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Leadership Steamboat Alumni Program to be held May 29
Thursday, May 29, Colorado Mountain College and the Steamboat Springs Chamber Resort Association will host a Leadership Steamboat Alumni luncheon event from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at CMC in Steamboat Springs. The Leadership Steamboat Alumni program is a Steamboat Springs Chamber Resort Association/Colorado Mountain College initiative to provide leadership training and continuing education to…
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Natural Resource Management Summer Internship
How do you plan to spend your summer?! Students in CMC Leadville’s Natural Resource Management Summer Internship program study bighorn sheep, restore streams, and study wetlands in Colorado’s beautiful backcountry. Pretty sweet.
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My advice to the 18-year-old me
This CMC Corner Column was first printed in the Glenwood Post Independent. Before I became the vice president of the Aspen and Roaring Fork campuses at Colorado Mountain College, I was a college counselor. Over the course of eight years, I advised hundreds of students on career choices, class schedules and how to achieve their…
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Sustainability Conference
Sustainable housing, hydroenergy, Real Food Challenges: Just a few of the solutions CMC Sustainability Studies students created as part of their capstone projects. If you missed Colorado Mountain College’s recent Sustainability Conference, you can now catch the wrap up on the students’ inspired ideas and the conference through the eyes of CMC’s Ben Saheb:
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Sustainability panel discussion at CMC to be led by local environmental leaders
CMC in Breckenridge hosts sustainability panel tonight This article first appeared in the Summit Daily News. By Krista Driscoll. Organizations in Summit County are now peeling back the layers of their energy use and studying ways to reduce their impact on the environment. At the forefront of this push in our community are a handful…
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CMC students in Lake County still benefitting from War on Poverty education bill
Three historic educational bills passed by the Johnson administration, which created what are now known as the TRIO programs, are still opening doors for students locally and nationwide. Colorado Mountain College is helping students via TRIO programs at five of its campus locations. Our public information staff recently explored how these programs are changing the…
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I CAN!
CMC faculty and staff gathered together for CMC Day on May 8 to connect, share ideas, and learn from each other. Throughout the day, they also wrote, on circulating white boards, a small act they could do to help implement CMC’s new vision and mission. Their thoughts were captured in the video below. Enjoy the…
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Sharif Villa Cruz, exec chef of Corner House, on giving Brussels sprouts a break
This interview with Sharif Villa Cruz, exec chef of Corner House and graduate of CMC’s Culinary Institute, was printed in Westword Magazine’s “Chef and Tell” section. By Lori Midson. It’s a tradition in Mexico to “gather our families together for big meals, usually at our grandmother’s house,” says Sharif Villa Cruz. And Villa Cruz, today…
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“I CAN” at CMC Day
It’s CMC Day today, and the folks from Marketing will be running around our Spring Valley campus location with dry erase and magnetic poetry boards looking for you to share the ways you can contribute to CMC’s new vision and mission. We’ll be the ones in the bright t-shirts (along with a handful of other…
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Sustainability summit wows students, employees in Steamboat
Nearly 250 Colorado Mountain College students, faculty and staff came together in Steamboat Springs April 17 and 18, 2014, for the inaugural Sustainability Summit. This was the first time even many long-time CMCers remember a gathering like this, and it was empowering, surprising, and, well, a lot of fun. Among the numerous highlights were: •…