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The University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) is a
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in
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. It is one of four campuses that make up the
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system. As of Fall 2023, UCCS had over 11,000 students, including more than 9,000 undergraduates and nearly 2,000 graduate students. It is
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among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity".


History

The campus history begins with the creation of Cragmor Sanatorium, which is now Main Hall. In 1902,
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donated funds to build a sanatorium (a place for treatment, rehabilitation, and therapy for the chronically ill). The Cragmor Sanatorium opened in 1905 and was nicknamed the "Sun Palace" due to its sun-loving architecture. In the following decades, it developed a following among the cultural elite, and many of its patients were wealthy. However, they were hit hard by the Great Depression in the 1930s and Cragmor suffered from financial distress into the 1940s. It was briefly reinvigorated in the 1950s when a contract with the
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established Cragmor as a treatment center for Navajos with
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. About ten years later, the Navajo patients were transferred elsewhere. As early as 1945, the
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offered classes in the Colorado Springs area at various locations, mostly
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. By the 1960s, however, a permanent campus was desired. On February 16, 1961, the Committee for the Expansion of the University of Colorado was formed. The co-chairmen were Joseph Petta and Ronald B Macintyre. Members included Angelo Christopher, Clint Cole, Albert Hesse, Don King, Don Kopis, Rosemary Macintyre, Dorothy Petta, Harrington Richardson, Joseph Reich, Robin Tibbets, Mike Valliant, Phyllis Warner, and John Whigham. (These Co-founders are all honored on a plaque in the lobby of the current campus site.) On March 4, 1961, they submitted a resolution to expand the extension of The University of Colorado to Colorado Springs. Legislators were favorable. After several more years of local and state meetings in June 1964, the next phase of UCCS's development came about when Dr. George Dwire, the executive director of the Cragmor Sanatorium, began formal actions necessary to transfer the assets of the Cragmoor Corporation to the University of Colorado. The solution came when George T. Dwire sold the Cragmor Sanatorium property for $1 to the state, which became the property of the University of Colorado in 1964. In 1965, UCCS moved to its current location on Austin Bluffs Parkway in the Cragmor neighborhood of Northern Colorado Springs. The campus is located at one of the highest parts of the city. Because of its ties to
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, initial university programs focused on engineering and business, and classes were held in the Cragmor Sanatorium building, what is now Main Hall, and Cragmor Hall, a modern expansion of Main Hall. The first building built exclusively for UCCS, Dwire Hall, was not complete until 1972. A 1997 community referendum merged Beth-El College of Nursing with UCCS. In recent years, programs such as the Network Information and Space Security Center were added to connect the university with the military to improve
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. Other programs, including the CU Institute for Bioenergetics and the Institute for Science and Space Studies, cast an eye toward the future. In 2001, UCCS purchased an building at the corner of Union and Austin Bluffs to house the Beth-El College of Nursing.


Academics


College of Letters, Art & Sciences

The College of Letters, Arts & Sciences is the UCCS college of liberal arts and sciences. The College of LAS gives access to accelerated bachelor's degrees, and three Ph.D. degrees through the seventeen departments at UCCS.


Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences

The Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences is the UCCS
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. It has two departments: Health Sciences and Nursing. The college is accredited with the Colorado State Board of Nursing and the
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. Both departments are primarily located in University Hall, roughly half a mile east from the main campus at the intersection of Austin Bluffs Parkway and Union Boulevard. intersection.


College of Business and Administration

The College of Business and Administration is the UCCS
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and is located in Dwire Hall. The college was established in 1905. It is accredited by the
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.


College of Education

The College of Education is the UCCS
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. The College of Education was previously located in Columbine Hall on the UCCS campus; it has since relocated to University Hall down at the intersection of Austin Bluffs Parkway and Union Boulevard. It is accredited by the
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(CAPE), the Colorado Department of Education (CDE), the
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(CCHE) and the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP). It is primarily a Colorado state educator licensure program.


College of Public Service

The College of Public Service offers degrees in
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,
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and social work. UCCS CPS is located in the Academic Office Building on the UCCS Campus. UCCS College of Public Service offers the only Master of Public Administration
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(Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration) accredited program in the Pikes Peak Region.


