Author: clclick
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Free Parent Information Day at Colorado Mountain College in Rifle
Colorado Mountain College in Rifle is hosting a free Parent Information Day for residents living anywhere from Aspen to Parachute from 9 a.m. to noon on Nov. 1. The event is designed to give parents information they need to support their children’s current educational needs and their future higher education goals. Topics include concurrent enrollment,…
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EcoFlight: Putting it in perspective
EcoFlight is an Aspen-based nonprofit organization that advocates for the protection of wild lands and wildlife by flying people over landscapes located mostly in the American West, to gain a “big picture” perspective of these areas. From Oct. 11 to 14, eight college students – each of whom wrote an essay that won them a…
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Partnership for Education reaches successful end – and beginning
Students can go from pre-K through college along one-mile stretch in Eagle County By Carrie Click The Partnership for Education was supposed to take 50 years to achieve its goal of constructing a college campus and integrating it into the Edwards community – yet it took just a dozen. So at an Eagle County School…
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‘Cabin Fever’ author visits Colorado Mountain College campuses for Common Reader tour
Tom Montgomery Fate’s book tour Oct. 20-25 By Carrie Click On the back cover of Tom Montgomery Fate’s memoir, “Cabin Fever,” is a synopsis about this, the author’s fifth nonfiction book. “Try to imagine Thoreau married, with a job, three kids, and a minivan,” it reads. No matter that Henry David Thoreau, the 19th century…
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College hires new general counsel
Pueblo native and Denver-based attorney Richard Gonzales has been hired as the new in-house general counsel for Colorado Mountain College. “We are pleased to offer this position to such an extraordinary, well-qualified candidate and Coloradoan,” said Dr. Carrie Besnette Hauser, president and CEO of Colorado Mountain College. “Not only was Richard Gonzales the first university…
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Two new campus deans named at Colorado Mountain College
Colorado Mountain College has named Rachel Pokrandt and Linda Crockett as campus deans in, respectively, Rifle and Aspen. The new deans were selected through an internal search process, in which employees could apply to fill positions that were created following the retirement of two long-time campus vice presidents, Nancy Genova and Joe Maestas. The campus…
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Free shuttle bus runs for CMC students
Colorado Mountain College students and employees can now save money and be greener by catching free rides between college locations in Glenwood Springs, Spring Valley and Carbondale. RIDE CMC is a free shuttle service operating Monday through Thursday between three local CMC locations and the Thunder River Market on Highway 82 at the Spring Valley…
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Community invited to annual veterinary technology facility tour and open house
Colorado Mountain College’s Veterinary Technology Club invites the community to tour the program’s 220-acre center and teaching hospital at Spring Valley on Saturday, Oct. 11 from 10 a.m. to noon. Refreshments and a silent auction will also be available. The comprehensive tour is free and open to anyone who is interested in veterinary technology or…
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CMC’s Gianneschi co-authors two groundbreaking reports on education reform
Before Dr. Matt Gianneschi accepted his position in March as chief operating officer and chief of staff at Colorado Mountain College, he needed to finish writing several groundbreaking reports for the Education Commission of the States. At the time Gianneschi, then vice president of policy and programs for the Denver-based ECS, a national nonprofit that…
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Information sessions scheduled for nursing degree programs
Colorado Mountain College is holding information meetings about its bachelor’s and associate degrees in nursing, in time to register for the spring semester. The Bachelor of Science in nursing application deadline is Nov. 15, and classes begin Jan. 12. The associate degree application deadline is Feb. 1 for a fall 2015 start. The Bachelor of…