Engineering Goldshirt Summer Bridge program

GoldShirt students plunge into engineering

July 13, 2017

Housed within the BOLD Center, the Engineering GoldShirt program is designed to provide a performance-enhancing year for students who would otherwise be underprepared for engineering study. GoldShirt prepares students for success in a traditional engineering program through a carefully tailored first-year curriculum, development of a strong sense of community, and...

GoldShirt students

GoldShirt program engineering success

June 8, 2017

In college athletics, players are often redshirted. They are enrolled but not competing, and that gives them more time to prepare. Tanya Ennis, director of the Engineering GoldShirt Program, says like redshirting, the GoldShirt-ed engineering students are preparing for the rigors of school. “They are pumping iron much like football...

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Hidden Figures event a big success

Feb. 17, 2017

On January 20, The BOLD Center co-sponsored a special viewing of the movie Hidden Figures for students. Initial demand was so large, a second theater was added. All in all, more than 400 students, faculty, staff, and alumni attended the event, which was preceded by a talk by Dean of...

BOLD is awarded one of the first NSF INCLUDES grants!

Jan. 26, 2017

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the first NSF INCLUDES grants to 37 programs nationally, including The BOLD Center . NSF INCLUDES (Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Â鶹ÊÓƵers in Engineering and Science) aims to make access to STEM education and careers more inclusive to...

ASPIRE students

ASPIRE also has a big year!

Aug. 31, 2016

ASPIRE Summer Bridge is a residential academic program for incoming first-year students admitted to the College. The one week program provides social connections for the new students, academic projects, and fun team-building exercises. This year's program, which took place July 9-15, 2016, had the biggest class to date -- 45...

GoldShirt students at Gold Hill

GoldShirt Summer Bridge another success!

Aug. 31, 2016

This year's Summer Bridge experience for the GoldShirt program was our largest to date! Fifty new GoldShirt students participated in the two-week Summer Bridge this year. The program, July 8th to the 22nd, included a packed schedule of activities including academic strength assessments, workshops to teach success strategies, hands-on project...

Percentage of women and minorities on the rise

Engineering sets new record: Most diverse class ever

June 1, 2016

CU-Boulder’s second biggest college enrolled record numbers of first-year women and underrepresented minorities in 2015-16, and preliminary figures suggest it will reach yet a new milestone in the fall. The number of first-year undergraduate women in the College of Engineering & Applied Science rose 17 percent last year, to 284,...

GoldShirt Program

How Colorado pioneered its engineering redshirt program

Dec. 2, 2014

Today at noon, we’ll be doing a Google+ hangout to talk more about the Washington State Academic Red Shirt program, or STARS, which is helping to boost the number of women and minority students studying engineering at the University of Washington and Washington State University. A story about the program...

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UW gives 'redshirt engineers' 5-year program

Dec. 1, 2014

SEATTLE (AP) - When she got the letter in summer 2013, Courtney Seto thought it sounded too good to be true. A free program that offered automatic acceptance into the University of Washington’s engineering school? Did everyone get this letter? Seto had already been accepted to the UW as an...

Professor Tanya Ennis

Video chat on diversity in STEM education

Nov. 30, 2014

On Tuesday, the Education Lab team hosted a Google+ Hangout about diversity in STEM and what some universities are doing to help more people of color and first-generation students earn degrees in fields like computer science and engineering. The video chat was tied to a Monday story by Katherine Long...

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