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Celebrating Student-Athletes During Division III Week

This week is all about our Division III student-athletes

I hope you enjoy learning more about these two CC Tigers!
Class Year: 2025
Sport: Swimming and Diving
Major: Economics
Favorite Class: Paris on the Precipice (in Paris)
Top CC Academic Moment: Making the Dean’s List my freshman year
Special Talent: I can play the violin.
Hobbies: Cooking, running, and driving around with my friends
Proudest Moment at CC: The women’s team getting second place at our conference meet this year. It had been a goal of ours for the past few seasons and we really focused and worked hard towards achieving that goal.
Community Service Experience: In high school, I organized my swim team’s annual breast cancer awareness fundraiser in 2020 and 2021.
Class Year: 2024
Sport: Track
Major: Economics
Favorite Class: Time and Uncertainty with Professor Jessica Hoel
Top CC Academic Moment: Constructing an experiment on risk aversion in Prof. Hoel’s class. 
Special Talent: Have telekinesis with my twin brother
Hobbies: Playing piano, soccer, and ping-pong
Proudest Moment at CC: Running in the 4x400m at the conference championship my freshman year. 
Community Service Experience: Creek clean-up
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Well Wishes for Barbara Wilson on Her Retirement

Dear Campus Community,

It is with a deep sense of gratitude and mixed emotions that I announce that Barbara Wilson, associate vice president for administrative services, will retire in mid-May after over 22 years of service to Colorado College. 

Please join me in thanking Barbara for her years of service and wishing her well. Watch your email for an announcement of her retirement celebration event, coming soon.

Sincerely,


Robert G. Moore

Senior Vice President for Finance & Administration/CFO/COO
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Help Recognize Our CC Student-Athletes

It’s Day 5 of Division III Week and we aren’t done yet!

This week, we’ve highlighted two Division III student-athletes each day. Today, I’m thrilled to introduce to two more CC Tigers!
Class Year: 2024
Sport: Women’s Tennis
Major: Political Science
Favorite Class: The Judiciary (shoutout my advisor Doug Edlin)
Top CC Academic Moment: When I successfully passed elementary level French 
Special Talent: I can nap anywhere, anytime
Hobbies: Running, baking chocolate chip cookies, watching the Bachelor, playing spike-ball at the beach
Proudest Moment at CC: Our team’s upset against Hardin-Simmons in Texas last spring. I split sets in my singles match and clinched the third, and I remember celebrating with my teammates and coaches. It was such a good feeling.
Community Service Experience: I’ve been a member of beach cleanups in my hometown and also volunteered with local kids camps in the summers.
Class Year: 2025
Sport: Diving
Major: Molecular Biology
Favorite Class: Advanced Joint Anatomy
Top CC Academic Moment: Getting an A in Chemistry 2
Special Talent: Tumbling
Hobbies: Guitar, skiing, brewing kombucha
Proudest Moment at CC: My proudest moment at CC was throwing a front 3 1/2 off of three-meter this season! 
Community Service Experience: I loved serving meals at the Colorado Springs Rescue Mission this semester. 
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Updates re: the Office for Civil Rights and Title IX

Dear Campus Community,

CC’s Office for Civil Rights and Title IX has a new permanent home! The office is now located at 214 E. Dale Street, Unit 200. They are still getting settled in, but feel free to stop by and say hello. 

Additionally, Tashana Taylor, assistant vice president for Civil Rights, and Title IX coordinator, will be leaving CC – and the country – to start a new adventure. We appreciate all the important work that Tashana contributed to our community, and wish Tashana and her family all the best on their upcoming move/military relocation to England. Tashana’s last day with the college is today, Friday, April 14. 

A search to fill the assistant vice president/Title IX coordinator position will begin soon. In the meantime, you may contact Joshua Isringhausen, assistant director for Civil Rights and Deputy Title IX coordinator, with any questions or concerns. Joshua will serve as the interim Title IX coordinator upon Tashana’s departure. Joshua can be reached at jisringhausen@coloradocollege.edu or 719-389-6886. Many thanks to Joshua for serving in this role.

Please feel free to reach out to me directly with any questions related to the transition plan or the forthcoming search.

Sincerely,

Pedro de Araujo

Dean of the College
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Around the Block – Focusing on the Environment

Did you know…
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The Speaking Center, part of the Colket Center for Academic Excellence, offers in-person oral communication tutoring sessions and strategic communications workshops for the campus community.

