University of Colorado Denver
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| University of Colorado Denver | |
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The seal of The University of Colorado |
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| Motto | Let Your Light Shine |
| Established | 1912[1] |
| Type | Public[2] |
| Endowment | US $590 million (systemwide)[3] |
| Chancellor | M. Roy Wilson[4] |
| President | Bruce D. Benson[5] |
| Faculty | 4,023[6] |
| Students | 29,000[6]. |
| Location | Denver and Aurora[7], Colorado, United States |
| Campus | Urban, 352-acre (1.4 km2)[8][9] (combined) |
| Colors | Blue and Gold [10] |
| Affiliations | AAHC[11] |
| Website | http://www.ucdenver.edu/ |
The University of Colorado Denver, shortened as UCD or UC Denver, is a public university[2] in the United States state of Colorado. It is one of three schools of the University of Colorado system.[12] UC Denver is the largest research institution in the state of Colorado, granting more graduate degrees than any other institution in the state.[2] The university has two campuses - one in downtown Denver at the Auraria Campus, and the other at the Anschutz Medical Campus located in neighboring Aurora.[12] The single university is the result of the 2004 consolidation of the "University of Colorado at Denver" and "University of Colorado Health Sciences Center."[13]
University of Colorado Denver is host to the university's teaching hospital, the University of Colorado Hospital, and the Children's Hospital[14], on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, and is also affiliated with the National Jewish Medical and Research Center[15] in Denver. There are currently more than 27,000 students at the school's two physical campuses in downtown Denver and in Aurora.[6] The school also offers classes via CU Online. UC Denver employs more than 12,200 Coloradans, making it one of the metro Denver area's top employers.[16] The university serves more than 500,000 patients a year through its hospital and clinical services.[16]
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[edit] History
[edit] University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
The University of Colorado created the Department of Medicine and Surgery in September 1883 in the Old Main building on the Boulder campus.[17] This department granted its first degrees in 1885.[18]
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.[19] In 1897, the court found that CU’s charter restricted them to Boulder. However, in 1910, CU got an amendment to the state Constitution passed which allowed them to move back to Denver.[17] In 1911, the School of Medicine combined with the Denver and Gross Medical College to form a larger school with a more comprehensive program, paving the way for the school's permanent move to Denver.[20][17] In 1925, the School of Medicine moved to the campus on Ninth Avenue and Colorado Boulevard in Denver.[17][21] This would become the modern-day University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (UCHSC). 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.[22] In 2004, the first UCHSC labs moved from Denver to the research towers on the Fitzsimons campus.[23] In 2006, the Fitzsimons campus of UCHSC was renamed the Anschutz Medical Campus in recognition of philanthropic donations from Philip and Nancy Anschutz.[24] By the end of 2008, academic and research operations of all UC Denver health sciences schools and colleges relocated from the Ninth Ave. and Colorado Blvd. campus to the new Anschutz campus, joining the affiliated University of Colorado Hospital and Children's Hospital.[17]
[edit] University of Colorado at Denver
The Downtown Campus started as a Denver Extension Center of the University of Colorado in 1912. The Extension Center was housed in a variety of downtown Denver office buildings until 1938, when the Extension Center acquired permanent quarters in Denver at 509 17th Street.[1] A single, full-time faculty member ran the school with the help of part-time teachers. Several hundred students were expected to enroll; 1500 showed up in 1940. After WWII, veterans swamped CU's Extension Center for its undergraduate, graduate and continuing education courses, and vocational training programs.[1] In 1947, the Extension Center moved into the Fraternal Building 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. Between 1973 and 1976, the State of Colorado built the Auraria Higher Education Center (AHEC) on a 127-acre downtown campus shared by the University of Colorado Denver, Metropolitan State College of Denver and the Community College of Denver.[1] In 1977, the Denver campus expanded to the newly opened AHEC, and later to an office building on Lawrence Street.[25]
[edit] Merger and Renaming
In the summer of 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”).[26] As a result, the University of Colorado encompasses three institutions, down from four.
