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{{Short description|Private college in Colorado Springs, Colorado, US}}
{{About|the private college in Colorado Springs|the public universities|University of Colorado}}
{{Use American English|date=September 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2016}}
{{Infobox university
 | name                   = Colorado College
 | image                  = Colorado College seal.svg
 | image_size             = 150
 | other_name             = The Colorado College
 | motto                  = ''Scientia et Disciplina'' (Latin)
 | mottoeng               = "Learning through Hard Work"
 | type                   = [[private college|Private]] [[Liberal arts colleges in the United States|liberal arts college]]
 | established            = {{start date and age|1874}}
 | accreditation          = [[Higher Learning Commission]]
 | affiliation            = Nonsectarian (since 1907)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Shove Memorial Chapel |url=https://www.coloradocollege.edu/basics/campus/tour/historic/shove.html |access-date=2024-06-01 |publisher=Colorado College}}</ref>
 | endowment              = $989.7 million (2024) <ref>{{cite web |url=https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/nacubo1-nacubo-prd-dc8b/media/Nacubo/Documents/EndowmentFiles/2024-NCSE-Endowment-Market-Values-for-US-and-Canadian-Institutions-FINAL-Feb-12-2025.xlsx |title=U.S. and Canadian 2024 NCSE Participating Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2024 Endowment Market Value, Change in Market Value from FY23 to FY24, and FY24 Endowment Market Values Per Full-time Equivalent Student |date=February 12, 2025 |publisher=National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) |access-date=February 12, 2025 |format=XLSX |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250212074654/https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/nacubo1-nacubo-prd-dc8b/media/Nacubo/Documents/EndowmentFiles/2024-NCSE-Endowment-Market-Values-for-US-and-Canadian-Institutions-FINAL-Feb-12-2025.xlsx |archive-date=February 12, 2025 |url-status=live }}</ref>
 | president              = Manya Whitaker<ref>{{Cite web |title=Manya Whitaker named the next president of Colorado College |url=https://gazette.com/news/education/manya-whitaker-named-the-next-president-of-colorado-college/article_7c2618f5-b2a0-40ff-8f45-3d09a53ef3c7.html#google_vignette |publisher=Colorado Springs Gazette}}</ref>
 | city                   = [[Colorado Springs, Colorado]]
 | country                = United States
 | coordinates            = {{coord|38.8479|-104.8228|region:US-CO_type:edu|name=Colorado College|display=it}}
 | academic_staff         = 285{{efn|Instructional faculty<ref name=CDS>{{Cite web |title=Common Data Set |url=https://www.coloradocollege.edu/offices/ipe/common-data-set.html |access-date=2024-06-01 |publisher=Colorado College |at=[https://www.coloradocollege.edu/offices/ipe/documents/CDS_2023-2024_Final.pdf 2024–2024]}}</ref>}} (2023)
 | total_staff            = 783{{efn|Faculty and staff<ref>{{Cite web |title=Diversity: Faculty & Staff |url=https://www.coloradocollege.edu/offices/ipe/diversity-faculty-staff.html |access-date=2024-06-01 |publisher=Colorado College}}</ref>}} (2023)
 | students               = 2,173 (2023)<ref name=CDS/>
 | undergrad              = 2,145
 | postgrad               = 28
 | campus                 = Urban
 | campus_size            = {{cvt|90|acre}}
 | sports_nickname        = [[Colorado College Tigers|Tigers]]
 | mascot                 = RoCCy
 | athletics_affiliations = [[NCAA Division III]] – {{hlist|[[Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference|SCAC]]|[[National Collegiate Hockey Conference|NCHC]]{{efn|Conference for men's ice hockey, which competes at D-I}}|[[Mountain West Conference|MWC]]{{efn|Conference for women's soccer, which competes at D-I}}|class=inline}}
 | colors                 = {{color box|#000000}}{{color box|#D09B2C}} Black & gold
 | logo                   = Colorado College logo.svg
 | logo_size              = 200
 | website                = {{url|https://coloradocollege.edu/|coloradocollege.edu/}}
}}
'''Colorado College''' is a [[private college|private]] [[liberal arts colleges in the United States|liberal arts college]] in [[Colorado Springs, Colorado]], United States. Founded in 1874 by Thomas Nelson Haskell in his daughter's memory, the college offers over 40 majors and 30 minors, and enrolls approximately 2,000 undergraduates at its {{convert|90|acre|ha|adj=on}} campus.

