Academics

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    The School of Education and Department of Ethnic Studies have partnered to offer a new program that will allow future teachers to earn a bachelor’s degree in ethnic studies and a master’s degree in education in five years. The new “4+1 Ethnic Studies and Education Concurrent Degree Program” (BA/MA) will begin admitting students in spring 2017.
  • Earth Lab image from space of a wildfire in Canada
    The Research & Innovation Office, previously the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, creates impact by cultivating and supporting collaboration, transformation and leadership across CU Boulder. The recently released annual research report includes an array of research highlights from fiscal 2015-16. Read the stories and check out a video on CU Boulder's Grand Challenge: Our Space. Our Future.
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    Have you ever felt clueless when writing a paper? Are you worried that your paper is made up of a series of un-cohesive thoughts jumbled together? If the only thing you know about writing comes from what gets highlighted in red in Microsoft Office, then The Writing Center is your new best friend.
  • CU Boulder Public Achievement coaches take a break from their social action work with students at Centaurus High School.
    More than 100 middle and high school students from Boulder County are joining 35 undergraduates Friday to tour campus and participate in workshops with community and campus organizations to address public issues impacting their communities. The students are part of the Public Achievement (PA) program, a youth-led civic engagement initiative promoting student voice and transformative change.
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    CU Boulder faculty, students and staff are undergoing an initiative to evaluate the university learning management system, Desire2Learn, to determine whether it meets CU Boulder’s teaching and learning needs as part of an array of digital instructional tools.
  • A black and white photo of the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park Colorado, with ominous black clouds in the background.
    Building suspense, scaring readers and incorporating gore, disgust and revulsion into fiction plots. Students will examine these elements of writing during a Winter Session course that's open to the public, led by Stephen Graham Jones, acclaimed horror writer and professor. Part of the class will take place at the famous Stanley Hotel, said by some to be haunted.
  • Faculty member Jane Page assists two students in a Shakespeare class
    The campus community is once again embarking on an accreditation review by the nonprofit Higher Learning Commission (HLC), an independent corporation founded in 1895 as one of six regional institutional accreditors in the United States.
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    Registration for the spring semester is right around the corner. Be sure you're prepared.
  • Jim Gallogly, CU Engineering School alumnus, CEO of LyondellBasell Industries and member of the CU Engineering Advisory Council, right, is photographed with  CU Engineering Dean Rob Davis, center, and Mike Wirth, a Chevron corp. VP and chair of the CU Engineering Advisory Council after unveiling a temporary sign showing the new name for the Discovery Learning Center.
    With $2.5 million in gifts, Colorado’s Gallogly family is naming the Discovery Learning Center at the University of Colorado Boulder, as well as boosting the teaching and research power of the College of Engineering and Applied Science with two new faculty positions.
  • A student tutors another student at an ASAP open hours session
    It isn’t unusual for some first-year students to struggle academically while getting used to university life. That’s where CU Boulder’s Academic Success and Achievement Program (ASAP) comes in. ASAP is an amazing and free on-campus tutoring program offered to any student living on campus.
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