Notable Alumni
Since our founding in 1965, UCCS has graduated over 64,000 alumni. Personal and professional lives have led our graduates in a variety of directions, and we are proud to highlight just a few of our success stories below. If you'd like to share your success story with us, please contact us at alumni@uccs.edu.
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Tom Arata, '87
MBA
Retired Business Leader ;
U.S Air Force Veteran
Scott Oki, '74, '75
BS Accounting, MBA
Owner, Oki Developments, Inc.;
Former Senior Vice President,
Microsoft; Recipient,
Alumni & Friends Award
Margot Lane, '82
BA History
Former Owner, Culebra Properties;
Former President, John E. Lane and
Margaret L. Lane Foundation
Yusef Komunyakaa, '75
BA Distributed Studies
Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet;
Professor, Princeton University;
Recipient, Alumni & Friends Award
Jim Gallogly, '74
BA Psychology
Director, E. I. DuPont de
Nemours & Company
Mary Lou Makepeace, '79
Master of Public Administration
Executive Director, Gay & Lesbian Fund; First Female Mayor
of Colorado Springs
John Herrington, '83
BS Mathematics
First Native American Astronaut;
Ambassador, Chickasaw Nation
Becky Medved, '87
MBA
Chief Operating Officer, RCSPros;
Co-Recipient, 2015 Lifetime Entrepreneurship Award; Recipient, Alumni & Friends Award
Charles Greer, '71, '76
BA English, MA Psychology
Professor of Neurosurgery and of Neuroscience, Yale University
Robb Harleston, '83
BA Distributed Studies
Talk-Show Host, Assignment Editor, C-SPAN
Laura McGuire, '82
BA Distributed Studies
Founder and CEO, VineaGroup
Mike Fryt, '77
BA Accounting
Corporate Vice President of Tax,
FedEx; Recipient, Alumni &
Friends Award
Kathy Blake Carey, '97
MBA
Senior Vice President,
Senior Equity Analyst,
Robert W. Baird & Company
Tamrin Apaydin, '87
BS Accounting
CFO, Rocky Mountain
Health Care Services
Tom Saponas, '72
BS Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
Former Senior Vice President
and Chief Technology Officer,
Agilent Technologies; Former Vice President and General Manager,
Hewlett-Packard
Susan Edmondson, '03
Master of Public Administration
President and CEO, Colorado
Springs Downtown Partnership
Mark Hawkins, '86
MBA
Chief Financial Officer, Salesforce.com
Pam McManus, '00
MBA
President and CEO, Peak Vista Community Health Centers
Steve Bach, '68
BS Marketing
Former Mayor of Colorado Springs;
Recipient, Alumni & Friends Award
Ted Sundquist, 92
Master of Public Administration
President and CEO, Sports Virtual Training Systems
Kent Fortune, 89
BS Human Resources
Vice President/General Manager, USAA
Brenda Smith, '78
BS Accounting
Co-Founder, College of
Business Alumni Association;
Owner, Garden of the Gods Club;
Former Partner, BKP, LLP
Linda Hogan, '73
BA Psychology
Faculty at Indian Arts Institute;
Former Writer in Residence for the Chichasaw Nation;
Professor Emerita CU Boulder
Alumni Award winners
This award is given out to an individual or organization making a major impact on the growth or progress of our community.
This award is given out to an individual or organization making a major impact on the growth or progress of our community.