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The Undergraduate Experience

• Forty-six percent of all undergraduate course sections enroll under 20 students, and 84 percent enroll fewer than 50 students.
  
  
• About 4,800 undergraduates have been awarded a total of $4.2 million for student research projects by CU-Boulder's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program since its inception in 1986.
  
  
• Nearly 1,500 CU-Boulder students are enrolled in six residential academic programs, providing undergraduates with shared learning and living experiences. These Residential Academic programs include:
  • Farrand (Humanities and service learning)
  • Sewall (American West)
  • Baker (Environmental science)
  • Kittredge (Honors)
  • Smith Hall (International)
  • Williams Village (Chancellor's Leadership Residential Academic Program)
  
  
• The Honors Program provides special educational opportunities including a freshman residential program for highly motivated students. The program, consisting of 90 honors courses generally limited to 15 students, offers a wide-ranging liberal arts curriculum, advising, close contact with faculty and the opportunity to write an honors thesis.
  
  

Mary Fran Myers, co-director of CU’s Natural Hazards Center, received a newly established award from the Gender and Disaster Network. The "Mary Fran Myers Award" was presented in recognition of Myers' sustained efforts to launch a worldwide network among disaster professionals, for advancing women’s careers and for promoting research on gender issues in disaster research and higher education.

• A growing part of the curriculum at CU-Boulder incorporates community service with learning. More than 30 departments offer a total of 90 service learning courses. Each semester about 900 students enroll in service learning courses, committing to an average of three volunteer hours per week.
  
  
• The Undergraduate Academy was established in fall 2000 to provide an intellectual neighborhood for the top 1 percent of CU-Boulder undergraduate students and help prepare them for post-graduate opportunities. The student-run program provides targeted advising and a range of enrichment activities outside the classroom with faculty sponsors.
  
  
• The Norlin Scholars Program attracts up to 120 academically outstanding undergraduates to CU-Boulder by offering scholarships, special courses, cultural and social events, plus individual advising and mentoring. Students are encouraged to enrich and customize their undergraduate experiences through this intellectually oriented neighborhood of like-minded students from all majors on campus.
  
  
• CU-Boulder students can choose from more than 150 Study Abroad programs in 60 countries around the world. Information about the program is available on the Web at www.colorado.edu/OIE/Study/Abroad.
  
  
• The Presidents Leadership Class offers 60 of CU-Boulder's most outstanding students a $4,000 to $9,000 merit-based scholarship and four years of leadership training. Students develop leadership skills through discussion groups, group projects, community service, local and international internships and through lectures by business and community leaders.