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.[27] This has reportedly 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.[28] One state senator has proposed the moniker "University of Colorado Denver/Aurora".[29]
[edit] Institutional Overview
Total Enrollment:[2]
- More than 29,000 students served annually in Denver, Aurora and online
- 15,680 students enrolled in fall 2007
- 55% undergraduate
- 35% graduate
- 10% first professional
- 63% full time
- 9% out-of-state residents
- 4% international students
Degrees Offered:
- Bachelor's
- Master's
- Doctoral
- First professional
[edit] Rankings
U.S. News & World Report
America's Best Graduate Schools, 2009[30]
- Medical School, Primary Care: 4th
- Medical School, Research: 27th
- Graduate School, Biological Sciences (ranked in 2007): 48th
- Nursing School (ranked in 2007): 15th
- Nursing Practitioners are ranked 8th, 5th, and 3th in the areas of Adult, Family, and Pediatric respectively.
- Family Medicine: 6th
- School of Pharmacy: 23th[31]
- School of Public Affairs: 32th
Other rankings
- The Princeton Review included UC Denver in its Best Western Colleges, Best in the West in 2008.[2]
- 34th on the Forbes list of best public colleges.[32]
- The Business School is the 5th Best Graduate School for Physician - Executives (2007), according to Modern Healthcare.[2]
[edit] Academics and Research
University of Colorado Denver is one of the largest universities in Colorado with more than 27,000 students and awarding more than 3,400 degrees in a year.[16] The school offers more than 115 degree programs in 13 schools and colleges.[6] It boasts the largest graduate business school and graduate school of education in Colorado[33], and is the only university in Colorado that has a medical school.[33] In 2007, more than $373 million in research and training grants and contracts was awarded to University of Colorado Denver researchers.[8] The vast majority of this research is dedicated to health sciences at the Anschutz Medical Campus.[34] The school (including University of Colorado Hospital and University Physicians, Inc.) operates on a $1.8 billion dollar annual economy.[16] The University of Colorado Hospital, which is the principal teaching hospital for the University of Colorado Denver, serves more than half a million patients in a year.[16]. In 2008, more than $170,000,000 was awarded by the NIH to UC Denver researchers.[35] The university is considered by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education to have "very high research activity" with a basic classification of Research Universities (RU/VH) (very high research activity).[36]
The university offers degrees in a wide variety of academic fields such as engineering, business, culture, history, language, the natural sciences, the biomedical sciences and medicine. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is UC Denver's largest school on the Downtown Denver Campus, offering 20 baccalaureate degrees, 17 master's degrees, and two PhD programs.[37] The university sponsors the only college of architecture and planning in Colorado.[33] In the engineering areas, the downtown campus has worked with Lockheed Martin.[38] and Raytheon.[39]
Research and surgery at the University of Colorado School of Medicine has led to several breakthroughs. Dr. Tom Starzl conducted the first liver transplant in the world at CU's medical school[19], and is considered "the father of modern transplantation."[40] Dr. Ted Puck, a biophysicist at the medical school, developed a classification system for the human chromosome, and has been referred to as "a pioneer in mammaian cell culture, somatic cell genetics, and the study of human genetic diseases"[41]. He was also the first scientist to grow human tissue from a single cell.[42] Dr. Henry Swan revolutionized open heart surgery at the Department of Surgery, pioneering investigations and clinical application of hypothermia in cardiac surgery.[43][19]
[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, [44] and its Presidential Climate Action Project. [45]
- Graduate School.
Anschutz Medical Campus:
- School of Dental Medicine.
- School of Medicine.
- College of Nursing.
- School of Pharmacy.
- Colorado School of Public Health.
- Graduate School.
- Continuing Medical Education.
- Allied Health Programs.
- Graduate Medical Education.
