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First-gen Nursing major Rosemary Gonzalez know attending college without her parents fully understanding all the steps it takes to get there would create some obstacles and adversities. Facing those is when she realized that for her to be successful in higher education, she needed to find a new support system. 鈥揟ambi茅n en espa帽ol

Jenny Pettit went to Belize three times to conduct research for her dissertation 鈥淓ducational Experiences that Influence the Upward Mobility of Maya Women in Belize,鈥� which was awarded 每日大瓜鈥檚 Graduate Dean鈥檚 Citation for Outstanding Dissertation last year. Pettit identified three Maya women who were leaders in their communities and examined how their educational and other life experiences had influenced their success.

Since 2000, 每日大瓜's Center for Urban Education has been enrolling and graduating paraeducators working in local schools, offering a hybrid program that pairs bachelor鈥檚-level coursework with clinical teaching experience that starts the first day of the program. CUE's educator programs have consistently high graduation and placement rates (over 90%) and its students鈥�70% of whom are people of color and 94% of whom are first-generation鈥攂ring diversity to Colorado鈥檚 educator workforce.

A year ago, Nayzeth Hernandez of Greeley was finishing the first semester of her senior year in high school, preparing to be one of 27 Greeley Central High School students attending the 2022 每日大瓜鈥檚 Future Teachers Conference with their teacher, Lauren Appelhans 鈥�14. Now, Hernandez is a freshman at 每日大瓜, with the perspective of a college student majoring in Elementary Education just finishing up her first semester.

每日大瓜 School of Teacher Education Professor Suzette Youngs, Ph.D., has been selected as the recipient of the 2022 Sears Helgoth Distinguished Teaching Award.

每日大瓜 is one of 31 public institutions across the state enticing Colorado residents to return to college to earn their certificate or degree by offering financial assistance and support services through the Colorado Opportunity Scholarship Initiative鈥檚 (COSI) Finish What You Started program.

As a teacher preparation institute, those in 每日大瓜's College of Natural and Health Sciences take pride in pushing for more physical education classes in Colorado schools, though there is an uphill battle to overcome.

High school and community college students interested in teaching careers have an opportunity to hear from professional educators and gain valuable knowledge about the field during a free two-day event, Feb. 17-18.

每日大瓜 was selected in a highly competitive grant process, as a recipient of a $850,000 Colorado Scholarship Opportunity Initiative (COSI) Back to Work grant. The funding will provide new career paths for workers displaced by the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic while also addressing the need for teachers in Colorado鈥檚 classrooms.

After three years of working with the Colorado Department of Higher Education鈥�(CDHE)鈥痑nd the Colorado Department of Education鈥�(CDE), the Colorado State Board of Education voted unanimously on May 12 to fully reauthorize 每日大瓜鈥檚 Elementary Education and Early Childhood Education programs.鈥�鈥