Tag: Students
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Getting a head start on higher ed with concurrent enrollment
GLENWOOD SPRINGS – During this year’s springtime graduation season, Patrick Gucwa attended more than one commencement ceremony. The high school senior – one of his class’s seven valedictorians – received his diploma from Glenwood Springs High School. But several weeks earlier, he’d already participated in another graduation: the commencement exercises at Colorado Mountain College in…
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TRIO programs celebrate five decades of student success
Earlier this spring, Enews ran a short series of articles profiling students who have benefited from TRIO’s Upward Bound and Student Support Services programs at different Colorado Mountain College locations. This profile features grad Edgar Montes, the first person in his immediate family earn a college degree. Roaring Fork Valley CMC students still benefit from…
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CMC Ski Team shines with academic honors
CMC athletes earn Phi Theta Kappa and All Academic honors Students on Colorado Mountain College’s Alpine Ski Team juggle academics with an intense travel schedule. Despite the extra challenge incurred by life on the road, the team managed to earn a cumulative GPA of 3.55 during the spring 2014 semester. Two students, Will Cutler and…
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Local students celebrate double graduations
Grads earn CMC associate degrees, high school diplomas in same year This month four local, graduating high school seniors achieved a rare feat: They also donned caps and gowns for graduation at Colorado Mountain College in Edwards. Marisol Chacon, Reagen Gass and Tiffany Sheehy from Eagle Valley High School and Maria Villarreal from Battle Mountain…
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Sustainability Conference
Sustainable housing, hydroenergy, Real Food Challenges: Just a few of the solutions CMC Sustainability Studies students created as part of their capstone projects. If you missed Colorado Mountain College’s recent Sustainability Conference, you can now catch the wrap up on the students’ inspired ideas and the conference through the eyes of CMC’s Ben Saheb:
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Local woman juggles career, coursework to earn bachelor’s degree
Celebrated milestone at Colorado Mountain College ceremony in Keystone May 2 Shawn Biehl never set out to be an overachiever, but the title stuck after she graduated from Colorado Mountain College with three associate degrees in 2008 – an Associate of Arts in business and two Associate of Applied Science degrees (one in accounting and…
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Silt resident credits Colorado Mountain College programs for job and career
Three historic educational bills passed by the Johnson administration, which created what are now known as the TRIO programs, are still opening doors for students locally and nationwide. Colorado Mountain College is helping students via TRIO programs at five of its campus locations. Our public information staff recently explored how these programs are changing the…
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One for the books: Colorado Mountain College student balances skiing, class
This article appeared in the Steamboat Today. By Joel Reichenberger. Steamboat Springs — Brett Somen can’t make it across Gondola Square without seeing five people he knows, and that’s before he even makes it into the gondola building, where the lift operators know him and often greet him by name, as well. That’s one of…
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CMC Ski & Snowboard Business students hone their skills in the backcountry
CMC class travels to Wyoming to boost their skills A class of prospective guides taking part in Colorado Mountain College’s Professional Ski & Snowboard Guide Certificate program caught sunset recently during a ski tour at Wyoming’s Three Rivers Ranch. The program introduces students to guiding techniques, risk management, Snow Cat and Heli-Skiing operations and small business…
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Women snowcat groomers carve the slopes at Summit County ski resorts
This article was published in The Summit Daily News. By Alli Langley. The sun disappeared behind the mountains at Copper Mountain Resort Saturday, March 29, and Debbie Caves climbed into her snowcat. She gripped the machine’s controls with both hands, feeling the way the cat’s arm met the walls of her halfpipe, checking her instruments…