Colorado College is a member of the [[Associated Colleges of the Midwest]], and is a [[QuestBridge]] partner. Notable alumni include [[Diana DeGette]], [[Elizabeth Cheney|Liz Cheney]], [[Dutch Clark]], [[Thomas Hornsby Ferril]], [[James Heckman]], [[Steve Sabol]], [[Ken Salazar]], and [[Marc Webb]]. Most of the university's varsity sports teams compete in [[NCAA Division III]], with the exception of [[NCAA Division I|Division I]] teams in men's hockey and women's soccer.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Varsity Athletics |url=https://www.coloradocollege.edu/lifeatcc/athletics/varsityathletics/ |access-date=2024-05-31 |publisher=Colorado College}}</ref>

== History ==
[[File:William Jackson Palmer.jpg|thumb|left|150px|William Jackson Palmer, founder of Colorado Springs and founding trustee of Colorado College]]
Colorado College was founded in 1874 on land designated by U.S. Civil War veteran General [[William Jackson Palmer]], the founder of the [[Denver and Rio Grande Railroad]] and of Colorado Springs.<ref name="CChistory">Colorado College. [http://www.coloradocollege.edu/welcome/historyofCC/ History of Colorado College] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527120651/http://www.coloradocollege.edu/welcome/historyofCC/ |date=May 27, 2010 }}. Retrieved on: 2010-05-19.</ref> Founder Thomas Nelson Haskell of the Presbyterian Church<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QLXOAAAAMAAJ&dq=Reverend+Thomas+Nelson+Haskell+presbyterian&pg=PA54 | title=The Alumni and Former Student Catalogue of Miami University: Including Members of the Board of Trustees and Faculty, 1809-1892 | year=1892 | publisher=Press of the Oxford news | access-date=May 20, 2022 | archive-date=January 15, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115193806/https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Alumni_and_Former_Student_Catalogue/QLXOAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Reverend+Thomas+Nelson+Haskell+presbyterian&pg=PA54&printsec=frontcover | url-status=live }}</ref> described it as a coeducational liberal arts college in the tradition of [[Oberlin College]]. As many U.S. colleges and universities that have endured from the 19th century, it now is secular in outlook but retains its focus on the liberal arts.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Douglas |first=Mark |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GW5MAwAAQBAJ&dq=Colorado+College+secular+liberal+arts&pg=PA164 |title=Believing Aloud: Reflections on Being Religious in the Public Square |date=2010-09-15 |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |isbn=978-1-60899-247-8 |language=en}}</ref>

[[Cutler Hall]], the college's first building, was completed in 1880 and the first degrees were conferred in 1882.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lw12DwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Colorado+College%22+1882+%22first+degree%22&pg=PA293 |title=American Universities and Colleges |date=2014-10-08 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |isbn=978-3-11-085048-2 |language=en}}</ref>

[[William F. Slocum]], president from 1888 to 1917, oversaw the initial building of the campus, expanded the library and recruited top scholars in a number of fields.<ref name=CChistory/>  In 1930, [[Shove Chapel]] was erected by John Gray to meet the religious needs of the students (though Colorado College is not religiously affiliated).{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}}

[[Katharine Lee Bates]] wrote "[[America the Beautiful]]" during her summer teaching position at Colorado College in 1893.

Manya Whitaker served as interim president from July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025. Her term as president began July 1, 2025 after being appointed as the college's 15th president by the CC Board of Trustees in June 2025.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Colorado College Appoints Dr. Manya Whitaker as 15th President |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/colorado-college-appoints-dr-manya-whitaker-as-15th-president-302491440.html/ |access-date=2025-07-15 |website=PR Newswire |publisher=Cision}}</ref>

