University of Colorado Denver
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| Motto: | Let Your Light Shine |
| Established: | 1912 |
| Endowment: | US $$590 million (systemwide)[1] |
| Chancellor: | M. Roy Wilson |
| President: | Bruce D. Benson |
| Students: | 27,000 |
| Location: | Denver and Aurora, Colorado, United States |
| Campus: | Urban, 126 acres (0.51 km²) |
| Website: | http://www.ucdenver.edu/ |
The University of Colorado Denver, shortened as UCD or UC Denver, is a public university in the United States state of Colorado. It is one of three schools of the University of Colorado system. UC Denver is the largest research institution in the state of Colorado. The university has two campuses, one in downtown Denver at the Auraria Campus and the Anschutz Medical Campus located in neighboring Aurora[2]. The main medical campus is located at the Aurora Campus. The downtown campus features both undergraduate and graduate courses, with the student population currently comprising more than 40 percent graduate (or masters and doctoral) students. The university offers a wide variety of degrees and is host to the university's teaching hospital, the University of Colorado Hospital on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora. The single university is the result of the 2004 consolidation of the "University of Colorado at Denver" and "University of Colorado Health Sciences Center."
There are currently more than 27,000 students at the school's two physical campuses in downtown Denver and in Aurora. The school also offers classes via CU Online. The school offers more than 100 degree programs in 12 schools and colleges. UC Denver awards more than 3,400 degrees every year, and grants more graduate degrees than any other institution in Colorado.
UC Denver employs more than 12,200 Coloradans, making it one of the metro Denver area's top employers. The University of Colorado Denver and Health Sciences Center serves more than 500,000 patients a year through its hospital and clinical services.
The president of the University of Colorado, Bruce Benson, is the Business School's executive in residence, professor attendant (a non-academic title) and consultant to the schools Global Energy Management Initiative (GEM).
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[edit] Quick Facts
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- One of Americas Best Graduate Schools, 2009 according to U.S. News & World Report.[3]
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- Largest Graduate School in the State awarding more graduate degrees than any institution in the state.
- The Princeton Review included UC Denver in its Best Western Colleges, Best in the West in 2008.[4]
- The Business School is the #5 Best Graduate School for Physician- Executives (2007), according to Modern Health Care.[5]
- US News & World Report Rankings (2009)[6]
- #4 School of Medicine, Primary Care
- Nursing Practitioners are ranked #8, #5, and #3 in the areas of Adult, Family, and Pediatric respectively.
- #6 in Family Medicine
- School of Public Affairs ranks #32 in the nation.
[edit] History
[edit] Health Sciences
The University of Colorado created a department of medicine and surgery in September 1883. This department granted its first degrees in 1885.
By 1892, the last two years of classes were taught in Denver because the larger population afforded more practical experience. This practice triggered something of a turf battle with the University of Denver’s medical school and the subsequent legal battle went to the state Supreme Court. In 1897, the court found that CU’s charter restricted them to Boulder. However, CU wasn't ready to admit defeat. In 1910, CU got an amendment to the state Constitution passed which allowed them to move back to Denver. They later combined with the Denver and Gross Medical College to form a larger school with a more comprehensive program. In 1947, the hospital assumed responsibility for patients referred from Denver General Hospital. The state paid for care and students got instruction.
In 1995, Fitzsimons Army Medical Center was officially put on the Base Realignment and Closure list. Officials from Health Sciences Center, University of Colorado Hospital and the City of Aurora presented a proposal to the Department of Defense in Washington, D.C. to repurpose the decommissioned base as an academic health center.[citation needed] The former Army Medical Center is in a convenient location, directly adjacent to the 160-acre (0.6 km2) Fitzsimons Life Science District. The Fitzsimons master plan calls for 15,000,000 square feet (1,400,000 m2) of new construction. More than 32,000 people will be employed at Fitzsimons. The City of Aurora has created an urban renewal zone to the west and south of Fitzsimons to attract new, off-campus redevelopment.
[edit] Downtown Campus
The Downtown Campus started as a Denver Extension Center of the University of Colorado in 1912. In 1938-1947, the Center was located at 509 17th Street, in 1947-1956 at 1405 Glenarm Place. In 1956, the University acquired the Denver Tramway Company Building at 14th and Arapahoe Streets (now the Hotel Teatro and the Denver Performing Arts Center Tramway building). In 1964, the Extension Center was renamed the University of Colorado Denver Center, and in 1974 it became the Denver campus of the University of Colorado. In 1977, the Denver campus expanded to the newly opened Auraria Higher Education Center South the Tramway Building, then West the Dravo building at 14th and Larimer, and later an office building on Lawrence Street.
In 1940s, the Denver Center was run by a single full-time faculty member, the rest were part-time teachers. Enrollment was 1500 in 1940, in late 1940 it has grown by the returning WWII veterans. Enrollment has grown steadily since the 1970s, with over 11,000 students today.
[edit] Merger
In July 2004, the University of Colorado at Denver and the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center merged to create the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center (“UCDHSC”). As a result, the University of Colorado now encompasses three campuses, down from four. The campus is in the process of moving its operations at the Anschutz Medical Campus (previously Fitzsimons campus of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center), which opened in 2007.
