Alumni Profiles
Graduating from Western Colorado University during the height of a global pandemic made diving into a career an uncertain pursuit. As the world opened...
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Alumni Profiles
For an entrepreneur like Rob Wright (’00), inspiration for the next big idea can come from anywhere, even from a pile of cardboard boxes....
Alumni Profiles
Small gullies in the dry ground were the first clues Matt Vasquez (’02) got that something wasn’t right. He was a student at Western...
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On a vacant lot beside the main road running through Gothic, Colorado, the abandoned 19th-century mining town that’s now home to the Rocky Mountain...
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Western students help build Gunnison’s newest solar array For years, the six-acre lot beside Country Road 17, west of Gunnison, sat mostly empty, tucked...
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We’ve turned away from the planet and even our human landscape. If we turned back to that and learned to love all of it,...
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An art professor embarks on a project to paint portraits of the women in the Gunnison Valley who are connected to the land through...
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The love held for Western Colorado University by alums, students, staff, and faculty is deep and true. For decades, Mountaineers have gone to great...
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Chris Miller wasn’t expecting to find a piece of film history in her friend’s storage unit. Yet there it was, hidden away in 36...
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When it came time for President Brad Baca to select a cabinet to help bring his vision for Western to life, he knew he...
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Western’s Adult Degree Completion program is giving non-traditional students with unfinished business Of the nearly 500 students who walked across the commencement stage at...
