Colorado Academy

Colorado Academy is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1874. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 2,050, its ambience is urban, and the campus admeasurement is 90 acres. Colorado College's baronial in the 2016 copy of Best Colleges is National Advanced Arts Colleges, 25. Its charge and fees are $48,996 (2015-16).
At Colorado College, the archetypal division does not exist. Instead of demography a abounding advance amount like acceptance at a lot of added schools, CC acceptance yield one chic every three-and-a-half weeks through the school’s Block Plan. Classes are baby and, with no appointed end time, can run as continued as a abecedary needs. Each month, acceptance get a four-and-a-half day Block Break to recharge afore starting a new course. In total, acceptance will yield eight classes a year. If not in class, acceptance can acquaintance all the Colorado mural has to offer. CC is amid in Colorado Springs at the abject of Pikes Peak, area acceptance can hike, bike and climb. In addition, the apprentice Alfresco Amusement Committee facilitates excursions such as backpacking, cross-country skiing, kayaking and ice climbing.
On campus, acceptance can partake in anniversary contest like the Winter Ball, a bookish dance, and CC Llamapalooza, a music festival. Volunteerism is addition apprentice physique focus: All first-year acceptance complete a four-day account cruise afore apprentice year, and acceptance run an on-campus soup kitchen for the bounded poor on Sundays. CC has a baby Greek association with three fraternities and three sororities. CC has a Division I women’s soccer and men’s hockey team; all added CC Tiger teams attempt in the NCAA Division III Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference. A lot of acceptance break abutting to the abounding on-campus activities at CC because freshmen, sophomores, and juniors have to reside in university abode facilities.
A faculty-student accord is encouraged alfresco of the classroom. Adroitness associates are reimbursed by the university if they host acceptance in their homes for dinner. Called the Breaking Bread program, adroitness associates host about 200 absolute contest a year. Notable alumni of CC cover above Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, U.S. Representative Diana DeGette and Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman.
School mission and different qualities (as provided by the school):
Colorado Academy is a private, advanced arts and sciences academy amid at the bottom of Pike's Peak and the aperture to the Southwest. The official academy adage is "Scientia et Disciplina" or, as one bookish translates it, "Acquiring ability and active it." And active it -- that is the aspect of Colorado College. Acceptance are active their acquirements -- in the acquisition, in the sharing, and ultimately in the getting out in the world. So is the adroitness in their engaged, intensive, interdisciplinary teaching, their one-on-one advising, and their collaborative analysis with students. And so is the staff, who yield acceptance into their lives and serve as agents in generally important and abrupt ways. Acceptance become a lot of animate in their apprenticeship if they accompany a individual accountable for an ceaseless time in baby chic communities beneath the college's Block Plan. In aesthetic acquirements environments -- classroom and library, acreage and laboratory, date and studio, abode halls and apprentice center, the bounded association and adopted countries -- acceptance asperse themselves in accurate bookish adventure. This experience, accumulated with athletics, alfresco recreation, apprentice organizations, residential life, and association account offers acceptance a accurate renaissance in the Rockies.