Author: cmcgenesis
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CMC: Great Place to Work?
Take the survey sent to your email Colorado Mountain College is participating in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s 2015 Great Colleges to Work For program. In mid-March a survey was sent to full-time staff and faculty, as well as randomly selected adjunct faculty. If you received an email from “Great Colleges,” you were selected to…
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1907 French farce gets 21st century update, lands on the CMC stage
Playwright Georges Feydeau wrote “A Flea in Her Ear” more than 100 years ago. Now, modern-day playwright David Ives has updated this intentionally ridiculous bedroom farce. Sopris Theatre Company at Colorado Mountain College, formerly CMC Theatre, is presenting it in a five-performance run in April. Directed by Brad Moore, the play takes the audience to…
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For Loeschen, it’s all about moving
Popular fitness instructor named faculty of year at CMC Linda Loeschen likes to keep moving and to help others do the same thing, even if it’s early in the morning. “I danced since I was three, so it just kind of evolved from there,” she said. “Keeping moving is the answer to staying fit, flexible and…
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Hybrid EMS program aids paramedic students at CMC
Edwards instructor’s role cited in faculty honor More people are learning life-saving skills through Colorado Mountain College’s emergency medical services and paramedic program in Edwards, thanks in part to instructor Liz Owen. Serving CMC for a decade, Owen has helped the college become the first institution in Colorado to offer a hybrid program, using both…
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Making geology fun, interesting at CMC
Frick’s passion for environment, teaching noted in faculty honor “Dynamic” and “spatial” may not be the words most people think of when it comes to geology. But they are among the ones Betsy Frick uses to describe the subject she has taught for five years at Colorado Mountain College in Steamboat Springs. Frick’s efforts to…
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High standards in class prepare students for real world
Conifer-based adjunct online Faculty of the Year receives collegewide honor Even though Colorado Mountain College has some of the most stunning campuses in the country, placed at some of the state’s most picturesque mountain towns, some students never even set foot on campus. Even still, they are fortunate to be learning online from some of…
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CMC Board of Trustees approves changes in tuition discounts
At its meeting in Rifle on Monday, the Colorado Mountain College Board of Trustees unanimously voted for modifications in tuition discounts, including expanding the college’s “in-district” classification to include Colorado residents, and their dependents, who also own residential property in the six-county CMC district. This means that for the first time, students with second homes…
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Student photography on display at CMC ArtShare Gallery
The CMC ArtShare Gallery in downtown Glenwood Springs is hosting an exhibit of wide-ranging photographic works by Colorado Mountain College professional photography students March 6-April 28. Because the college’s professional photography program encourages its students to develop their own ways of seeing, the show’s common denominator is the high quality of the photographic explorations in…
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Students invited to CMC’s Next Generation College Day on March 7
Colorado Mountain College in Leadville is hosting a free conference for regional middle and high school students and their families preparing for college and future careers. The Next Generation College Day on Saturday, March 7, will be held at the college’s Leadville campus and is open to students in grades 6-12 from Chaffee, Lake, Summit…
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Theater professor named CMC Faculty of the Year
Gary Ketzenbarger takes top collegewide honors GLENWOOD SPRINGS – It was standing room only recently in Associate Professor Gary Ketzenbarger’s classroom at Colorado Mountain College in Glenwood Springs-Spring Valley. That’s because a cadre of college administrators and guests interrupted Ketzenbarger and the dozen or so students in his Theatre Script Analysis class for a special…