Community Outreach and Engagement Programs

CU Boulder Stories

• An Engineer, Middle Schoolers and Screaming Robots:Transformative Learning Fun at the Library

  Nataliya Nechyporenko is among CU scholars who are appreciating the local public library as an excellent venue to launch into learning with a diverse and dynamic community.  As a member of Professor Alessandro Roncone’s Human Interaction and Robotics (HIRO) group, Nechyporenko researches hardware and software technologies to enhance… More 

  Dec 12 •

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• The Public Library: Co-Designing Community Engagement

  Renée Jacobsen, public librarian and programs and community engagement manager at the Lafayette Library, is the center of a busy hub. The library employs about thirty, mostly part-time librarians. They manage many programs, including  a community engagement team who’s  responsible for building educational programs and coordinating public outreach. This team works… More 

  Dec 12 •

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• Embracing Culture with After-School Mentoring Program

  For three years, an after-school cultural mentoring program in CU Boulder’s School of Education has paired two dozen predominately Latinx fifth graders from University Hill, a diverse bilingual elementary school across the street from the CU Boulder campus, with underrepresented university student mentors.  Together, mentors and mentees explore family and… More 

  Nov 30 •

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• Ecomedia and DIY Citizenship Colorado in Trinidad

  Ecomedia Colorado engages interdisciplinary and intergenerational groups in Colorado to have dialogues about local environmental issues and to create artistic representations of related scientific data. The project in Trinidad, funded by the CU Boulder Office for Outreach and Engagement,  involves a web-based application to collect observations and media from contributors… More 

  Nov 21 •

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• Introducing Scott Battle, Vice Provost for Outreach and Engagement

  Scott Battle has been appointed CU Boulder’s dean of Continuing Education and vice provost for Outreach and Engagement and Summer Session. More 

  Nov 15 •

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