“We can be the head of the fish, not the tail, in the state of Colorado,” Carrie Besnette Hauser, president and CEO of Colorado Mountain College, said to a recent gathering of high school principals, counselors, school superintendents and CMC employees from throughout the college’s 12,000-square-mile service area.
Hauser was referring to concurrent enrollment, a program through which high school students can earn free college credits, allowing them to save up to tens of thousands of dollars on a college education. Colorado Mountain College currently partners with 45 high schools to offer courses in college and in career and technical subjects.
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