McCord-Herbst Student Veterans Center opens to fanfare
With speeches and a ribbon cutting, city and university leaders joined with donors to officially open the McCord-Herbst Student Veterans Center Friday afternoon. (More)
September 2016
Chancellor uses campus report to help regents prepare for HLC visit
UCCS Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak highlighted record enrollment growth and new programs during her campus report to the University of Colorado Board of Regents at their Sept. 9 meeting here. She then urged the nine-member board (More)
Regents vote to support five new UCCS graduate certificate programs
Five new graduate certificate programs at UCCS won unanimous approval from the University of Colorado Board of Regents at their meeting on campus Sept. 8. (More)
New faculty join campus
Forty-nine new faculty members joined UCCS for the fall semester. Over the next few weeks, those who hold instructor, assistant professor, associate professor and professor positions will be introduced to the campus. Today’s introductions include nine instructors from the College of Business, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the Kraemer Family Library. (More)
Regents approve indoor track and field facility, baseball diamond
The University of Colorado Board of Regents agreed Thursday that UCCS should proceed with building a $12 million indoor track and field facility and baseball diamond on the western edge of the campus. (More)
Enrollment surpasses 12,000; records set
More than 12,000 students enrolled at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs for the fall 2016 semester, an almost 7 percent increase from last year’s record student enrollment. (More)
VAPA students turn their artistic vision into sculpture
Two UCCS Visual and Performing Arts Department students created recent additions to the sculpture collection at the University Village Colorado shopping center just west of campus. (More)
Steen earns literary award
Maria Steen, professor, Languages and Cultures Department, recently received the 2015 Clarín Prize for her short story “El costurero” (The Sewing Kit). (More)
GOCA, Recreation and Wellness combine for Wednesday program
The Galleries of Contemporary Arts and the Recreation and Wellness Center will offer free meditation and yoga sessions during Michael Theodore’s monumental kinetic installation “micro/macro.” The sessions will be available on Wednesdays from Sept. 14 to Nov. 16. (More)
$384.5 million in private support raised, a CU record
Private contributions to CU set a new record this year, with more than $384.5 million in support coming from individuals, foundations and corporations, CU President Bruce Benson announced Sept. 7. (More)