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CC Coding Team Wins Top Prize at Harvard Hackathon
Alexa Gromko
It’s a high-tech Cinderella story that showcases CC students’ ability to think big and find solutions to life’s problems utilizing their intelligence, raw grit, courage, and determination. One in which this small, liberal arts school took on some of the biggest names in the Ivy League and won!
THE STUDENT-WRITER BLOCK
Woman Life Freedom: a presentation by Fatemeh Haghighatjoo
Zara Zafar ’27
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 in the Iranian Parliament, made several key points regarding the movement in Iran, and the status of the fight for human rights under the current regime.
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CC Receives ‘Hunger Free’ Designation
Alexa Gromko
CC is now a designated Hunger Free campus. The Colorado Department of Higher Education conveyed the designation on its Social Determinant of Student Success site in October.
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Congratulations to the CC Speech and Debate Team!
The CC Speech and Debate Team hosted 10 schools last weekend at their annual tournament. CC took 2nd place overall, with several individuals placing in the top 3 for their events. In a field of 32 debaters, Aidan Boyd ’25, took first place overall, with a perfect 7-0 record. Go Talking Tigers!
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FACULTY & STAFF
Distinctions
Heidi Lewis
Heidi Lewis, Colorado College Associate Professor for Feminist & Gender Studies, has been elected as president of the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA). The honor comes nearly 30 years after CC started its Women’s Studies program.
The two-year run (2023-2025) at the helm of the organization is a first for the David and Lucile Packard professor as well as for representation from CC.
Lewis says she is committed to “catalyzing change through understanding the past and present as much as focusing on visualizing the future” of the association, which has roughly 3,350 members.
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 opportunities for the students to cultivate their own meaningful relationships. It was impressed upon them that, in today’s ethnographic and anthropological academic environment, it’s more important than ever to ensure the exchange of cultural knowledge is attuned to issues of power and privilege and based in reciprocity and trust. This testament is the overarching focus for Carrizo’s sabbatical project next semester, which is to complete her book. READ THE FULL STORY »
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Block 4: Where at CC?
Where On Campus?
Block 3 Answer
The image was a close up of the upper ledge of Ed Robson Arena.
CC in the Fall
A MOMENT OF PEACE. Prayer flags at the Baca Campus. Photo by Karuna Abe ’20.