Higher Education

CU Peru hosts a show supporting global health care at Hooked on Colfax tomorrow

This Saturday, April 6, Hooked on Colfax will donate its wall space to Local Goes Global, an evening devoted to raising money through art for a global health-focused nonprofit, Comunidades Unidas Peru. A student-run organization, CU Peru comprises volunteers from various schools at the University o ... More >>

Two schools examine John Evans's history

Gun ban in college buildings?: Boulder rep plans legislation despite court ruling

It just doesn't make sense for lawmakers to allow guns on college campuses, where the risks of suicide or shootings tied to mental health illness can be high. At least that's an argument of Boulder Representative Claire Levy, who is crafting legislation that would add campus buildings to the list of ... More >>

Auraria's new policy limits food truck access to campus, and students aren't happy about it

The days of walking out of class and finding a wide array of food trucks to choose from on the Auraria campus are over. Well, not exactly over -- but things have changed. On November 1, a new policy went into effect that limits any gourmet food-truck visits to the Auraria campus to Monday, and also ... More >>

Gun-free CU-Boulder dorms are target areas for criminals, student group says

While some professors are not happy with a policy change that allows students with concealed-carry permits at CU-Boulder to bring guns into their classes, one gun-rights organization has an opposite concern. The most unsafe place on campus, according to Students for Concealed Carry, is the one place ... More >>

Marijuana: Amendment 64 support letter signed by more than 100 college professors

As Barack Obama was visiting CSU, where he was greeted by 13,000 supporters and an attack sign with a typo, the folks behind Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, released a letter with an academic flavor. It features the signatures of 100-plus professors who back the measure, inclu ... More >>

CU-Boulder third best party school, says Newsweek -- based on arrests?

CU-Boulder has spent a lot of time and effort trying to ditch its party-school reputation -- by, for example, cracking down on the annual 4/20 celebration this year. Nonetheless, Newsweek has just placed the university third on its new party-school list, using unusual criteria: the number of arrests ... More >>

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CU named Playboy's top party school of 2011: Thank you, reefer madness! (PHOTO)

​With a nickname like "Buffs," it's no wonder that the naked-lady-lovin' folks at Playboy magazine would have a hard-on for the University of Colorado at Boulder. And now they've expressed their affection for the school's lifestyle by naming CU America's number one party school (Link is NSFW). ... More >>

Sixteen years after his death, not-so-famous novelist John Williams is finding his audience

Do dreams have some sort of religious significance for Mexicans?

CU's Princeton Review reefer madness & party school rank falls: Why bitch, Bruce Benson?

Bruce Benson.​On Friday, we named University of Colorado at Boulder president Bruce Benson Shmuck of the Week for complaining in advance about the way the Princeton Review comes up with its annual party school and reefer madness rankings. Naturally, we assumed he was doing so because CU was ne ... More >>

CU gun fight shouldn't cost much-- but losing could mean more than a flesh wound for regents

​The top spokesman for the University of Colorado governing board says he wishes he "had a gun so I could blow off a few rounds." That's how many media calls Ken McConnellogue, spokesman for university system Board of Regents, has received as CU aims to keep a gun ban that a state court effec ... More >>

CSU gun ban: Another school weapons prohibition bites the dust

Is Cam the Ram about to become Cambo?​Colorado State University System officials voted unanimously Wednesday to rescind the school's hotly contested campus gun ban in response to a court ruling last month that wiped out a similar prohibition at CU-Boulder. The CSU ban, which was passed earlie ... More >>

Guns on campus: CSU faces lawsuit in wake of court tossing CU's concealed-carry ban

​As promised, the Rocky Mountain Gun Owner's Club has filed suit against Colorado State University for its board's recent ban of concealed weapons on campus. With the suit filed on the same day as a Colorado Court of Appeals decision to throw out CU-Boulder's similar ban, it might have more am ... More >>

David Lane threatens to sue University of Wyoming over refusal to let Weather Underground founder William Ayers speak on campus

