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CC Students Head to 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference
Eight CC students are in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, this month to attend the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) as part of the Block 4 COP28 in Dubai: Ethnographers of UN Climate Action Efforts course. COP28 takes places from Nov. 30 through Dec. 12. Students in the course will be in Dubai from… Read More
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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 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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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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Alum Begins Peace Corps Service in Guatemala
After being delayed for almost three years due to COVID, Molly Maier ’21 has begun her two years of service with the Peace Corps in Guatemala. Maier specifically applied to the Maternal and Child Health Promoter Peace Corps Program in Guatemala because it combines her interest in the Spanish language with her passion for maternal… Read More
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CC Foreign Correspondents: The Ukrainian Refugee Crisis
Two CC students spent a month as foreign correspondents in Europe reporting on the Ukrainian refugee crisis. Read More
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CC Alum Exposes Government Disregard for Everything Downwind
Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Mercury, Nevada? With the recent motion picture release of Oppenheimer, many have found a new or renewed interest in the Manhattan Project and the era of American history when the country was working to create the first atomic bomb. However, one CC alum has been thinking about these events for much longer and… Read More
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CC Alum Fights for Justice and Leads With Hope
In early 2022, Deksyos Damtew was finishing up his year as CC Student Government Association President, looking forward to graduation, and, like many college seniors, trying to figure out his next steps. “If you asked me while at Colorado College what would be [my] dream organization to work for, I would have told you the… Read More
