The past five years have seen a tremendous amount of change in higher education, and the next 10 years promise to bring even more. By the year 2025, college students will be just as likely to be first-generation college students as not, and chances are, they’ll need skills for jobs […]
When Artifact Uprising co-founder Jenna Walker attended her first Denver Startup Week in 2013, she had no idea the event would change her life. “We had been operating for close to a year, but when we attended Denver Startup Week, we started to realize how many resources were in Denver […]
When Sydney Limond, a junior majoring in environmental science and mathematics, got the news that she would be attending the University of Denver, she puzzled, like so many soon-to-be college students, over what the first year would hold. Where would she find friends? Would she like her classes and professors? […]
In a Sept. 18 address capping ceremonies installing her as the University of Denver’s 18th chancellor, Rebecca Chopp called on Coloradans to imagine a renewed relationship between higher education and democracy and previewed DU IMPACT 2025, the institution’s ambitious strategic plan, scheduled for a formal release in spring 2016. “There […]
On campus, Anne DePrince is a professor and chair in the psychology department and serves as director of the Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning, which coordinates the University’s public-good work. But her work with the community doesn’t stop there. DePrince and her psychology students work with a number […]
Kayley Carson, a second-year student in the Graduate School of Social Work (GSSW), has been passionate about social work since she was an undergraduate. While studying psychology at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Mo., she was inspired to pursue social work after completing an internship in palliative care with the […]
In the winter of 1979, with Iran in the throes of a revolution that would transform the nation from a pro-Western, one-party state into an Islamic theocracy, Ali Malekzadeh was far from his home country in more ways than one. The previous year, Malekzadeh (BSBA ’77, MBA ’78) had finished […]
Faven Habte (BS ’10) stepped into her science classroom at Chicago’s Bronzeville Scholastic Institute last fall hoping to ignite a passion for her discipline among her students—much the same way her own passion was sparked and stoked by her high school and college mentors. “My goal is that my students […]
Two years ago, multiple Grammy-nominated jazz composer and trombonist Steve Wiest did something completely unexpected. He left one of the world’s best large jazz ensembles — located at the University of North Texas — to teach at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music. Why Lamont? With its world-class […]