CC Campaign Exceeds $93 Million
Colorado College alumni, parents and friends contributed $93.1 million for new buildings, enhanced programs, and to underwrite scholarships and faculty salaries. The total is $10 million over our initial goal of $83 million for the largest capital campaign in the college's 127-year history. See the Campaign Web page for more. Read an article in the Bulletin alumni magazine.Many financial needs remain. Remember the Annual Fund -- this year and every year -- and visit the CC giving page, where online giving is now available.
Field Study Featured Nationally
Colorado College is highlighted online at CNN.com as a result of a "Back to School" package submitted to 1,550 Associated Press newspapers around the country. AP member newspapers represent more than 98% of all U.S. dailies.
Students Opt for New Housing Complex
The college's new Western Ridge housing complex, resulting in 80 percent on campus residency, opened all its doors last fall. Read an article written by business manager David Lord. For more, click here to see older renderings, photos, and floor plans. Click here for more on the changing campus.CC President Shares Advice on Choosing Colleges
"Prospective students and their families need to know that the high-tech, career/vocation-oriented, and other trendy options aren't their only choice in education. Liberal arts colleges continue to exist today as vital communities of teaching, learning, and discourse for undergraduates," wrote former Colorado College President Kathryn Mohrman in an opinion piece distributed by the Knight-Ridder News Service. The article is online.Read a feature in the Christian Science Monitor with comments from Ellen Goulding from admissions. Go on a campus tour and see photos of campus and local areas.
Mohrman wrote another op-ed, also distributed via Knight-Ridder, aimed at incoming college students. Mohrman is a recent former chair of the Annapolis Group, a consortium of America's leading liberal arts colleges. The Annapolis Group recently collaborated with the journal Daedalus on examining several issues in higher education -- see more about the Daedalus volume.
Mohrman returned in January 2001 from five months in China, where she was a visiting scholar in the American studies program in Chengdu. Read her editorial published in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Click here to read about her experiences in China, as well as see photographs she sent back via the net.
Tour the Colorado Springs Century Chest Online
The Colorado Springs Century Chest was resealed on April 20, in Colorado College’s Tutt Library -- read a news release.. Members of the Colorado Springs community opened the Century Chest on January 1, 2001. Five TV stations, NPR and Canadian Broadcast Network, as well as a variety of print media (AP nationwide and Saskatoon Star Phoenix in Canada) covered the event. CC's Special Collections has posted the contents online -- click here to open them. Also, check out transcriptions and recordings of yells and chants from the 1901 CC student body online. Click here to find out more. CC Profs, Staff, Alumni in the News
A group that frequently performs on campus, Buntport Theater -- founded by several CC grads -- has been named Denver's Top Theater Company by the Rocky Mountain News.
Research by Henry Fricke, CC assistant professor of geology, is included in "Origin and Migration of the Alpine Iceman," a paper published in Science magazine on Oct. 31. Fricke was part of a research team that studied the mysterious 5,200-year-old iceman that was found in an Alpine glacier in 1991. The researchers, led by Wolfgang Mueller of the Australian National University in Canberra, studied the forms of elements in the iceman's teeth, bones and intestines, comparing them with the types found in water and soil in the region. The team concluded that the iceman, known as Ötzi, probably spent his whole life within about 37 miles of the spot near the Italy-Austria border where he was found. Fricke studied oxygen and carbon isotopes in the iceman's teeth and bones. See more about Fricke.
Ofer Ben-Amots, music professor, was a featured artist and composer at "Only in America: Jewish Music in a Land of Freedom," Nov. 7-11, in New York City. The event is sponsored by the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music. Ben-Amots' composition "MIZMOR: Seven Degrees of Praise" received its world premiere in a concert at the Lincoln Center on Nov. 9. See the festival and conference's web site and Ben-Amots' site for more.
History Professor Dennis Showalter presented a lecture, "Frederick the Great," on Oct. 15 at The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Showalter is one of eight prominent historians invited to provide new perspectives on some of the most notable military figures of the modern era as part of a "Great Military Commanders" series of western heritage talks at The Smithsonian. Showalter's talk on Frederick the Great, who ruled the eastern German state of Prussia from 1740-1786, kicked off the series with some new thoughts on the controversial leader. Showalter is author of the book "The Wars of Frederick the Great: Modern Wars in Perspective," among several others. He was president of the Society for Military History from 1997-2001. See the Smithsonian site and Showalter's bio for more.
David Mason, English professor, read from his poetry at the Library of Congress's National Book Festival on Oct. 4 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. He was one of 80 writers and artists invited to participate, and one of 13 poets -- along with Dana Gioia, new chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, who has been a visiting writer at Colorado College. See more about the book festival and its bio on Mason and Gioia -- and the CC bio on Professor Mason, who also is profiled in the Greek newspaper Kathimerini, the English language version of which is distributed with the International Herald Tribune in Greece and Cyprus (though he is misidentified as teaching at University of Colorado).
Kathryn Mohrman, former president of Colorado College, wrote about life after the presidency in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Michael King '71, a physics major who earned an honorary degree in 1995, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering -- read the news release. The February 2003 issue of Reason magazine includes an article by visiting professor Cathy Young about her experiences at CC. Washington Post profiled Lynne Cheney, a 1963 CC alumna. English professor John Simons is quoted in the Washington Post about author Philip K. Dick. The Christian Science Monitor ran a piece featuring Mario Montaño's Rio Grande course. See a USA Today feature on new student orientation.
Bradley Friedman '82 was named Director of Endowment and Planned Giving for the Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado -- read a press release. Dr. Jane Lubchenco, a Denver native and 1969 Colorado College graduate, received the eighth annual $250,000 Heinz Award for the Environment for her groundbreaking research on ocean ecosystems. Read a news release and visit the Heinz Awards web site for more on Lubchenco.
Check out the Christian Science Monitor for a feature on CC Cares Day. Lori Garver, a 1983 alumna and an executive at an aerospace-consulting firm in Washington, was featured in a recent story on ABCNews.com. Harlene Hayne '83 and her study about the memory of 3-year olds is featured in the Washington Post. See an interview with alumnus and speaker Jake Norton in the Independent.
Andrew Spielman '52 is featured in Harvard University Alumni Magazine and on NPR's morning edition about his research on mosquitoes and the West Nile Virus. Ed Goldstein '79 wrote an article for Government Executive magazine about unique federal agency tours and museums in the Washington D.C. area. Laura Fulgiiti '85 is lauded in Phoenix New Times for her work as a forensic anthropologist. Diana Smith '98 talks about a liberal arts education in the August 2000 Springs Magazine.
Peter Neupert, a 1978 CC philosophy major, was profiled in Business Week on his move from being a noted Microsoft exec to new chief executive of Drugstore.com. Anne Shutan '80 and her wood sculpture exhibit were featured in the Independent. CC alumna, honorary co-chair of the Cornerstone Arts Advisory Committee, and world-famous figure skater Peggy Fleming was honored by Sports Illustrated. Fleming, along with Ed "Dutch" Clark, Hayes Alan Jenkins '56, David Jenkins '58, William Thayer Tutt, and Brian Swanson '99 are some of the greatest sports figures of the 20th century according to CNN and Sports Illustrated (CC people are listed under Colorado, Alaska, and California).
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