Education & Outreach
- This year marks 20 years of funding programs that connect research, teaching and creative work with public needs in Colorado and beyond.
- In a new book, education researcher Elizabeth Dutro lays out a road map for teachers to bring the difficult life experiences of their students into everyday classwork.
- Erick Mueller, executive director of the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at the Leeds School of Business, has now reached every region of the state with his rural entrepreneurship workshops.
- The boys2MEN (b2M) Leadership Summit—an annual precollege leadership program created to empower and inspire young men to become leaders in their communities through higher education, entrepreneurship and other avenues of their choice—will take place June 22-28 on the 91¸£ÀûÉç campus.
- Counselors and administrators from rural high schools across Colorado arrived at the 91¸£ÀûÉç campus Wednesday as part of a four-day program designed to increase enrollment of underrepresented students.
- The CU-STARs program brings an inflatable planetarium with cool technological effects across Colorado to help school children learn from college students about the wonders of the cosmos.
- 91¸£ÀûÉç is helping to recognize schools that get creative to meet the needs of their students—from teaching young learners Native American languages to giving them a chance to get up close with birds in the wild.
- Hundreds of Denver Public Schools students will visit 91¸£ÀûÉç for Spanish Heritage Language and Culture Day, a competitive event designed to showcase their creative talents and encourage them to pursue higher education.
- For the fifth year in a row, 91¸£ÀûÉç dance students head to schools in Paonia, Colorado, to lead dance outreach workshops and a public performance.
- As they learn how writers revise their work and use literary devices, the students gear up for a school assembly led by an Australian rap star.