2019-20 – William Wei, Professor at the University of Colorado. 2018-19 – Tom Noel, Professor of History at the University of Colorado at Denver. 2016-18 – Patty Limerick, Faculty Director and Chair of the Board of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado and Professor of History. 2008-15 – Bill Convery, …
Duane Vandenbusche is a Professor of History at Western Colorado University in Gunnison since 1962 and has just been named Colorado’s State Historian, the first to be based outside of the Front Range in its 96-year history. He is the author of 11 books including: “The Gunnison Country,” “Around Monarch Pass,” “Lake City” (with Grant …
By Mike Rosso Here we are, heading into the fifth month of the COVID-19 pandemic and our efforts to “flatten the curve” have been met with only some success. Back in April, I mused that the pandemic could become an opportunity to hit the reset button—this crisis might be used for the betterment of society. …
By John Hausdoerffer This past March, as my campus closed in the midst of the emergence of COVID-19, it felt like a different historical era passed with each daily news cycle. The day before, my daughter Atalaya, 12, and I could not wait to drive across the Utah desert in search of California snow. One sunset …
By Jennifer Welch Typically, when something ends or come to a close, something new takes its place. Usually that thing has some similarities to the thing it is replacing. And most often, the change can feel seamless, as if you’d never actually experienced a change at all. But that is not the case here. Today …
By Madelyn Porter March 19, 2020. The last day of school for the Salida School District. At the time it didn’t seem like a big deal. Now, five months later we still don’t know for sure if we will go back. The coronavirus pandemic has launched a unique set of challenges at everyone and completely …