University of Denver will stop requiring prospective students to submit SAT...
Students hoping to attend the University of Denver no longer will be required to submit SAT or ACT scores with their applications beginning next year, the institution announced Tuesday. Officials at...
View ArticleColorado gives undocumented students access to financial aid for college
Mariana Pascual of Colorado Springs is a Dreamer — a young person brought to the United States as an undocumented child — as well as a student body president and an aspiring teacher. “As of now, I feel...
View ArticleColorado seeks 5,000 adults for health care apprenticeships, thanks to $12...
Colorado will soon be 5,000 health care apprenticeships richer after receiving $12 million from the U.S. Department of Labor. The program, announced by Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday, is hoping to...
View ArticleNew President Mark Kennedy to visit CU campuses Monday
The new president of the University of Colorado system will visit all four campuses on Monday, his first day at his new job. Mark Kennedy, who is leaving his position as president of the University of...
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Is a college degree worth it for Coloradans? Yes, new state data says, but at...
Earning a college degree or post-high school training in Colorado not only results in higher wages down the line, but better health outcomes, greater life expectancy and fewer interactions with the...
View ArticleLine between remedial, mainstream classes blurs as Colorado colleges...
A new law getting rid of remedial college courses in Colorado won’t take effect until 2022, but schools already are shifting away from a traditional sequence of lower-level classes that students have...
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First person in your family to go to college? Here’s some advice from...
As the first person in her family to attend college, 18-year-old Sharai Conde had to work that much harder to figure out how to get a secondary degree. Without having help or advice from home when it...
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University of Colorado regent, president disagree whether Prop CC would help...
A University of Colorado regent is fighting an initiative that CU’s president and state higher education experts say would be in the best financial interest of Colorado college students. Heidi Ganahl,...
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Dan Baer is the latest Democrat to move aside for John Hickenlooper
U.S. Senate candidate Dan Baer suspended his campaign Thursday and endorsed rival candidate John Hicknelooper. He’s the third Democrat to drop out of the primary since Hickenlooper, the former...
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You can apply to any of Colorado’s public colleges and universities for free...
All 32 public colleges and universities in Colorado, along with several private institutions, are waiving their application fees on Oct. 15, enabling students to submit their paperwork free of charge....
View ArticleCollege costs in Colorado have “spiraled out of control.” Here’s what the...
A group of Colorado university and community college presidents from as far-flung as Durango convened in Denver on Tuesday morning to admit that the cost of attending college is out of control....
View ArticleGovernor to budget writers: Colorado can keep tuition flat, but only with...
Colorado will have to make tradeoffs if it hopes to avert a tuition hike for the state’s public universities next year, Gov. Jared Polis told state budget-writers Wednesday. It was Polis’ first public...
View ArticleColorado Free Application Day saved prospective college students almost $2...
Nearly 44,500 students took advantage of Colorado’s one-day waiver of college application fees on Oct.15, doubling participation from last year’s effort and saving those applicants almost $2 million in...
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Homework without a home: Colorado college to open homeless shelter for...
After a long day of class registration and orientation, Dayle “Sammy” Davidson dropped by Red Rocks Community College’s cafeteria for a bite to eat. Tucked inside a warm building where he could rest —...
View ArticleColorado would repay first 2 years of student loans for grads who stay in...
A bill in the works for Colorado’s upcoming legislative session would mandate the state pay for the first two years of student loans for new graduates of the state’s public colleges who commit to stay...
View ArticleUniversity of Denver cut tuition for a graduate program by $15,000. Now...
In a bid for greater affordability, University of Denver leaders pledged to lower tuition for masters students in the Josef Korbel School of International Studies from about $53,000 to $38,000 per year...
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JPMorgan Chase invests $7 million in DPS students’ workforce, higher-ed futures
JPMorgan Chase is investing $7 million in Denver students, a grant designed to bolster Denver Public Schools’ youth apprenticeship program and make the jump from high school to higher education easier,...
View ArticleColorado to award college scholarships to previously incarcerated youth
Young people previously committed to Colorado juvenile detention centers might be eligible to apply for a scholarship of up to $10,000 annually toward the cost of a state college, university or other...
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As Colorado college students go hungry, state encourages them to apply for...
Kiara Galvan’s constant calculations about where her next meal would come from no longer stand in the way of the 20-year-old’s goal of becoming a social worker. The Metropolitan State University of...
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With labs shuttered, Colorado’s universities pivot to help hospitals fight...
As the novel coronavirus began to spread through Colorado, Steve Fenster learned firsthand how hospitals were about to be tested. The co-chair of the biology department at Fort Lewis College in Durango...
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