CMC again named Top Adventure College by outdoors magazine
Elevation Outdoors readers again put CMC atop field of 32 colleges in seven states
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Colorado Mountain College Leadville, like many of the college's other campuses, offers degrees in outdoor education so graduates like these with their professor Kent Clement, lower left, can move directly from college to careers in the outdoor industry.
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Colorado Mountain College Steamboat Springs students, along with sustainability and outdoor education faculty, spent 12 days packrafting five Chilean rivers in 2017 in a course called Rivers of Life: Sustainability & Wild Rivers of Chile. The class was so popular, faculty members are currently planning a 2020 course. Adventurous college classes like this are why Elevation Outdoors magazine named CMC Top Adventure College for 2018 and 2019.
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Colorado Mountain College’s canyon orientation courses explore the geology, geography and ecology of canyon country. Here, during the 2018 spring semester, Steamboat Springs students Bill Payne, Nicole Eaton and Cooper Scherer hike through Utah's Dark Canyon Wilderness. Elevation Outdoors magazine just named CMC Top Adventure College for the second year in a row.
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Colorado Mountain College’s Summit County and Steamboat Springs campuses offer rope rescue technician certification as part of the college’s wilderness emergency medical services training and certification programs. Students and outdoor professionals seeking recertification train alongside each other to gain the knowledge needed for mountain medical services and rescue.
Colorado Mountain College photo by Scott Marr
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Colorado Mountain College Steamboat Springs students, along with sustainability and outdoor education faculty, spent 12 days packrafting five Chilean rivers in a course called Rivers of Life: Sustainability & Wild Rivers of Chile. The class was so popular, faculty members are currently planning a 2020 course.
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Colorado Mountain College’s students, staff and faculty personify Colorado Mountain College’s Top Adventure College spirit. Set in the midst of Rocky Mountain recreation, many of the college’s programs prepare students for careers that celebrate an active outdoor lifestyle.
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Colorado Mountain College Leadville, like many of the college's other campuses, offers degrees in outdoor education so graduates like these with their professor Kent Clement, lower left, can move directly from college to careers in the outdoor industry.
Colorado Mountain College photo
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Colorado Mountain College Steamboat Springs students, along with sustainability and outdoor education faculty, spent 12 days packrafting five Chilean rivers in 2017 in a course called Rivers of Life: Sustainability & Wild Rivers of Chile. The class was so popular, faculty members are currently planning a 2020 course. Adventurous college classes like this are why Elevation Outdoors magazine named CMC Top Adventure College for 2018 and 2019.
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Colorado Mountain College is where higher education meets high adventure, say readers of an outdoor adventure magazine.
Elevation Outdoors magazine readers named CMC its Top Adventure College for the second straight year, ranking CMC ahead of 32 colleges and universities in seven western states.
“Our students, faculty and staff are so excited to receive this honor two years in a row,” said Brian Barker, Colorado Mountain College director of marketing and communications.
CMC’s campuses are close to outdoor recreation and world-class adventure-based locations.
“There is no other college that boasts insider access to nearly a dozen mountain campuses which offer career-focused educational adventures for our students,” Barker said.
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Outdoor education, outdoor industry
Colorado’s outdoor recreation industry is growing exponentially, contributing $62 billion to the state’s economy in 2017. That’s double the 2013 total.
CMC offers continuing education classes, specialized certificates and degrees in outdoor education, avalanche science, natural resource management, professional fly-fishing, environmental science and studies, wilderness emergency medical services, ski area operations, action sports, and the ski and snowboard business.
CMC’s Rocky Mountain Land Management Program is one of the programs tied to the outdoors and adventure industry, and it works with the U.S. Forest Service. Students perform field-based research as part of their bachelor’s degree in sustainability studies and other disciplines. Students receive a stipend and, upon completion of the program, can compete for jobs with the Forest Service and other agencies with a special hiring status.
“This partnership is ideal because CMC provides an unprecedented educational opportunity, students gain great field experience and our communities gain a diverse, well-trained workforce,” said Scott Fitzwilliams, White River National Forest supervisor. “It’s an ideal opportunity to fill our talent pipeline and help train the next generation of natural resource specialists and land managers.”
Elevation Outdoors magazine’s Top Adventure College contest began in 2015.
