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|former_name = University of Colorado (1876–1965)
| type = [[Public university|Public]] [[research university]]
| endowment = $2.
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| president = Todd Saliman
| provost = Russell Moore
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The university consists of nine colleges and schools and offers over 150 academic programs, enrolling more than 35,000 students as of January 2022.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.colorado.edu/academics |title=Academics |date=September 21, 2020 |publisher=University of Colorado Boulder |access-date=January 10, 2022 |archive-date=January 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220110145806/https://www.colorado.edu/academics |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2021, the university attracted the support of over $634 million for research and spent $536 million on research and development according to the [[National Science Foundation]], ranking it 50th in the nation.<ref>{{cite web |title=Table 20. Higher education R&D expenditures, ranked by FY 2018 R&D expenditures: FYs 2009–18 |url=https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/herd/2018/html/herd18-dt-tab020.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930141919/https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/herd/2018/html/herd18-dt-tab020.html |archive-date=September 30, 2020 |access-date=January 10, 2021 |website=ncsesdata.nsf.gov |publisher=[[National Science Foundation]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Annual Report | Office of Contracts and Grants | University of Colorado Boulder |url=https://www.colorado.edu/ocg/annual-report#:~:text=Research%20Expenditures&text=CU%20Boulder's%20research%20and%20creative,fiscal%20year%202021%20(FY21). |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305174420/https://www.colorado.edu/ocg/annual-report#:~:text=Research%20Expenditures&text=CU%20Boulder's%20research%20and%20creative,fiscal%20year%202021%20(FY21). |archive-date=March 5, 2022 |access-date=March 5, 2022}}</ref>
The [[Colorado Buffaloes]] compete in 17 varsity sports and are members of the [[NCAA Division I]] [[
==History==
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The cornerstone of the building that became Old Main was laid on September 20, 1875. The doors of the university opened on September 5, 1877. At the time, there were few [[high school]]s in the state that could adequately prepare students for university work, so in addition to the university, a preparatory school was formed on campus. In the fall of 1877, the student body consisted of 15 students in the college proper and 50 students in the preparatory school. There were 38 men and 27 women, and their ages ranged from 12 to 23 years.<ref>{{cite book | last = Davis| first = William E. | author-link = William E. Davis | year = 1965 | title = Glory Colorado! A history of the University of Colorado, 1858–1963 | publisher = Prutt Press, Inc. | location = Boulder, Colorado | id = LD1178 .D35}}</ref>
During [[World War II]], Colorado was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the [[V-12 Navy College Training Program]] which offered students a path to a navy commission.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postmortem/2010/08/from-basketball-to-covert-ops.html | newspaper=The Washington Post | title=From Basketball to Covert Ops: E. Henry Knoche | access-date=September 26, 2011 | archive-date=January 12, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112123341/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postmortem/2010/08/from-basketball-to-covert-ops.html | url-status=
CU hired its first female professor, [[Mary Rippon]], in 1878.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_13058123/|title=Pettem: Mary Rippon to receive posthumous honorary degree|last=Camera {{!}}|first=Daily|date=August 13, 2009|website=Boulder Daily Camera|language=en-US|access-date=October 27, 2019|archive-date=August 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180817225456/http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_13058123|url-status=live}}</ref> It hired its first African-American professor, Charles H. Nilon, in 1956, and its first African-American librarian, [[Mildred Nilon]], in 1962.<ref name="Boulder Daily Camera-2016">{{Cite web|url=http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_29758344/cu-boulder-scholarship-fund-honors-first-black-professor|title=Scholarship fund honors CU-Boulder's first black professor, librarian|date=April 12, 2016|website=Boulder Daily Camera|language=en-US|access-date=October 27, 2019|archive-date=July 9, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220709145933/https://www.dailycamera.com/2016/04/12/scholarship-fund-honors-cu-boulders-first-black-professor-librarian/|url-status=live}}</ref> Its first African American female graduate, [[Lucile Buchanan|Lucile Berkeley Buchanan]], received her degree in 1918.<ref name="KUSA">{{Cite web|url=https://www.9news.com/article/news/education/cu-corrects-history-awards-diploma-for-first-black-woman-to-graduate/73-551033027|title=CU corrects history, awards diploma for first black woman to graduate|website=KUSA|date=May 10, 2018 |access-date=October 27, 2019|archive-date=July 9, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220709150026/https://www.9news.com/article/news/education/cu-corrects-history-awards-diploma-for-first-black-woman-to-graduate/73-551033027|url-status=live}}</ref>
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[[File:CU boulder campus.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.6|The CU Boulder campus]]
The main CU Boulder campus is located south of the [[Pearl Street Mall]] and east of [[Chautauqua Auditorium (Boulder, Colorado)|Chautauqua Auditorium]]. It consists of academic and residential buildings as well as research facilities. The East Campus is about a quarter-mile from the main campus and is composed mainly of athletic fields and research buildings.