==Academics==
[[File:Russell T Tutt Science Center.jpg|thumb|right|Russell T. Tutt Science Center at Colorado College]]
Colorado College offers 42 majors and more than 30 minors.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Majors & Minors |url=https://www.coloradocollege.edu/academics/dept/majors/ |access-date=2024-05-31 |publisher=Colorado College}}</ref> In addition to its undergraduate programs, the college offers two [[master's degree]] programs in teaching.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Departments & Programs |url=https://www.coloradocollege.edu/academics/dept/ |access-date=2024-05-31 |publisher=Colorado College}}</ref> The college uses a block plan wherein students take only one class at a time, for a period of 3 and a half weeks per class.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Block Plan |url=https://www.coloradocollege.edu/basics/blockplan/ |access-date=2024-06-01 |publisher=Colorado College}}</ref> In 2023, the institution yielded a student-to-faculty ratio of 9:1. The college's Charles L. Tutt Library holds over 400 thousand physical volumes.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Tutt Library |url=https://www.coloradocollege.edu/library/about/index.html |access-date=2024-05-31 |publisher=Colorado College}}</ref> Its most popular undergraduate majors, by 2021 graduates, were:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=colorado+college&s=all&id=126678#programs |website=nces.ed.gov |publisher=U.S. Dept of Education |title=Colorado College |access-date=February 3, 2023}}</ref>
::Economics (43)
::Political Science & Government (38)
::Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (28)
::Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies (25)
::Computer & Information Sciences (23)
::Psychology (23)
::Cell/Cellular & Molecular Biology (22)

===Admissions===
[[File:William H. Gill as President of Colorado College.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Major general [[William H. Gill]] served as President of Colorado College 1947-1955 and during his tenure completed the reorganization of the college, an honor system was introduced together with self-government for the student body. He also established [[ROTC]] program and remodeled the athletic department, which led to the college winning the NCAA hockey championship during his administration.<ref name="ColoradoCollege">{{cite web | url = https://sites.coloradocollege.edu/bulletin/2014/11/we-will-remember-them-colorado-colleges-wartime-history/ | accessdate = April 12, 2017 | work = sites.coloradocollege.edu | title = We Will Remember Them" Colorado College's Wartime History | publisher = Colorado College Bulletin Websites}}</ref>.]]
Colorado College is considered a "most selective school" by ''U.S. News & World Report''.<ref>{{Cite magazine |year=2016 |title=Colorado College |url=http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/colorado-college-1347 |magazine=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=June 25, 2014 |archive-date=July 17, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140717080807/http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/colorado-college-1347 |url-status=live }}</ref> For the class of 2026, Colorado College received a record number of applications, 11,026, and admitted just above eleven percent of those who applied. Those accepted who identified themselves as students of color numbered twenty-five percent. The Class of 2026 is geographically diverse, representing 15 countries and 47 states, with 24 percent who hail from both the Northeast and the West; 17 percent from Colorado; 16 percent from the Midwest; and 15 percent from the South.<ref>{{cite web|year=2022|title=Welcome, Graduating Class of 2026|url=https://www.coloradocollege.edu/newsevents/newsroom/2022/welcome,-class-of-2026.html#.Y_qfcC2ZN-U}}</ref>

===Rankings===
{{Infobox US university ranking
| Forbes = 111
| USNWR_LA = 29
| Wamo_LA = 86
| THE_WSJ = 111
}}

In its 2025 edition, ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' ranks Colorado College as tied for 29th best liberal arts college in the nation and 3rd most innovative national liberal arts colleges.<ref>{{Cite web |title=US News and World Report-- Colorado College Rankings |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/colorado-college-1347/overall-rankings}}</ref> The most innovative schools are those "making the most innovative improvements in terms of curriculum, faculty, students, campus life, technology or facilities".<ref>{{Cite magazine |year=2021 |title=Most Innovative Schools – National Liberal Arts Colleges |url=http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-liberal-arts-colleges/innovative |magazine=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=July 25, 2021 |archive-date=July 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725062615/http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-liberal-arts-colleges/innovative |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2025, ''[[Forbes]]'' rated it 111th overall in "America's Top Colleges", which ranked 500 national universities, liberal arts colleges and service academies.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Colorado College Ranking and Profile |url=https://www.forbes.com/colleges/colorado-college/ |access-date=2025-02-13 |website=Forbes |language=en |archive-date=January 15, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250115183736/https://www.forbes.com/colleges/colorado-college/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

CC is one of six colleges in the western US included in the guidebook ''[[Hidden Ivies|The Hidden Ivies]]''.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Greene|first=Howard|title=The hidden ivies : thirty colleges of excellence|date=2000|publisher=Cliff Street Books|isbn=0-06-095362-4|edition=|location=New York|pages=|oclc=44509154}}</ref>

