Eleven faculty promoted at Colorado Mountain College

Colorado Mountain College is promoting four assistant professors and seven associate professors throughout the college’s nine-county service area. Portraits of the eleven faculty are in the slideshow above. Kelli McCall and Jeffrey Runyon at the Leadville campus and Connie Selzer and Rod Taylor at the Spring Valley campus (near Glenwood Springs) are being promoted to associate professor. Tal Hardman, Derek Johnston, Bruce Kime and Becky Loth Luetke at Spring Valley; Susanna Spaulding at Leadville; Lindsay Royce at Steamboat; and Carol Turrin at Breckenridge are being promoted to full professor.

Four associate professors at Colorado Mountain College’s campus in Spring Valley are being promoted to full professor. Dr. Kime has taught social science and outdoor education at the college for 25 years. For 14 years Johnston has taught professional photography, and Hardman has taught communication and composition. Luetke, a nursing instructor, has taught at the college for five years.

In addition Selzer and Dr. Taylor, who have been assistant professors at Spring Valley, are being promoted to associate professor after each teaching at the college for four years. Selzer has taught nursing courses and Taylor has taught biology and chemistry.

Royce, an associate professor at Colorado Mountain College’s campus in Steamboat Springs, is being promoted to full professor. Dr. Royce has taught literature and creative writing courses as a full-time faculty member since 2007.

Turrin, an associate professor at Colorado Mountain College in Breckenridge, is being promoted to full professor. Turrin has four decades of experience in clinical and administrative nursing. She has taught nursing courses as a full-time faculty member at the college since 2007.

Spaulding, an associate professor of entrepreneurship at Colorado Mountain College in Leadville, is being promoted to full professor. Spaulding started as an adjunct instructor in 1997 and has taught entrepreneurship, management, accounting and business courses at CMC as a full-time faculty member for five years.

Runyon and McCall, assistant professors at the campus in Leadville, are being promoted to associate professor. Runyon has taught composition, creative writing and literature at the college for five years and McCall has taught developmental reading, writing, math and GED preparation for three years.