On Dec. 14, students from DU’s Ricks Center for Gifted Children participated in a mock congressional panel and debated the 2008 National Park Service (NPS) budget. The 19 fifth and sixth graders acted out roles as senators, environmentalists, recreational users and Park Service employees. Since September, the students from Rebecca Gallagher […]
Blowing December snow put on ice a plan to rezone land near the University of Denver light-rail station for an 11-story high-rise, but the delay did little to ease the chill between the developer and neighborhood groups. One of the two organizations fighting the proposal, the West University Community Association, […]
When Miriam Tapia was interviewing for the diversity enrollment director position at DU this summer, she was immediately struck by the high caliber of multicultural students on campus, she says. “They’re so impressive and I began to think that [the students] are really the best resource for DU to recruit […]
It isn’t easy to admit there’s a suicide issue in the DU community, campus health officials say; but without talking about it, the problem won’t go away. In each of the last five or six years, at least one member of the DU community — students, faculty and staff — […]
Michele “Mike” Bloom’s odyssey as the dean of the Women’s College at the University of Denver will come to an end as she steps down at the end of the year. “Mike has had such a strong and pure vision for the Women’s College and for the transformation of women’s […]
Last year when Lauren Barocas had narrowed her college choices to two schools, the University of Denver and Colorado College, DU’s Ritchie Center helped her break the tie. It definitely had a big impact on my decision to come to DU,” says Barocas, a junior biological sciences major from Denver. […]
As the holiday season nears, many are anticipating the stress that often accompanies it. “There’s a lot of talk about holiday stress, but what is meant by that?” says psychology Assistant Professor Martha Wadsworth, citing the many factors that can increase stress this time of year, including being far from […]
Eighty-nine percent of students who entered DU as first-year, first-time students in fall 2005 have re-enrolled this year. It is the highest one-year persistence rate since the University began tracking the number in 1997, according to an Oct. 4 report from the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment. Based on […]
Two determined neighborhood groups on DU’s doorstep have voted to directly challenge the city of Denver, the Regional Transportation District and one of the most prominent developers in the metro area. The dispute is over a sliver of land that nudges the platform on the west end of the new […]
The Women’s Library Association is wrapping up its annual half-price holiday sale Nov. 28–Dec. 9 with a children’s day Dec. 9, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Prompted by the donation of new children’s books from a local publishing house, the first-time event for children will feature face painting, games and food. […]
Visitors tour the Sturm College of Law nearly every day, but on Nov. 17 two busloads of people paid $50 each for the privilege. They were participants in Greenbuild, an annual U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) international expo. More than 13,000 attended this year’s expo held at the Denver Convention Center. […]
For DU and some other colleges and universities, a recent Department of Education report calling for higher-ed reforms is not entirely good news. Moving quickly to implement the recommendations of a federal higher education commission, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings issued the report in September and is holding hearings this fall. She […]
State law says all new college students up to age 50 must have shots against measles, mumps and rubella. Unless, of course, they don’t want to. University of Denver policy says all new students up to age 50 must conform with state vaccination law. Unless, of course, they’ve said they […]
For the first time, DU is participating in the seventh annual International Education Week Nov. 13–17 by providing students with information about study abroad and offering food from a variety of regions throughout the world. The joint initiative of the U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Department of State demonstrates […]
As David Cooper describes it, civic engagement and the humanities have a kismet relationship — like the plot of a romantic comedy, where two otherwise successful adults are missing something vital. “Civic engagement needs the humanities and the humanities need civic engagement,” he says. “We just have to get them […]