David Lane has given the University of Wyoming a very short deadline.​Attorney David Lane loves big issues and controversial clients, including former CU professor Ward Churchill, wrongfully convicted Timothy Masters or Balloon Boy dad Richard Heene. And now, he's taken on another cause that' ... More >>

Joshua Newton, CU student, suspected of kidnapping, sexual assault in dorm

Joshua Newton allegedly needs some serious lessons about how to treat a lady.​No doubt the parents of CU students who live on campus will be alarmed when they hear about the arrest early this morning of a man being investigated for kidnapping, sexual assault and other crimes. But CU-Boulder Po ... More >>

Dan Meyers leaves Colorado Public Radio for Jim Spencer's old gig

Dan Meyers.​Last week, former Denver Post columnist Jim Spencer left his position as communications director for the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine in favor of a return to journalism at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune; while a CU spokeswoman said she thought he'd taken an editor ... More >>

Roxane White is Hickenlooper's new chief of staff

Roxane White.​Roxane White knows a little something about the power of prayer, having graduated with a degree in religious studies from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon back in 1985 -- and she'll need all the faith she can get in her new job, as Mayor John Hickenlooper's new chief of ... More >>

Chatfield High School smells really bad right now

The Chatfield High School logo.​Just got a call from one of my daughters, who attends Chatfield High School in unincorporated Jefferson County. She wanted me to know that the school had been evacuated amid freshman orientation today (she's a junior, but she served as a freshman mentors) due to ... More >>

Speak up! The Colorado Voice Clinic thinks every person has the right to be heard

Westword seeks online intern, because we hear this web thing is huge

Attention college students (and overbearing mothers of college students): Westword is looking for an online-journalism intern to contribute to westword.com. The intern will focus on growing the site's multimedia presence, specifically with audio and video, but will contribute to all aspects of t ... More >>

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Krazy Kollege Kids

Global Thinker

An award-winning essay helps launch a local student on an overseas adventure.

No Word on Ward

Making Nice

Robert Schrier took the University of Colorado to court for academic freedom. The school settled before a jury could hear the tale.

Rolling, Rolling, Rolling

The highway was the road to success for the authors of Finding the Open Road.

Best Band to Shoot Whiskey To

Out on Bail

Best Building Makeover

Tivoli-Union Brewery

Flick Pick

Student Awards Showcase

Off Limits

Back-to-School Special

Best Scandal

University of Colorado's Rapecruitment Program

Department of Higher Earning

Other schools do the math as Metro State calculates the cost of subtracting athletics.

Ivy Solutions

Theoretical ways to curb those extracurricular, post-game colloquies.

Houses of God

Hell hath no fury like Lakewood residents protesting Colorado Christian University's new housing program.

Best Hope for Prisoners

The Colorado Innocence Project

Best Old Mascot

Jackass Mascot
Colorado School of Mines

A Real Page-Turner

It's a mystery why Jerry Stevens can't get credit for his mystery-writing classes.

A Major Problem

Metro State's African American Studies major will end after less than six years.

The Accidental Jurist

Leonard Peltier. Stephen Miles. Now the witness who might break the Ramsey case. It’s no wonder Lee Hill thinks he needs to pack a pistol.

The Stats Don't Lie

Their scoring may be high, but college basketball players' graduation rates are low.

Art Beat

Michael Paglia's brief sketches of what's happening in the Denver art scene.

Head Case

A lawsuit is driving DU's Graduate School of Professional Psychology crazy -- or was it already?

The Doctors Are In

The Speedholes have a prescription for what ails Denver rock.

The Touchy-Feely Approach

A sex-harassment case against a former chancellor breaks CU's code of silence.

Aurora's Stupidest Home Video

Was a college faculty squabble over credentials caught on film?

LOGO MOTIVES

NIKE'S SWOOSH MAKES CU'S OFFICIALS SWOON AND ITS COFFERS SWELL.

BEDSIDE MANNERS

UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OFFICIALS BOOTED A PROMINENT DENVER PHYSICIAN AFTER HE WAS ACCUSED OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT. THEN THEY TRIED TO COVER IT UP.

A GENDER'S SHOOTING STARS