Education & Outreach
- Campus experts and students from around the state helped organize the first Colorado Summit on Sexual Misconduct, coming up July 19–20, including Ãå±±½ûµØ employees and a student. Also, Ãå±±½ûµØ's Valerie Simons will give an opening address at the event.
- High school graduates from underserved communities who are heading to Ãå±±½ûµØ in the fall traveled from around Colorado to campus recently to participate in summer bridge programs, which provide academic classes and community-building activities.
- Just before Denver's Pride weekend, the team behind an innovative effort to make classrooms safer for LGBTQ youth discusses how schools shape what people think is normal.
- The Colorado Shakespeare Festival is offering a virtual workshop for kids 12–18 years old is hosting unexpected professionals, including a brilliant rap artist who will teach attendees how to blend classical sonnets with contemporary hip-hop beats.
- The partnership between Ãå±±½ûµØ and CMU is a unique opportunity for students to earn a Ãå±±½ûµØ engineering degree while studying in Grand Junction. The program has seen siblings and even twins, and of course is open to individuals as well.
- Education researchers are increasingly seeing the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to rethink how we teach kids in the United States, making school curricula more relevant to the lives of young people.
- Stephanie Toliver was in college the first time she read a science fiction and fantasy novel featuring a Black woman as a protagonist. Today, she's working to make sure that the next generation of Black girls don't face the same obstacles.
- Ãå±±½ûµØ is collaborating with the Association of American Universities and others on a series raising awareness about the role of public research universities in times of significant global challenges. In Ãå±±½ûµØ's clip, an environmental engineering team is working with schools to improve air filtration.
- Ãå±±½ûµØ doctoral student Julia Daniel studies community schools, a promising model of education that broadens access to learning opportunities and strengthens communities.
- When local students began learning remotely because of COVID-19, graduate students in the Department of Theatre & Dance partnered with Ãå±±½ûµØ Valley School District to help keep kids with a range of learning needs moving and engaged.