Category: CMC In The News
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Isaacson School students video work featured on 9News
Last May, a group of students – Seth Anderson, Kate Lapides and Becky Aurora Thompson – from the Isaacson School for New Media produced a short documentary video about a paralyzed dog named Ernie. A rescue dog from the Colorado Animal Rescue shelter, on the Colorado Mountain College in Glenwood Springs – Spring Valley campus,…
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Two new Aspen Police Department officers bring diverse backgrounds
This story on two recent CMC Spring Valley CLETA program graduates was printed in the Aspen Daily News. By Chad Abraham. Aspen ballet alum was eager to start a ‘completely different career path’ Former colleagues of Seth DelGrasso’s in the Aspen-Santa Fe Ballet wouldn’t be that surprised that the former dancer is one of the…
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Continuing Education as community development
This CMC Corner Column was first published in the Glenwood Post Independent. By Dr. Jim Green, coordinator for continuing education at CMC and director of the Glenwood Center on Blake. Colorado Mountain College adopted a multi-year strategic plan a year ago to guide our work in the community. Continuing Education is one of the plan’s…
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Gov. Hickenlooper signs mobile learning lab bill in Frisco
This article was published in the Summit Daily News. By Elise Reuter. Gov. John Hickenlooper visited Frisco yesterday to sign a bill that would help provide on-site training for local businesses. The bill, which was sponsored by Rep. Millie Hamner, D-Dillon, would allow state funds to be granted to community colleges for mobile learning labs,…
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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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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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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…