[edit] School of Pharmacy
The University of Colorado's School of Pharmacy (SOP) began in 1911 as a division of the School of Medicine in Boulder.[46] It became an independent college in 1913 and a school in 1957.[46] It received its accredidation in 1938-1939 and awarded a B.S. in Pharmacy degree in 1995-1996 when it received a full accredidation status awarding the Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree by the ACPE.[47] In 1986, the School of Pharmacy was administratively transferred to the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. The physical transfer from Boulder and final consolidation of faculty, staff and students was completed between August and November of 1992.[46] In 2008, the school moved to the Anschutz Medical Campus, and is involved in teaching, research and public/professional service in areas unique to the practice of pharmacy, the pharmaceutical sciences, molecular toxicology, and pharmaceutical outcomes research.[48] 30% of its class is from out of state.[49] In 2008, the NIH awarded $7,271,657 and $19,056,438 in grants towards the SOP and Pharmacology department respectively.[35] In the Spring of 2010, the school will move into its new building, the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences which will also be located on the Anschutz Medical Campus.[46]
[edit] Graduate School
The Graduate School at UC Denver awards more graduate degrees than any other institution in Colorado.[16] The school consists of nearly 60 graduate programs.[50] The departments running these programs are housed in the schools and colleges on both campuses of the university. These offerings include both department-based and interdisciplinary programs in architecture and planning, arts and media, biomedical sciences, business, education and human development, engineering and applied sciences, humanities, mathematics, nursing, public affairs, public health, chemistry, and social sciences.[50]
The graduate school at the Anschutz Medical Campus offers 26 MS and PhD degrees focusing on basic, clinical and translational research in the biomedical sciences.[51]
[edit] Business School
The University of Colorado Denver Business School is accredited by AACSB International.[52] The school is accredited at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The Business School is one of only a few schools in the US to have a separate accreditation for its Accounting program.[53] The president of the University of Colorado, Bruce Benson, is the Business School's executive in residence, professor attendant, and consultant to the schools Global Energy Management Initiative (GEM).[54] Business is one of the school's most popular majors since it is located in the heart of Downtown Denver. The Business School has worked with some of Colorado's top businesses such as Molson Coors, Wells Fargo, First Bank, and Frontier Airlines, who provide feedback on the school's Business curriculum.[55]
[edit] Campuses
[edit] Downtown Campus
The Downtown Campus, also called the Auraria Campus[56], is located to the southwest of downtown Denver in the Auraria Neighborhood. UC Denver shares the Auraria Campus with two additional institutes of higher education: Metropolitan State College of Denver and the Community College of Denver.[57] Once primarily a commuter campus[58], the university opened its first student housing location in 2006 - Campus Village.[59] Regional Transportation District's (RTD) Light Rail has two stops on the Auraria Campus: Colfax at Auraria and Auraria West Campus.[60]
The Downtown Campus has a diverse student population, with 37 percent of freshman students an ethnic minority and international students from 125 countries.[61] The campus features both undergraduate and graduate courses, with the student population currently comprising of more than 35 percent graduate students[2]. The campus is located in the heart of the central business district and is in close proximity to the Pepsi Center, Elitch Gardens, The Colorado Convention Center, The Denver Center for Performing Arts, Larimer Square, and the 16th Street Mall. The reclaimed Tivoli brewery, which closed in 1969, houses the student union.[58]
[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)[62], and a new campus in neighboring Aurora. The former Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in northwest Aurora has been transformed into a 227-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 hosts administrative and teaching functions, as well as clinical and research programs. There are approximately 530 medical students, 110 dental students, 880 graduate students, and six hundred and sixty full-time faculty in clinical and basic sciences at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.[22]
The combined 578-acre (2.3 km2)[63] of the Anschutz Medical Campus and the the Fitzsimons Life Science District is undergoing a $4.3 billion renovation and transformation into the largest medical-related redevelopment project in the United States.[64] The 184-acre (0.7 km2) Colorado Science + Technology Park in Aurora is being developed directly adjacent to the health sciences areas of campus[65], providing opportunities to collaborate with biotechnology companies and their resources.[22] The remaining acres of the former military facility are dedicated to commercial, hospitality, retail, and residential development.[64]
Built as state-of-the-art, the Anschutz Medical Campus consists of three zones: an education zone with facilities for training in the medical and health-related fields, a research zone that houses the various graduate programs, and a clinical care zone with the University of Colorado Hospital and The Children's Hospital, the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine's primary adult and pediatric hospital partners, nearby.[8]
[edit] Student Life
University Of Colorado Denver has over 100 student organizations, honor societies, professional organizations and faith-based groups.[66] These organizations offer social, service, and professional opportunities for their members within the university and community.[67] First time freshmen and first time international students at the downtown campus are generally required to live on campus, in the Campus Village.[68] UCD provides a variety sports and recreation activities to students, faculty and staff, including personal training, intramural basketball, volleyball, football, squash, and tennis, and sports equipment check out for on or off campus use.[69][70]
The downtown campus student newspaper, the Advocate, comes out weekly during the school year.[71] UCD's Distinguished Lecture Series hosts an an array of speakers "from Malcolm X's daughter to David Horowitz".[72] The goal of the lecture series is to expose UC Denver students to different thoughts and cultures "through lectures and entertainment".[72] The Tivoli Student Union serves as a student center for the Community College of Denver, Metropolitan State College of Denver and University of Colorado Denver.[73]
[edit] External links
- University of Colorado Denver
- 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
- Academic programs at UC Denver
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