Colorado Day is celebrated on August 1 each year. 2018 marks the 142nd anniversary of Colorado being declared a state by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1876. As a Colorado native, I thought the many transplants that call Colorado home may be interested in learning a few fun facts about our great state. Click on each […]
Dr. Francois Jacobs is a new dean of instruction at Front Range Community College’s Westminster Campus. He will oversee the English and Communication and Business, Information Systems, and Technology departments, career/technical education, the Academic Success Center, and FRCC-Brighton Center. Most recently, Jacobs was a dean of business, career/technical, and cosmetology programs at Northeastern Junior College […]
A clump of honeybees clouds the small hole in the side of the Sunlight Peak classroom building at Front Range Community College’s Larimer Campus in Fort Collins. While the bees tirelessly make foraging trips and return to an observation hive for biology students, Evelyn Freytag takes a well-earned break from digging in the sticky clay […]
Well not THE Amazing Race, but it sure felt like it. If you’ve never seen it, the Amazing Race is a fast-moving competitive reality show where teams race around the world to accomplish assigned tasks. The race has several legs where the teams must navigate the locals, customs, and language, and get to the goal site […]
Elena Sandoval-Lucero is the new vice president of the Boulder County Campus. She joins Front Range Community College from the Community College of Aurora, where she was vice president of student affairs. She succeeds Linda Curran, who retired after eight years as campus vice president. As vice president, Sandoval-Lucero is the chief executive officer of […]
We were just leaving Estes Park when I asked my van full of students, “So how was it? What did you get out of today?” One of my more thoughtful students, sitting in the passenger’s seat next to me, replied “Do you remember telling us at the beginning of the year that by the end […]
With more than 500 job openings per year in Colorado for medical assistants, Front Range Community College brings its Medical Assistant certificate program to campuses in Westminster and Fort Collins. “Community colleges start or expand programs to meet the needs of industry and the workforce demands of their communities” said Gillian McKnight-Tutein, chief academic officer […]
Every summer my family trades our condominium through an international home exchange club. We have lived in strangers’ houses, driven their automobiles, walked their pets, and talked to their families. This past summer, we traveled to Hawaii’s big island for three weeks. We lived aloha, from our morning glass of POG, to pau hana happy […]