College of Engineering and Applied Science

The College of Engineering and Applied Science is the UCCS
engineering college Engineering education is the activity of teaching knowledge and principles to the professional practice of engineering. It includes an initial education ( Dip.Eng.)and (B.Eng.) or ( M.Eng.), and any advanced education and specializations tha ...
. In the U.S. News & World Report "America’s Best Colleges," the 2008 college rankings edition, "the magazine’s editors ranked the UCCS undergraduate engineering program ninth in the nation among public engineering schools offering bachelor’s or master’s degrees." UCCS College of Engineering and Applied Science consists of three departments: the Department of Computer Science (
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); the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (
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,
computer engineering Computer engineering (CE, CoE, or CpE) is a branch of engineering specialized in developing computer hardware and software. It integrates several fields of electrical engineering, electronics engineering and computer science. Computer engi ...
), and the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (
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,
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). The college is accredited by the
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(ABET). In conjunction with the College of Business it offers the unique Bachelor of Innovation which won the 2008 ASEE new program innovation award. Thanks to the college's proximity to U.S. government and
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installations and the
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, the college has partnerships with several institutions, including
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s and
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manufacturers (
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,
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, Agilent,
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,
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), United States Department of Energy National Laboratories ( Los Alamos and Sandia), and the military (
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,
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, and the
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). The college makes use of two buildings on campus: *The Engineering Building houses the Department of Computer Science, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, dean's office, Advanced Development and
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Laboratory, Specialized
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Laboratory, Software Development Laboratory, Communications and
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Laboratory,
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Laboratory, Electronics Laboratory,
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Laboratory,
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Research Laboratories (MRL), and VLSI Circuit Design Laboratory. *In 2009 a $56.1-million Science and Engineering Building was completed at the center of campus to add needed laboratory and lecture space for the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering as well as the Physics, Chemistry, and Biology departments. It holds an expanded computer, wind tunnel, fluids, instrumentation, and other mechanical engineering laboratories with an enlarged machine shop and research space, design studios with payload and project areas. The building was later named Osborne Center for Science and Engineering after its most significant donors, Ed and Mary Osborne.


Institutes


El Pomar Institute for Innovation and Commercialization

University of Colorado's El Pomar Institute for Innovation and Commercialization (EPIIC) is located on the campus of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS).


National Institute for Science, Space and Security Centers

The National Institute for Science, Space and Security Centers (NISSSC) is a multi-disciplinary institute. The NISSSC includes the Center for Homeland Security (CHS); the Center for Space Studies (CSS); the Center for Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics Education (CSTEME); and the Trauma, Health & Hazards Center (THHC).


Center for Space Studies

The Center for Space Studies (CSS) is an educational and research & development organization formed under affiliation with UCCS and the NISSSC. Founded in 2004, the center's mission is to promote research, education and outreach in the domain of space technology. The CSS is led by Dr. Scott Trimboli, associate dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science at UCCS. CSS is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado.


=Research

= The Center for Space Studies projects include: *Satellite Thermal Modeling for FalconSAT (Dr. Andrew Ketsdever) *Tethered Satellite Orbit Determination (Dr. Steven Tragesser) *Emergency Response Operations System Integration (Dr. Roger Sambrook) *Terahertz Technology for Multiphase Flow Applications (Dr. Andrew Ketsdever & Dr. Hoyoung Song) *Small Satellite Simulator Development (Dr. Scott Trimboli)


