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Maddi Schink ’23 Wins Truman Scholarship
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Maddison “Maddi” Schink ’23 has won a 2022 Truman Scholarship, the premier graduate scholarship for students interested in public service. She was selected from 705 candidates and is one of 58 awardees this year of the prestigious honor. Truman Scholars are selected because they demonstrate outstanding leadership potential, a commitment to a career in government or the nonprofit sector, and academic excellence.
“I am incredibly honored and grateful for the opportunity to join the community of Truman Scholars,” she says. “It means a lot to both me and my family that I will be able to use this scholarship to further my education, grow as a leader, and give back to the communities I care about.”
“I am deeply appreciative of everyone — family, friends, and faculty and staff at CC — who helped me get here,” she says. “I know that I couldn’t have made it to this point without all of their guidance and support along the way. It is truly a team effort.”
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Interpreting Audubon for the Modern Age
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Story by Anna Squires ’17/Photo by Lonnie Timmons III
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Their exhibit at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College’s Museum, “ Reframing Birds of America: Conversations on Audubon,” represents nearly a year’s work. For two semesters, students have honed the themes and ideas of the exhibit. The design considerations — from the lighting and picture frames to the text accompanying the prints — are critical. But nothing is more important than the questions they will invite of viewers.
“So many of our students want to make change,” says Tucker, professor of art and the project lead. “The agenda of the museum and art history these days is to ask hard questions, and the museum is the arena for the questions they want to be asking.”
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Earth Week Happenings with The Office of Sustainability
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Staff and Faculty — Get Ready for Bike to Work Day
Presented by the Office of Sustainability Transportation Team, Bike to Work Day aims to celebrate sustainable commutes. Join us on Friday, May 6, 7-9:30 a.m. on Worner Quad for food, music, and prizes. Borrow a bike, tune your own, or plan your route to campus during one of our pre-event clinics: April 27, May 2, and May 4, 4-6 p.m., at the Outdoor Education Center, 931 N. Nevada Ave. Contact sustainability@coloradocollege.edu with questions.
Environmental Action Summit The Office of Sustainability will be hosting CC’s second Environmental Action Summit on Friday, May 6, 1-3:30 p.m. on Worner Quad. The purpose of this event, with an emphasis on environmental justice, is to engage both community members and students in a meaningful discussion about environmental/climate action and sustainability, as well as provide opportunities for everyone to get further involved. Various organizations — both on-campus and off — will have tables with relevant information and ways to engage. After a word from our featured speaker, Jamison (Jamie) Valdez from Pueblo, Colorado, the floor will open for discussion among students and community members around how we can, as a community, better commit to lasting support and action. Jamie is an activist and community organizer in Southern Colorado. He has previously helped with organizing work in racial and economic justice movements like El Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlan (MEChA) and the Occupy Wall Street movement. He used to work for the local Sierra Club chapter, but he now works as a climate justice organizer for an organization called Mothers Out Front. This org is powered by parents’, especially mothers’, desire to protect all children from the climate crisis and create a livable climate for future generations.
There will be local food and music to help us celebrate the importance of coming together. Please RSVP .
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Congratulations to Campus Safety Officer Joseph Shelton
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Photo by Lonnie Timmons III / Colorado College
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Joseph Shelton, who works in CC’s Campus Safety office, was selected recently as a 2022 Rising Star by the Colorado Springs Business Journal. Shelton has been on a mission for years to be the voice for LGBTQ+ youth and at the end of February, he spoke out against transphobia and for the LGBTQ+ community at a Colorado Springs School District 11 board meeting.
“Growing up, I never had an opportunity to have my voice be heard,” says Shelton, who is running for the Colorado State Board of Education. “I want to be that for the youths who need their voices heard — that person who’s going to make a stand for the LGBTQ community, put their voice out there and hold elected officials accountable to the words they say.”
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Senior Students: Submit Info for Senior Spotlights
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We want to honor the outstanding achievements of our senior students! The Senior Spotlight is open to all seniors in the Class of 2022. If you’re interested in being featured on CC’s social media accounts in the Senior Spotlight 2022, please fill out this form.
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“Now Hear This” Copland Episode Filmed at CC to Air on PBS
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Photo by Josh Birndorf ’20
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An episode of the acclaimed PBS series “Now Hear This” focused on American composer Aaron Copland that was filmed during last year’s Colorado College Summer Music Festival will air on Rocky Mountain PBS on Friday, April 22, at 8 p.m. Conductor and festival artist Scott Yoo, is the host of “Now Hear This,” a show that merges music, storytelling, travel, and culture as Yoo chases the secret histories of some of the greatest music ever written. Yoo is a renowned violinist, conductor of the Mexico City Philharmonic, and music director at Festival Mozaic in California.
Pulitzer-, Grammy- and Oscar-winning composer Aaron Copland created a distinctive American sound in both his classical compositions and film scores. In “Copland: Dean of American Music,” host Scott Yoo and fellow musicians spend time working with students at the Colorado College Summer Music Festival to strengthen their auditioning skills and better understand Copland’s music. To discover Copland’s inspiration, Yoo travels to New York to explore the Jewish music Copland was raised with as well as modernist music through performances by Cantor Daniel Mutlu, violinist Steven Copes, cellist Mark Kosower, festival music director and pianist Susan Grace, and more. Later, Yoo becomes the student and learns from pianist and Copland enthusiast John Novacek about how the composer developed his signature sound, now so familiar to us all.
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Jacks Sawyer ’25 is slacklining in Tava Quad on a relatively warm day.
Photo by Erin Mullins ’24 / Colorado College
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