[edit] Renaming
On October 29, 2007, the board of regents voted to rename the university the "University of Colorado Denver." The new branding covers both the Anschutz Medical Campus and the Downtown Campus.[7] This has been a source of frustration for the City of Aurora, whose representatives feel slighted that the location of one of the university's two campuses is not reflected in the university's name. Officials have since agreed to add "in Aurora" to "The University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus", referring only to one half of the university, but this remains an unsatisfactory solution.[8] One state senator has proposed the moniker "University of Colorado Denver/Aurora".[9]
[edit] Size and activities
UCD is one of the largest universities in Colorado with more than 27,000 students and awarding more than 3,400 degrees in a year. It grants more graduate degrees than any other university in Colorado. It has a research budget of $300 million dollars. The school operates on US dollar basis of $1.8 billion dollars including University of Colorado Hospital and University Physicians, Inc. The University of Colorado Hospital serves more than half a million patients in a year. [10]
The university offers a wide variety of studies such as engineering, business, culture, history, language, chemistry and medicine. Because of the Downtown Denver Campus' location to the city center, business and engineering are one of the common majors in the campus. There are frequent late hours business classes for people pursuing graduate degrees in business after work. In the engineering areas, downtown campus has worked with Lockheed Martin and Raytheon and has received help from those companies for classrooms and other things.
Business is one of the schools most popular majors since it is located in the heart of Downtown Denver. The Business School has worked with some of Colorado's top Business' such as MolsonCoors, Wells Fargo, First Bank, and Frontier Airlines who provide feedback on the schools Business Curriculum.
[edit] Schools and colleges
- Downtown Denver Campus.
- College of Architecture and Planning.
- College of Arts & Media.
- The Business School.
- School of Education & Human Development.
- College of Engineering and Applied Science.
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
- School of Public Affairs, [11] and its Presidential Climate Action Project. [12]
- Graduate School.
- Health Sciences Campus:
- School of Dentistry.
- School of Medicine.
- College of Nursing.
- School of Pharmacy.
- Graduate School.
- Continuing Medical Education.
- Allied Health Programs.
- Graduate Medical Education.
[edit] Campuses
[edit] Downtown Denver Campus
The downtown Denver campus is on the Auraria Campus, located to the southwest of downtown Denver in the Auraria Neighborhood. The Auraria Campus contains two additional institutes of higher education: Metropolitan State College of Denver and the Community College of Denver. Once primarily a commuter campus, the university has opened its first student housing location in 2006- Campus Village. Regional Transportation District's (RTD) Light Rail has two stops on the Auraria Campus: Colfax at Auraria and Auraria West Campus. UCD Downton Campus student news paper, the Advocate, comes out weekly during the school year and bi-monthly during the summer.
The Downtown Campus is located in the heart of the Downtown Denver Business District. The campus is seconds away from Pepsi Center, Elitch Gardens, The Colorado Convention Center, The Denver Center for Performing Arts, Larimer Square, and the 16th Street Mall.
[edit] Anschutz Medical Campus
The Health Sciences Campus previously had two sub-campuses, the main campus at Ninth Avenue and Colorado Boulevard in Denver (which has now since been decommissioned), and a new campus in neighboring Aurora. The former Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in northwest Aurora has been transformed into a 217-acre (0.9 km2) campus for the University and the University of Colorado Hospital and has been renamed the Anschutz Medical Campus. The Anschutz Medical Campus will include administrative and teaching functions, as well as clinical and research programs. The University of Colorado Denver is one of the top academic medical centers in the United States and will be the heart of an active complex of laboratories, clinics, hospitals, classrooms and offices.
The 578-acre (2.3 km2) Anschutz Medical Campus is undergoing a $4.3 billion renovation and transformation into the largest medical-related redevelopment project in the United States. The 160-acre (0.6 km2) Colorado Bioscience Park Aurora is being developed directly adjacent to the health sciences areas of campus. The remaining acres of the former military facility are dedicated to commercial, hospitality, retail and residential development.
[edit] External links
- University of Colorado Denver
- University of Colorado Denver Downtown Campus
- University of Colorado Denver Health Sciences Programs
- University of Colorado Hospital
- College of Nursing
- The UC Denver Business School
- CU Online - Online Courses and Degrees
- The Auraria Campus - A Brief History
- Our History: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado Denver
- UC Denver Quick Facts
[edit] References
- ^ "2006 NACUBO Endowment Study". National Association of College and University Business Officers.
- ^ Untitled Document
- ^ UC Denver Quick Facts
- ^ UC Denver Quick Facts
- ^ UC Denver Quick Facts
- ^ UC Denver Quick Facts
- ^ Messages from the Chancellor
- ^ Legislators: Aurora campus needs a name change now
- ^ Legislators push regents to rename Anschutz site
- ^ UC Denver Home
- ^ http://www.cudenver.edu/Academics/Colleges/SPA/Pages/index.aspx
- ^ http://www.climateactionproject.com
- Davis, William E. (1965). Glory Colorado! A history of the University of Colorado, 1858-1963. Boulder, CO: Prutt Press, Inc.. LD1178 .D35.
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