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Colorado Mountain College ranks in top 20 in nationwide community college study
CNNMoney reports Colorado Mountain College ranks in the top 20 out of nearly 800 community colleges from around the nation for successful graduation and transfer rates. The ranking was created for the news outlet by College Measures, a leading researcher of comparative value within higher education. CMC’s “success rate” earned the college the No. 17…
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Welcome Winter X Games!
The X-Games are coming to town, just a few blocks from our location in Aspen. CMC has created a fun, engaging video spot that highlights Colorado Mountain College’s locations and programs that will run on Comcast and Xfinity beginning tonight for the XGames crowd. And if you’re an avid XGames viewer, you may recognize the…
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X Marks the Spot
Shooting The Big Snow Show by CMC New Media Instructor Corby Anderson The 2013 ESPN Winter X Games is live from Buttermilk Mountain in Aspen, Colorado, from January 24-27. The games can be viewed on multiple ESPN television channels, and online at ESPN.com. Aspen, CO — 2013 will mark my second year working with ESPN…
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Brothers
Colorado Mountain College began offering tuition discounts and other support to veterans, active military and their dependents last year. Those support services include CMC college student Clayton Bolton, who serves as CMC’s Veteran’s Liasion. As part of his position,Clayton blogs about life on campus as a veteran. Recently he wrote a moving post about spending…
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Rocky Mountain Reflections Seeking Submissions
Rocky Mountain Reflections, Colorado Mountain College’s art and creative writing journal, is accepting submissions for the Summer 2013 issue. The magazine welcomes all forms of creative writing and visual art. $100 cash prizes will be awarded for the best work in four categories: Poetry, Photography, Prose, and Painting/Drawing/ 3-D Arts. The submission deadline is March…
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CMC Leadville to host World Book Night 2013
Colorado Mountain College Leadville’s library will be a regional host for the second “World Book Night U.S.” scheduled to be held on Tuesday, April 23, 2013. On World Book Night, book givers distribute free books to members of their communities. During last year’s campaign, 25,000 volunteer book givers went out in 5,800 towns and cities…
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Colorado Mountain College students summit Mt. Kilimanjaro
A group of students taking part in Colorado Mountain College’s East Africa Study Abroad program just returned from a successful summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro. “Everyone made it to at least 15,000 feet,” the group reported in a Facebook post from Moshe, Tanzania. “The entire group is doing wonderfully and we leave on our Serengeti safari…
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Backcountry Film Festival at CMC in Breckenridge
Film event raises funds for avalanche education Love great film? Passionate about human-powered winter backcountry experiences? The Winter Wildlands Alliance is teaming up with CMC in Breckenridge this weekend to bring you the Backcountry Film Festival, which showcases the work of grassroots filmmakers documenting stories of backcountry skiing and environmental preservation. This year’s festival includes…
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Backyard Skintracks
CMC student Dustin Eldridge decided to forego a season ski pass this year and earn all his turns via his own sweat and uptrack. Here’s his take on the beauty of carving turns right in one’s own backyard. First published in Dustin’s blog, Steamboat Livin.’ This season I decided to not pay for a season…
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Happy Holidays!
Colorado Mountain College’s eNews will be taking a break over the, well, winter break. Wishing you all joy-filled holidays! We will return after the first of the year.