Nicole Loschke – Colorado Mountain College Dual Credit Student
Nicole Loschke graduated from Grand Valley High School in Parachute with 36 dual-enrollment credits from Colorado Mountain College. She was also a student leader in the First Ascent Leadership program run by the College each summer for District high school students.
“CMC’s dual-credit program allowed me to start my future before graduating high school,” says Nicole. “Thanks to this program I have been able to receive both my BA and MA and travel the world, only five years after graduating high school.”
Nicole attended Hawai’i Pacific University. graduatiing in 2008 with a BA in Journalism.
She received her Master’s Degree in Media, Peace and Conflict Studies from the University for Peace, a UN Mandated University in Costa Rica. Nicole currently works at the University for Peace as the assistant editor for the online Peace and Conflict Monitor – www.monitor.upeace.org.
She also provides English support to students in the UPSAM program. This program works with universities in South Asia, the Middle East and the Horn of Africa to bring assistant professors to the University to get the Master’s Degree and then to go back and start a Peace and Conflict Studies Department in their home university. Because these students have a very different education system Nicole helps them with academic writing including structure, thought process, brainstorming, making arguments, proper citation, etc.
Hassan is one such student. He came to the university from Darfur, Sudan. “When he came he hadn’t ever used a computer,” says Nicole. “Now he is passing all his classes, typing his own papers and he even has Facebook!”