Your Impact: Programs & Initiatives

Feb 20, 2024

At CU Denver, investing in your education is about more than getting a degree. It is about becoming part of a community that connects the dots between big and small ideas and develops innovative learners that give back. That practice is on display at the Business School’s Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship.

Feb 19, 2024 by Jackson Campbell

CU Denver’s Business School introduced Empowering Women in Business (EWiB), a program launched last fall to equip students with the distinct tools they need to navigate the workforce and successfully pursue leadership roles in their careers. Now in its second semester, EWiB thus far has served as an incredible beacon of inspiration that acknowledges often overlooked issues regarding the playing field between men and women in the workplace.

Nov 13, 2023

The future may present many questions, and thanks to a strategic and philanthropic investment from Google, CU Denver’s new Quantum Information Technology Certificate Program holds the promise for many new answers—answers that could reduce the environmental impact of batteries, make food production more efficient, and lower the cost of health care, to name just a few.

Aug 11, 2023

Faculty in the School of Education & Human Development are incredibly productive researchers. They nearly tripled research grant success last fiscal year, securing more than $17.1 million in multi-year external funding for projects that prepare, advance and inspire education and mental health leaders while growing a more diverse workforce.

Mar 8, 2023

If you were a student in the Denver Public Schools between 2008 and 2019, you may not have realized it at the time, but you were likely benefiting from the most comprehensive and effective education reform initiative in the history of the United States. You were learning more than students in other comparable Colorado school districts, and you were more likely to graduate within four years than students from previous years.

Mar 8, 2023

This academic year, a number of students at CU Denver are giving more thought to the effects of their choices and activities on the world around them as they practice a day of ahimsa, or non-violence. The exercise is part of their study of the Jain religion in classes taught by Dr. Steven Vose, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' inaugural Bhagwan Suparshvanatha Endowed Professor in Jain Studies.

Dec 13, 2022

$168,869 was awarded to a pilot scholarship program through the Dana Crawford Preservation Program in the University of Colorado Denver, “Colorado has a unique opportunity, because of the State Historical Fund, to build a program that could be the first in the country to begin to address this need,” said Steve Turner, assistant professor and director of historic preservation and classical studies at the university.

Nov 1, 2022

CU Denver's Colorado Building Workshop is educating future architects while taking on its most ambitious project yet.

Sep 15, 2022

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.

Sep 13, 2022

Support from industry partners and donors is fueling a new program that reimagines the first-generation and multicultural student experience in the Business School.