CMC ENews Archive

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  • ‘Traces of Place’

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    This story about a CMC ArtShare exhibit featuring Alix Knipe, an internationally recognized ceramic artist and CMC ceramics instructor who lives in Carbondale, was written by Glenwood Post Independent arts editor Jessica Cabe. It appeared in the Jan. 8 Post Independent. GLENWOOD SPRINGS – Alix Knipe, an internationally recognized ceramics artist living in Carbondale, lost…

  • Patients benefit when nurses have advanced education

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    This CMC Corner column by Judy Evans, MS, RN ran in the Glenwood Springs Post Independent on Dec. 8. Evans is an associate professor of nursing at Colorado Mountain College and an acute care nurse who has been in the nursing profession for 38 years. For more information on CMC’s nursing degrees, visit coloradomtn.edu/nursing. Were…

  • Avalanche safety classes available at CMC

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    For those wanting to venture into the backcountry this winter, now is a prime time to plan to take an avalanche safety course at Colorado Mountain College. Both lecture and field classes are filling up quickly in preparation for the winter season. Colorado Mountain College’s locations in Edwards, Breckenridge, Leadville, Aspen, Glenwood Springs-Spring Valley and…

  • It’s time for spring (registration)

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    Many classes start week of Jan. 12 The snow’s starting to fly – which means that registration for spring classes at Colorado Mountain College is well underway. Many classes start the week of Jan. 12, a few in Aspen start sooner and others start throughout the spring semester. Remember that new students and those who…

  • CMC photo students to give free portraits via Help-Portrait Dec. 5

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    The faculty, staff and students of the professional photography program at Colorado Mountain College’s Isaacson School for New Media will be at the college’s Lappala Center in Carbondale on Friday, Dec. 5, from 5 to 8 p.m., providing free portraits as part of the international Help-Portrait movement. Help-Portrait is a global movement of photographers using…

  • Colorado Mountain College wins marketing, public relations awards

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    Materials and a website created for Colorado Mountain College recently received three regional awards from the National Council for Marketing & Public Relations. In addition, a Denver-based digital agency earned a fourth award from the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts for its work with the college. Within NCMPR’s six-state District 4 region, the Colorado…

  • Startup Weekend Western Colorado to turn ideas into business ventures

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    [Glenwood Springs, CO] – The weekend of Nov. 21-23, entrepreneurs and creative minds are invited to Colorado Mountain College’s Glenwood Center for Startup Weekend Western Colorado. This event will provide not only inspiration, but the resources required for building and launching a viable, scalable company. During the weekend, participants share ideas, form teams around top…

  • Innovators in education: Tennessee – and CMC

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    This column first appeared in the Nov. 5, 2014 Glenwood Springs Post Independent. By Herb Feinzig I was recently invited to attend the New York Times’ Schools for Tomorrow program, where some 250 individuals from the public and private sectors (including government) came together to discuss the future of American higher education. It was an…

  • Colorado Mountain College landscape painting exhibit comes ‘Close to Home’

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     Five renowned artists are your neighbors  By Carrie Click Usually, it goes something like this: You arrive at an art exhibit and look around. If it’s a landscape show, you admire the talent and perspective of the painters, but you don’t recognize the scenes depicted. They depict a far-off beach or city, or maybe a…

  • The Whole Works launches Kickstarter campaign

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    According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, between 1990 and 2011 the U.S. lost 750,000 apparel manufacturing jobs. A new company based in Rifle is attempting to get some of those jobs back. The Whole Works is a new sewing facility that provides skilled sewers to designers of softgoods and clothing. Besides training people to…