington University in St. Louis and for the Stonecoast MFA program. Seuss was a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow and a recipient of the 2021 John Updike Award from the Academy of American Arts and Letters.”
5/7/22 | MSA Xperimental | Basil Kincaid: All in One Feeling, and Donté Hayes: Future Artifacts, at Mindy Solomon Gallery
“Kincaid Studied studio art at Colorado College graduating in 2010 with a concentration in Studio art with an emphasis on drawing and painting.”
5/4/22 | Winston-Salem Journal | Colleges where acceptance rates have decreased the most since 2001
“Instead of following the usual two-semesters-a-year structure, Colorado College adopted a block plan.”
5/4/22 | Colorado Springs Indy | Colorado Springs — and the world — grapple with nuclear threats of the 21st century
“Younger people have been getting involved in the movement as well, partly due to their friend Evan Weissman, who teaches a non-violence class at Colorado College.”
5/3/22 | Observer | Gretchen Cryer Is Getting Five Shows Together and Putting Them On The Stage
“In 2003, Cryer was invited to Colorado College to teach Solo Performance 101. ‘They were under the impression Getting My Act Together was a solo piece. It wasn’t. It had a rock band and other characters, but that’s what they thought so it got me a college-teaching job.’ ”
5/3/22 | Latin News | COVID-19 Cases in the US: Highly Transmissible BA.4, BA.5 Variants Found in California, More States
“ ‘The dispersion tells us they’re already present across the U.S. and we just haven’t detected it yet in any states that haven’t been named,’ Dr. Phoebe Lostroh, a Harvard-trained microbiology professor at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado, said.”
5/2/22 | Ark Valley Voice | Colorado News Media Watching This First Amendment Situation Carefully
“As reported by Colorado College Professor Cory Hutchins, by 12:00 noon on Friday, Gazette Editor Vince Bzdek, who had just spoken to a class of Colorado College students on a field trip to the paper’s newsroom in the Springs, offered a statement”
5/1/22 | Washington Examiner | Utah independent Evan McMullin says he can be an effective senator absent party label
“Almost 70% of voters in Mountain West states have reported concerns about the future of natural land, with 86% saying environmental concerns such as clean water and public lands are one of their top priorities when considering a candidate, according to an annual survey by Colorado College.”
5/1/22 | Billings Gazette | Letter to the editor: Urge Daines to support the BCSA
“The most recent Colorado College State of the Rockies poll shows 79% percent of Montanans support this legislation.”
-Also in Montana Standard
5/22 | Boulder Jewish News | Music at the 2022 Boulder Jewish Festival Will Keep You Dancing All Day Long
