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Western Daughters Kitchen to open at CSU Spur, becoming a second location for the popular Denver-based company
Western Daughters Butcher Shoppe will maintain its shop in LoHi and launch a second location in North Denver – Western Daughters Kitchen, within CSU Spur’s new Hydro building when it opens on Jan. 6.
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Hydro building and completion of CSU Spur campus create innovation opportunities
The opening of CSU Spur’s Hydro building on Jan. 6 represents the launch of a new engine of invention and innovation relating specifically to water and marks the culmination on a decade-long process to imagine and create the CSU Spur campus in Denver.
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Amy Parsons named 16th president of Colorado State University
The Colorado State University Board of Governors today confirmed Amy Parsons as the 16th president of CSU – the CSU System’s flagship campus located in Fort Collins – effective Feb. 1, 2023, following a highly competitive, nationwide 5-month search process.
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Culture of connection
History, Community, and Environment in Mexico semester program at the CSU Todos Santos Center offers immersion and inspiration.
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New ColoradoCast economic forecast points to negative growth, but not a recession
The latest economic forecast from the Colorado Futures Center predicts that the state’s economy will continue slowing in coming months, and that growth may even turn negative for a brief period in early 2023.
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CSU and CSU Spur looking for volunteers during National Western Stock Show
As CSU Spur opens Hydro, its third and final building of the campus located on the grounds of the new National Western Center, both CSU and CSU Spur are looking for volunteers to help engage visitors with the university.
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CEO, longtime CSU leader tapped as finalist for president of CSU Fort Collins
Amy Parsons—CEO of a global e-commerce company based in Denver, longtime Colorado State University leader, and former executive vice chancellor for the CSU System—has been named as the finalist in the search for the 16th president of Colorado State University in Fort Collins. 
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Groundbreaking new partnership between College Track and the CSU System will focus on equity, building community
College Track works with about 250 Colorado high school students, most of them aspiring first-generation college graduates, at centers it operates in Aurora and Denver. Now, the organization’s work in the state is poised to expand significantly under a new, multi-dimensional partnership involving College Track and the CSU System.
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Veterinary hospital at CSU Spur provides real-world lessons for future vets
The Dumb Friends League Veterinary Hospital at CSU Spur is an educational hub for students from CSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences to complete an externship in community veterinary services as part of the year-long series of clinical experiences that concludes the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) program.
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CSU Spur wraps up construction in January; Hydro building opening announced
The entire CSU Spur campus will be complete in January with the opening of the third and final building at CSU Spur, the Hydro building. A public ribbon cutting will be held on Friday, Jan. 6, 2023.
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Tony Frank: On peace
A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of attending the celebration of life for Walter Scott, Jr., a Colorado State University alumnus and donor for whom the Scott College of Engineering is named.
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Water in the West symposium offers solutions, and a sense of urgency
The CSU System’s annual gathering of policymakers, residents, and leaders from the agriculture, business, and non-profit sectors spoke to the potential to address many western and global water challenges through coordinated action, creativity, and a willingness to adapt.
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Kate Siegel Shimko starts as CSU System’s new assistant vice chancellor for community engagement
Kate Siegel Shimko has joined the Colorado State University System as assistant vice chancellor for community engagement, a newly created position in which she will focus on government relations involving the state executive branch and the city and county of Denver, as well as work to further relationships with the business community.
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Water in the West symposium will bring global perspective to local challenges
When he speaks on Wednesday at the CSU Spur Water in the West symposium, Jay Famiglietti, executive director of the Global Institute for Water Security at the University of Saskatchewan, will provide a big picture view on how the global availability of freshwater is changing.
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Water in the West Symposium will look globally for lessons and ideas
The Water in the West Symposium will open on Wednesday, Nov. 2, with a keynote by Jay Famiglietti, a water researcher who leads the Global Institute for Water Security at the University of Saskatchewan.
