Category: News Releases
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Colorado Mountain College joins Western Undergraduate Exchange
Colorado Mountain College has entered into a new tuition reciprocity agreement with the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education to provide qualifying out-of-state residents with lower tuition. CMC joins 22 other two-year and four-year public colleges and universities in Colorado who are part of the participating Western Undergraduate Exchange (WUE) agreement. Eligible new CMC students…
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Colorado Mountain College welcomes ASSET students
College establishes process for students who meet qualifications of new state law With the passage of Colorado Senate Bill 33 (commonly referred to as the ASSET bill), more students will qualify for in-state tuition at the state’s public colleges and universities. The law applies to U.S. citizens, permanent resident aliens and undocumented students, all of…
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College students can get free shipping for textbooks
Colorado Mountain College students can save a little extra money by ordering their textbooks between Aug. 4 and Aug. 17 on CMC’s virtual bookstore website. The college’s bookstore partner, Follett, is offering free ground shipping on all textbook orders placed through www.coloradomtn.bkstr.com during that timeframe. Textbooks for the fall semester are now available. The virtual…
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CMC instructional designer honored with MERLOT peer reviewer award
Loretta Driskel, an instructional designer in the integrated energy program at Colorado Mountain College’s Rifle campus, was honored with the MERLOT “peer reviewer extraordinaire” award for her work on peer reviewing educational online materials. MERLOT stands for multimedia educational resources for learning and online teaching. It is an international initiative that enables faculty to integrate technology…
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Biodiesel conference grows and returns to Colorado
Collective Biodiesel Conference comes to CMC-Breckenridge Aug. 15-18 By Stefanie Kilts [BRECKENRIDGE] – The Collective Biodiesel Conference, which is returning to Colorado this year, will attract some of the nation’s leading experts, researchers and innovators in the biodiesel industry. But the conference that was first held in 2006 at the Colorado School of Mines in…
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CMC seeks to fill board seats
Completed petitions due Aug. 30 The Colorado Mountain Junior College District is seeking outstanding candidates to run for positions on its elected board of trustees. Each term is for four years. Each potential candidate must be an eligible elector, as defined by state statute, and reside within the boundaries of the district in which they…
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CMC professor awarded prestigious honor
Terry Hunter receives award from national hotel and lodging association The American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute (AH&LEI) recently honored a Colorado Mountain College resort management professor as a leader in hospitality training and education. Terry Hunter, CMC professor and director of the resort management program, is the 2013 recipient of the Anthony Marshall Award,…
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Colorado Mountain College rolls out new mobile energy learning lab
Hybrid energy courses to make classes more accessible to students in Colorado By Stefanie Kilts [RIFLE] – The wheels on Colorado Mountain College’s mobile solar and instrumentation learning lab will soon be rolling as part of the college’s latest hybrid courses in integrated energy. To celebrate the launch of the mobile lab, college faculty, staff…
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Colorado Mountain College hosts Veterans in Higher Education Summit
CMC finds creative ways to support veterans, military By Stefanie Kilts [LEADVILLE] – Educational professionals and student veterans will travel to Colorado Mountain College in Leadville on Aug. 2 to attend the Colorado Veterans in Higher Education Summit, an annual conference. The attendees will discuss strategies and best practices for creating veteran-friendly college campuses, said…
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U.S. Department of Education ranks Colorado Mountain College third most affordable public college
The U.S. Department of Education has ranked Colorado Mountain College as the third most affordable four-year public college in the country in 2011-12. CMC’s annual in-district tuition and fees for a beginning full-time student that year totaled $1,770, which is less than one-fourth of the national average cost of $7,135. This makes the college the…