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Woman Life Freedom: a presentation by Fatemeh Haghighatjoo
During Block 3, the CC Political Science Department hosted Iranian activist Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, CEO of the Non-Violent Initiative for Democracy and a prominent Iranian scholar and reformist politician, as guest lecturer. During her insightful talk, “Achievements and shortfalls of the Woman Life Freedom movement in Iran,” Haghighatjoo, who previously represented Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat, and Eslamshahr… Read More
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CC Retirees Find Strength and Community in Fit 4 Life
Images of the CC Fit 4 Life program. Photos by Megan Clancy ’07. When Horst Richardson retired from his role as a professor in CC’s German department, and then from coaching the CC Men’s Soccer team, he found himself still spending a lot of time on campus. “I was coming into the fitness center a… Read More
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CC Mobile Arts Community Adjunct Introduces Students to Artivism
Students in the CC Mobile Arts Community Artivism Adjunct have the opportunity to see hands-on the impact that local city and state policies have on arts and culture. Through the course, students participate in CC Mobile Arts and local Colorado Springs community events, as well as attend an overnight field trip to the Paseo Project… Read More
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Sabbatical Spotlight: Liliana Carrizo
Students in the Block 2 class Musical Tapestries of the American Southwest were treated to a trip to New Mexico where leading faculty and professor, Liliana Carrizo, grew up. Building upon her existing relationships with Indigenous, Nuevomexicano/a, Jewish, and Arab immigrants who shared their homes, food, stories, art, and experiences with the students, Carrizo facilitated… Read More
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CC Joins College Presidents for Civic Preparedness
Colorado College President L. Song Richardson has joined a group of 20 college and university presidents who are committed to promoting free speech and civil discourse on college campuses across the country. College Presidents for Civic Preparedness is an initiative created by the Institute for Citizens & Scholars this past summer. It brings together a… Read More
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Home: more than a place
In Urdu, we call it ghar. In Svenska, it’s hem. Home is an interesting concept. We can spend a lifetime in one place, without ever knowing what home feels like. Or we can spend a lifetime moving, changing paths but finding home at every turn. The versatility of the word is where my intrigue truly… Read More
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Southwest Studies Class Experiences New FAC Vision for Teaching
Students in the Block 2 Art, Power, and Resistance course had the opportunity to learn hands on how culture and identity were expressed through early forms of Indigenous and Southwestern art, using the new Agents of Care: A Collections Transparency Project exhibition space at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College (FAC). The… Read More
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Finance Symposium Shows the Business Strength of a CC Degree
On Oct. 12, 2023, eleven CC alumni from a variety of areas across the finance sector returned to campus for the sixth annual Finance Symposium. The Career Center and the CC Investment Club hosted the event, where students had the opportunity to hear from and network with these alumni. The purpose of the event is… Read More
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Google Employee #302 (Virtually) Visits CC
On October 3, 2023, two of CC’s Economics & Business classes, Entrepreneurial Marketing and Investments, had a virtual class visit with Ted Souder, former Google executive and one of the company’s earliest employees. (The writer would like to note here that the need to hyperlink “Google” or provide any kind of descriptor doesn’t seem necessary.… Read More
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Humanities for All Times Grant Helps Sponsor Visiting Writers Series
The Colorado College English Department’s annual Visiting Writers Series, sponsored by the MacLean Endowment, returns this year with significant additional support from the Humanities for Our Times Grant. In January 2022, Mellon Foundation announced that over $16.1 million was awarded to 12 liberal arts colleges as part of the ‘Humanities for All Times’ Initiative. CC received $1,024,000 for its Humanities for Our Times:… Read More
