Category: Colleagues

What are the keys to effective student collaborative learning? Response: ‘A Powerful Purpose Propels Effective Student Collaboration’  Robin Brandehoff is a PhD student in the School of Education & Human Development at CU Denver. Her research focuses on traumas experienced by students of color, particularly gang-affiliated and incarcerated youth, performance education, and increasing teacher diversity…

Top 25 Women in Higher Education Dr. Cheryl E. Matias, associate professor, School of Education & Human Development, CU Denver, is honored as one of the Top 25 Women in Higher Education. She founded a research think tank that brings together local community activists, educators, students and community members in the pursuit of racial and…

Denverite March 26, 2018 Denver author’s new children’s book is all about deportation Maria Uribe’s hope for her illustrated children’s book, which shows the struggle of a little girl whose parents will be deported, is to show kids dealing with these situations that they are not alone. While Uribe now trains educators at the University…

Students at many schools across Colorado are expected to join others across the country Wednesday morning in protesting school gun violence by walking out of their schools—many for 17 minutes to honor the victims of the shooting at a high school in Florida. Most of the Colorado walkouts will happen at 10 a.m., though some of the…

Colorado students set to walk out Wednesday to send message about gun violence Several Colorado schools are scheduled to participate and are doing so with the full knowledge of school officials. [Check out the full story here!]