The Columbine High School shootings in 1999 left 15 dead, 24 injured and thousands more traumatized by the violence at the school. Two years later, Carolyn Mears, the parent of a Columbine student in the school that day, enrolled in a doctoral program at DU’s Morgridge College of Education so […]

In the news media’s stream of gloomy economic news, higher education has been a target of dire headlines about declines in enrollment. Not so at DU. At the end of the third week of classes, total fall enrollment — including undergraduate and graduate students, the Women’s College and University College […]

The Women’s College at the University of Denver announced Phyllis Mann, Rose Yolanda Caro, RoShaea Alford, and Wendy Lopez as the recipients of its 2009 Vision Scholarship.

Wildfires are a part of life in the west. Recently, California’s Station Fire, the largest wildfire in Los Angeles County’s recorded history, burned nearly 250 square miles and has been estimated to have cost more than $100 million. But DU lecturer Lisa Dale says that while fire suppression costs tend […]

The University of Denver today announces the establishment of a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in School Leadership program.

One of the last pieces of structural steel enclosing the roof on the University of Denver’s Katherine A. Ruffatto Hall was lifted to the top of the building during a “topping out” ceremony Oct. 5, marking a significant landmark in the project. The $21.4 million building is slated for a June 2010 […]

The University of Denver’s Ricks Center in the Morgridge College of Education celebrated its 25th anniversary much the way it began – engaging students in enriching, thematic activities.

More than 250 students, parents and school staff helped DU’s Ricks Center celebrate its 25th anniversary on Friday, Sept. 25, with sustainability in mind. Students planted bulbs, vines, trees and shrubs in the center’s courtyard; painted rocks in the style of the book Only One You; and created mobiles made […]

Mark Twain once said: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” While Twain was […]

Associate Dean, Professor and Training Director
Counseling Psychology Program
Morgridge College of Education

Director of the Law and Society Program
The Women’s College

Professor
Graduate School of Social Work

Professor
Community Based Research
The Women’s College

Clinical Professor of Culture and Psychology
The Women’s College

Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction
Morgridge College of Education