In 2023, your gifts funded $52 million in scholarships and fellowships, including the prestigious Chancellor's Award at CU Boulder.
Hear three award recipients share their aspirations, academic pursuits and long-term goals.
When Joey Morgan stepped foot on the CU Boulder campus in summer 2019, he felt like a 44-year-old stuck in a 24-year-old’s body.
What’s something about you that most people wouldn’t know if they were looking right at you?
Garrett Rose briefly considered the question and then wrote:
I get depressed a lot.
“I either didn’t know what to say or didn’t understand the question,” Garrett, now a senior at CU Boulder, recalls.
Before there was the state of Colorado, there was the University of Colorado; and before there was CU, a courageous and tenacious few were so profoundly committed to the transformative power of an education.
The idea of a public university in the young Colorado territory was considered a valuable and worthwhile pursuit as early as 1861. But political disputes, economic distress and local jealousies stalled the idea from becoming a reality for years. Some folks clamored that Colorado didn’t have any use for an academic institution.
He had nowhere to go for the holiday. CU Boulder’s dorms were still open, which meant he could relax over the long weekend, albeit alone, in his room at Libby Hall. So he took that $5, walked to a grocery store, bought a raw chicken and a bag of rice, and cooked four days of meals with a rice cooker in his dorm room.