Dear Students,

Welcome to the College of Architecture and Planning (CAP) at University of Colorado Denver! We are so glad you have joined us to embark on an exciting journey with your classmates and professors that will engage our vibrant city, dynamic community, and magnificent landscape.

In CAP, we -
Value the unique spark of each person, profession and place.
Work on real projects and make a real difference.
Focus on the big picture as well as the detail.
Embrace poetry as well as pragmatism.
Pursue elegance as well as efficiency.
Draw from intellect and intuition.
Bring humility, humor, and humanity to our work.
Celebrate modern, classical, vernacular, humanist, social scientific, technological, and ecological traditions.
And ignite evolution that enriches places for people and the planet.

Presumably the most intelligent of the species, humans are the only ones to construct unsustainable habitats. We have in fact outsmarted ourselves, our large brains enabling us to suppress the very instincts for survival. That downward spiral is now reversing and CAP is on the cutting edge of recovering this buried human habitat instinct.

To do this, our students, faculty, and staff have been confronting the global pandemic and economic recession with creativity, collaboration, and caring. At the same time, we have been working together to advance justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) in our college, our allied practices, and our environment by implementing a multi-pronged JEDI Action Plan.

We invite you to join us in igniting this evolution and wish you all the very best on your journey ahead,

Nan Ellin, PhD
Dean and Professor

Nan Ellin, PhD
Dean and Professor
College of Architecture and Planning
University of Colorado Denver
Denver, CO 80202
nan.ellin@ucdenver.edu
cap.ucdenver.edu

New Student Welcome

Online - Friday, August 14 – 8:45 a.m. - 11 a.m. MDT