President Manya Whitaker and Megan Clancy ’07 head up the CC float in the 2025 Pikes Peak Pride Parade, June 15, 2025. Photo by Jamie Cotten / Colorado College.

Colorado College is once again participating in the Pikes Peak Pride Parade on Sunday, June 14, joining the broader Pikes Peak community in celebration and solidarity.

This year, CC’s parade theme is Trans Visibility, centering the celebration and support of transgender, nonbinary, and gender-expansive people. Through this theme, we affirm belonging within our community and recognize the importance of visibility in advancing dignity, safety, and equity for all.

Staff, faculty, students, and their families are invited to take part in the celebration. CC is working with The Press to create and share affirmations along the parade route.

The parade begins promptly at 10 a.m. at Acacia Park, near Platte Boulevard and Tejon Street, and will finish at Alamo Square Park, near E. Vermijo Avenue and Tejon Street. Participants should plan to commit to two or more hours, and the parade will take place rain or shine. Contact Nancy Ríos or Deka Spears with any questions.

By participating, CC affirms its commitment to respect, inclusion, and care for people of all genders, identities, cultures, and sexual orientations.

Drone photo of Colorado College

By Alexa Gromko

Colorado College has received a $1.5 million Mellon Foundation Humanities for All Times grant to launch a three-year curricular initiative named Generative Futures: Critical Language Inquiry in the Age of Artificial Intelligence that aims to examine the shifting role of language in shaping knowledge, identity and the ways in which we understand the world in an era where the influence of AI is increasingly pervasive.

“This grant allows us to engage what is perhaps the central question facing educators—facing all of us—today,” said Ryan Bañagale, Director of the Crown Center for Teaching and Assistant Dean of the Faculty, who is the faculty lead on this interdisciplinary team project. “Language and technology are intertwined irrevocably in today’s world. Our goal is to help students slow down and ask how meaning takes shape in such a deeply mediated world.”

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Bernie Latham ’27

By Julia Fennell ’21

Bernadette Latham ’27 is one of only 454 students across the United States to be awarded a 2026 Barry Goldwater Scholarship.

“It’s incredibly empowering to be identified as a part of 'the nation’s next generation of research leaders,'” says Latham, a Neuroscience major and Global Health and Human Biology and Kinesiology double minor. “Winning this award has strengthened my motivation to continue pursuing research and reaffirmed my commitment to women’s brain research.”

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Campus community now has access to the new Proof Point Library, a shared resource designed to support consistent, compelling storytelling across Colorado College. The library brings together facts, figures, highlights, and institutional context that reinforce what makes CC distinctive, including our plan, our place, and our perspective.

Updated annually in midsummer, the Proof Point Library includes information on academics, outcomes and career preparedness, research, access and affordability, community engagement, institutional recognition, and more. Use this resource to strengthen key messages, support storytelling, and help connect audiences to the differentiators that set Colorado College apart.

Nick Brashear ’29 and Kyle Kihlberg ’29 created PeakAssist, a student-led marketing program that connects local businesses with CC students through structured marketing internships. They are pictured together in April 2026. Photo provided by Kihlberg

By Julia Fennell ’21

Seeing a need to connect CC students with local businesses, Kyle Kihlberg ’29 and Nick Brashear ’29 created PeakAssist—a student-led program that links Colorado Springs businesses with CC students through structured marketing internships.

“The benefit to the Colorado Springs community and students at CC is at the heart of what we're building,” Kihlberg says. “PeakAssist creates a direct bridge between CC students and local businesses. We want CC to feel genuinely connected to the city around it, not just a campus that exists inside it.”

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Josh Franco performs “Scriptorium” on Septemper 12, 2025 at the FAC. Photo by Jamie Cotten / Colorado College

Join in for a special live performance of Scriptorium con safos: Yard by Josh T Franco, which will take place in the FAC Museum’s exhibition Where I Learned to Look: Art from the Yard. The performance demonstrates Franco’s practice of making art history by hand.

This event, taking place Thursday, June 18, 3 p.m. at the FAC, is included with museum admission. CC students and employees get in for free. Space is limited—please RSVP.

The CC Department of Music and the University of Denver Lamont School of Music, after a long time in the making and acquiring Medieval instruments, performed The Brandenburg Project on May 2 at Packard Hall for a large crowd. Photo by Jamie Cotten / Colorado College