Center for STEM Education


Buildings

*Ent Center (2018) - Home to the Visual and Performing Arts classes. Also hosts some events for the students, and also is sometimes used by the Colorado Springs Philharmonic orchestra. *Main Hall (1914) – Administration building containing the Bursar's office, admissions, student success center, etc. *Cragmor Hall (1959) – Administration building containing orientation rooms, student recruitment, counseling, and financial aid. *Dwire Hall (1972) – Renovated from 2006 to 2007, it serves as the building for classes in business, economics, languages and cultures, and film studies. *The El Pomar Center (1975) – Home to the Kraemer Family Library and technical support. Renovated at the beginning of the millennium to expand the library and add the University Center. *Engineering and Applied Sciences (1985) – Serves as the building for engineering, math, and science classes. *Anschutz Engineering Center (2024) - New annex to the current Engineering and Applied Sciences building. *Campus Services (1996) *Columbine Hall (1997) – The new home for most LAS classes, also containing writing center, communications lab, and a lecture hall. *Summit Village (1997) – This is the first of UCCS's student housing, now catering to freshmen only. Divided into Vail, Steamboat, Telluride, Aspen, Keystone, Monarch, and Breckenridge (laundry, computer facilities, and seminar rooms). Summit houses altogether about 800 freshmen. *University Center (2001) – Addition to El Pomar, this is the center of campus life where activities and seminars are held. The information desk, bookstore, newsroom, and campus recreation offices are housed in the lower level. A basketball court and gym will soon to be expanded to include larger facilities for games and a multi-use area to help ease the strain on the facility until permanent facilities near 4-Diamonds are constructed sometime during the mid-twenty-teens. *University Hall (2001) – Building purchased for Beth-El Nursing and other programs. *Services/Campus Police/Health Clinic/Parking Garage (2004) *Alpine Village (2004) – The second village in student housing, Alpine is divided into Shavano, Antero, and Crestone Houses, and caters now to all non-freshmen choosing to live on-campus. Students who live here must access campus via a trail or shuttle. *Campus Recreation Center (2007) – Recently completed, this recreation building for students, replacing the current facilities at the University Center, features a swimming pool, a climbing wall, and a full basketball court, along with the full complement of equipment. *Osborne Center for Science and Engineering (2009) – Formerly the "Science and Engineering Building", renamed in May 2011, this building was designed by AR7 Architects (now NAC Architecture) and provides a twofold expansion of science and engineering classrooms and facilities, and connects via a bridge to the Engineering and Applied Sciences building. *Centennial Hall (2010) – The building was completely gutted and rebuilt inside with the exception of new classrooms added in 2006. Formerly called the Science Building, it was built in 1981 and used for science and anthropology classes along with the student art gallery. *UCCS Events Center (2010) – Money originally allocated to construct a temporary new home for Mountain Lion athletics was instead added to a larger budget to significantly expand the current athletics gym and create a new Events Center, which will, in addition to providing a larger gym for volleyball and basketball, will serve as a venue for conferences and large lectures when completed. Now the Events Center is called the Gallogly Events Center. *Summit Village Expansion (2013) – Two additional residence halls adjacent to Aspen House. *Alpine Parking Garage & Recreational Field (2014) *Academic Office Building (2014) – Academic office building at the former site of Building 20 on Regent Circle. *Village at Alpine Valley(2016)- Added three residence halls and a new dining hall.


Master plan and future growth

In 2000, the CU Board of Regents designated UCCS as the CU growth campus. In 2003, the Colorado Legislature approved revisions in the university's statutory role and mission to remove geographic and program restrictions. In 2005, the Regents approved a seven-year plan that calls for the university to add to its base of 7,650 students (Fall 2004), 347 FTE faculty and 254 FTE staff. The 2006–2012 plan called for growth to 9,100 students with corresponding increases in faculty, staff, programs and campus infrastructure.
In addition to the completion of the recreation center, Dwire Hall renovation, and the third wing of the new science/engineering building, the seven-year plan also calls for the renovation and transition of the old Heller Center on the other side of the bluff that campus sits in front of into a sort of "arts retreat". This project is expected to cost around $4.4 million. Also, by 2014, two new buildings are in the works for Summit, and by that year the Alpine Village should be built out with three additional buildings across from the current ones. With construction on the new Austin Bluffs/Union interchange, the construction of a new frontage road from campus to University Hall began as well, enabling a closed circuit connecting Cragmor Campus with University Hall, making access to Austin Bluffs unnecessary. From 2014 a new indoor athletics complex will be constructed along Nevada in the existing 4-Diamonds area. North Nevada is the second phase of campus in the long-term, and extreme long-term build-out calls for dozens of new buildings, academic halls, and another resident village to be built along Nevada. Slated for completion by the end of 2019, a new road will connect the main campus with the Ent Center for the Arts. This road will bypass Stanton Road running through the Eagle Rock neighborhood.


