Colorado Mountain College Briefs

Sign Up for Fall Classes at CMC

This year's fall course catalog is now available at numerous local establishments in Salida and Buena Vista, as well as at the CMC office and the Salida Regional Library. That means it's time to sign up for classes! For a handy listing of all the offerings in Chaffee County and Leadville, please turn to page 5 of the fall bulletin for Courses at a Glance. This new feature makes it easy to locate the classes you're looking for.

Colorado Mountain College in Chaffee County offers classes in the arts, accounting, business, computers, criminal justice, early childhood profession, education, English, English as a Second Language, foreign language, health, history, math, music, yoga, science, social science, and speech, as well as Academic Achievement and college preparatory classes. Students wishing to pursue an academic or occupational degree program, or to learn about transferring to a 4-year college, should see one of our academic counselors before signing up for classes.

New noncredit classes planned for the month of September and early October include Investment Basics and Beyond. This is a series of informative seminars on five consecutive Saturday mornings at the Buena Vista office from 10:00 a.m. to noon. The cost is $75 for all five, and the topics are Introduction to the Bond Markets, Financial Statement Analysis, Investing in Equities, More Complex Financial Transactions, and Putting It All Together in a Portfolio. Our instructor, Debbie Farrell, has a broad background in finance, including work in international bond markets as a equity portfolio manager and as the Manager of the Research Department for a major mutual fund management company.

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) is also offering some classes through CMC. Each class is $175, meets from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., and is taught by an expert in the field. The topics are Business Accounting and Job Cost (9/20/03), On-site Project Management (10/18/03), and Estimating (11/01/03). Please call the CMC office to find out what's covered in each class.

CMC is planning another Colorado Law Enforcement Training Academy beginning in January, 2004. If you would like to be added to the list of interested students, please call or stop by the office at 411 East Main.

CMC's office hours in Buena Vista are 8-6, Monday through Thursday, and 8-5 on Friday. At the Salida Regional Library, our office hours are Mondays, 3-6 p.m., and Thursdays, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Please call our office at 395-8419 for more information. We look forward to hearing from you!

For further information, please contact CMC at (719) 395-8419.

Carol Messmer

Academic Counselor, CMC Chaffee County