Tag: Staff
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Dave Askeland named CMC campus vice president
Dave Askeland, who for the past year has served as the interim vice president for Colorado Mountain College in Breckenridge and Dillon, now officially holds the title of vice president. “I am very pleased that Dave Askeland has agreed to be the head of our campus in Summit County,” said Dr. Charles R. Dassance, interim president…
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CMC grant writer attends National Library of Medicine meeting
Marnie Carroll, Colorado Mountain College’s grants writer and coordinator, represented the college at the National Library of Medicine’s Environmental Health Information Partnership (EnHIP) meeting March 11 and 12. CMC was asked to present community college concerns regarding student retention and graduation in science, technology, engineering and math at the annual meeting at Morgan State University…
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‘Crossroads’ exhibit displays photos from intersecting projects
ArtShare Gallery show honors longtime CMC photography employee Scot Gerdes is a familiar face to many students who have enrolled in Colorado Mountain College’s professional photography program. For the past 14 years, Gerdes has worked at the Spring Valley campus near Glenwood Springs as the photo lab technician and has many fond recollections of working…
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The Albany Movement: a fight for desegregation in the South
CMC dean to present personal account in commemoration of Black History Month [LEADVILLE] – Jonathan King remembers when he was only 5, sitting in his living room and listening to family friend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., discuss with the young Jonathan’s parents, political leaders Slater and Marion King, a movement that would put a…
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New resources for veterans at CMC
Colorado Mountain College has recently created many initiatives to support veterans who are interested in attending college, including a tuition discount that allows veterans and their dependents to take any class for our low in-district tuition rate. We’ve also hired additional support staff. Clayton Bolton, a student at CMC in Leadville, will be working as…
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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…
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Race Across the Sky 2012
CMC Leadville student Becky Aurora offers a quick wrap-up of the plethora of summer endurance races offered in Leadville, Colorado, in the post below, first published in her blog, Life at 10,200 feet. CMC had several staff compete in the races, including Ken Keister, in the Leadville MTB 100, and Johann Aberger, in Saturday’s Leadville…
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A new look for WebAdvisor
For the past three years, the WebAdvisor Work Group has focused on improving the user experience. In 2011-2012 the WebAdvisor Workgroup focused on expanding the key word search functionality and creating a guest user landing page. The expanded key word search was implemented back in the winter. The guest user landing page will go LIVE…
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Pedals power many commuters to work
Lack of parking just one reason to hop on your bike This article first appeared in the Glenwood Springs Post Independent. By John Stroud. GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado — Julie Albrecht spends a lot of time on the Rio Grande Trail during her daily bicycle commutes between Carbondale, where she lives, and her job in downtown…
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CMC’s PEAK Performance Receives $1,000 YOUTH-Turn It Around Award
Spring Valley student group turns adversity into action and garners national award Glenwood Springs, CO (June 2012) – To celebrate Global Youth Traffic Safety Month® during May 2012, National Organizations for Youth Safety (NOYS) launched the third annual YOUTH-Turn It Around Awards program to recognize and award cash prizes to youth organizations that utilized the…