Category: CMC In The News
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Olympian Bleiler to speak at GlenX event
First published in the Glenwood Post Independent. The GlenX Success Summit, aimed at inspiring up-and-coming business professionals, has announced the final speaker for its lineup. Olympic silver medalist and four-time X Games gold medalist Gretchen Bleiler, a snowboarder who lives in Aspen, will appear at the event, which is scheduled for Sept. 12 at Glenwood…
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Pre-Collegiate program honored with national recognition
This article was printed in the Summit Daily News. By Alli Langley. Summit School District’s Pre-Collegiate program was recognized in July by District Administration, a national, 75,000-circulation publication for leaders in public K-12 education. Pre-Collegiate is a college-prep program for middle and high school students who would become first-generation college students. The program now works…
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Guest Commentary: Leadville has kept a fresh perspective
This op ed from Dr. Carrie Besnette Hauser was published in The Denver Post on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2015. Fifty years ago, Colorado Mountain College was preparing to open its first two campuses in Leadville and in Glenwood Springs, thanks to a few visionary leaders who realized post-secondary education would only be available in hard-to-reach…
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A festival for everyone
Annual Club Rotario event has raised more than $48,000 for students This article was printed in the Glenwood Post Independent. By Will Grandbois. The 13th annual Festival Las Americas in Carbondale brought out the valley’s Latino community on Sunday, and others joined in the celebration as well. “It’s a chance for the community to come…
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Top Adventure School finalist: Colorado Mountain College
Earlier this summer, Elevation Outdoors magazine asked readers to vote for what they thought was the most adventurous college in the U.S. Several Colorado schools made the finals, including Colorado Mountain College. The magazine followed up with feature stories with more information on why these schools made the final rounds, including information on what their…
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Doing philanthropy the right way– donations large and small
Former residents Carrie and John Morgridge have their names on a lot of buildings, including the Colorado Mountain College campus in Aspen and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. The former Aspen residents live on the Front Range now and are prolific philanthropists. Mrs. Morgridge recently penned the book “Every Gift Matters: How Your…
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Radio CMC Interviews Philanthropist Jim Calaway
Radio CMC host Lucas Turner recently interviewed CMC friend and generous Roaring Fork Valley philanthropist Jim Calaway, exploring his early life on a ranch in Texas during the Depression, his thoughts on the importance of education, and the reasons behind his generous philanthropy. Listen to the full interview here: https://soundcloud.com/radiocmc/inside-the-mountain-philanthropist-jim-calaway
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Tough life doesn’t deter Steamboat graduate heading for Colorado Mountain College
This article was published in the Steamboat Pilot & Today. By Mike McKibbin. Steamboat Springs — Thania Núñez may barely be an adult, age-wise, but her life story reads as that of one much older. The maturity she has gained over the years has led the recent Steamboat Springs High School graduate to earn one…
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Summer 2015 issue of Philanthropy magazine features Jim Calaway
Recently, Carbondale philanthropist and friend of Colorado Mountain College Jim Calaway was surprised by CEO of the Aspen Institute Walter Isaacson and CMC President & CEO Dr. Carrie Besnette Hauser. They shared with him an article they jointly wrote, acknowledging Calaway as an influential donor at CMC and the Aspen Institute, that was published in…
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Catching Up With Photographer Joseph Gamble
This article and interview with Joseph Gamble’s were published on WUSF News. Longtime Floridian Joseph Gamble has a new exhibition at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts in Tampa. It’s his largest exhibition ever, which encompasses a sort of retrospective of his entire body of work, and photographs he’s taken at Cape Canaveral. Gamble, who…