Tag: Events
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Author Walter Isaacson visits CMC in Edwards on Monday
EDWARDS — Walter Isaacson, best-selling author and former managing editor of Time magazine, will provide an engaging conversation on the “Lessons of Innovators” at Colorado Mountain College in Edwards on Monday. Isaacson joins CMC as part of The Browning Event signature speakers, which is part of the Women in Philanthropy Distinguished Lecture Series. An expert…
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Farm to Fork Fair at CMC-Aspen to focus on local, healthy, sustainable products, produce
Colorado Mountain College, which offers a bachelor’s degree in sustainability studies, is taking sustainability to the community by hosting the Farm to Fork Fair, a free barbecue featuring local food, at its Aspen campus. Attendees can expect discussions and delicious foods at this afternoon event, which is open to the public from 1 to 5…
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1000 Words: A Dose of Rwandan Inspiration
Artist, disabilities activist and internationally-known Rwandan speaker Frederick Ndabaramiye spoke to a full house at CMC in Breckenridge Thursday night during a presentation of a powerful short documentary, “I am ABLE,” about his life. After witnessing the Rwandan genocide as a young boy, Ndabaramiye was on a bus four years later when Interahamwe rebels ambushed…
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CMC in Breckenridge’s Speaker Series to show “I Am Able”
Inspirational Rwandan artist, cyclist, and humanitarian featured at CMC Speaker Series BRECKENRIDGE – The CMC Speaker Series partners with the Breckenridge Film Festival to bring a powerful documentary to campus June 4. Frederick Ndabaramiye, the co-founder of “I am Able”, witnessed and lived through one of the worst genocides in history in Rwanda when he…
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Elevation Outdoors #Adventurous Contest for top adventure schools
Think CMC is a college filled with adventurers? We do too. Elevation Outdoors asks readers to pick the top outdoor adventure school in a “March Madness” style bracket competition, and CMC is in the mix. Next week we are up against our Fort Lewis College, sure to be a competitive round. Boost CMC’s visibility with…
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Education bills top Donovan’s trifecta
This article appeared in the Vail Daily News. By Randy Wyrick. EAGLE COUNTY — Most days it’s good to be Kerry Donovan, and Wednesday it was great. Sen. Donovan saw three of her bills signed into law by Gov. John Hickenlooper during a bill-signing tour through Colorado. With each signature, the governor said, “Ladies and…
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Sustainable Summer
CMC recently held sustainability days at four campus locations and at its central administration offices. Events featured speakers, sustainability studies students’ capstone presentations, locally-sourced food, and even, at one event, a chicken named Speckles. Two events also featured a Sustainability Pledge Photo Booth: Students, community members, faculty and staff wrote down one green act they…
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1000 Words: CMC Day, 2015
Colorado Mountain College staff gathered for two days in Leadville Wednesday and Thursday to celebrate successes from the past year – and learn and workshop on new opportunities to innovate and increase opportunities for our students in the future. Throughout the two days, staff captured the experience via Instagram; we’ve posted a small selection of…
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Play by valley writer staged at Vintage Theatre in Aurora
“Unmarried in America,” written by Glenwood Springs playwright and Colorado Mountain College adjunct instructor Kristin (K.D.) Carlson, opens at Vintage Theatre in Aurora, Colo., on May 8. The play, which explores the national debate around marriage equality, had its first public reading at Colorado Mountain College in the fall of 2011. Aspen Stage and an…
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Vail Colorado commencement Colorado Mountain College
This article was printed in the Vail Daily News. By Randy Wyrick. BEAVER CREEK — Commencement is, by its very nature, the year’s most hopeful season. If commencements weren’t usually in the spring, then we’d have to move spring. Colorado Mountain College kicked this spring’s season of hope Friday evening with its graduation ceremony in…