Athletics

UCCS competes in
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in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC), fielding teams in
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,
women's basketball Women's basketball is the team sport of basketball played by women. It was first played in 1892, one year after men's basketball, at Smith College in Massachusetts. It spread across the United States, in large parts via women's college compet ...
, women's volleyball, men's cross country, women's cross country, men's indoor track and field, women's indoor track and field, men's outdoor track and field, women's outdoor track and field, men's golf, men's soccer, women's soccer, women's softball and women's lacrosse. The school
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is the
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, Clyde, with official colors of gold and black, the same
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of CU-Boulder (black, gold and silver).


Honor societies

In addition to its honors programs, UCCS has chapters of the following honor societies on campus: *
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(sociology) *
Alpha Lambda Delta Alpha Lambda Delta () is an honor society for students who have achieved a 3.5 GPA or higher during their first year or term of higher education. History Alpha Lambda Delta was founded in 1924 by the Dean of Women, Maria Leonard, at the Universi ...
(freshman) * Alpha Phi Sigma (criminal justice) *
Beta Gamma Sigma Beta Gamma Sigma () is an international business honor society. Founded in 1913 at the University of Wisconsin, University of Illinois and the University of California, it has over 980,000 members, selected from more than 600 collegiate chapters i ...
(business) * Chi Sigma Iota (counseling) * Delta Phi Alpha (German) * Eta Kappa Nu (electrical engineering) * Omicron Delta Epsilon (economics) * Phi Alpha Theta (History) * Pi Alpha Alpha (public affairs) * Pi Delta Phi (French) *
Psi Chi Psi Chi () is a college student honor society in psychology with international outreach founded in 1929 at the University of Kansas in the United States. Psi Chi is one of the largest honor societies in the United States, with more than 1,100 chap ...
(psychology) * Sigma Delta Pi (Hispanic) *
Sigma Tau Delta Sigma Tau Delta () is a US-based, international honor society for students of English at four-year colleges and universities who are within the top 30% of their class and have a 3.5 GPA or higher. It presently has over 770 chapters in the Unite ...
(English) * Sigma Theta Tau (nursing) Professional fraternities: Phi Alpha Delta (pre-law) and
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(business)


School publications

*The official campus newspaper is '' The Scribe'', since 1966. *The university is home to ''Writers' Forum'', a national literary journal founded in 1974. *''URJ-UCCS: Undergraduate Research Journal at UCCS'' *
riverrun
' is the student literary and arts journal published annually. They take poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art submissions. ''riverrun'' must never be capitalized because it is a reference to the first word of the book ''Finnegans Wake,'' which starts in the middle of a sentence. The beginning of the sentence is at the end of the book.


Notable students, alumni, and staff

* Max Aaron - 2013 U.S. national champion figure skater * Steve Bach (B.S. in business) - former Colorado Springs Mayor, first "
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" * Jason Brown - 2015 U.S. national champion figure skater and Olympic bronze medalist * Teresa A. H. Djuric (M.A. in Curriculum and Instruction, 1994) - U.S. Air Force Brigadier General * John Herrington (B.A. in mathematics, 1983) - first Native American to go to space, aboard
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in 2002 * Jugal Kalita - computer science professor, Language Information and Computation (LINC) Lab * Yusef Komunyakaa (B.A. 1975) - first African-American to win
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for poetry * Mary Lou Makepeace (M.P.A. 1979) - first female mayor of Colorado Springs, serving from 1997 to 2003 * Charlee Minkin (born 1981), Olympic judoka * John Morse (B.S. in business, M.P.A. 1996) - former president of the Colorado Senate *
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- 2008 U.S. national champion figure skater and 2010 Olympian * Apolo Ohno - speed skater, most decorated American Winter Olympic athlete of all time * Raquel Pennington - professional
mixed martial arts Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a full-contact fighting combat sport, sport based on strike (attack), striking and grappling; incorporating techniques from various combat sports from around the world. In the early 20th century, various inter-s ...
fighter, competing in the UFC's bantamweight division * Trevor Rainbolt - Social media personality * Alexander Soifer - Mathematician and professor * Garrett Swasey - UCCS police officer who died in the line of duty at age 44 during the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting * Derrick White - basketball player * Gabby Windey - television personality


International exchange

*
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Ching Yun University,
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( 3–2 programs)


References


External links

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Athletics website
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