===Requirements===
Students must satisfactorily complete 32 credits to graduate in addition to specifying a major of study and fulfilling those requirements. The college offers a unique alternative for students who wish to design their own major. However, standardized cross-cutting requirements still apply, though these criteria are fairly broad compared to those at comparable colleges.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.coloradocollege.edu/academics/curriculum/requirements/ |title=Requirements • Colorado College<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=October 2, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171003025722/https://www.coloradocollege.edu/academics/curriculum/requirements/ |archive-date=October 3, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Student life==
The college's motto is the [[Latin]] phrase ''Scientia et Disciplina'', translated as "Learning through Hard Work"<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 2015 |title=A Brief History of Colorado College Logos |url=https://sites.coloradocollege.edu/bulletin/2015/12/a-brief-history-of-colorado-college-logos/ |access-date=2024-05-31 |website=Bulletin |publisher=Colorado College}}</ref> or "Acquiring Knowledge and Living It".<ref>{{Cite web |title=COLORADO COLLEGE SCIENTIA ET DISCIPLINA1874 |url=https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87086669&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch |access-date=2024-05-31 |website=Trademark Status & Document Retrieval |publisher=[[United States Patent and Trademark Office]]}}</ref> The median family income of Colorado College students is $277,500, the highest of any college or university in the United States, with 54% of students coming from the top 5% highest-earning families and 10.5% from the bottom 60%.<ref name="NYT mobility index">{{cite news |last1=Aisch |first1=Gregor |last2=Buchanan |first2=Larry |last3=Cox |first3=Amanda |last4=Quealy |first4=Kevin |title=Economic diversity and student outcomes at Colorado College |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobility/colorado-college |access-date=9 August 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=18 January 2017 |archive-date=November 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111233230/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobility/colorado-college |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Extracurriculars ===
The small campus of 2,000 students boasts more than one hundred clubs and student groups, ranging from professional groups, interests clubs, and social groups. Among them are intramural sports groups, which have a strong presence on campus. There are intramural teams, ranging from [[broomball]] to ultimate frisbee.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.coloradocollege.edu/academics/curriculum/ |title=The Curriculum • Colorado College<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=October 2, 2017 |archive-date=October 2, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171002220130/https://www.coloradocollege.edu/academics/curriculum/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==== Student newspaper ====
''The Catalyst'' is a [[weekly newspaper]] published by students of Colorado College on Friday mornings throughout of the school year. It is the official and only student paper at the school and has a print circulation of roughly 1,500 circulated on the college's campus and in downtown Colorado Springs. ''The Catalyst'' consists of five sections: News, Sports, Active Life, Life, and Opinion. It has been in print since the 1890s, and has undergone dozens of transformations over the years. The newspaper was originally called ''The Tiger''.{{Citation needed|date=November 2025}}

=== Housing ===
Most students live on or directly adjacent to the college campus. Up until their junior year, students are required to live on campus in one of the residence halls or small houses, while apartments and student-owned cottages are available to upperclassmen.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.coloradocollege.edu/offices/housing-and-conferences/on-campus-housing/ |title=On-Campus Housing • Housing & Conferences Colorado College<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=October 2, 2017 |archive-date=October 2, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171002215422/https://www.coloradocollege.edu/offices/housing-and-conferences/on-campus-housing/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Campus==
[[File:Cutler Hall.JPG|thumbnail|left|Cutler Hall, located at 912 North Cascade Avenue, on the Colorado College campus, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.]]

Many of the earliest campus buildings, including [[Bemis Hall (Colorado Springs, Colorado)|Bemis]], [[Frederick H. Cossitt Memorial Hall|Cossitt]], [[Cutler Hall|Cutler]], [[McGregor Hall|McGregor]], [[Montgomery Hall, Colorado College|Montgomery]], [[Palmer Hall (Colorado Springs, Colorado)|Palmer]], and [[Ticknor Hall|Ticknor]] Halls, are on the [[National Register of Historic Places]], along with [[Shove Memorial Chapel]] and the [[William I. Spencer Center]]. [[Edgeplain|Arthur House]] or [[Edgeplain]], once home to the son of President [[Chester A. Arthur]], is also on the National Register.<ref name="History Colorado">[http://www.historycolorado.org/archaeologists/el-paso-county El Paso County – Colorado State Register of Historic Properties] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224115535/http://www.historycolorado.org/archaeologists/el-paso-county |date=December 24, 2013 }}. History Colorado. June 8, 2013.</ref>

