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Colorado College
Motto: Scientia et Disciplina
Established: 1874
Type: Private
Endowment: US $438,711,000
President: Richard F. Celeste
Undergraduates: 2,011
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Campus: Urban, 90 Acres
Colors: Gold and Black
Nickname: Tigers
Website: coloradocollege.edu

The Colorado College (familiarly known as CC) is a private liberal arts college in Colorado Springs, Colorado. A motto (from the Italian word motto, meaning witticism sentence is a phrase meant to formally describe the general motivation or intention of a social group The date of establishment or date of founding of an Institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point For the film of this title see Private School (film. Private schools, or Independent schools are Schools not administered A financial endowment is a Transfer of Money or Property donated to an Institution, usually with the stipulation that it be invested University president is the title of the highest ranking officer within a University, within university systems that prefer that appellation over other variations such as Richard Frank "Dick" Celeste (born November 11, 1937, in Cleveland Ohio) is an American politician from Ohio, and a member In some Educational systems undergraduate education is Post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelor's degree. The City of Colorado Springs is a Home Rule Municipality that is the County seat and most populous city of El Paso County, Colorado, The State of Colorado ( or chiefly by nonresidents) is a state located in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States of America. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the School colors are the Colors chosen by a School to represent it on uniforms and other items of identification The athletic nickname, or equivalently athletic moniker, of a University or College within the United States is the name officially adopted by A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Unlike Public universities, private universities generally do not receive direct operational funding from national or subnational governments and thus rely on private Liberal arts colleges in the United States are institutions of Higher education in the United States. The City of Colorado Springs is a Home Rule Municipality that is the County seat and most populous city of El Paso County, Colorado, The State of Colorado ( or chiefly by nonresidents) is a state located in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States of America. It was founded in 1874 by General William Palmer. William Jackson Palmer ( September 17, 1836 &ndash March 13, 1909) was an American Civil engineer, Soldier, Industrialist The college enrolls approximately 2,000 undergraduates at its 90 acre (36 ha) campus, 70 miles (100 km) south of Denver, with a view of the Rocky Mountains to the west. In some Educational systems undergraduate education is Post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelor's degree. Explanation The hectare is commonly used in most countries around the world especially in domains concerned with land planning and management such as Agriculture, The City and County of Denver (pronounced /ˈdɛnvɚ/ is the Capital and the most populous city of Colorado, in the United States Mountain peaks of the Rocky Mountains The Rocky Mountains, often called the Rockies, are a Mountain range in western North America.

Colorado College is known for its unusual "block plan", which divides the year into eight academic terms; a single class is taken during each term. An academic term is a division of an academic year the time during which a School, College or University holds classes

Colorado College is affiliated with the Associated Colleges of the Midwest. The Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM is a consortium of thirteen leading Liberal arts colleges located in Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, 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 National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA, often pronounced "N-C-Double-A" is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions conferences organizations The current President of the college is Richard Celeste, former Governor of Ohio, ambassador to India, and Director of the Peace Corps. Richard Frank "Dick" Celeste (born November 11, 1937, in Cleveland Ohio) is an American politician from Ohio, and a member Ohio ( is a Midwestern state of the United States. As part of the Great Lakes region, Ohio has long been a cultural and geographical crossroads American Embassy New Delhi was established Nov 1 1946 with George R India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country The Peace Corps is an independent United States federal agency.

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History

Founded in 1874 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 England tradition. William Jackson Palmer ( September 17, 1836 &ndash March 13, 1909) was an American Civil engineer, Soldier, Industrialist The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, generally referred to as the Rio Grande, became the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad in 1920 and is today a Fallen Christianity ( Greek Χριστιανισμός from the word Xριστός ( Christ)is a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings History See also History of New England New England's earliest inhabitants were Algonquian -speaking Native Americans including the 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. The Phi Beta Kappa Society is an academic Honor society with the mission of "fostering and recognizing excellence" in the Undergraduate Liberal arts 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).

Since the mid-1950s, the campus has been virtually rebuilt. 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. The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP is the United States government's official list of districts sites buildings structures and objects deemed worthy of 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. ”

Academics

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, field trips, and other more intensive learning experiences. 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.

