Tag: Alpine Campus
-
Graduation
Steamboat Springs student Dustin Eldridge has worked as a blogger and photographer for Colorado Mountain College for two years, sharing his insights and vision about CMC’s outdoor programs and the Steamboat community. Dustin recently graduated with an AA in Outdoor Education and is moving on to Jackson Hole to explore new adventures. Dustin’s last post,…
-
Social justice and sustainability talk at CMC in Steamboat Springs
Free dialogue on “Partnering Social Justice with Sustainability” Colorado Mountain College in Steamboat Springs will hold a free dialogue titled “Partnering Social Justice with Sustainability” at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 27, in the Allbright Family Auditorium on campus. The evening of exploration will center on social justice, sustainability and the challenge to expand the…
-
Colorado Mountain College students studying abroad in Cuba
This article first appeared in the Steamboat Pilot. By Matt Stensland. Steamboat Springs — A group of Colorado Mountain College students is preparing to travel to Cuba on a trip that was forbidden just a couple years ago. President Barack Obama’s administration in January 2011 eased travel restrictions that made it possible for educational groups…
-
2013 Cosmic Calendars are here!
It’s that time of year again. CMC professor and astrophotographer Jimmy Westlake has created another edition of his annual Cosmic Calendar. The 2013 version, titled the “Year of the Comet,” is now available for purchase. Chock full of Westlake’s unique and beautiful celestial images, the calendar also keeps you alerted to the cosmic highlights of…
-
CMC’s entrepreneurship center gets fresh start in new professional digs
This article first appeared in the Steamboat Pilot & Today. By Tom Ross. Steamboat Springs — Seemingly every office in the new academic center at Colorado Mountain College has a great view of Steamboat Ski Area, and the Yampa Valley Entrepreneurship Center is no exception. The message scrawled there on a dry-erase board in one…
-
The Business of Ski Guiding
Student Dustin Eldridge shares a class trip to a local ski guiding business, and reflects on why CMC Steamboat is an incredible place to pursue a degree in Ski & Snowboard Business or a Professional Ski and Snowboard Guide certificate. This post was first published in Dustin’s blog, Steamboat Livin.’ I’m currently taking The Business…
-
Westlake to speak about poetry, stars
National award-winner at CMC-Edwards Sept 26 Some people try to capture the beauty and majesty of the starry sky with a camera or on canvas. Others try to capture it with words. In an evening called “The Poets and the Stars,” Colorado Mountain College astronomy Professor Jimmy Westlake will present verses about the stars written…
-
Acclaimed writer, speaker Paul Loeb at CMC
Learn civic engagement in free speech at Steamboat Springs campus Paul Loeb, internationally acclaimed writer and speaker on civic engagement, will present a free talk Sept. 13, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., in the Allbright Family Auditorium in the new academic and student services building at Colorado Mountain College in Steamboat Springs. Loeb’s books “Soul…
-
Sustainability is…what you eat!
The way we eat has huge impacts on sustainability. Classes in Colorado Mountain College’s Sustainability Studies degree explore sustainable agriculture among other topics, and we live in communities that place a strong value on supporting sustainable food. One non-profit near our Steamboat Springs campus, The Yampa Valley Sustainability Council, (YVSC) explores sustainability topics each month…
-
Steamboat Academic Center at Colorado Mountain College
The slideshow of images below, first published in the Steamboat Today, were taken by photographer John F. Russell, and show off CMC Steamboat’s new academic center. The building is scheduled for grand opening on August 23th. Classes are expected to begin in the new building when the fall session begins Aug. 27. [slideshow]