DU revised its vision statement in 2001 to: “The University of Denver will be a great private university dedicated to the public good.” Eric Fretz, Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning (CCESL) director at DU says it’s more than just words. Fretz says it’s about the school marshalling its intellectual […]
Chancellor Robert Coombe has approved several recommendations made by DU’s child care task force, which has been looking into issues faculty, staff and students may face when looking for daycare providers and answers to other family related challenges. The 18-member committee launched www.du.edu/childcare, which serves as a resource to parents. In […]
Olympic medalist Shannon Miller will be DU’s guest of honor at the Pioneers’ gymnastics meet versus Brigham Young University and the University of California, Berkeley on March 16, 7 p.m. in Magness Arena. Miller has earned seven Olympic and nine World Championship medals — more than any other American gymnast. […]
David Corsun will become the new director of the School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management (HRTM) at DU’s Daniels College of Business on July 1, 2007. Corsun will be responsible for the successful operation of the school. His duties, among others, will include planning, staffing, budgeting, academic and event programming. […]
At a time when some American libraries are wrestling with a digital future that may no longer involve books, there are still places in the world starving for any volume they can get. The University of Liberia is one of them. And a determined group at Penrose Library and the […]
The race to replace Kathleen MacKenzie for the District 7 seat on the Denver City Council has emerged as a four-person contest that is likely to heat up considerably before ballots are counted on May 1. March 7 was the last day for candidates to qualify for the ballot by […]
As many as 4,000 wine and food lovers may flock to the University of Denver this November for the third annual Denver International Wine Festival. The event will blend a wine tasting of more than 400 imported and domestic wines with an Iron Chef-style wine and food paring contest and […]
You might think an honor’s club named after the cantankerous and highly intelligent French philosopher Voltaire might be, well, uh, a little stuffy. Not true, according to one of its own. “Our society is not exclusive in any way,” says Laura Johnson (BA ’06), a literature studies master’s candidate and […]
DU’s Board of Trustees in January approved a 6.075-percent tuition increase for the 2007–08 academic year, bringing the cost of a DU education to $31,428 for full-time undergraduates and most graduate students. Room and board costs also are increasing, as are some student fees. The tuition and fee increases help […]
Lynn Gangone will become dean of the DU Women’s College June 1, 2007, Provost Gregg Kvistad announced on Feb. 28. Gangone currently serves as a visiting assistant professor in the higher education administration program at George Washington University and is a senior consultant at Kaludis Consulting in Washington, D.C. “It is […]
To honor a program they say opened doors for their daughter, Joan and Mike Ruffatto have donated $5 million toward the construction of a building to house DU’s Learning Effectiveness Program (LEP) and College of Education. The building — named Katherine A. Ruffatto Hall after the donors’ daughter — will be constructed […]
Neighbors’ objections to building a 12-story high-rise next to the University of Denver light-rail station delayed the project on Feb. 28 but haven’t defused it. City Councilwoman Kathleen MacKenzie advanced three conditions she said were in response to neighbors’ discomfort with plans for a 210-unit rental tower over a detention […]
Under existing R-3 zoning, any developer would have to provide a fixed number of parking spaces for each unit in a building. Currently the building envisioned for the RTD property at the University station would have about 210 units on 12 floors. Under RMU-30 zoning, however, the parking requirement could […]
Plans to erect a 12-story residence just west of the light-rail platform at the University of Denver Station have until early February been promoted as rental housing for graduate students. But now it appears the high-rise might just as easily become senior housing that would actually exclude traditional students. Despite […]
Last fall, school shootings in Bailey, Colo., and Nickel Mines, Pa., took the lives of six young women. Those crimes and the debate about whether they should be recognized as hate crimes sparked the idea for “Sex Politics & Gender Violence,” a conference at DU’s Sturm College of Law Feb. […]