Tag: Partnerships
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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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Leadership Summit graduates 16 community leaders
By Carrie Click. Leadership Summit, Summit County’s community leadership program, has graduated 16 community leaders from its 10th year. Sessions were held one day per month, from Sept. 25, 2014, through May 14, 2015. Leadership Summit is a nine-month, highly interactive leadership enrichment program that seeks to develop and enhance the individual leadership abilities of…
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Gov. Hickenlooper signs mobile learning lab bill in Frisco
This article was published in the Summit Daily News. By Elise Reuter. Gov. John Hickenlooper visited Frisco yesterday to sign a bill that would help provide on-site training for local businesses. The bill, which was sponsored by Rep. Millie Hamner, D-Dillon, would allow state funds to be granted to community colleges for mobile learning labs,…
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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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Two local nonprofits receive El Pomar grants
Literacy Outreach (of Garfield County) and Partners in Routt County each recently received a $2,500 merit grant that was awarded through the Northwest Regional Council of the El Pomar Foundation. El Pomar Foundation has 11 regional councils that represent the entire state of Colorado. The councils are responsible for funding projects in their region. Each…
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Culinary arts program serves popular course
This article was published in the Rifle Citizen Telegram. By Teresa Hamilton. Isidro Contreras Morales’ knife blade flashes as he slices through the cabbage and peppers on his cutting board. The cuts are intricate and precise. Morales is a senior at Coal Ridge High School, but as his knife flies across the cutting board, he…
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CMC receives $17,000 from Kaiser Permanente as part of a statewide community college scholarship campaign
Kaiser Permanente and Colorado Mountain College collaborated to distribute the following release. Funds will be awarded as scholarships to students enrolled in health science programs at Colorado Mountain College DENVER – Kaiser Permanente has announced new grant funding for students studying in community college health science programs on the Western Slope. A $90,000 matching grant…
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Guest Column: Fostering a ‘culture of college’ from Aspen to Parachute
This guest column by Aspen Community Foundation Executive Director Tamara Tormohlen appeared in The Aspen Times. Spring is in the air, and high school seniors are getting the “fat envelopes,” those letters of acceptance from colleges and universities that help determine the course of their future, at least for the next several years. Or are…
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CSU Extension Master Gardener class returns to Roaring Fork Valley
Aspen Public Radio aired a story today on a new partnership between CMC and CSU’s Extension Service that is offering a Master Gardener class at the college’s location in Carbondale, offering Roaring Fork Valley residents another option for learning. Click here to listen to Aspen Public Radio’s Elise Thatcher’s story. You an also read a…
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Summit County challenge: How to make a meal for $10
This article was published in the Summit Daily News. By Elise Reuter. Crockpots filled with steaming food lined the Summit County Community and Senior Center, as 11 Colorado Mountain College culinary students vied to have their dish recognized as the best. The competition came with a twist: The sum total of the ingredients could not…