海角社区

Reflecting on kindness and compassion

Nov. 8, 2023 | President's Correspondence

Monday is World Kindness Day, an international observance that encourages people to bridge differences and focus on the common threads that bind us. It鈥檚 an opportune moment to pause and reflect on something that is all too often overlooked: our shared humanity and our innate capacity for kindness and compassion. Read more.

Announcing 海角社区鈥檚 new provost

Oct. 30, 2023 | President's Correspondence

President Davidson announces the selection of Laura Niesen de Abru帽a, Ph.D., as the University鈥檚 new provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs, beginning Jan. 25. 聽Read more.

President鈥檚 priorities kick-off budget planning cycle

Oct. 24, 2023 | President's Correspondence

President Davidson shares priorities to kick-off the fiscal year 2025 budget planning cycle. 聽Read more.

Launching Student Success together this fall

Aug. 29, 2023 | President's Correspondence

President Davidson welcomes faculty and staff back to campus by reinvigorating our founding purpose, to prepare our students to meet Colorado鈥檚 workforce needs.聽 聽Read more.

Davidson's Desk: Affirming education access

June 29, 2023 | Davidson's Desk

The Supreme Court handed down its highly anticipated decision on affirmative action in higher education admissions today, striking down the policy in a monumental moment for education. Fortunately, because 海角社区 is an open-access institution, the decision will have no impact on who we will admit and won鈥檛 alter our efforts to prepare Colorado鈥檚 workforce. Read more.

Trustees approve Fiscal Year 2024 budget

June 7, 2023 | President's Correspondence

The Board of Trustees has approved an exciting new budget for Metropolitan State University of Denver, highlighted by employee compensation increases and strategic investments that will catalyze our enrollment momentum as we launch the University forward. Read more.

Launching Student Success

May 11, 2023 | President's Correspondence

Two years ago, we introduced our 鈥淩ecover, Stabilize, LAUNCH!鈥 framework as we were finalizing our聽2030 Strategic Plan. The biggest key to our launch is student retention, the one thing in our flywheel from which everything else turns. Read more.

Davidson's Desk: Colorado is desperate for workers. Higher ed is the answer.

March 16, 2023 | Davidson's Desk

颁辞濒辞谤补诲辞鈥檚听 said there were two job openings for every available worker last year, an immediate challenge that also brings into question the long-term sustainability of the state economy. We have an urgent need to invest in our education system 鈥 our state鈥檚 future. Read more.

Davidson on Colorado Business Roundtable podcast

March 3, 2023

Listen below to this episode of “A Seat at the Table,” as President Davidson shares how she works with businesses to ensure her students get real world experience and connections in a job market hungry for workers. She also expands on the evolving role of higher education in American culture, why higher education is still great value (despite commentary claiming it isn鈥檛), and her remarkable background as a pilot for the Air Force and a civilian working in the Pentagon.

Hosted by聽聽President Debbie Brown.

Workload task force, goals and timeline

Feb. 16, 2023 | President's Correspondence

The purpose of this note is to provide an update on the process and timeline for the way forward on faculty workload. Read more.

Reaction and resources following Feb. 13 school shootings

Feb. 14, 2023 | President's Correspondence

I am at a loss to describe how I鈥檓 feeling after a spate of shootings and lockdowns at schools near and far yesterday.聽Colorado School of Mines was on lockdown聽for five hours early Monday while police searched for an armed fugitive who killed a police K-9; a聽Denver East High School student was shot聽near the school in the afternoon and remains hospitalized; and at least聽three Michigan State University students were killed and several more injured during a mass shooting last night. Read more.

Preparing an inclusive and swift path forward on faculty workload

Feb. 13, 2023 | President's Correspondence

President Davidson provides an update on 海角社区’s plans to address faculty workload. Read more.

Welcome to the spring 2023 semester

Jan. 31, 2023

President Davidson welcomes students with a video inspired by 海角社区’s national champion aerobatics team.

Higher ed leadership letter to Joint Budget Committee

Jan. 9, 2023 | Letter to the Joint Budget Committee

Colorado’s college and university leaders sent a joint request to the state’s Joint Budget Committee asking for an increase of $144.7 million in state operating funding for higher education and 4% in tuition authority as part of the annual budget cycle. Read more.