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Western’s Mountain Sports program is a unique collegiate athletics program with competitive teams in Nordic skiing, alpine skiing, ski mountaineering, freeride ski and snowboarding,...
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For generations, people have come to the Yampa looking for something. On a weeklong journey through Dinosaur National Monument, Western students discovered what the...
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Long before the graduate degrees and book deals, Dr. John Hausdoerffer (’96) arrived at Western with a love for the mountains and an appreciation...
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Western Names Pavel Cenkl as New Provost Western named Dr. Pavel Cenkl Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs in May. Cenkl brings more...
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It was just another Tuesday near the end of a stifling July in Gunnison, the kind of day you might pray for a breeze...
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“Tom has helped grow the Club by being a part of it for over 50 years. He has so much Boxing knowledge and is...
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Western Wrestling took fourth place at the NCAA Division II Wrestling Championship competition in Indianapolis, Ind. on March 11, 2023. It was the best...
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Western’s Nordic team went to Mammoth Lakes, California, March 6-11, looking to claim a title that eluded them last year. When they came home,...
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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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Editor’s Note: We had a wonderful and wide-ranging conversation with Stan. The transcribed interview here has been edited for length. After growing up in...
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Western earned the reaffirmation of its accreditation from the Higher Learning Commission in July 2023. The vote was a recognition of the University’s commitment...
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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...
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If there is one defining characteristic about the Gunnison Valley that has been said many times over it is that Gunnison is a home...
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