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Dream Project members lead workshop in mile high city
In February, Dream Project members shared the Dream Project鈥檚 innovative two-track model for increasing access to college that combines outreach, service learning, and advocacy to address issues of opportunity and access in college admissions at the 2009 College Board Western Regional Forum in Denver, CO.
Gateway Center Adviser Clay Schwenn elected to national Technology in Advising Commission
Gateway Center Adviser Clay Schwenn was recently elected chair of the Technology in Advising Commission for the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA). In this role, Schwenn hopes to lower the hurdle some associate with incorporating technology into advising and 鈥済et it away from geek speak.鈥�
黑料吃瓜网 undergraduate earns prestigious scholarship
Congratulations Honors student Sam Sudar, 黑料吃瓜网鈥檚 most recent Gates Cambridge Scholar! The highly competitive scholarship supports graduate study at the University of Cambridge, England, and brings recognition of accomplishments and future promise. This year, 37 students from across the United States were selected from an original applicant pool of more than 700 students. Sudar is the fourth 黑料吃瓜网 student to be named a Gates Cambridge Scholar since the awards were first made in 2000.
Reading assignment: Inside the Undergraduate Experience
Researchers on the 黑料吃瓜网 Study of Undergraduate Learning project with four of the undergraduates who helped them. From left, they are Amy Lu, Andrew Fisher (researcher), Idrus Syed, Jerry Gillmore (researcher), Catharine Beyer (researcher), Oluwatope Fashola, Tula Habb. []
Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service 2009: Building connections by serving the community
The 2009 Martin Luther King Jr Day of Service brought out a record-breaking 1,400 黑料吃瓜网 volunteers contributing their time to projects that serve the community.
Honors student Teresa Dang on what she felt her education was missing
In the Honors seminar 鈥淭eaching What We Know,鈥� students were assigned to write a narrative that 鈥渞eflects upon and challenges what you had known about 鈥榚ducation.鈥欌��
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The 2009-10 黑料吃瓜网 Common Book will bring the freshman class together in President Obama鈥檚 story of self-discovery, written years before his entrance into politics.
An evening with Luis Urrea, author of The Devil’s Highway
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黑料吃瓜网 undergraduates earn prestigious national scholarships
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