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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
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CC Students Lead Politically Diverse Debate
In a world of increasing political polarity, it’s reassuring to know that there are still places where civil discourse can happen across party lines. Thankfully, one of those places is Colorado College. On the evening of Friday, September 15, a group of students came together in Taylor Theatre on the CC campus to witness two… Read More
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CC Music Department Welcomes Lidia Chang
Please welcome the newest addition to the Music Department faculty, Assistant Professor, Lidia Chang! Chang’s work as a musicologist and flutist expands across musical eras, cultures, and countries. Born into an interracial/bi-national family from Houston, her personal background has greatly influenced her perspective on the conceptual boundaries of gender, nationality, and class. Her studies specialize… Read More
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Macroeconomics Class Emphasizes Community-Engaged Learning
When someone thinks of a Principles of Macroeconomics class, they might picture students sitting for hours in front of a professor lecturing them on numbers. But at CC, things are done differently. Dr. Guanyi Yang, Assistant Professor of Economics and Business, knows how important experiential and community-engaged learning is, both to the foundation of CC… Read More
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New Faculty at CC
Fourteen new faculty members join the CC community this year. These are teacher-scholars committed to student thriving and academic excellence, the advancement of ADEI, and the creative opportunities that CC’s Block Plan affords. Computer Science BLAKE JACKSON ’16 Blake Jackson, a researcher in robot-human interactions, returns to CC to rejoin the department where he obtained his major. BEN NYE Ben Nye’s research is on natural language processing. He taught… Read More
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From the Archives: A new first edition
Colorado College Special Collections maintains collections of rare books, special editions, manuscripts, and published and archival material about Colorado, Colorado Springs, and Colorado College. The department supports CC’s thematic minor in book studies, collecting materials showing the history and future of the written word in material form. Some of the featured books in the collection were… Read More
