Events
- The Boulder Faculty Assembly proudly to announced the recipients of the 2018 BFA Excellence Awards. These awards recognize outstanding contributions by faculty in the areas of teaching, service and leadership, and research and creative work.The
- The Program gratefully received two Outreach Grants in 2017. For the grant, “Community-Building Dialogues with Mobile Home Park Residents,” we will work with CU Engage’s Director of Community Partnerships, Manuela Sifuentes, to collaborate with
- From 2015-2017, the CU Dialogues Program served as the primary research site for a multi-year Spencer Foundation New Civics Initiative research project entitled “Assessing deliberative spaces for engagement across difference: Two new civics
- In 2016, Drs. Sprain (PI) and Ramirez (Co-PI) received one-year Hewlett Foundation grant to test the assessment measures we’ve been developing through the Spencer Foundation grant in high school classes.
- The CU Dialogues officially became a Center for Public Life in 2017. CU Dialogues Program Director Karen Ramirez and Boulder Talks Associate Director Jeff Motter were part of the 2016-17 Centers for Public Life Cohort. Joining twelve other teams
- In January 2017 we collaborated with the Student Academic Success Center (SASC) to develop a Bringing Theory to Practice grant-funded workshop: “Be the Change: Practicing Inclusive Excellence for Student Success and Faculty Well-Being.” This
- Pilar Prostko, program coordinator and facilitator for the CU Dialoguesprogram part of CU Engage, has been selected as the recipient of the 2017 Anne K. Heinz Staff Award for Excellence in Outreach and Engagement.
- Last spring the CU Dialogues Program held a series of dialogues in Farrand Hall on the issue of sexual assault (http://www.colorado.edu/news/features/cu-dialogues-its-us-what-does-it-mean).Based on the success of these dialogues and in response to
- In Fall 2015 we began working with the Frasier Meadows Retirement Community to invite Frasier residents as community participants to dialogues. Starting in 2017, we began holding dialogues with students at Frasier Meadows due to accessibility issues.
- The CU Dialogues Program received the 2015 CCORE Diversity Service Recognition Award. The award is given annually by the Chancellor’s Committee on Race and Ethnicity to recognize outstanding efforts to create a diverse and supportive learning,