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Women’s History Month

Did you know that International Women’s Day was Wednesday, March 8? In celebration of that and Women’s History Month, check out this interview where Director of Athletics Lesley Irvine speaks to Lorna Kollmeyer ’80 and Melanie Auguste ’09, two of the most prominent women in Colorado College Athletics history.

TREE Semester Sets Students Up for Successful Teaching Career
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Photo by Connor Nolan ’20, M’21
By Julia Fennell ’21

The TREE Semester is a 16-week residential semester, similar to a traditional study abroad experience, where students live and learn at the Catamount Center, in the montane forest near Woodland Park. While the program is open to all CC students, it was especially designed for students interested in environmental and educational fields.

CC students can only participate in TREE once, but Howard Drossman P’23, TREE Semester program director and professor of environmental education, often hires TREE alumni to return as fellows. Fellows are residents who assist students with their science and education assignments, run the community, and take lead roles on the early teaching.

By the end of the semester, each student has developed a professional portfolio that they submit to the Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education for professional certification.

On average, nine CC students participate in TREE each year. There is no required coursework for admission to TREE, but in Drossman’s experience, students who have good writing and community living skills, as well as previous science and education classes, tend to be most successful in the program.

The deadline to apply for TREE Program Fall 2023 is March 15, 2023. For more information, apply on SUMMIT or contact Howard Drossman at hdrossman@coloradocollege.edu.

Nominations for the Livesay Awards are Open
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Do you know Colorado College alumni who significantly impact Colorado’s nonprofit sector?
The Livesay Award was created in honor of popular and well-respected Professor Emeritus of Sociology Jeff Livesay, who brought the Public Interest Fellowship Program to Colorado College and has shepherded it through years of growth to become a signature program on campus. It is presented each year to a CC graduate who is living out the mission, spirit, and goals of the PIFP in their life and career by contributing to systemic change, increasing the capacity of the nonprofit sector, and helping to build a new generation of nonprofit leaders.

The Colorado College Public Interest Fellowship Program invites you to nominate a Colorado College graduate for the Livesay Award for Social Change.

If you know a CC grad who has made a significant career contribution to the nonprofit sector in Colorado over the years, please nominate them for the Livesay Award. Nominations for the Livesay Award must be submitted by April 1 each year. We invite everyone and anyone to submit a nomination. To nominate a Colorado College graduate please complete this form.

The Truth About Reading
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The CC Education Department is excited to announce that we are hosting a public screening of “The Truth About Reading” on Tuesday, March 14, 6 p.m. at the Kathryn Mohrman Theatre in Armstrong Hall. This new, eye-opening documentary from Emmy-Award-winning Director Nick Nanton brings to light the illiteracy crisis in America, highlighting people who learned to read as adults and sharing proposed solutions for working towards a future where every child learns to read proficiently.

Panel discussion and Q & A to follow the screening.

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Mike on the Mic Episode 2 is Here
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The Block 6 episode, Mike on the Mic: The State of American Politics, is now available. Mike on the Mic is a podcast series featuring Mike Edmonds, senior vice president, in the months leading up to his retirement after 30 years of service at CC. Edmonds hosts faculty members and local leaders for conversations about topics that matter including race and higher education, mental health, and the current political environment in the U.S. 

In this episode, Edmonds is joined by Elizabeth Coggins, associate professor of political science, for a conversation about the state of American politics and this past year’s midterm elections. Coggins joined the faculty of CC in the fall of 2014. She studies United States politics, public opinion, ideological identification, and political psychology. 

Campus Safety Updates
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Campus Safety, in conjunction with the Campus Resource Officer, can provide an assessment of your campus space based upon Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED).  This assessment is free for campus offices and spaces.  If you are interested in receiving CPTED assessment, contact campussafety@coloradocollege.edu with CPTED in the subject line. 

Campus Safety invites you to participate in Empower Con, a biannual safety fair.  Spring Empower Con is Wednesday, March 15 from noon-1:30 p.m. in Worner Center.

Public Screening of the Film “Resistance Climbing” 
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Tim Bruns ’14, founder of CityROCK, will be presenting the screening of “Resistance Climbing,” in which he is featured and helped create. 
Reel Rock Film Tour and Sender Films, founded by CC alums Nick Rosen ’97, Josh Lowell ’94, and Peter Mortimer ’97, filmed, directed, and edited the film after Bruns convinced them to come to Palestine and make the film about climbing. “The ultimate goal of the film is to change the narrative about Palestinians and to humanize them to the world. If we succeed, I hope there will be more resources available to the Palestinian climbers, more international climbers going to visit Palestine and a better understanding of the region globally. We are also hoping to leverage the momentum of the tour to raise money for continued climbing development in Palestine,” says Bruns. 
Thursday, March 16, 7 p.m.
Kathryn Mohrman Theater
200 free tickets are first come first served for CC students, faculty and staff. Additional tickets are available to the public on the Reel Rock site for $20

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Photo of the Week
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President Richardson and newly tenured Eli Fahrenkrug, professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, on March 1. Find out who else received tenure and emeriti status.
Photo by Lonnie Timmons III 
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Important Info: City of Colorado Springs Municipal Election

City of Colorado Springs Voting Information

The City of Colorado Springs is holding a municipal election on April 4, 2023. This is an important local election for students who live in the City of Colorado Springs; elected positions on the ballot will include mayor, three at-large city council seats for a four-year term, and the unexpired term for City Council District 3. The ballot will also contain at least one ballot initiative that voters will decide directly. See below for links to get informed about the candidates and ballot initiative.
This election is a mail-in ballot election only, meaning that to vote, you must receive your ballot in the mail or obtain it in person at the City Clerk’s office, and return it by mail or via ballot drop box. To receive your ballot in the mail, register to vote or update your voter registration today  (instructions below).

