Our office partners with many offices and programs on campus and in communities around the state to support student success through scholarships and program development. Main partners are listed below.
Key campus partnerships
We work collaboratively with the partners listed below on outreach to and support of first-generation, low-income students as well as students from diverse backgrounds.
- Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- Admissions. Provide campus access to low-income and first generation students with a special focus on middle schools and schools with significant numbers of students who qualify for free and reduced meals.
- Conference Services. Provide a quality residential experience for the participants of our many precollege outreach programs during the summer months and to provide a quality dining experience for the many guests we host for campus visits throughout the year.
- CU LEAD Alliance programs. Partner with these programs to introduce first generation and low-income students to a supportive community of scholars with shared goals and similar cultural and personal backgrounds.
- Financial Aid. Identify first generation and low-income students who can benefit from supplemental scholarship dollars to minimize their student loan debt or who might be in need of one-time emergency funding to help them through financial difficulties.
- Student Affairs. Partner on programming and events for students.
Community Partnerships
Precollege Outreach also works collaboratively with the organizations listed below.
- Colorado Opportunity Scholarship Initiative (COSI) Partners. We currently manage about $2 million in COSI scholarships and ensures mentoring, tutoring, advising and other academic enrichment for students through partnership with the CU LEAD Alliance programs who facilitate their success as a CU Boulder student. Through these scholarships, we are building stronger relationships with counties and school districts across the state to better serve students, part of CU Boulder’s commitment to expanding outreach to K-12 students from underrepresented communities. Those partners are listed below.
- I Have a Dream Foundation Boulder County. The foundation is one of the partners from which the Precollege Partnership Outreach Program draws student participants for its two-week summer residential program.
- GEAR UP. The Precollege Partnership Outreach Program is working to develop a close working relationship with GEAR UP to provide their student participants with an opportunity to have an extended stay on the CU Boulder campus during the summer much like our own outreach programs
- Access Opportunity
- Pueblo Hispanic Education Foundation
- Denver Indian Center. We work with the Denver Indian Center to promote the center as an additional resource and support for Indigenous students who attend the university and to conduct outreach to the local Indigenous community in the Denver-metro area.