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University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Established	1965
Type:	Public
Endowment:	$590 million (systemwide)[1]
Chancellor:	Pamela Shockley-Zalabak
President:	Hank Brown
Faculty:	601
Undergraduates:	6150
Postgraduates:	1500
Location	Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Campus:	Urban, 520 acres
Colors:	Black and Gold
Nickname:	Mountain Lions
Mascot:	Boomer
Website:	http://www.uccs.edu

The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (formerly CU-Springs, UCCS officially) is the second-largest campus of the University of Colorado system. It has approximately 6,150 undergraduate students and approximately 1,500 graduate students. It was established as an extension campus in the 1920s. It is known especially for its engineering, business, and nursing programs. In 2006, US News and World Report Rankings of masters/bachelors focused engineering schools, the UCCS College of Engineering and Applied Science ranking placed it 4th nationally among state institutions, and 16th overall. Overall UCCS has been ranked by US News as a "Best in the West," with 2007 ranking 7th among public western regional universities. UCCS has been ranked in the top 10 western regional public universities each year since 2002.

Contents 1 History 2 Colleges at UCCS 3 Campus architecture and buildings 4 Master plan and future 5 Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences 6 Athletics 6.1 New athletic fieldhouse 7 School newspaper 8 Notable UCCS students, alumni, and staff 9 See also 10 References 11 External links

As early as the 1920's, CU offered classes in the Colorado Springs area at various locations, mostly Colorado College. By the 1960s, however, a permanent campus was desired.

Together with governor John Love, HP co-founder David Packard, whose company had a huge presence in the city, led a drive to establish a permanent home for the university. The solution came when George T. Dwire sold the Cragmor Sanatorium property for $1 to the state.

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 HP, initial university programs focused on engineering and business, and classes were held in the Cragmor Sanotorium building, what is now Main Hall, and Cragmor Hall, a modern expansion of Main Hall. The first building built exclusively for UCCS, Dwire Hall, wasn't complete until 1972 and is currently under renovation, to be reopened in the fall of 2007.

A 1997 community referendum merged Beth-El College of Nursing with UCCS and, in recent years, programs such as the Network Information and Space Security Center were added to connect the university with the military to improve national security. 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 87,000 square-foot building at the corner of Union and Austin Bluffs to house the Beth-El College of Nursing.

• Beth-El College of Nursing & Health Sciences
• College of Business and Administration
• College of Education
• College of Engineering and Applied Science
• College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences

It also includes these institutes, centers and labs:

• Center on Gerontology
• Center for Colorado Policy Studies
• Center for Computational Biology
• Center for Economic Education
• Center for the Study of Government
• Center for Women's Studies
• Colorado Institute for Technology Transfer and Implementation (CITTI)
• CU Aging Center
• CU Institute of Bioenergetics
• CU Trauma Center
• Excel Centers
• Network Information and Space Security Center (NISSC)
• Small Business Development Center
• Southern Colorado Economic Forum
• Southern Colorado Geodata Laboratory
• Student Success Center
• Teaching and Learning Center
• Vision and Security Technology Lab

• Main Hall (1914) -- Administration building containing admissions, student success center, etc.

• Cragmor Hall (1959) -- Administration building containing bursar's office, orientation rooms, student recruitment, counseling, and financial aid.

• Dwire Hall (1972) -- Renovated from 2006 to 2007, it serves as the building for business and foreign language classes.

• 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.
  

  

  Kraemer Library

• Science Building (1981) -- Science and anthropology classes along with the student art gallery. Lower level renovated in 2006 with new classrooms.

• Engineering and Applied Sciences (1985) -- Engineering, math, science classes, currently undergoing a massive expansion.

• 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 Brekenridge (laundry, computer facilities, and seminar rooms). Summit is some of the finest student dorms in Colorado. Summit houses altogether about 800 freshmen.
  

  

  Summit Village

• University Center (2001) -- Addition to El Pomar , this is the center of campus life where activities and seminars are held. The information desk, bookstore, news room, and campus recreation offices are housed in the lower level.

• 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 new state-of-the-art 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.

• Science and Engineering Building Expansion (2009) -- Under initial stages of construction this will provide two-fold expansion of science and engineering classrooms and facilities, and will connect via a bridge to the current building.

In 2000, the CU Board of Regents designated UCCS as the CU growth campus. In 2003, the 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 calls 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 mansion on the other side of the mountain 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 Bulffs/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 2nd 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.

By 2050 the plan calls for UCCS to become the new main campus of the CU System, as Boulder has little room for expansion.

Beth-El College of Nursing & Health Sciences is a nursing school which is part of the University of Colorado, located in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Degrees granted include Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Master of Science in Nursing, and Doctor of Nursing Practice.

UCCS is an NCAA Division II School. It currently fields a men's basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, and track team; and a women's basketball, cross country, and softball team.

In addition to team sports, UCCS has a dance team and a cheerleading club and an active intramural program. The UCCS club hockey team began playing in the American Club Hockey Association's Division III in 1998.

In 2005 Shannon Payne finished 10th in nationals at the NCAA Div. II Cross Country Championships.

The school logo is the mountain lion, with the same school colors as CU-Boulder. This logo is used concurrently with the CU logo.

A new athletic fieldhouse that seats 1500 will be constructed at 4-Diamonds within two years, according to recently unveiled plans.

Basketball and volleyball are currently played in the current gymnasium at the University Center, which seats 400 and is the smallest venue of its sort in all Division II schools, the size of many high school gymnasiums.

The recent success of men’s basketball, achieving the best record in UCCS history, amongst other things, led to an acceleration of plans to replace the facility with mounting pressure from students and players alike.

A temporary fix that was completed this year cost $40,000 and only slightly expanded and upgraded seating. Also, attempts at separating students from visitors did not significantly help in alleviating overcrowding at some games.

$2 million of CU Presidential Initiative funds will be directed towards the construction of the field house. “Intercollegiate athletics is an important facet of student life and the campus experience, and we’re pleased to be able to help with a desperately needed new home for Mountain Lion student-athletics,” said CU President Hank Brown.

The new field house will preliminarily also provide the expected complement of locker rooms, an indoor track, a weight room, and pitching and hitting areas. The facility will be used exclusively for UCCS formal athletics, as general student recreation and intramural sports will make use of the new Student Recreation Center currently being built.

Plans for the building call for 30,000 square feet and a stone and stucco façade that is consistent with recent campus architecture.

The official campus newspaper is The Scribe, since 1976.

• Yusef Komunyakaa -- Graduated in 1975 with a B.A.. First African-American to win Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

• John Herrington -- Graduated 1983 with a B.A. in Mathematics. First Native American to go to space, aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour in 2002.

• List of nursing schools in the United States

• UCCS official site
• Beth-El College of Nursing & Health Sciences
• Bachelor of Innovation official site
• The Scribe, at http://www.uccs.edu/~scribe/

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