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. Asian studies, a term that has largely replaced the older Oriental studies, is concerned with the Asian peoples their cultures languages history and politics Biochemistry is the study of the chemical processes in living Organisms It deals with the Structure and function of cellular components such as Environmental science is the study of interactions among physical chemical and biological components of the environment. Neuroscience is a field devoted to the scientific study of the nervous system Latin American studies ( LAS) is an Academic discipline dealing with the study of Latin America and Latin Americans In addition to its undergraduate programs, the college offers a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) degree. A Master of Arts ( Latin: Magister Artium) is a Postgraduate academic Master's degree awarded by universities in a large Tutt Library has approximately half a million bound volumes.

Considered one of the nation's top colleges, Colorado College perennially ranks in the top tier of National Colleges in the U. S. News Rankings, most recently ranging from a high of 19th in 1999 to a low of 33rd in 2005, one of its rare appearances outside the top 30 in recent years. In a January 2004 ranking of all colleges and universities by Kiplingers magazine, it placed 31st. And in the 2006 U. S. News rankings it was 27th among National Colleges, and soared to 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. Furthermore, 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. [1]

CC routinely attracts some of the brightest stars in the arena of government service. Its graduates include Lynne Cheney, wife of U. Lynne Ann Vincent Cheney (born August 14, 1941) is the current Second Lady of the United States, the wife of United States Vice President S. Vice President Dick Cheney, and their two daughters, as well as United States Senator Ken Salazar, and Representative Diana DeGette. Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney (born January 30 1941 is the forty-sixth and current Vice President of the United States. Kenneth Lee Salazar (born March 2, 1955) is an American politician, rancher and environmentalist from the U Diana Louise DeGette (born July 29 1957) is a Politician from the U

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. Robert James Woolsey Jr (born September 21, 1941) is a foreign policy specialist and former Director of Central Intelligence and head of the Central Martin Neil Baily is formerly an Economist at the Peterson Institute, now having returned to the Brookings Institution, and he is most known for work on The school is widely 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.

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 Point and the 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.

Russell T. Tutt Science Center at Colorado College
Russell T. Tutt Science Center at Colorado College

The areas of music and the arts have equally luminous representatives, most notably artist-in-residence Susan Grace, an internationally known pianist with appearances at Carnegie Hall, and Stephen Scott, a neo-classical composer. Stephen Scott (b Corvallis, Oregon, 1944) is an American composer best known for his development of the Bowed piano (borrowed from

Both knowledge and art suffuse the work of Colorado College graduates who have such diverse accomplishments as the 2000 Nobel Prize for Economics, won by James Heckman, class of '65, and the rendering of Sacagawea on the U. James Joseph Heckman (born April 19, 1944) is a leading Economist at The University of Chicago, Distinguished Chair of Microeconometric S. golden dollar coin, by internationally known sculptor Glenna Goodacre, class of '61. Glenna Maxey Goodacre (born 1939 in Lubbock Texas, US) is a sculptor best known for having designed the Sacagawea dollar that entered circulation

Athletics

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 is a member of the NCAA Division III 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. The National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA, often pronounced "N-C-Double-A" is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions conferences organizations Division III (or DIII) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States. Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team Sport played on Ice. Division I (or D-I) is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States The Western Collegiate Hockey Association is a college athletic conference which operates over a wide area of the Midwestern and Western United States. Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered CC is in the midst of transition from a Division III independent to the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference, which will be completed in the 2007-2008 school year. The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference ( SCAC) founded in 1962 is an athletic conference which competes in the NCAA 's Division III.

The Colorado College men's ice hockey is an unusual 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 made the NCAA Tournament eighteen times, including every year since 1995 except 2000, 2004 and 2007. [2]. In 2005, CC played in the Frozen Four. The annual NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship tournament determines the top Ice hockey team in the NCAA Division I, Division II, and Division Fifty-five CC Tigers have been named All-Americans[3]. NHL Hall of Fame coach Bob Johnson coached the Tigers from 1963 - 1966[4]. 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 have last won an NCAA title. Their current coach is Scott Owens, who played for Colorado College and graduated from the school in 1979.

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_9459310
  2. ^ Colorado College | Ice Hockey History NCAA Tournament
  3. ^ Colorado College | Ice Hockey History All-Americans
  4. ^ Colorado College | Ice Hockey History Coaches

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