University of Colorado

A Message from the President

October 2013

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Celebrating 40 years of success at CU Denver

 

Congratulations to the University of Colorado Denver’s alumni, students, faculty and staff on the institution’s 40th anniversary. These past decades have brought many positive changes to the campus, such as more than doubling the student and faculty populations and adding 16 new programs -- all integral to the university’s success.

Yet I have witnessed an even more important evolution. I’ve been involved in Colorado higher education for all of these 40 years and I believe the progress I’ve seen on the CU Denver campus the past few years is remarkable. From the first exclusively CU Denver building on the Auraria Campus, scheduled to open in 2014, to the introduction of Milo the Lynx as the new mascot, to the recently launched Learn with Purpose comprehensive marketing campaign, the campus’s visibility, marketability and sense of community have grown significantly.

Today, CU Denver:

  • Awards more master’s degrees than any other public institution in Colorado
  • Houses seven schools and colleges, including the state's only college of architecture and its largest grad schools for business and education
  • Serves a diverse student body, with students of color making up 34 percent of undergrads and 47 percent of new freshmen
  • Offers more than 90 undergraduate majors and minors

Faculty such as Robert Damrauer, professor of chemistry and special assistant to the provost, and Laura Goodwin, associate vice chair for academic affairs, have been with CU Denver since or soon after it became an independent university. They have provided outstanding educational and mentoring opportunities for countless students and faculty. Throughout the decades they and other faculty and staff like them have established a solid foundation for a CU Denver education, preserving the best of the old while helping to establish and celebrate the new.

CU Denver faculty, staff and students are deeply involved in the Denver community, in outreach such as:

Notable alumni include Denver Mayor Michael Hancock; Kelly Brough, CEO and president of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce; Bill Vidal, president of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Metro Denver; and musical artists Andy Guerrero of the Flobots and Isaac Slade of the Fray.

We have had outstanding leadership at CU Denver all these years, and I can say with great sincerity that Chancellor Donald Elliman is a leader who will continue to take CU Denver to greater heights.

There is much yet to do as higher education continues to change and options for our students and faculty continue to multiply at lightning speed. CU Denver is truly fortunate to have outstanding students, faculty, staff and leadership who will be instrumental as we navigate these new inroads in education.

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