American Indian Student Services
American Indian Student Services (AISS) welcomes students of all American Indian and Alaska Native heritages! AISS serves both students who are tribally enrolled and those who identify but are not enrolled in their tribes. AISS provides culturally responsive educational support, including resource referral, scholarship information, advocacy, cultural events, and student clubs.
CLAS Council on Diversity and Inclusion
The CLAS Council on Diversity and Inclusion addresses diversity and inclusion issues impacting faculty, staff and students across the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The Council also supports faculty, staff and student work addressing diversity and inclusion through activities, mentoring, and financial support.
CLAS Office of Inclusive Excellence in STEM
The University of Colorado Denver has received several grants with the aim of increasing the institution's capacity for inclusive excellence. Managed through the Office of Inclusive Excellence in STEM, these campus initiatives work to create and sustain institutional change around inclusive excellence in the STEM fields at CU Denver.
Diversity and Inclusion at the Auraria Library
In 2019 the Auraria Library collaboratively created a page on the Auraria Library Website detailing Auraria Library's commitment to providing an inclusive environment, equity in service, and providing a welcoming space. Multiple departments worked on this page's content to showcase various DEI initiatives taking place in the Library.
Environmental Stewardship of Indigenous Lands
The Environmental Stewardship of Indigenous Lands (ESIL) certificate provides a unique training opportunity for students to combine a passion for protecting natural resources with a desire to communicate across diverse cultures and schools of thought. ESIL provides training, internships, and job placement opportunities for students interested in environmental issues involving tribal and non-tribal entities.
Ethnic Studies Cross-Collaborations
At this time we are ongoing collaborators working to ensure that there is a connection with academic and student services around diversity and inclusion. With the nature of the disciplinaries we house in Ethnic Studies we understand that the Center for Identity and Inclusion are natural partners for us. In the past, we have co-hosted events across the two spaces. We also continue to cross collaborate and promote academic and social events.
Faculty Assembly Disabilities Committee
Address the needs, representations and policies affecting disabled faculty on campus. (We also include the community as a whole whenever possible.) We also address issues concerning faculty and student relationships – teaching enhancements, etc.
Faculty Assembly Ethnic Diversity Committee (FA-EDC)
The Ethnic Diversity Committee (EDC) reviews policies and practices, evaluates, and recommends policies affecting minority faculty and students.
First Generation Student & Family Banquet
A dinner that recognizes students who will be the first in their family to earn a four-year degree. At the dinner new students meet other first generation students, hear from inspirational first generation speakers and will be honored for being the first in their family to attend college.
Inclusive Excellence in STEM Alliance
The Inclusive Excellence in STEM Alliance is a group of faculty staff and administrators who meet quarterly to discuss methods to accomplish ongoing and systemic improvement in our institutional culture and capacity for diversity, respect, and inclusiveness on campus.
Inclusive Pedagogy Academy
The Inclusive Pedagogy Academy (IPA) is a seven week course designed to introduce and expand faculty knowledge of inclusive teaching practices and develop direct methods through which inclusive teaching can be deployed in the classroom. The IPA is a collaboration between the Center for Faculty Development and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
LGBTQ Student Resource Center
The LGBTQ Student Resource Center is a tri-institutional student fee-funded department that strives to improve the campus climate for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer students. We do this by fostering acceptance and understanding through educating the campus community about issues related to this population and developing programming that unites diverse communities of people. Additionally, we provide support services and growth opportunities for LGBTQ students to realize their fullest potential.
LYNX Camps
We have created lots of partnerships for our LYNX National Arts & Media camps to create a diverse student population at our camps. We partner with outside organizations such as College Track, DPS Career Connect, Denver Arts & Venues, Minds Matter Denver, the Bohemian Foundation, and ReSchool Colorado, to create large need-based scholarships for students from low-income families and from underrepresented minority groups. This has provided access and has created a diverse student body at our summer camps. Since we use the camps as a major recruitment source for the College of Arts & Media (CAM), this has led to more diversity in our CAM student body. We also work hard to make sure that we have a diverse group of faculty, student employees, and guest artists at the camps. This helps the camp students to see role models like themselves in the arts industries and helps them feel confident about their own opportunities.
Lynx Summer Academy Summer Bridge Program
The Lynx Summer Academy provides newly admitted (Fall) First-Year students the opportunity to enroll in four credit hours over the summer. Students selected for Lynx Summer Academy must also have accepted their Fall admission to CU Denver. This program targets local (in-state) students who have self-reported on the Admissions application that they are First Generation students.
SEHD Equity & Diversity Committee
This committee addresses all the objectives in the school's diversity plan which includes the areas of culture and climate, diverse representation among faculty, staff, and students, and cultural competency. The committee is composed of faculty members from multiple SEHD programs and one SEHD staff representative. The faculty members are elected by the SEHD faculty and at least one staff member is elected by staff. The faculty members are elected by the SEHD faculty and serve for three years, with the possibility of continuing to serve longer. Each year the Diversity Committee may opt to elect one of its members as chair. The chair directs regular meetings, advises students and faculty on policies and procedures.
SPA Diversity and Inclusiveness Committee
The SPA Diversity and Inclusiveness Committee works to develop and increase diversity and equity throughout SPA and foster a culture of inclusion.
Task Force on Auraria Campus Gentrification and Urban Displacement
The Task Force on Auraria Campus Gentrification and Urban Displacement is charged with addressing the campus' history of displacement and gentrification starting with the original Indigenous peoples on the land that the Auraria Campus is now on and continuing with the waves of communities displaced during the actual installation of the campus. The task force is addressing issues associated with these events.
TRiO McNair Scholars Program
The TRiO McNair Program supports students who are low-income (LI) and first generation (FG) or underrepresented in graduate studies. The program offers a holistic support system that serves to increase the number of LI, FG, and underrepresented students obtaining PhDs. One aspect of support we provide to our students includes the unwritten rules of professionalism, as an important goal for McNair is to make a clear effort to invest in training & development opportunities for our scholars. We are committed to providing a welcoming and supportive learning environment that fosters intellectual, personal and professional growth of all program participants.
