With support from Apple, CU Denver will launch new educational offerings, teacher professional learning with partners in St. Vrain Valley Schools, Aurora Public Schools and Jefferson County Schools to grow a diverse tech-talent pipeline.
Support from industry partners and donors is fueling a new program that reimagines the first-generation and multicultural student experience in the Business School.
Chancellor Michelle Marks announced the official naming of the Dana Crawford Preservation Program, CU Denver’s academic program in historic preservation within the College of Architecture and Planning. The naming was made possible by a generous circle of CU Denver donors.
CU Denver’s School of Education & Human Development (SEHD) is continuously innovating and expanding its programs to better support diverse students and the communities they serve. Here are just a few examples of how SEHD is collaborating with partners across Colorado and the country to meet learners where they are and make CU Denver the University for Life.
College of Architecture and Planning students are constructing sustainable shelter for scientists at the Cape Shirreff field camp in Antartica as part of a two-year design-build program through the Colorado Building Workshop graduate certificate program.
The new Building the Future Scholarship Fund, created by the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority, will invest $1.2 million in colleges across Colorado, including two new $5,000 annual scholarships at the College of Architecture and Planning.
In March 2022, CU Denver’s TransAmerica Cyber Team placed second in the Rocky Mountain Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, earning an opportunity to advance to the national competition in April.
The University of Colorado Denver has received a generous gift of $500,000 from donors in the Jain community to establish the “Bhagwan Suparshvanatha Endowed Professorship Fund in Jain Studies” to create and support a faculty professorship focused on the teaching and study of the Jain religion in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The program, which provides architecture students with hands-on construction experience and is funded in part through philanthropic support, designed and constructed a pedestrian bridge for a small town east of Fort Collins.