Announcements

CU Engage Faculty Director Ben Kirshner was honored with this year's Provost’s Faculty Achievement Award earlier today, at CU Boulder's Eleventh Annual Fall Convocation & Awards Ceremony. Dr. Kirshner was nominated by the former Dean of the School of Education, Distinguished Professor Lorrie Shepard, and then selected for the award...

CU Boulder recently expanded its support of public scholarship in the arts and humanities by joining a national group working to advance democracy and participation in higher education. Imagining America : Artists and Scholars in Public Life , a national consortium of more than 100 higher education and community cultural...

As a new student arriving at CU Boulder last fall, Nitin Beri discovered the SWAP program during the Be Involved fair. He thought it would be a good way to feel more connected to the campus. Beri, originally from Portland, OR, decided to get involved and attend a SWAP training,...

Leer el artículo en español: haga click aquí Alondra Palomino didn’t know if she would ever go to college. The daughter of Mexican immigrants, Palomino’s family was supportive of her academic pursuits but, like many immigrant families, lacked familiarity with the U.S. college system and knowledge about the college application...

CU Engage is excited to announce our 2016-17 cohort of Community-Based Research (CBR) Graduate Fellows. Spanning six diverse disciplines including Psychology, Sociology, Education, Mechanical Engineering, Geography, and Technology, Media and Society (ATLAS), the latest group of CBR Fellows will be conducting research in partnership with community organizations to address complex...

CU Boulder student Meredith Nass grew up in Durango, Colo., a region where diverging perspectives about energy, use of resources and sustainability are the norm. But growing up there, Nass didn’t know much about these issues. "I lived there for 18 years, went to public school, and volunteered in my...

CU-Boulder undergraduate student Balkarn (Kern) Shahi is taking his knowledge of digital and information systems back to his hometown in Lafayette, Colorado, to help close the “digital divide” and other educational opportunity gaps for low-income students. Kern's work has recently been featured in the Daily Camera , on CU Boulder's...

CU Engage is pleased to announce that two CU Boulder graduate students, Mónica Gonzalez and Danielle Garrison, have been selected to receive the 2016 Children, Youth and Environment Award. Mónica Gonzalez, a doctoral student in Literacy Studies, will use the award to support her project with youth at a local...

CU Engage is pleased to announce our new cohort of Faculty Fellows in Community-Based Learning for the 2016-17 year. The aim of the Faculty Fellows Program is to expand, deepen, and institutionalize community-based learning at CU-Boulder. This cohort, which is the second of CU Engage's Faculty Fellows, represents a variety...

Sabrina Sideris, Program Director for the CU Engage program I NVST Community Studies , was honored with the 2016 Anne K. Heinz Staff Award for Excellence in Outreach and Engagement at a special awards luncheon on March 30. The award was given though the Office of Outreach and Engagement ,...