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A Daily Digest for Colorado College

Today at CC Digest for Students

A Daily Digest for Colorado College

Today at CC Digest

A Daily Digest for Colorado College

Today at CC Digest for Students

A Daily Digest for Colorado College

Today at CC Digest

A Daily Digest for Colorado College

Around the Block Campus News – Forward Progress

Colorado College Remains a Top Institution in Sustainability
ID: a white woman in overalls and a tshirt wearing sunglasses standing behind a table with CC Office of Sustainability banner and other objects, on the grass with buildinggs and trees in the background ID: Central Plant Supervisor Justin Porter leading a Central Plant Tour to a group of people, all inside looking at pipes, etc ID: A group of students sitting listening to someone speaking in front of a river

 Photos by Mae Rohrbach
By Julia Fennell ’21.
Colorado College has once again been named a top institution in sustainability from the Sustainable Campus Index.

“We recognize that sustainability is a broad topic that extends far beyond just environmental issues. Our ranking as a top ten baccalaureate institution reflects this and all of our efforts across the college to create a more just world,” says Director of Sustainability Ian Johnson.

The Sustainable Campus Index is a ranking of top institutions in different areas of sustainability. The placement is based on the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, and Rating System, known as STARS, which is administered by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. CC is a gold-rated STARS institution.

CC remains one of only ten institutions of higher education in North America to achieve carbon neutrality, which was accomplished in 2020.

CC’s commitment to sustainability goes beyond the campus. The college has invested in a methane destruction project at the Larimer County landfill, which works to prevents methane, a greenhouse gas, from entering the atmosphere.

This is the fourth year in a row that CC has been recognized in the annual Sustainable Campus Index.

Anthropology Professor Calla Jacobson Wins Prize for Manuscript
ID: white woman wearing glasses and a blue shirt, with shor blonde hair, smiling standing in front of trees with mountains in the background
By Julia Fennell ’21
Professor Calla Jacobson was recently awarded the Sandra Carpenter Prize for Creative Nonfiction, which is an annual award given by the Sandra Carpenter Memorial Fund, in partnership with the First Pages Prize.
Jacobson won the award based on an excerpt from her working manuscript, “The Tiger’s Paw Print: A Memoir of Myth and Desire in the Himalayas.” She was awarded $750, a developmental edit, and an agent consultation.
“For more than two decades, people have been telling me that I should write the story of my daughter’s origin — conceived, as she was, in an unlikely love that blossomed with a subsistence farmer in the Himalayas,” Jacobson says. “I have finally done so in a memoir that is part immersion into the daily life of a mountain community, part love story, and part retelling of a local mythology featuring sorrowful birds, stingy gods, a feral female yeti, and the ordinary humans implicated in their exploits.”
Jacobson taught at CC from 2000-2004 as a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, and has returned since then as a block visitor. You can read more about Jacobson’s work and memoir on her website.

Publicly Engaged, Actionable Knowledge Project 
The CCE continues to develop the PEAK Project, which launched in 2019. The PEAK Project promotes community-engaged teaching, learning, and research at CC to connect knowledge to action for community impact. 
To do this, the CCE works to: 
  1. Educate stakeholders about best practices.
  2. Connect CC educators, students, and partners to co-create:
    1. courses that provide opportunity to teach for community impact and learn about changemaking, or
    2. research that produces applied knowledge connected to community action (scholarly works and student theses).
  3. Promote community-engaged teaching, learning, and research at CC through recruiting, advocating, and storytelling efforts
If you are a faculty or staff member interested in transitioning a course to community-engaged learning, but don’t currently have the community connections to do so, you are invited to participate. To participate, please fill out this interest form by Sept. 25. Students interested in connecting with a partner for an applied senior thesis project should email jradke@coloradocollege.edu. 

Italian Professor Uses Horses to Help Students Focus
ID: a horse kissing a smiling woman, who is wearing dark sunglasses and a white shirt, with her hands on the horses face. Other people wearing sunglasses standing beside the horse watching.

Photo by Lonnie Timmons III
By Julia Fennell ’21
When Amanda Minervini, assistant professor and director of the Italian Program, was planning her First-Year Program class on the rise of fascism last year, she had an idea that would inspire and teach her students more than just the history of fascism: Equine-Guided Learning and Healing Experience.
“EGLHE inspires students to look for communication in places they are not used to, for instance, in the very subtle ways an equine face and whole body change to signal relaxation, pleasure, discomfort, satisfaction, or wanting a carrot,” says Minervini. “[Horses] are the masters of embodied emotions! This type of observation requires attention to detail, presence, and attunement. Being present and aware helps students focus.” Students often see EGLHE as a soothing experience, which is a welcome shift from the fast pace of the Block Plan, Minervini adds.
Minervini has a website where students write testimonials about their experience with EGLHE. Many students cited feeling less anxious, calmer, and more focused after a session with Minervini’s horse, Jimmy.
Minervini hopes to eventually collect data and run a study on the effects of EGLHE on mood and attention. EGLHE is a nonprofit foundation directed by Minervini and Haley Griffis ’17. Minervini received a grant from Creativity & Innovation at CC, which allowed her to trademark EGLHE.

