Tag: Partnerships
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Colorado Mountain College partners with Climax Molybdenum to offer electrician apprenticeship
This article first appeared in the Summit Daily News. By Alli Langley. Climax Molybdenum Co. needed help, and Colorado Mountain College came to the company’s aid. The company found its industrial electrician positions hard to fill and approached Colorado Mountain College about creating a Summit County program where Climax employees could learn the trade. The…
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Chevron Summer Science Institute teaches the teachers
CMC expands science education program, nearly doubles enrollment While many of their students were enjoying summer break this past June, more than 40 regional elementary and middle school teachers were at Colorado Mountain College in Rifle, learning how to keep those same students engaged and excited about science. The Chevron Summer Science Institute has nearly…
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State recognizes Glenwood for downtown improvements
This article was published in the Glenwood Post Independent. By John Stroud. Glenwood Springs has been recognized by the state of Colorado for its four-year, $18 million-plus effort to spruce up its downtown. Downtown Colorado Inc. on Thursday announced that the Glenwood Downtown Development Authority, the city and four other public entities had won the…
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What will drive future state economic success?
CMC President Carrie Besnette Hauser and Kelly Brough, president and CEO of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, addressed economic development at a recent Vail Valley Partnership event. A Vail Daily News recap of the event, first published in the Vail Daily, is reprinted below. VAIL — Colorado’s first regional economic initiative was completed before…
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First $1 million donated to Isaacson School for New Media at Colorado Mountain College
Walter Isaacson announces Fullerton pledge [ASPEN] – Today Walter Isaacson, president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, announced the first $1 million pledge to the Isaacson School for New Media at Colorado Mountain College. The donation is from Aspen residents John and Jessica Fullerton, who have previously demonstrated their support of the program by creating…
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SiriusXM Radio host Pete Dominick catches up with CMC at the Aspen Ideas Festival
SiriusXM Radio host Pete Dominick always wanted to go to college in Colorado. He never got here as a student, but he did get a chance to interview Colorado Mountain College President Carrie Besnette Hauser, Isaacson School for New Media faculty member Corby Anderson and Isaacson School for New Media student Justin Patrick at the…
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CMC creates strolling history tour in downtown Glenwood
This article was published in the Glenwood Post Independent. By Randy Essex. Glenwood Springs has some new history. It’s downtown, right across the street from where Doc Holliday died, at the heart of Glenwood’s earliest developments — and connected to one of the newest things in town. Thirteen plaques that outline key moments in Glenwood’s…
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Northwest Colorado SBDC to host statewide Professional Health & Wellness Symposium in Breckenridge
BRECKENRIDGE – The Northwest Colorado Small Business Development Center is hosting the inaugural Professional Health & Wellness Symposium Aug. 13-14, 2014, at Colorado Mountain College in Breckenridge. The event begins Aug. 13 with Colorado Health Links presenting a special Science of Worksite Wellness workshop from 8:30 to 11 a.m., for human resources professionals, wellness coaches…
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Isaacson School students reach new heights at Aspen Ideas Festival
By Carrie Click ASPEN – More than 20 Isaacson School for New Media students and faculty threw themselves headlong into the recent Aspen Ideas Festival, which brings top business leaders, journalists, intellectuals, politicians and world leaders to the Colorado mountains for 10 days of deep conversation, debate and interaction. The opportunity for students to take…
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CMC summer camps spark career interests
Colorado Mountain College and Reach Your Peak Colorado, an organization funded by El Pomar Foundation’s Northwest Regional Council, presented three week-long camps in Carbondale and one camp in Rifle during July. The camps are designed to spark student interest, from elementary through high school, in education and future careers. The slideshow below shares a few…