Category: CLA eNewsletter Item
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Embracing One’s Community through Giving
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CLA WebmasterRead More: Embracing One’s Community through GivingThe upcoming issue of the College of Liberal Arts enewsletter, where this post will be featured, is a special issue in which all the stories feature development-focused content that showcases the impact of our CLA donors. We were asked to contribute a story “about the impact of a scholarship on a student’s…
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Pulitzer-Prize Winning Poet Yusef Komunyakaa Selected as the 2015 CLA Honor Alumnus
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CLA WebmasterRead More: Pulitzer-Prize Winning Poet Yusef Komunyakaa Selected as the 2015 CLA Honor AlumnusYusef Komunyakaa was born and grew up in the small town of Bogalusa, Louisiana before and during the Civil Rights era. He served a tour of Army duty during the Vietnam War, when he acted as a journalist for the military paper, covering major actions, interviewing fellow soldiers…
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Dan Beachy-Quick: Associate Professor, Poet, and So Much More
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CLA WebmasterRead More: Dan Beachy-Quick: Associate Professor, Poet, and So Much More“Poetry, Art, the Humanities broadly speaking, offer us now as they have always offered us, a means not only of describing the world we see, but in describing it, also realizing it — that is, bringing it into reality, and so ushering ourselves into the very same.” ~Dan Beachy-Quick, from…
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McBride Teacher-Scholar Paul De Maret
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CLA WebmasterRead More: McBride Teacher-Scholar Paul De MaretThe William G. McBride Endowment honors Bill McBride, who taught for 45 years in Colorado schools, including Manzanola, Poudre and Fort Collins High Schools, and Colorado State University. Established when he retired in 1998, the endowment continues Bill’s legacy of ensuring quality English Language Arts teachers for secondary schools. In…
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Spring 2015 Reading and Speaking Series
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CLA WebmasterRead More: Spring 2015 Reading and Speaking SeriesAuthors and scholars have been announced for two series, hosted by the English department. The Creative Writing Reading Series and the CSU Writing Project Speaker Series on the Literacies of Contemporary Civic Life promise a variety of engaging events for Spring 2015. All events are free and open to the…
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Three English Faculty Who Take Teaching and Learning Beyond Eddy Hall
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CLA WebmasterRead More: Three English Faculty Who Take Teaching and Learning Beyond Eddy HallEddy Hall is empty. “Where Did They Go?” banners direct students to the Writing Center in Johnson Hall and to the three buildings housing Philosophy and English faculty and staff: Clark, Behavioral Sciences, and Ingersoll Hall, where dorm rooms have become offices. Despite the relocations, English faculty continue to demonstrate…