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Success looks different to everyone. For business owner Amanda Baida, success isn’t building a social media empire – it’s the opportunity to enjoy her family and the lifestyle she’s helped build for them. (More)
Jason Griffin, a first-generation college student, is proof that success doesn’t always follow a particular path. Griffin, a Hilibrand Postdoctoral Fellow at the Yale Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine, had to find his own way when his initial plans to earn a PhD were denied. (More)
With student services and scholarships in mind, a record number of members of the spring UCCS Class of 2022 have donated more than $7,500 to the annual class gift so far. (More)
This year, UCCS will recognize five Golden Graduates, each of whom graduated from UCCS in 1972, when the campus was still known as the Colorado Springs Center. (More)
UCCS students, faculty and staff will celebrate degrees conferred to more than 1,500 graduates at the spring 2022 Commencement ceremonies on Friday, May 13. (More)
A reception held at the Ent Center for the Arts at UCCS celebrated the first full year of the Alumni Volunteer Program, which created opportunities for more than 600 alumni to support student success from 2021–22. (More)
When Katherine Daniel ’20, ’21 learned that Teller County, Colorado residents are at twice the risk of skin cancer than others in the state, she turned a research project from class into a real-life initiative to bring sun safety to children in Woodland Park. (More)
Autumn Rivera’s approach to teaching, one that emphasizes fun and personal growth, earned the UCCS alum 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year. Now, as Rivera is one of four finalists for National Teacher of the Year, she hopes to inspire other teachers to lead in their own way. (More)
A UCCS alumna, Jackie Berube-Black ’10, is the 15th woman to enter the USA Weightlifting Hall of Fame as an athlete. Black earned her master’s degree in exercise physiology from UCCS in 2010. (More)
A graduate of the Bachelor of Innovation program in Business Administration at UCCS, Jason Conger has taken his education from Colorado Springs to Boulder, Berlin and Finland, where he now works as a Growth Lead for Supercell, developer of the popular mobile game “Clash of Clans.” (More)
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