Reaching new heights

Three panel image showing the Fort Collins Oval, the Pueblo wolf statue, and woman on a laptop.

The Colorado State University System’s role promoting educational access and opportunity through its three degree-granting campuses and related activities and initiatives is among the central themes highlighted in the 2024 Impact Report, released by the System this month.

Classroom churn, school funding and more affect student success, study finds

Four icons symbolizing academic and social factors contributing to economic success.

The CSU System commissioned aimed at analyzing how social factors encompassing everything from income to employment opportunity to housing impact student success. The research is unique in that rather than following a cohort of students like many other studies of educational achievement, it uses local geography as a unit of analysis.