Funding for the CU-Boulder Outreach Committee is provided by the Division of Continuing Education and Professional Studies along with contributions from the Office of the Chancellor and the Office of the Provost. The committee, comprised of CU-Boulder faculty from across campus and community members, awards funding to faculty projects designed specifically for external audiences. Projects feature an extensive range of disciplines that highlight faculty research, creative work, and teaching.
The CU-Boulder Outreach Committee values proposals that incorporate some or all of the following elements:
• Responds to a direct request made by a community or school group.
• Establishes of a long-term relationship with a group or community, with an ongoing dialogue and exchange of information.
• Engages a community with limited access to CU-Boulder programs and expertise or a community of minority ethnicity.
• Represents an interdisciplinary or collaborative effort among CU-Boulder outreach programs and faculty.
• Uses creative ways to make the work of CU-Boulder’s distinguished faculty accessible to the public.
• Involves CU-Boulder undergraduate and graduate students in the development, implementation, and/or evaluation of the project.
Senior Instructor Cathy Comstock, Committee Chair
Department of Comparative Literature and Humanities
Co-Director, Farrand Residential Academic Program
Professor Martin Bickman
Department of English and Director of Service Learning
Associate Professor Bud Coleman
Department of Theatre and Dance
Professor Ken Howe
School of Education
Professor Patricia Rankin
Department of Physics
Ted Rockwell, Director of Marketing
Division of Continuing Education and Professional Studies
Dorothy Rupert
Community Representative
Professor Joe Ryan
Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering
College of Engineering and Applied Science
Professor Willem van Vliet
Children, Youth, and Environments Center for Research and Design
College of Architecture and Planning
Jeanne McDonald, Outreach Coordinator
Jeanne.McDonald@colorado.edu
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