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Elevation Outdoors #Adventurous Contest for top adventure schools
Think CMC is a college filled with adventurers? We do too. Elevation Outdoors asks readers to pick the top outdoor adventure school in a “March Madness” style bracket competition, and CMC is in the mix. Next week we are up against our Fort Lewis College, sure to be a competitive round. Boost CMC’s visibility with…
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Education bills top Donovan’s trifecta
This article appeared in the Vail Daily News. By Randy Wyrick. EAGLE COUNTY — Most days it’s good to be Kerry Donovan, and Wednesday it was great. Sen. Donovan saw three of her bills signed into law by Gov. John Hickenlooper during a bill-signing tour through Colorado. With each signature, the governor said, “Ladies and…
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Sustainable Summer
CMC recently held sustainability days at four campus locations and at its central administration offices. Events featured speakers, sustainability studies students’ capstone presentations, locally-sourced food, and even, at one event, a chicken named Speckles. Two events also featured a Sustainability Pledge Photo Booth: Students, community members, faculty and staff wrote down one green act they…
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1000 Words: CMC Day, 2015
Colorado Mountain College staff gathered for two days in Leadville Wednesday and Thursday to celebrate successes from the past year – and learn and workshop on new opportunities to innovate and increase opportunities for our students in the future. Throughout the two days, staff captured the experience via Instagram; we’ve posted a small selection of…
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Culinary arts program serves popular course
This article was published in the Rifle Citizen Telegram. By Teresa Hamilton. Isidro Contreras Morales’ knife blade flashes as he slices through the cabbage and peppers on his cutting board. The cuts are intricate and precise. Morales is a senior at Coal Ridge High School, but as his knife flies across the cutting board, he…
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Play by valley writer staged at Vintage Theatre in Aurora
“Unmarried in America,” written by Glenwood Springs playwright and Colorado Mountain College adjunct instructor Kristin (K.D.) Carlson, opens at Vintage Theatre in Aurora, Colo., on May 8. The play, which explores the national debate around marriage equality, had its first public reading at Colorado Mountain College in the fall of 2011. Aspen Stage and an…
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Vail Colorado commencement Colorado Mountain College
This article was printed in the Vail Daily News. By Randy Wyrick. BEAVER CREEK — Commencement is, by its very nature, the year’s most hopeful season. If commencements weren’t usually in the spring, then we’d have to move spring. Colorado Mountain College kicked this spring’s season of hope Friday evening with its graduation ceremony in…
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Nontraditional route
This article was published in the Rifle Citizen Telegram. By Theresa Hamilton. Rifle High School senior Whitney Vance isn’t one for order. For Vance and fellow Rifle High School senior Kylie Orgill, the tradition of earning a high school diploma before an advanced degree is thrown out the window. Vance and Orgill are the two…
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Associate’s degree graduate found her place at Colorado Mountain College
This article was published in the Steamboat Springs Pilot & Today. By Teresa Ristow. Steamboat Springs — As a teenager growing up in the suburbs of Detroit, Molly Goldberg struggled with motivation in her high school classes. She moved between five schools, held an all-time low grade point average of 0.3 and was kicked out…
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Senegalese men among Summit County’s Colorado Mountain College graduates
This story ran in the Summit Daily News. By Alli Langley. While Summit County’s ski resorts and scenery attract people from other countries, increasingly so do its educational opportunities. Two men from Senegal, a country on the west coast of Africa, were among the 161 students from the Colorado Mountain College campuses in Breckenridge and…