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The Colorado College (familiarly known as CC) is a private liberal arts college in Colorado Springsmarker, Coloradomarker. It was founded in 1874 by Thomas Nelson Haskell. The college enrolls approximately 2,000 undergraduates at its 90 acre (36 ha) campus, 70 miles (100 km) south of Denvermarker in Colorado Springs, with a view of the Rocky Mountains to the west.

Colorado College is known for its non-conventional "block plan," which divides the year into eight academic terms, called "blocks"; a single class is taken during each block.

Colorado College is affiliated with the Associated Colleges of the Midwest. Most of CC's sports teams are in the NCAA Division III, with the exception of nationally competitive Division I teams in men's hockey and women's soccer. The current President of the college is Richard Celeste, former Governor of Ohiomarker, ambassador to Indiamarker, and Director of the Peace Corps.

History

Founded in 1874 on land designated by U.S. Civil War veteran General William Jackson Palmer — the founder of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad and of Colorado Springs — Colorado College was instituted as a liberal arts college which would foster Christian outreach by its graduates and faculty in the New Englandmarker tradition. Like many U.S. colleges and universities that have endured from the 19th century it now is secular in outlook, though it retains its liberal arts focus.

The college's first building, Cutler Hall, was occupied in 1880; the first bachelor's degrees were conferred in 1882. Phi Beta Kappa was chartered in 1904. Under President William F. Slocum, who served from 1888 to 1917, the campus took the shape it held until the 1950s. During this time, the college significantly expanded and improved the library’s holdings and attracted leading scholars in a number of fields. In 1930 Shove Chapel was erected by Mr. John Gray, to meet the religious needs of the students (though Colorado College is not religiously affiliated).

Academics

Russell T.
Tutt Science Center at Colorado College
The college offers more than 80 majors, minors, and specialized programs including: Southwest studies, women’s studies, Asian studies, biochemistry, environmental science, neuroscience, Latin American studies, Russian and Eurasian studies, and American cultural studies, as well as an across-the-curriculum writing program. In addition to its undergraduate programs, the college offers a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) degree. Tutt Library has approximately half a million bound volumes.

Block Plan

Colorado College follows a "block plan"; students study only one subject for three and a half weeks, which advocates say allows for more lab time, for research and study in the field, more intensive learning experiences and fewer distractions. Blocks are only three weeks long in summer school, during which there are also graduate blocks of differing lengths. In parallel with the students, professors teach only one block at a time. Classes are generally capped at 25 (32 for two professors) to encourage a more personalized academic experience.

Rankings and admissions

Colorado College perennially ranks in the top tier of liberal arts colleges in the U.S. News & World Report rankings, most recently ranging from a high of 19th in 1999 to a low of 33rd in 2005. In a January 2004 ranking of all colleges and universities by Kiplingers magazine, it placed 31st. In the 2009 U.S. News rankings it was 24th among liberal arts colleges, and 13th place in Best Values among all national colleges.

Colorado College has one of the highest retention rates of any college or university in the country at 96 percent. Colorado College also has one of the nation's lowest acceptance rates, at 24 percent, with a very high yield at 48 percent. The median ACT of the class of 2012 is a 31, and one-fourth of the class graduated in the top 1 percent of their high school class.

Sustainability

In 2009, Colorado College developed a sustainability plan and implemented the “aCClimate 14” conservation campaign. The campus saved $100,000 in utility costs and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 378 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent during the campaign. Other sustainability initiatives at CC include: a 25-kilowatt solar PV array, composting of kitchen and dining waste, and a singlestream recycling program.

Campus

Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center at Colorado College
Since the mid-1950s, new facilities include three large residence halls, Worner Campus Center, Tutt Library, Olin Hall of Science and the Barnes Science Center, Honnen Ice Rink, Boettcher Health Center, Schlessman Pool, Armstrong Hall of Humanities, Palmer Hall, El Pomar Sports Center, and Packard Hall of Music and Art. Bemis, Cossitt, Cutler, Montgomery, and Palmer Halls are some of the remaining turn-of-the-century structures on the National Register of Historic Places, along with the William I. Spencer Center.

The face of campus changed again at the beginning of the 21st century with construction of the Western Ridge Housing Complex, which offers apartment-style living for upper-division students and completion of the Russell T. Tutt Science Center. The east campus has been expanded, and is now home to the Greek Quad and several small residence halls known as “theme houses.”

Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center

Colorado College’s Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center, completed in 2008 and located at the intersection of a performing arts corridor in Colorado Springs, was designed to foster creativity and interdisciplinary collaboration. It is home to the college’s film, drama and dance departments and contains a large theater, several smaller performance spaces, a screening room, the I.D.E.A Space gallery, and classrooms, among other rooms. Architect Antoine Predock designed the building with input from professors and students.

Athletics

Map of CC
The school's sports teams are nicknamed Tigers, though in 1994 a student referendum to change the name to the Cutthroats (Trout) narrowly failed. Colorado College competes at the NCAA Division III level in all sports except men's hockey, in which it participates in the NCAA Division I Western Collegiate Hockey Association, and women's soccer, where it competes as an NCAA Division I team in Conference USA. CC dropped its intercollegiate athletic programs in football, softball, and women's water polo following the 2008-09 academic year.

The Colorado College men's ice hockey program is a powerhouse for such a small school. The Tigers won the NCAA Division I championship twice (1950, 1957), were runners up three times (1952, 1955, 1996) and have made the NCAA Tournament eighteen times, including every year since 1995 except 2000, 2004, 2007 and 2009.. In 2005, CC played in the Frozen Four. Fifty-five CC Tigers have been named All-Americans. NHL Hall of Fame coach Bob Johnson coached the Tigers from 1963 - 1966. Despite the minuscule size of the school, the hockey team is often ranked quite highly nationally, although it has been over 50 years since the Tigers last won an NCAA title. Their current coach is Scott Owens, who played for Colorado College and graduated from the school in 1979.

Notable people

Several CC alumni are engaged in political careers. Its graduates include Lynne Cheney, wife of former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, and their two daughters, as well as U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, and Representative Diana DeGette.

Other well-known government figures, such as former CIA Director James Woolsey and White House Chief Economic Advisor Martin Neil Baily, have seen their children graduate from CC in recent years. The school is regarded to have a distinguished faculty, noted for outstanding teaching and a closeness to students in an environment where no class exceeds 25, and an end-of-block breakfast or dinner at a professor's home is a common gathering. The college also owns a nearbycabin to convene classes, as well as a more expansive mountain campus known as the "Baca," located in Crestone, Colorado.

While the focus at Colorado College is primarily on teaching, and its academics involve a high level of rigor and intensity on the block plan, a significant number of faculty are widely published and renowned in their fields. Professor Dennis Showalter, the 2005 recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Military History, is a leading expert on World War II, a Distinguished Visiting Professor at West Pointmarker and the United States Air Force Academy, Reviewer for the History Book Club, and author of Tannenberg: Clash of Empires, the 1992 winner of the prestigious Paul Birdsall Prize of the American Historical Association. In 2005, he published the first single volume dual military biography of Patton and Rommel, Men of War.

Notable music and arts representatives include Susan Grace, a pianist with appearances at Carnegie Hall, Stephen Scott, a neo-classical composer, and Ofer Ben-Amots, an Israeli composer.

Professors

  • Andrew Price-Smith, political scientist, author on health security, environmental security, pandemic influenza
  • David Mason, poet
  • Robert Loevy, political scientist
  • Tomi-Ann Roberts, social psychologist, feminist
  • Thomas Cronin, political scientist and author
  • Steven Hayward, Canadian poet and author
  • Stephen Scott, neo-classical composer
  • Dennis Showalter, military historian
  • Christine Smith Siddoway, geologist, Antarctica researcher
  • Carol Neel, medieval historian
  • Ofer Ben-Amots, classical Israeli-American composer


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KRCC

Colorado College operates National Public Radio Member Station KRCC-FM. In 1944, KRCCmarker began as a two-room public address system in the basement of Bemis Hall. Professor Woodson "Chief" Tyree, Director of Radio and Drama Department at Colorado College was the founder and inspirational force in the program that one day became KRCC-FM. In 1946, KRCC moved to South Hall (where Packard Hall now stands) on campus where two students, Charles "Bud" Edmonds '51, and Margaret Merle-Smith '51, were instrumental in securing a war surplus FM transmitter. KRCC began over the air broadcasting in April 1951 as the first non-commercial educational FM radio station in the state of Colorado.

Today, KRCC broadcasts through a series of eleven transmitters and translators throughout southern Colorado and a portion of northern New Mexico. KRCC's main transmitter, atop Cheyenne Mountainmarker, broadcasts three separate HD multi-cast channels, including a channel run completely by Colorado College students called the SOCC (Sounds of Colorado College).

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