Category: News Releases
-
TRIO programs celebrate five decades of student success
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 profile features grad Edgar Montes, the first person in his immediate family earn a college degree. Roaring Fork Valley CMC students still benefit from…
-
CMC awards Alpine Bank scholarship to west Garfield County students
This year’s Alpine Bank Latino/Hispanic Scholarship program is helping 11 students from Western Slope high schools attend Colorado Mountain College. Alpine Bank has been awarding scholarships to qualified students since the program began in 1996 and, to date, has financed more than 170 scholarships. ENews has been running a series of profiles on these hopeful,…
-
Learning English propels high school graduates to CMC
Aspen, Basalt grads on their way to college, thanks to Alpine Bank Latino/Hispanic Scholarships El Salvador and the Dominican Republic are thousands of miles away in distance and culture from the Roaring Fork Valley. For two young men, their journeys from being non-English-speaking immigrants to high school graduates, and their continuation to Colorado Mountain College…
-
CMC awards Alpine Bank scholarship to Carbondale and Glenwood Springs students
This year’s Alpine Bank Latino/Hispanic Scholarship program is helping 11 students from Western Slope high schools attend Colorado Mountain College. Alpine Bank has been awarding scholarships to qualified students since the program began in 1996 and, to date, has financed more than 170 scholarships. ENews has been running a series of profiles on these hopeful,…
-
College now possible for Steamboat High School graduate
Student Celeste Portillo will attend CMC on Alpine Bank Latino/Hispanic Scholarship Celeste Portillo doesn’t yet quite know what direction she wants to go academically when she attends Colorado Mountain College in Steamboat Springs this coming fall. But she is determined about one thing. “I might not know exactly how to answer the question, ‘What do…
-
CMC awards Alpine Bank scholarship to local students
Three students earn assistance to attend Colorado Mountain College This year’s Alpine Bank Latino/Hispanic Scholarship program is helping 11 students from Western Slope high schools attend Colorado Mountain College next fall. Three graduating seniors from Eagle County were recently named as Alpine Bank Latino/Hispanic Scholars: Andy Sandoval from Eagle Valley High School, Thelma Juarez from…
-
CMC awards Alpine Bank scholarship to local student
Hard work, leadership result in success, gratitude When Cinthia Valderrama saw a hungry man come into La Perla, the restaurant where she worked while attending Summit High School, she didn’t turn him away. Seeing that the man had only enough money to buy one taco, she reached into her own pocket and paid for his…
-
Colorado River Fire Rescue ambulance gets new life as CMC mobile classroom
If you see a red and blue ambulance circling the parking lot at Colorado Mountain College in Rifle, don’t be concerned that the driver has lost his way. More than likely Chris Jackson, CMC’s full-time lead faculty in the college’s emergency medical services program, is behind the wheel, and in the back of the ambulance…
-
Boot camp for Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society held at Colorado Mountain College
Colorado Mountain College in Leadville recently served as the base camp for 32 Colorado leaders of the Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society. Nine PTK chapters from across the state were represented at the first Chapter Officer Boot Camp to be held at a CMC campus. “This is a selective group of students,” said…
-
CMC receives Institution of the Year award from Colorado education organization
Colorado Mountain College was recently acknowledged for promoting access to higher education to disadvantaged and diverse populations when the college received the Institution of the Year award from the Colorado Educational Services & Development Association. Two CMC staff members were also recognized for their service to CESDA. Vicky Valentine, admissions assistant at CMC in Glenwood…