Students have the right to register to vote and vote in Colorado if they meet standard eligibility requirements, which are detailed below. Students who live in the City of Colorado Springs have the right to vote in this municipal election; our campus and all Colorado College student housing is located in the City of Colorado Springs (District 3).

Key dates:

  • Friday, March 10: Ballots sent to voters and 24/7 ballot drop boxes open (locations listed here).
  • Monday, March 27: Last day to register online and receive a ballot in the mail.
    • Starting on Monday, March 13, you can also stop by the City Clerk’s office to register in-person and receive your printed ballot.
  • Tuesday, April 4: Election Day; ballots must be received by 7 p.m. Ballots postmarked by 7 p.m., but not received by that time, will not be accepted.

To receive your ballot in the mail, register to vote or update your voter registration today. Registering to vote is quick and easy and can be completed online. You must update your voter registration each time you move.

REGISTER ONLINE: You can register easily online with the last four digits of your Social Security Number, or your Colorado ID. Visit GoVoteColorado.gov to register to vote or update your voter registration.

  • If you live on campus at Colorado College, be mindful of formatting your address correctly when registering to vote:
    • The residential address/ address where you live is the address of your residence hall.
    • The mailing address/ address where you receive mail is Colorado College Campus Mail.

819 North Tejon St. CC Box #___

Colorado Springs, CO 80946

Students who live outside of the City of Colorado Springs are also encouraged to register to vote or update their registration. For information about registering or updating your registration in a state other than Colorado, visit vote.usa.gov.

GET INFORMED ABOUT WHAT’S ON THE BALLOT

  • Visit the CC Votes webpage for up-to-date information on upcoming elections.
  • Visit the City of Colorado Springs City Election website to learn about the candidates and ballot issues.
  • Attend a candidate forum. Local organizations are collaborating to host a series of forums in March. Forum info and more can be found on the League of Women Voters of the Pikes Peak Region website.

With questions about this election, please contact the City of Colorado Springs City Clerk. With questions about voter registration, please contact your county clerk. You can also email questions to ccvotes@coloradocollege.edu.


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Announcing The Humanities For Our Times Conference at Colorado College
The Humanities for Our Times: New Perspectives on Humanistic Methods and Social Justice 

June 14-17, 2023 
Colorado College 
 
How do the humanities contribute to anti-oppressive work, and how can humanities methods—from inquiry and critique to creative production and performance—dismantle systems of oppression, create and sustain community and solidarity, and advance liberation? How can we, as educators, empower and prepare students to embark effectively on social justice projects and enact social change? How can we harness the power and potential of the humanities to forge dynamic synergies between the classroom, the archive, and the streets?  
 
The dominant claim in the mid-century American academy was that the humanities disciplines dealt with something called “the human condition,” a concept which has barely survived the critical scrutiny from scholars of postmodernism, Critical Race Theory, postcolonialism, and intersectionality. Where does the debris of an idea of a secular universal human being (gendered cis male and raced white) that emerged during the European Enlightenment era—uninflected by the particularities of history, identity, and culture—leave the humanities now? How do ahistorical ways of thinking about the humanities, which call for the nostalgic resurrection of universal and transcendent concepts, stand in tension with current analyses of systems and structures of injustices and oppression? And where might legitimate, rational critiques of methodologies like Critical Race Theory and intersectionality take the humanities in the future? 
 
As a recipient of the Mellon Foundation’s Humanities For All Times Grant, Colorado College is hosting an academic conference with the goal of bringing together educators, artists, and activists to engage these questions and consider the relationship between humanities methods and social justice today. This conference will take a hybrid format with panel sessions in the morning followed by events including: 
  • Plenary roundtable discussion featuring Dylan Robinson, Associate Professor of Music at UBC and Dwanna McKay, Associate Professor of Race, Ethnicity and Migration Studies at CC (we are still awaiting confirmation from the third participant) 
  • Film screening of the Nashville Ballet’s performance of Lucy Negro Redux 
  • Artist talk by Caroline Randall Williams, whose book of poetry Lucy Negro, Redux: The Bard, a Book, and a Ballet is the basis for the ballet 
  • Keynote address (still awaiting confirmation from the speaker) 
  • CC Mobile Arts event  
The conference will focus on epistemologies and knowledge production, humanistic methodologies, liberatory creative practices, and social justice. We are currently seeking papers on any of these topics. Participation in the conference is not limited to individuals appointed in Humanities divisions, and we welcome interdisciplinary and creative approaches, as well as papers describing social justice projects. 
 
Please submit a 250-word abstract and short bio at www.HumanitiesForOurTimesCC.org by March 31, 2023. If you are interested in moderating a panel, acting as a respondent, or participating in this conference in some other way, please email clisiecki@coloradocollege.edu. Registration opens March 15. 
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