CU Boulder's campus has been ranked as one of the most beautiful college campuses in the United States by ''[[Travel + Leisure]]'' and ''[[Condé Nast Traveler]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title="America's most beautiful college campuses", ''Travel+Leisure'' (September 2011) |url=http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/americas-most-beautiful-college-campuses/21 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202225614/http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/americas-most-beautiful-college-campuses/21 |archive-date=February 2, 2014 |access-date=January 28, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.travelandleisure.com/slideshows/americas-most-beautiful-college-campuses |title="America's most beautiful college campuses", ''Travel + Leisure'' (August, 2018) |access-date=September 9, 2019 |archive-date=June 8, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190608184511/https://www.travelandleisure.com/slideshows/americas-most-beautiful-college-campuses |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cntraveler.com/galleries/2016-01-29/the-20-most-beautiful-college-campuses-in-america |title="The 50 Most Beautiful College Campuses in America", ''Condé Nast Traveler'' (August 6, 2018) |date=January 29, 2016 |access-date=September 9, 2019 |archive-date=June 8, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190608184521/https://www.cntraveler.com/galleries/2016-01-29/the-20-most-beautiful-college-campuses-in-america |url-status=live }}</ref>
===Architecture===
CU Boulder's distinctive architecture style, known as Tuscan Vernacular Revival, was designed by architect [[Charles Klauder]].<ref name="Campus Architect">{{cite web |url=https://www.colorado.edu/fm/departments/planning-design-construction/campus-architect |title=Campus Architect |date=February 28, 2017 |publisher=Facilities Management, University of Colorado Boulder |access-date=September 27, 2018 |archive-date=September 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928044413/https://www.colorado.edu/fm/departments/planning-design-construction/campus-architect |url-status=live }}</ref> The oldest buildings, such as Old Main (1876) and Macky Auditorium (1923), were in the [[Collegiate Gothic]] style of many East Coast schools, and Klauder's initial plans for the university's new buildings (approved in 1919) were in the same style.<ref name="Campus Architect" /> A month or so after approval, however, Klauder updated his design by sketching in a new wrap of rough, textured [[sandstone]] walls with sloping, multi-leveled red-tiled roofs and [[Indiana Limestone|Indiana limestone]] trim.<ref name="Campus Architect" /> This formed the basis of a unified style, used in the design of fifteen other buildings between 1921 and 1939 and still followed on the campus to this day.<ref name="Campus Architect" /> The sandstone used in the construction of nearly all the buildings on campus was selected from a variety of [[Front Range]] mountain quarries.
