Category: 1000 Words!
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1000 Words: Advocating for higher ed in rural communities
US Under Secretary of Education Ted Mitchell sports Colorado Mountain College’s colors at a recent Rural College Alliance meeting of college presidents in Washington, D.C. Dr. Mitchell was CMC President Carrie Besnette Hauser’s PhD advisor back when she was a graduate student at UCLA. The Rural College Alliance advocates for the 600 rural and tribal…
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1000 Words: George Stranahan
Educator, photographer, physicist, philanthropist, and entrepreneur extraordinaire George Stranahan at the opening reception of The Stranahan Collection at CMC Edwards. The collection is comprised of world-renowned black-and-white photographs he and his wife Patti have collected over decades.
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1000 Words: Help-Portrait
Since 2008, photographers around the world have taken portraits, often of people in need, through the organization Help-Portrait, then printed and delivered them free of charge. Professional photo program students in CMC’s Isaacson School donated their time to Help-Portrait for the fifth year running Friday night, Dec. 5, at CMC in Carbondale, creating free portraits…
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Giving Tuesday
Tuesday, December 2, is a #GivingTuesday, a day dedicated to giving back. Countries around the world have initiated their own #GivingTuesday movements to encourage individuals to give back to their communities. At CMC, we’d like to celebrate #GivingTuesday by thanking the individuals who have generously given to the CMC Foundation to provide scholarships and other…
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Happy Thanksgiving!
We hope tomorrow brings you great food, much laughter, and countless things for which to give thanks. ENews will be taking a short break over the holiday. We’ll be back in touch December 1st.
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1000 Words: Got College?
Approximately 2,000 high school students attended the Colorado Western Slope College Fair on Oct. 5 in Aspen. Buses, sponsored by CMC, brought students to the fair from 79 rural and mountain communities; some students had to travel for hours and spend the night in Aspen High School’s gym in order to attend. Representatives from CMC…
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1000 Words
Friday, in Glenwood Springs: Our current president, Dr. Carrie Besnette Hauser, with David Delaplane, 87 years young, and the founding father of Colorado Mountain College. Pretty neat.