{"id":2442806,"date":"2019-04-10T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/regjo-picked-for-college-wide-role-at-cmc\/"},"modified":"2019-04-10T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T04:00:00","slug":"regjo-picked-for-college-wide-role-at-cmc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/regjo-picked-for-college-wide-role-at-cmc\/","title":{"rendered":"Regjo picked for college-wide role at CMC"},"content":{"rendered":"
Dr. Kathryn Regjo will be taking on a new position as Colorado Mountain College\u2019s college-wide vice president of Academic Affairs on July 1, 2019.<\/strong>
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EDWARDS \u2014 Colorado Mountain College scoured the country for six months to find someone to lead academics across the college system. Officials found whom they were seeking when they looked inward.<\/p>\n

Kathryn Regjo, currently vice president and campus dean at Colorado Mountain College Vail Valley in Edwards, is CMC\u2019s new vice president of academic affairs. She starts her new college-wide position July 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are lucky in our mountain communities because of where we live and who chooses to live here,\u201d Regjo said.<\/p>\n

Because CMC doesn\u2019t offer everything everywhere, Regjo will help ensure that academic offerings are \u201cconsistent in quality and creativity\u201d across all the campuses, she said.<\/p>\n

Looking inward<\/p>\n

After a six-month national search, Carrie Besnette Hauser, CMC\u2019s president and CEO, persuaded Regjo to at least think about the appointment. Regjo made the announcement earlier this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am a big believer that things happen for a reason,\u201d Hauser said. \u201cShe has demonstrated time and time again that she has what it takes to lead successfully.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among her other experience, Regjo was president of a small college, Lincoln College of New England, a private residential college in Southington, Connecticut.<\/p>\n

When Regjo steps into her new role, Kathy Kiser-Miller will focus on being vice president and dean of the Steamboat Springs campus. Kiser-Miller has been both a dean and led CMC\u2019s academic affairs for several years.<\/p>\n

Regjo will relinquish her role as dean of CMC\u2019s Vail Valley campus.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile we will miss Kathryn immensely at a local level, I am thrilled for the college as a whole that she will step into this college-wide leadership role,\u201d said Chris Romer, the college\u2019s trustee in Eagle County. \u201cHer leadership at the Vail Valley campus has resulted in increased enrollment and increased community engagement.\u201d<\/p>\n

CMC to create new bachelor\u2019s programs<\/p>\n

Among her new duties, Regjo will help CMC develop new bachelor\u2019s degree programs. Last Friday, state lawmakers unanimously passed HB19-1153, giving CMC the green light to offer bachelor\u2019s degrees in all sorts of fields, in addition to the five they now offer:<\/p>\n

Bachelor of arts in education<\/p>\n

Bachelor of applied science<\/p>\n

Bachelor of science in business administration<\/p>\n

Bachelor of arts in sustainability studies<\/p>\n

Bachelor of science in nursing<\/p>\n

What their new bachelor\u2019s degrees will be remains to be determined \u2014 they\u2019ll work with students as well as regional businesses and industries \u2014 but CMC leaders have a pretty good idea, Regjo said.<\/p>\n

College leaders are eying opportunities in high-growth fields such as health-care fields, local government and secondary (middle and high school) education.<\/p>\n

The programs will likely feature internships and experiential learning experiences that include theory and classroom work, but also real-world practice, Regjo said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first goal is to understand what programs will have a community impact. Our students are local and they have opportunities for not just jobs, but careers,\u201d Regjo said.<\/p>\n

listening to the community<\/p>\n

However, the possibilities are now almost endless.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis allows us to be more responsive. We do that by listening to our community,\u201d Regjo said.<\/p>\n

Colorado Mountain College still costs around $2,500 a year, one of the best educational values in the country, Regjo said. If you get a Presidents Scholarship, $1,000 is knocked off that.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Kathryn Regjo will be taking on a new position as Colorado Mountain College\u2019s college-wide vice president of Academic Affairs on July 1, 2019. EDWARDS \u2014 Colorado Mountain College scoured the country for six months to find someone to lead academics across the college system. Officials found whom they were seeking when they looked inward. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2442806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 13:57:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}