[[File:SewallHallCUBoulder.JPG|thumb|right|Sewall Hall]]
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===University Memorial Center===
[[File:University of Colorado UMC fountains 2006.jpg|thumb|right|Dalton Trumbo Fountain Court behind the UMC on July 13, 2006]]
In 1947, Colorado Governor [[William Lee Knous|Lee Knous]] issued a [[proclamation]] to create a [[memorial]] to Colorado's servicemen at the University of Colorado Boulder. A proposal to house this memorial in a [[Student activity center|student union]] building resulted in a remarkable fundraising effort. The University Memorial Center (UMC) opened its doors in October 1953 with President Robert Stearns presiding over the ribbon-cutting ceremony. The UMC quickly became the central landmark of the Boulder campus. A 1964 addition created a new
The 1960s and '70s put the UMC at the center of student activism as students staged strikes, grape boycotts, love-ins, sit-ins, and walk-outs. The UMC Fountain Court (now the Dalton Trumbo Fountain Court) became a familiar sight to network television news watchers as the famous and notorious promoted their cause at CU Boulder. Entertainers as diverse as [[Ramsey Lewis]] and the [[Grateful Dead]] have performed in the [[Glenn Miller]] Ballroom. The UMC Connection, a student entertainment center in the basement, is a more informal gathering place, featuring pool tables and a small bowling alley. It also features Club 156, which hosts concerts from local and up-and-coming bands. In 1986, students passed another bond issue to remodel the food
===Center for Community===
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===Mary Rippon Theatre===
[[File:Mary Rippon Theatre.jpg|thumb|right|The view from the back of the Mary Rippon Theatre]]
The Mary Rippon Theatre is an outdoor [[theater]] and the site of many [[culture|cultural]] events, notably the [[Colorado Shakespeare Festival]]. The Theatre was named after Professor [[Mary Rippon]], the first female instructor at the university and one of the first female university instructors in the United States. She taught
[[File:Old Main - Colorado.jpg|thumb|left|Old Main]]
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===Rankings===
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''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' ranked the University of Colorado Boulder tied for 105th best among all national universities, tied for 51st among public universities in the U.S., and tied for 70th best among all universities globally for 2023.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-colorado-boulder-1370/overall-rankings|title=U.S. News Best Colleges Rankings|magazine=U.S. News & World Report|access-date=September 13, 2021|archive-date=October 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211010071917/https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-colorado-boulder-1370/overall-rankings|url-status=live}}</ref> The Center for World University Rankings ranked CU Boulder 19th among U.S. public comprehensive institutions and 63rd overall in the world in its 2014 ranking of the top 100 degree-granting institutions of higher education.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cwur.org/2014/ |title=Center for World University Rankings |publisher=Center for World University Rankings |date=2014 |access-date=May 25, 2015 |archive-date=May 31, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150531064030/http://cwur.org/2014/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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===Faculty===
{{as of|2006}}, there were more than 3,800 tenured or tenure-eligible faculty members, as well as 4,400 non-tenured adjunct professors and instructors.<ref name="AnswerBook">{{Cite web|title=University of Colorado System Answer Book |first1=Christiane |last1=Griffin-Wehr |first2=Jill |last2=Norton |date=May 2006 |publisher=University of Colorado Boulder |url=https://www.cusys.edu/downloads/answerbook.pdf |access-date=December 30, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080216022109/https://www.cusys.edu/downloads/answerbook.pdf |archive-date=February 16, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Current faculty include [[Nobel Prize|Nobel laureates]] [[David J. Wineland]] (physics 2012), [[John L. Hall|John Hall]] (physics, 2005), [[Eric Cornell]] (physics, 2001), and [[Thomas Robert Cech]] (chemistry, 1989). [[Carl Wieman]] was also awarded a Nobel prize for his work with Eric Cornell. He maintains a part-time appointment at the University of Colorado Boulder but his primary appointment is Professor and Director of the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative at the University of British Columbia. Controversial writer [[Ward Churchill]] was a professor of [[ethnic studies]] until he was terminated in July 2007.<ref name="wrongly fired">
===Center for Advanced Engineering and Technology Education===
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ATLAS Institute is a center for interdisciplinary research and academic study, where engineering, computer science and robotics are blended with design-oriented topics.<ref>{{cite web |title=ATLAS Institute |url=https://www.colorado.edu/atlas/? |website=ATLAS Institute |access-date=October 3, 2018 |language=en |archive-date=October 3, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003220857/https://www.colorado.edu/atlas/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Part of CU Boulder's College of Engineering and Applied Science, the institute offers academic programs at the undergraduate, master's and doctoral levels, and administers research labs, hacker and makerspaces, and a black box experimental performance studio. At the beginning of the 2018–2019 academic year, approximately 1,200 students were enrolled in ATLAS academic programs and the institute sponsored six research labs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.colorado.edu/atlas/labs-centers|title=ATLAS Institute, University of Colorado Boulder|date=June 14, 2017|access-date=August 29, 2018|archive-date=August 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180830005315/https://www.colorado.edu/atlas/labs-centers|url-status=live}}</ref>
In addition to IBG, ICS and ATLAS, the university's other institutes include Biofrontiers Institute, [[Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences]], Institute of [[Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research|Arctic & Alpine Research (INSTAAR)]], Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS) , CU Boulder-[[NIST]] joint institute [[JILA]], [[Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics|Laboratory for Atmospheric & Space Physics (LASP)]], Renewable & Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI), and the [[University of Colorado Museum of Natural History]].
