BOLD(Broadening Opportunity through Leadership and Diversity) Scholarships are founded under the principles of high-impact practices and within the field of STEM education. In addition to financial awards, recipients can expect to engage in a community of staff and peer mentoring, academic and professional developmentand additional opportunities.

BOLD intentionally recruits and supports students who are under-represented nationwide in engineering colleges, including women, under-represented minority, first-generation and low-income students. However, BOLD Scholarships are open to any engineering student who is invested in issues around diversity and inclusion and wants to be involved in the BOLD Center mission.We partner with other programsincluding CU Boulder's First-Generation Scholars Program, CU LEAD Alliance, and the .

All BOLD Scholarships are participation scholarships which require recipients to agree to and adhere to participation requirements in order to be awarded. Specific participation requirements are outlined under each scholarship opportunity.

Questions regarding BOLD Scholarship Requirements can be sent to BOLD-Scholarships@colorado.edu.

BOLD Pre-Arrival Program 2024