Since the mid-1950s, newer facilities include three large residence halls, Worner Campus Center, Olin Hall of Science and the Barnes Science Center, Honnen Ice Rink, Boettcher Health Center, Schlessman Pool, Armstrong Hall of Humanities, and the El Pomar Sports Center.  The face of campus changed again at the beginning of the 21st century with construction of the Western Ridge Housing Complex, which offers apartment-style living for upper-division students and completion of the Russell T. Tutt Science Center. The east campus has been expanded, and is now home to the Greek Quad and several small residence halls known as "theme houses".{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}}

Some of the more recent notable buildings include Tutt Library, designed by [[Skidmore, Owings & Merrill]] and later expanded and renovated by Pfeiffer Partners to be the largest carbon-neutral academic library in the United States, Packard Hall of Music and Art, designed by [[Edward Larrabee Barnes]], and the Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center, which was designed by [[Antoine Predock]] with input from faculty and students.{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}}

[[File:EdithKinneyGaylordCornerstoneArtsBldg-TimothyHursley.jpg|thumb|right|Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center at Colorado College]]

===Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center===
Colorado College's [[Edith Kinney Gaylord]] Cornerstone Arts Center, completed in 2008 and located at the intersection of a performing arts corridor in Colorado Springs, is home to the college's film, drama and dance departments and contains a large theater, several smaller performance spaces, a screening room, the I.D.E.A. Space gallery, and classrooms, among other rooms. The building is also LEED certified.{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}}

===Ed Robson Arena===
The '''Ed Robson Arena''' is a 3,400-seat [[ice hockey]] [[arena]] on the campus of Colorado College. The arena opened on September 18 2021.<ref>{{cite news |title=New Ed Robson Arena on Colorado College campus officially opens with ribbon cutting ceremony |url=https://www.uscho.com/2021/09/18/new-ed-robson-arena-on-colorado-college-campus-officially-opens-with-ribbon-cutting-ceremony/ |work=USCHO.com |date=September 18, 2021 |accessdate=September 19, 2021 |archive-date=September 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210920083654/https://www.uscho.com/2021/09/18/new-ed-robson-arena-on-colorado-college-campus-officially-opens-with-ribbon-cutting-ceremony/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Plans for a school-run arena date as far back as 2008 in the Colorado College Long Range Development Plan.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ed Robson Arena -- Frequently Asked Questions |url=https://www.coloradocollege.edu/other/robsonarena/docs/FAQs%20March%202020.pdf |work=Colorado College |accessdate=May 17, 2021 |archive-date=January 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120041449/https://www.coloradocollege.edu/other/robsonarena/docs/FAQs%20March%202020.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Athletics==
{{see also|Colorado College Tigers|Colorado College Tigers men's ice hockey|Colorado College Tigers football}}
[[File:Colorado College map.svg|right|thumb|Map of CC]]
The school's sports teams are nicknamed the "Tigers".  Colorado College competes at the [[NCAA]] [[Division III (NCAA)|Division III]] level in all sports except men's [[ice hockey|hockey]], in which it participates in the [[NCAA Division I]] [[National Collegiate Hockey Conference]], and women's soccer, where it competes as an NCAA Division I team in the [[Mountain West Conference]]. CC dropped its intercollegiate athletic programs in [[American football|football]], softball, and women's [[water polo]] following the 2008–09 academic year.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://sites.coloradocollege.edu/bulletin/2009/06/tough-times-tough-decisions-athletics-cuts-at-cc/ |title=Tough Times, Tough Decisions: Athletics Cuts at CC {{!}} Bulletin<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=July 14, 2017 |archive-date=September 6, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170906040117/https://sites.coloradocollege.edu/bulletin/2009/06/tough-times-tough-decisions-athletics-cuts-at-cc/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1994, a student referendum to change the athletic teams' nicknames to the [[Cutthroat trout]] narrowly failed, by a margin of 468–423.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://ciphermagazine.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/the-trout-that-almost-was/ |title=The Trout that Almost Was {{!}} Cipher<!-- Bot generated title --> |date=September 24, 2010 |access-date=May 17, 2017 |archive-date=March 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180321193033/https://ciphermagazine.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/the-trout-that-almost-was/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

