CMC ENews Archive

Tag: Awards

  • CMC receives Institution of the Year award from Colorado education organization

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    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…

  • Top instructor impresses students, colleagues

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    Conniff named Colorado Mountain College adjunct Faculty of Year for campus Colorado Mountain College instructor Michael Conniff sees his students in the Isaacson School for New Media as full partners in their own education, and his classes are designed to help them make substantive changes in their lives. Conniff’s hands-on, real-world approach paid off with…

  • Von Achen, Kocman earn teaching accolades

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    CMC Rifle campus names full-time, adjunct Faculty of the Year Bob Von Achen, instructor of English and literature at Colorado Mountain College in Rifle, went into teaching because he knew he would enjoy the analytical components – reading papers, employing his editing skills and offering textual insights. But within two weeks of classroom teaching, he…

  • Ketzenbarger, Halliwell earn teaching honors

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    CMC names Roaring Fork campus full-time, adjunct Faculty of Year When Gary Ketzenbarger’s Theatre Script Analysis class was interrupted recently, students thought the intruders might be part of a performance-art flash mob. A closer look revealed an enthusiastic group of administrators, instructors and staff members, some wearing masks made from a photo of Ketzenbarger’s face,…

  • Quesada-Embid receives campus, collegewide honor

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    Colorado Mountain College announces Faculty of the Year Awards When the president of Colorado Mountain College and the vice president of the campus in Edwards unexpectedly showed up in Dr. Mercedes Quesada-Embid’s classroom recently, they were met with cheers and applause. That was because Dr. Carrie Hauser and Dr. Peggy Curry were there to tell…

  • Colorado Mountain College wins prestigious industry awards

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    Colorado Mountain College recently earned recognition from regional chapters of both the National Council for Marketing and Public Relations and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. The college’s annual progress report from last year, the First Choice Review, earned regional awards from both organizations – gold from CASE and silver from NCMPR. The…

  • Photo instructor places in international competition

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    Four black-and-white images taken by Matt Lit, a photography instructor at Colorado Mountain College, were chosen for the prestigious 7th Annual International Black and White Spider Awards. According to www.thespiderawards.com, the Black and White Spider Awards are the leading international awards honoring black and white photography. The judging panel includes some of the world’s most…

  • CMC instructional designer honored with MERLOT peer reviewer award

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    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…

  • CMC professor awarded prestigious honor

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    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,…

  • CMC staff member named e-learning technologist of year for 2013

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    [GLENWOOD SPRINGS] – Gabrielle Orsi, a Colorado Mountain College learning management system administrator and faculty trainer, was recently honored as the 2013 eLearning Technologist/Support Person of the Year by the eLearning Consortium of Colorado. The eLearning Consortium of Colorado is a coalition of public and private colleges, universities, K-12 education, private sector business and public…