==Campus organizations==
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===Greek life===
The [[Greek nationalism|Panhellenic]] sorority community consists of roughly a dozen chapters. The men's fraternities at the University of Colorado are not officially affiliated with the school; however, they are still a presence on campus. About 13% of the undergraduate student body participates in Greek life.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.coloradodaily.com/2015/08/08/boulder-fraternities-and-cu-sororities-greek-life-for-buffs/ | title=Boulder fraternities and CU sororities: Greek life for Buffs | work=Colorado Daily | date=August 8, 2015 }}</ref> The Multicultural Greek Council acts as a liaison between the member organizations and university administration.<ref>{{cite web|title=Multicultural Greek Council|url=https://www.colorado.edu/greeks/our-community/multicultural-greek-council|website=Greek Life|access-date=March 9, 2018|language=en|date=July 29, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180310074426/https://www.colorado.edu/greeks/our-community/multicultural-greek-council|archive-date=March 10, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>
The death of Chi Psi pledge Gordie Bailey from alcohol poisoning during hazing in 2004 caused Boulder fraternities to re-organize and sever legal affiliation to the university. Students gathered for a candlelight vigil for the deceased football player on the Boulder campus on
=== Left Right TIM Improv Comedy ===
Started in 2008 by CU-Boulder students,<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.coloradodaily.com/ci_22640742/|title=CU-Boulder improv group Left Right TIM celebrates 5 years|work=Colorado Daily|access-date=March 30, 2018|archive-date=March 31, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180331040418/http://www.coloradodaily.com/ci_22640742/|url-status=live}}</ref> Left Right TIM is the Boulder area's premier and longest-running improv comedy team, performing a weekly improvised comedy show every Friday during the university's academic year in the Hale Anthropology Building Room 270 of the school's campus. The team has performed in cities around the country as well as opening for established stand-up comedians and improv theaters.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_12957453|title=One hot comic: Natasha Leggero tells jokes at CU on Friday|website=dailycamera.com|access-date=March 30, 2018|archive-date=April 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180401003556/http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_12957453|url-status=live}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=April 2018}}
==Sports, clubs, and traditions==
Sports teams at the school are called Buffaloes. The [[varsity team|varsity]] athletic teams participate in the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA's]] [[NCAA Division I|Division I]] ([[Football Bowl Subdivision|FBS]] for football, see [[Bowl Championship Series]]) as a member of the [[
In 1934, the university teams were officially nicknamed the "Buffaloes." Previous [[Athletic nickname|nicknames]] used by the press included the "Silver Helmets" and "Frontiersmen." The final game of 1934, against the [[Denver Pioneers|University of Denver]], saw the first running of a buffalo in a Colorado football game. A buffalo calf was rented from a local ranch and ran along the sidelines.
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Colorado once had rivalries with the [[University of Utah|Utah]] [[Utah Utes football|Utes]] and the [[United States Air Force Academy|Air Force]] [[Air Force Falcons football|Falcons]], but these have not been played in recent years. However, the Utah rivalry was renewed in 2011, as the Utes also joined the Pac-10 (which became the Pac-12).
The CU [[skiing|ski team]] has won 20 National Championships at the Division I level. The sport is not sponsored by the
===Club sports===
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File:Jonah Hill-4939 (cropped) (cropped).jpg|Actor [[Jonah Hill]]
File:Robert Redford (cropped).jpg|Actor and filmmaker [[Robert Redford]]
File: Jean Stafford in 1941 (cropped).jpg| [[Jean Stafford]], [[Pulitzer Prize]] winner for ''[[The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford]]'' (1970)
File:Trey Parker by Gage Skidmore.jpg|''[[South Park]]'' and ''[[The Book of Mormon (musical)|The Book of Mormon]]'' co-creator [[Trey Parker]] (BA 1993)
File:Matt Stone by Gage Skidmore.jpg|''South Park'' and ''The Book of Mormon'' co-creator [[Matt Stone]] (BA 1993)
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