The Tigers hockey team won the NCAA Division I championship twice (1950, 1957), were runners up three times (1952, 1955, 1996) and have made the NCAA Tournament eighteen times, including eleven times since 1995.<ref>[http://www.coloradocollege.edu/athletics/varsity_sports/Hockey/history/ncaa/ Colorado College | Ice Hockey History NCAA Tournament] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060922010712/http://www.coloradocollege.edu/athletics/varsity_sports/Hockey/history/ncaa/ |date=September 22, 2006 }}</ref> In 1996, 1997, and 2005, CC played in the [[NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament|Frozen Four]], finishing second in 1996. Fifty-five CC Tigers have been named All-Americans.<ref>[http://www.coloradocollege.edu/athletics/varsity_sports/Hockey/history/allamericans/ Colorado College | Ice Hockey History All-Americans] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070211100549/http://www.coloradocollege.edu/athletics/varsity_sports/Hockey/history/allamericans/ |date=February 11, 2007 }}</ref> Hockey Hall of Fame coach Bob Johnson coached the Tigers from 1963 to 1966.<ref>[http://www.coloradocollege.edu/athletics/varsity_sports/Hockey/history/coaches/ Colorado College | Ice Hockey History Coaches] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060922010731/http://www.coloradocollege.edu/athletics/varsity_sports/Hockey/history/coaches/ |date=September 22, 2006 }}</ref>

The current hockey coach is [[Kris Mayotte]], who had been an assistant coach at [[Providence Friars men's ice hockey|Providence College]] and the [[Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey|University of Michigan]].

==Notable people==
{{See also|List of Colorado College people}}
Colorado College has graduated a [[Nobel Prize]] winner, a [[Pulitzer Prize]] winner, 2 [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellows]], 14 [[Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes Scholars]], 31 [[Fulbright Program|Fulbright Scholars]], 68 [[Thomas J. Watson Fellowship|Watson Fellows]],<ref name="After CC">{{Cite web |url=http://www.coloradocollege.edu/basics/aftercc/ |title=After CC |website=Colorado College |access-date=February 29, 2012 |archive-date=March 29, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329050546/http://www.coloradocollege.edu/basics/aftercc/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> winners of [[Academy Awards]], [[Emmy Awards]], and [[Grammy Awards]], and [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] [[Olympic medals|medallists]]. Alumni include [[Liz Cheney]], [[Peggy Fleming]], [[Steve Sabol]], [[William A. Welch]], [[Frederick Madison Roberts]], and [[Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani]]. Board members include [[Robert J. Ross]], [[France Winddance Twine]], and alumni [[Frieda Ekotto]] and [[Joe Ellis]]. Life Trustees include [[David M. Lampton]] and alumnus [[Neal Baer|Neal A. Baer]]. Honorary Trustees include alumni [[Lynne Cheney]], [[Diana DeGette]], and [[Ken Salazar]]. CC has also graduated 18 Olympians<ref name="After CC" /> and 170 professional hockey players, including over 30 current and former [[National Hockey League|NHL]] players.<ref name="alumni">{{Cite web |url=http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/alumni.php?tmi=5308 |title=Alumni Report |year=2011 |website=Internet Hockey Database |access-date=May 11, 2011 |archive-date=April 15, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415003037/http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/alumni.php?tmi=5308 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="alumni2013">{{Cite web |url=http://www.cctigers.com/documents/2013/10/19/2013-14_Media_Guide.pdf |title=Tiger Hockey Media Guide 2013–2014 |access-date=November 30, 2013 |archive-date=December 3, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203032024/http://www.cctigers.com/documents/2013/10/19/2013-14_Media_Guide.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Notable faculty and staff include [[Dick Celeste]] and [[Jill Tiefenthaler]].

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==Further reading==
* {{Cite journal |last=Dunn |first=Joe P. |date=November 2012 |title=A Mission on the Frontier: Edward P. Tenney, Colorado College, the New West Education Commission, and the School Movement for Mormons and "Mexicans" |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0018268000042229/type/journal_article |journal=[[History of Education Quarterly]] |language=en |volume=52 |issue=4 |pages=535–558 |doi=10.1111/j.1748-5959.2012.00419.x |id={{Academia.edu|89477898}}. {{ERIC|EJ983721}}|url-access=subscription }}
* [[Robert D. Loevy|Loevy, Robert D.]] ''Colorado College: A Place of Learning, 1874–1999''. Colorado Springs: Colorado College, 1999.
* Reid, J. Juan. ''Colorado College: The First Century, 1874–1974''. Colorado Springs: Colorado College, 1979.

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