Students deserve to receive public speaking support, just as they have writing support. Learning the art of effective communication is a life skill that’s foundational to building relationships and communities. Facilitating discussions and various styles of oral presentations are common in CC classes, s0 The Speaking Center connects CC students with a network of trained peers who offer collegial and strategic support to fit everyone’s needs. 

Oral assessments are common in CC classes, but they’ve historically been content-driven and not presentational; presentational standards of excellence have not been articulated. Our dream is tha,t as faculty implement these standards, the Speaking Center will teach students how to fulfill them. 

Arab American Heritage Month


Arab American Heritage Month started as a 2017 initiative that only involved a few states and cities, but recognition has been steadily growing since. Though it is still not officially recognized at a federal level with permanent legislation, President Biden was the first U.S. president to issue a statement acknowledging AAHM in April 2021.

The Denver Public Library is participating by offering a collection of resources to commemorate and learn more about Arab Americans throughout history and those alive today, recognizing their key contributions to our country, while addressing bigotry and challenging stereotypes and prejudices. 

These resources include book recommendations for all ages, lists of movies and music, and events throughout the month, such as an Islamic Geometric Art class and a virtual book club relating to social justice. The book for this month is “Home is Not a Country” by Safia Elhillo. 

The Timothy C. Linnemann Memorial Lecture on the Environment presents Meriwether Hardie ’09
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Join Meriwether Hardie’s talk, “Communities, Food Systems, and Conservation: Learnings from working with land and people around the globe,” on April 18 at 6 p.m. in the Cornerstone Screening Room.

Immediately following Meriwether Hardie’s graduation from CC, she traveled to Argentina on a journalism fellowship, bought a horse for $200, and rode from southern Patagonia to Bolivia to report on this swiftly changing landscape, specifically the competition between traditional agricultural practices and modern land conservation techniques. In the years since, Meriwether has continued to dedicate her work to the question of – how do we keep working landscapes working?

From reintroducing beavers to sheep range land in Idaho, to the failing dairy industry in Vermont, to cattle ranching in Hawaii, Meriwether works in places of tension (and opportunity!) in the worlds of conservation, food systems, and communities. Meriwether believes that these worlds are intimately intertwined, especially when provided with the right resources. During Meriwether’s talk, she will share case studies, stories, mistakes, and successes from her experience of working with people and land.

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Earth Week is April 17-22

Are you ready for a week of action-packed week of meaningful events to celebrate and protect our planet? Coordinated by the Office of Sustainability and in conjunction with many other campus and community partners, Earth Week will host various activities aimed at engaging the community in learning, consciousness, and celebration. Make sure you check the Sustainability website for all the activities.

Congratulations to Professor Rushaan Kumar on Publishing “Bodies that Matter: Partition Masculinity and the Transgender Archive in Qissa” in Feminist Review
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Feminist & Gender Studies is proud to announce Rushaan Kumar’s new publication: “Bodies that Matter: Partition Masculinity and the Transgender Archive in Qissa” in “Feminist Review.”

In this article, Kumar provides a critical trans reading of the Punjabi film “Qissa: The Tale of a Lonely Ghost” to offer alternative archives of emotion, trauma, and memory that complicate the familiar analytical binaries within which Partition and related questions of citizenship and belonging are theorized.

The purpose of “Feminist Review” is to hold space for conversations that rethink and reimagine feminist scholarship and praxis: the modes and contexts in which it operates, the questions it takes up, and with whom feminists are in conversation. “Feminist Review” aims to publish accessible knowledge and timely interventions that build on the work of Black, Indigenous, decolonial, and transnational feminist struggle.

A Conversation with Alan Prendergast about Gangbusting
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In the Roaring Twenties, Denver was known as “The Big Store,” a wide-open town where smart grifters could fleece wealthy marks out of hundreds of thousands of dollars without any interference from the law, as long as Lou “The Fixer” Blonger got this cut.

District Attorney Van Cise went after Blonger and his city’s entire corrupt power structure, an intricate network of bent politicians, professional criminals, and the  leaders of the Colorado Realm of the Ku Klux Klan, a poisonous cabal cloaking themselves in patriotism while preaching white supremacy. His efforts would expose the Klan’s crimes and alter the course of the city’s history.

Join the Journalism Institute for a conversation with author Alan Prendergast about this often neglected chapter in the history of gangbusting. 

Tuesday, April 18 at 5 p.m.
Southern Colorado Public Media Center, 720 N Tejon St, in the Community Room

Photo of the Week
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The Theatre and Dance Department presents DanSix: FLUX, which features 13 dance students, Friday, March 17.
Photo by Katya Nicolayevsky ’24
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