Dan Gibbs

 In a recent article, ESPN wrote about the bill I passed down at the legislature this last session which would allow Colorado Mountain College to begin offering four-year degrees in the near future. Needless to say, the snow sport aficionados at ESPN seem excited about the idea:

We're talking about the ski bum's dream: getting your college degree at the base of a world-class mountain.

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State Senator Dan Gibbs, 34, who went to CMC-Leadville and did his share of backcountry skiing around 14,000-foot peaks Mt. Massive and Mt. Elbert while he was there, carried the bill through the state senate.

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"I have friends in Summit and Eagle counties who moved to the state to go to college, maybe finished two years of school, fell in love with the mountains, got a job as a liftie, and never finished school -- but always wanted to," he said. "Now they can."

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