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Tony Frank: On Water in the West
Over the course of this past summer, I hit the road with my colleague Kathay Rennels and traveled around the state. This is a trip we try to make every year – this summer included stops in Greeley, Yuma, Fort Morgan, Steamboat Springs, Craig, Gunnison, Grand Junction, Center, Alamosa, Lamar, Rocky Ford, Castle Rock, and Durango.
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Symposium will bring together global experts in water
This year’s CSU Spur Water in the West Symposium, to be held Nov. 2-3 in downtown Denver, will bring together policymakers, researchers, and experts from the business, nonprofit, and agriculture sectors to look globally for lessons and strategies with the potential to inform how Colorado and other western states respond to the region’s water challenges.
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CSU campuses hit enrollment milestones while focusing on student success
All three Colorado State University System campuses hit enrollment milestones this fall, with CSU in Fort Collins welcoming its largest entering class in history and CSU Pueblo seeing the largest class of new first-year students in four years.
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Interactive map portrays CSU System’s global impact
The CSU Impact Map—or Impacto, in Spanish—provides a glimpse of the System’s global reach while providing a chance for users to explore specific ways CSU System faculty, staff, students, and alumni are working to solve problems, support communities and create impact in far-flung corners of the world.
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International partnership focuses on global food security
Leaders from Mexico, Canada, and the United States gathered at the new CSU Spur campus in Denver on Sept. 26 for a ceremony formalizing an arrangement for the Colorado State University System to serve as host of the North American Agricultural Advisory Network (NAAAN).
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A market ‘correction’ won’t solve the state’s affordable housing challenge without an unprecedented drop in home prices
While recession is not yet in the forecast, Colorado’s economy is showing vulnerabilities to broader macroeconomic conditions and is exhibiting signs of slowing.
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Nearly 40 CSU programs to be hosted at CSU Spur in Denver
The CSU System announced 37 projects originating from Colorado State University will be located for at least the next year at CSU Spur, the CSU System’s new public-facing campus in Denver.
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The latest ColoradoCast economic forecast: slowing, but still growing
A new economic forecast from the Colorado Futures Center predicts that the state’s economy will continue growing in coming months, though at an increasingly slower rate.
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The Hill: Op-ed: America’s land-grant universities uniquely positioned to fight today’s biological threats
Op-ed from Tom Daschle, former Senate Majority Leader and Democratic Senator from South Dakota who serves on the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense, and Tony Frank, Chancellor of the Colorado State University System who has a research focus on infectious disease pathology.
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Tony Frank: On facts
The truth doesn’t need to be believed to be true. Facts exist even when we miss them or hide them. And arguing to win an argument is not the same as discussing to more fully understand a complicated issue.
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Colorado Futures Center and Keystone Policy Center report: Low share of affordable housing for Colorado teachers
Less than 20% of homes in Colorado are valued at a price that is affordable for teachers earning an average salary, according to a new report released today by the Keystone Policy Center.
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Help name the CSU Spur kitten!
The public is invited to help select a name for the CSU Spur kitten, with voting options online and in-person – the contest will run Aug. 13-26.
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New 2nd Saturdays at CSU Spur offer free, family fun
Beginning Saturday, Aug. 13, CSU Spur is launching “2nd Saturdays at CSU Spur” – while every day at Spur is free and open to the public, each 2nd Saturday of the month will offer extra programming and family-friendly fun for visitors.
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Professor of English named interim chief academic officer for CSU System
Roze Hentschell, professor of English and senior associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts at Colorado State University, has been named interim chief academic officer of the CSU System for the 2022-23 academic year. She will be filling the role held by Rick Miranda while he is serving as interim president of the CSU campus in Fort Collins.
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Tony Frank: On rural-urban collaboration at Spur
Food brings people together – around the dinner table, at picnics, and on restaurant patios. Sometimes, though, food production and its complexities spark a tension between rural and urban communities and drive us apart.
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ColoradoCast forecasts that economic growth will slow in coming months
The ColoradoCast, the state’s only short-term economic forecast, forecasts that Colorado’s economic growth will slow considerably in the fourth quarter of 2022.
