Author: coloradomountaincollege
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Fire Ban Restrictions
Stage Two Fire Ban Restrictions to be implemented in Garfield County, White River National Forest and local BLM and NPS land Effective today, 6/20, the CMC Rifle Campus will implement Stage 2 fire ban restrictions due to extreme fire danger in Garfield County. On Friday, June 22, the Bureau of Land Management (Northwest Colorado District)…
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Take Flight with Ecoflight
Last fall, Colorado Mountain College Sustainability Studies students Ben Saheb and Jenna Wirtz took part in a three day trip over the American Southwest with Ecoflight, an environmental advocacy organization that uses small aircraft to fly students, conservationists, media, policy makers and concerned citizens above landscapes impacted by clear-cuts, strip mines, gas and oil drilling…
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Homework Assignment: Graduate from college and high school…simultaneously
Edwards graduate Hayley Beard joins list of CMC Concurrent Enrollment students earning two degrees at once When Hayley Beard walked across the stage to receive her high school diploma from Eagle Valley High School earlier this month, she already had her college diploma in hand. The role reversal happened thanks to Colorado Mountain College’s Concurrent…
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New Colorado Mountain Catalog is live
CMC’s new online catalog offers enhanced functionality Colorado Mountain College’s catalog is now entirely online at: http://catalog.coloradomtn.edu. Take a road test and try out the new features! The site is friendly and functional, offering a portfolio function that helps you build and track your degree and share content via social media. More thoughtful catalog features…
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New Welcome Center Aims to Double Tourism Attendance
This article first appeared in the KREX TV News blog. By Cori Coffin GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo.- Of the two million tourists that come into Glenwood Springs every year, only about 50,000 of them visited the city’s old commerce center. Officials hope to double that this year through a unique partnership between the chamber resort association…
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Sewing up a skill
GarCo Sewing Works has it all in the bag This article first appeared in the Citizen Telegram. By Mike McKibben. Sewing clothes wasn’t at the top of, or even on, Jessica Lowry’s list of things to learn. But now, the Rifle resident has mastered an important skill she can use in her daily life, if…
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GarCo Sewing Works
CMC grad puts degree to work for sustainable CMC business partnership This article first appeared in Colorado Mountain College student Jordan Callier’s blog, The Art of Visual Communication. As a student in the Graphic Design Program at Colorado Mountain College, I was able to participate in real-life projects. My professor, Brian Tinker, helped me find…
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Explore the soil food web with a true garden expert
Jeff Lowenfels kicks off the Vail Symposium’s summer season with organic gardening lecture at CMC This article first appeared in the Vail Daily. By Tracey Flower. Gardening writer and expert Jeff Lowenfels grew up working, as he describes it, as an indentured servant on his parent’s hobby farm in Scarsdale, N.Y. There he said he…