Submit Nominations for Renaming of South Hall
ID: focus on a brick building with large windows, sseveral people dressed in long pants, long sleeve shirts, vests, coats, and hoodies walking past the building

Photo by Lonnie Timmons III
By Julia Fennell ’21
Members of the Colorado College community are invited to submit their ideas for the re-naming of South Hall, formerly known as Slocum Hall.
The building was originally named after former Colorado College President William F. Slocum, who retired in 1917 in response to allegations of sexual misconduct. In Fall 2017, former President Jill Tiefenthaler investigated the allegations and brought the findings to the school’s Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees found “overwhelming and uncontroverted evidence” that Slocum did engage in sexual misconduct and egregious sexual assault while he was the president of CC. “Such behavior was reprehensible and is in direct conflict with the mission and values of Colorado College,” the board wrote in 2018.
As a result of the findings, the board voted unanimously to rescind Slocum’s honorary degree and ordered the immediate removal of his name from the residence hall and commons building. The spaces were temporarily re-named “South Hall” and “South Commons.”
The South Hall Naming Committee, made up of CC students, staff, and alumni, met via Zoom in May to discuss the re-naming process. The committee discussed a year-long timeline, as well as how to thoroughly vet name submissions. The committee acknowledged the great importance of the committee’s work being both transparent and understood by the broader community.
Name suggestion submissions will be accepted via this form through Nov. 27.

Photo of the Week
ID: students on rocks from hiking at garden of the gods with trees and other rock formations in the background

Photo by Lonnie Timmons III
Students hike through Garden of the Gods on Aug. 24 as part of the Priddy Local Day Experience. 
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Project 2024 Year Two

Dear CC Community,

As we begin the new academic year, I want to update you on Project 2024 and share with you our plans for Year Two. In Year One, we dedicated time to figuring out “what we hope to do.” In Year Two, we are focusing on “how we do it.”
Last year we also discussed challenges facing higher education now and in the near future. This year we’ll study their effects on CC and identify possible responses.

This is where you can find a summary of Year One and all updates and upcoming engagement opportunities.

We had a busy summer, with Year Two campus engagement beginning in June. Staff attended 13 sessions to delve deeper into aspects of the three areas for action outlined in the Year One Report:

  1. Learning in and beyond the classroom
  2. Structures and interactions
  3. Policies, programs, and norms

Also, in June, the college’s Board of Trustees discussed two aspects of the overarching “connection” theme: connecting students’ CC education to their post-graduate lives and finding ways the college can reinforce its connections to the city, region, country, and world.

Our summer engagement concluded in late August with Faculty Forum on Aug. 23 and Fall Conference on Aug. 25. The entire forum was devoted to the “learning in and beyond the classroom” area for action. Fall Conference discussion sessions touched on learning in/out of the classroom, resources, our people, structures, and observing limits. In all, nearly 300 members of the CC community participated in Project 2024 discussions this summer. Thank you for engaging in this process!

Summer engagement marked the start of the first phase of our plan for Year Two. There will be four phases in 2022-23:

  • Generating ideas
  • Identifying options to pursue
  • Consolidating options
  • Vetting and assessing options

The idea-generating phase began in June and will conclude by the end of September. Students are invited to participate in this phase by responding to a survey available now through the end of Block 1. Students, please check your email for information on how to participate.

Later this month, the Project 2024 Steering Committee will finalize the plan for phase two of Year Two, “identifying options” and will provide details on how members of the campus community may participate.

The Project 2024 work is guided by who we are and what we do and by our shared values.

We are a place of learning committed to supporting our students.

We provide a liberal arts education in a residential setting that builds community and promotes learning beyond the classroom using the Block Plan, which features small classes and an intensive one-course-at-a-time structure.

We value the health and well-being of the campus community, our work on antiracism, ensuring equity and access, protecting the environment, and providing clear, transparent, and effective communication.

Please check our website for ongoing updates and opportunities. I look forward to sharing more to come in Blocks 2 and 3.

Sincerely,


Susan Ashley

Professor of History and Project 2024 Coordinator
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