TOMORROW: Block 2 First Mondays

Start Block 2 with the campus community at the first First Mondays presentation of the academic year TOMORROW, Sept. 26, at 11:15 a.m. 

Katherine Standefer ’07, author of the 2022-23 Common Read “Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life,” was a finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction, a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice/Staff Pick, and shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University. Join Standefer in the Kathryn Mohrman Theatre in Armstrong Hall, or join virtually by registering for the webinar. 
The First Mondays Event Series is a campus-wide forum that aims to engage all members of the CC community, including students, staff, administrators, and faculty. The series creates opportunities for the whole community to gather, encouraging everyone to be part of the intellectual life of the college, and facilitating discourse among students, faculty, and staff, across courses, disciplines, and divisions. Classes are dismissed early on the first Monday of each block so that all may attend the First Mondays event.
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Around the Block – Inspired by Art

Students Engage with World-Famous Kronos Quartet
ID: 4 people sitting in chairs on a stage, 3 of them in face masks, speaking to an audience

Photo by Lonnie Timmons III 
By Julia Fennell ’21

The world-famous Kronos Quartet met with students in five Colorado College classes on Aug. 30, 2022, in Packard Performance Hall.
The Kronos Quartet spoke about the group’s new film, “A Thousand Thoughts,” to students in four critical inquiry seminars: Black and Brown Muslims in White America; Musicals in American Culture; Philosophy as a Way of Life; and Emotion and Meaning in Music, as well as to students in Music Composition.
“It’s important to note that four of the five classes were first-year seminars,” says Ryan Bañagale ’00, co-chair of the Music Department, who has been working for several years to bring the ensemble to campus. “Students spent their second day of CC with the world-famous Kronos Quartet.”

‘Take Back the Power’ Concert Today
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One of Downtown’s most powerful murals, “Take Back the Power” by Gregg Deal, will be the site for an evening of inspiring performances featuring Dead Pioneers, Marcelina Ramirez, and Algiers, today, Sept. 23, at 5:30 p.m.

Deal is a local Pyramid Lake Paiute artist and activist whose art practice incorporates lifelong interests in punk music, street art and graphic styles, comic books, and speculative superhero fiction.

At the base of the 70-foot, award-winning mural, enjoy:

  • Music from the debut album of Deal’s new band, Dead Pioneers
  • Music from post-punk rock band Algiers
  • Spoken word performance on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women from Marcelina Ramirez, Colorado College Mobile Arts’ Artist-in-Residence

Presented by Downtown Ventures, UCCS Galleries of Contemporary Art, and Colorado College Mobile Arts. Sponsored by Arts in Society, a grant administered by Redline Contemporary Art Center, and the CU President’s Fund for the Humanities.

New ‘Art Loan’ Program Launches this Fall
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Photo by Lonnie Timmons III
By Julia Fennell ’21
Students, faculty, and staff will soon have access to a hundred pieces of art as part of the new Art Loan program. The program will allow members of the campus community to borrow artwork to use in offices, residence halls, and workspaces.
While owning an original piece of art has historically been an exclusive privilege, the Art Loan program will give everyone a chance to have a connection with, and to, art. “Living with art improves your life — we know art can increase self-awareness, open up new understanding, and reduce stress,” says Rebecca Tucker, professor of art, who is facilitating the Art Loan program. “The Art Loan program is built on the idea that everyone should have that opportunity.” 
The Art Loan program not only will increase access to the campus collection but will help CC’s sense of place in the community, as the program will feature and acquire art from local and regional artists. The program will also help to advance the college’s antiracism commitment, as the student managers of the collection will work with local and regional BIPOC artists to feature and buy their art.
The Art Loan program will begin in Block 2 with about 100 pieces available to loan out. For more information, campus community members can email Rebecca Tucker, phone (719) 389-6646, or check the CC website starting in Block 2.

Mark Your Calendar for First Mondays 
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Join us Monday Sept. 26 at 11:15 a.m. for a talk by Katherine Standefer, author of the 2022-23 Common Read “Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life.” Her debut book, “Lightning Flowers,” was a finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction, a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice/Staff Pick, and was shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University. Standefer earned her MFA in Nonfiction from the University of Arizona and her B.A. in English and Sociology from Colorado College. You can learn more about the text through the Tutt Library LibGuide.

Register here in advance for this webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Professor Keleher ’11 Publishes Essay in Shakespeare Quarterly
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Visiting Assistant Professor of English Sarah S. Keleher ’11 has published a new essay in Shakespeare Quarterly, entitled, “‘This bastard graff shall never come to growth’: Conception and Consent in Shakespeare’s Lucrece.” The essay explores the way in which Shakespeare’s Lucrece follows a humanist disputational tradition that positions Lucretia as a defendant against charges of adultery in a perpetual rhetorical trial, interpreting her motives for suicide through judgment of her chastity. While previous critics have tended to rule in Lucrece’s favor, identifying Lucrece as a rape victim rather than as a consenting adulteress, Keleher argues that Shakespeare resists a straightforward exoneration of his heroine by indicating that Lucrece conceives a child during Tarquin’s assault.

Keleher returns to Colorado College having recently completed her doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley. She will teach several courses this year, including Introduction to Poetry, Introduction to Shakespeare, and Bodies in Early Modern Literature.

Photo of the Week
ID: an asian woman in overalls and a tank top sitting on the grass, leaning against a treem reading a book. A white water bottle by her feet, and another young woman in the background also sitting on the grass reading

Photo by Lonnie Timmons III
First-year students Sophia Boras ’26 and Rose Ryan ’26 in Tava Quad on Sept. 12.
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Taking Steps to Address Compensation Needs for Our Staff

Dear Staff,

To support our goal of making Colorado College one of the greatest places to work, college leadership and I are committed to paying faculty and staff in a financially sustainable way that takes into account living wage principles and reflects the educational labor market. 

As you know, we have taken several steps to address the rapidly changing compensation needs of our staff and faculty:

  • Earlier this year, we increased salaries by 2.5% for staff in bands 1-6 and 2% for staff in bands above 6 as part of our annual review process.
  • We also provided a one-time payment to staff hired before Jan. 1, 2022, in June of this year to recognize and acknowledge invaluable commitment and efforts.
  • We raised the campus minimum wage to $17.00/hour (and $15.00/hour for occasional workers).
  • We provided an initial increase for staff whose pay was compressed by the increase in the minimum wage.

While COVID is still a challenge to our campus, most of our students and employees have been vaccinated and we believe we have ample controls and services in place to support our community. So, we have decided to reallocate a portion of funds that were set aside for the pandemic to provide an additional increase for staff in pay bands 1-6.

Staff in pay bands 1-6 with a current hire date prior to 2020 may be eligible for this additional compression adjustment, effective Oct. 1, 2022. 

This decision will help approximately 160 of our staff members to come into alignment with our compensation philosophy and goals. If you receive this increase, you will be notified by email with specific information the week of Oct. 1. This letter will include contact information for additional follow-up.

I understand how important getting our compensation right is for all of us. This is just another step to ensuring we are creating one of the best places to work in higher education.

Sincerely,

Robert Moore

Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer
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