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Board of Governors approves CSU campus budgets for FY23
The Board of Governors of the Colorado State University System this week adopted a budget that minimizes tuition increases for Colorado students, includes a 3 percent salary increase for faculty and staff at the CSU Fort Collins and Pueblo campuses, and allows the Fort Collins campus to start long-awaited renovations on its most heavily used classroom building.
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Rick Miranda named Interim President of Colorado State University; Board of Governors announces launch of national search
The Board of Governors of the Colorado State University System today announced that Rick Miranda, chief academic officer for the CSU System, will serve as interim president of the CSU flagship campus in Fort Collins while the Board undertakes a national search for the 16th president of CSU.
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Grand opening marks beginning of endless possibilities at CSU Spur’s Terra building
Many of the first visitors to the newly-opened Terra building on the Colorado State University Spur campus left with their own soil, garden plants and ready-to-bake bread dough – but most importantly, with newfound knowledge about the science behind the food they eat every day.
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Terra blossoms
The science of food is sprouting in Terra – the second of three buildings to open at the new CSU Spur campus in Denver – and the public can get a taste of new programming at the unique, urban setting starting in early June.
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Don’t force colleges to hike tuition, cut programs
Over the past year, colleges, universities and local governments in Colorado have been watching with interest as unions and legislative proponents have promoted a plan to unionize public employees in all corners of our state.
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Tony Frank: On investing in Pueblo
Last week, I proudly joined President Timothy Mottet at Colorado State University Pueblo to kick off a new phase of the campus’s comprehensive campaign.
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ColoradoCast forecasts that economic growth will slow slightly in coming months
The ColoradoCast, the state’s only short-term economic forecast, shows that the economy will be growing at an annual rate of 4.47% through June 2022.
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Tony Frank: On the lives they lived
I want to use our newsletter this month to tell the story of two people from different backgrounds whose lives became an inextricable part of the fabric of Colorado State University, and in doing so made our world a better place.
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Kawanabe, Markey, and Martin join CSU System Board of Governors
The Colorado General Assembly confirmed the appointment of three new members to the CSU System Board of Governors. Denver attorney Kenzo Kawanabe, cattle industry executive Louis Martin, and former Congressional Representative Betsy Markey were nominated by Governor Jared Polis for the governing board seats.
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Remembering Mary Ontiveros
Mary Ontiveros was the long-time head of Admissions and the first vice president for Diversity at CSU in Fort Collins.
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Chancellor Frank’s remarks to the Boyer 2030 Commission
CSU System Chancellor Tony Frank was invited to speak about “Campus Freedom of Speech and Expression” to the Boyer 2030 Commission, charged with designing a 2030 Blueprint for Excellence & Equity in Undergraduate Education at U.S. research universities.
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Honoring the life of Chancellor Emeritus Joe Blake
Joe Blake, chancellor emeritus of the CSU System and long-time advocate for higher education in Colorado, passed away Tuesday at the age of 86.
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Remembering Joe Blake
The Colorado State University System joins in honoring the life and legacy of our dear friend, Joe Blake, who passed away earlier today.
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Tony Frank: On Spur 2022
Since 2008, we’ve had a big dream at the Colorado State University System. We’ve dreamed of creating a one-of-a-kind public campus that doesn’t grant degrees but instead throws open its doors and invites the community to come inside and explore learning about food, water, and human and animal health.
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CSU opens initial building on first-of-its-kind free, public campus
On Jan. 7, the Colorado State University System will open CSU Spur, a year-round and first-of-its-kind public destination in Denver, located at the National Western Center.
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Tony Frank: On prosperity
A couple of weeks ago, the Colorado Futures Center at the CSU System released the first of what will become a new, short-term economic forecast for Colorado. This new ColoradoCast found that economic activity in our state has rebounded to where it was pre-pandemic and will continue to expand in 2022.
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New short-term Colorado forecast finds growth will continue through April 2022
Economic activity in Colorado rebounded to its pre-pandemic high in September 2021 and the economy is projected to continue to expand, according to a new quarterly report release by the reestablished Colorado Futures Center at Colorado State University System.
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