Category: News Releases
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Getting a head start on higher ed with concurrent enrollment
GLENWOOD SPRINGS – During this year’s springtime graduation season, Patrick Gucwa attended more than one commencement ceremony. The high school senior – one of his class’s seven valedictorians – received his diploma from Glenwood Springs High School. But several weeks earlier, he’d already participated in another graduation: the commencement exercises at Colorado Mountain College in…
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Isaacson School students reach new heights at Aspen Ideas Festival
By Carrie Click ASPEN – More than 20 Isaacson School for New Media students and faculty threw themselves headlong into the recent Aspen Ideas Festival, which brings top business leaders, journalists, intellectuals, politicians and world leaders to the Colorado mountains for 10 days of deep conversation, debate and interaction. The opportunity for students to take…
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Annual business forum slated to happen July 22
CMC president Carrie Besnette Hauser to speak at Vail Valley Business Forum event First printed in the Vail Daily News. VAIL — The Vail Valley Partnership will host the eighth annual Vail Valley Business Forum July 22 at the Four Seasons Resort Vail from 8:30 to 11 a.m. This year’s theme is “Regional Challenges, Local…
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A college program for workforce training
CMC in Rifle offers instruction for staying safe on the job College is not just a place where newly graduated high school seniors go to earn an academic degree. Sometimes, college can offer educational opportunities to working men and women who can immediately apply that knowledge at the job site. And perhaps nowhere is that…
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CMC to offer Bachelor of Science in nursing this fall
Information sessions July 15-Aug. 7 at CMC in Breckenridge, Glenwood Springs, Edwards As of Aug. 25 – the first day of Colorado Mountain College’s fall semester – the college will offer bachelor’s degrees in nursing, for registered nurses. The new Bachelor of Science in nursing degree, also known as the RN to BSN, will be…
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TRIO programs celebrate five decades of student success
Edwards CMC students still benefit from War on Poverty education bill Earlier this spring, Enews ran a short series of articles profiling students who have benefited from TRIO’s Upward Bound and Student Support Services programs at different Colorado Mountain College locations. This final profile features twins Cindy and Gemma Mendoza and Nereyda Blanco, three students…
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CMC partners with Glenwood Adventure Park to create info panels
The view from the deck at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park has always been spectacular. Now, guests can learn about the geology of the area while they admire its natural wonders. A series of geologic panels, commissioned by Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park owners Steve and Jeannie Beckley, were installed at the park’s Lookout Grille deck at…
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Future of education debated at Ideas Festival
Community colleges key to respond to changing demographics, workforce demand [ASPEN] – Despite dire stories that a college degree is becoming too expensive, a panel of experts in higher education at the Aspen Ideas Festival on July 1 agreed that postsecondary degrees and certificates will be essential to prepare the workforce of the future, even…
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Curry retires from Colorado Mountain College
[EDWARDS, Colo.] – Dr. Peggy Curry, campus vice president at Colorado Mountain College in Edwards, is retiring after 12 years at the helm of the college’s Eagle County campus. “We are most grateful for Peggy’s passion in leading the campus through a period of substantial growth,” said Dr. Carrie Besnette Hauser, president of the college.…
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Summer Technology Institute at Colorado Mountain College
Summer tech programs for middle-schoolers sold out; still space in new high school engineering class What does wading through the Blue River while hunched over holding a waterproof camera have to do with computer technology? Plenty, if you’re Payton Weinman. Weinman, 13, attended last year’s Summer Technology Institute at Colorado Mountain College in Breckenridge. The…