IN 2024, THE YEAR OF OUR 150TH ANNIVERSARY, WE WILL CELEBRATE COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES’ PAST, PRESENT AND POSSIBILITIES.
The Campaign for MINES@150 will elevate Mines to be top-of-mind and first-choice for students, faculty, staff, recruiters and other external partners. It will solidify our reputation and position us to be a world leader in producing distinctive and highlyvalued graduates and the innovations and knowledge the world needs far into the future.
CAMPAIGN PRIORITIES
INVESTMENT IN STUDENTS
THE MINES SIGNATURE STUDENT EXPERIENCE
ENTREPRENEURSHIP, INNOVATION AND BUSINESS PROGRAMS
THE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE AND DISTINCTION
INVESTMENT IN STUDENTS Students are the body and soul of our institution and ensuring their success at Mines and beyond is at the heart of all of our efforts. Whether through scholarships, community building or connecting with our future students at a young age, this investment will continue to attract the best and brightest to Mines for years to come. • Scholarships, Fellowships and Program Support will increase opportunity, moderate student debt and compete for top students. Students who meet our selective admission standards should see Mines as a highly-attractive and accessible option, regardless of family background. • Student Scholar Communities will increase student success and affi nity to Mines, promote a pay-it-forward attitude, and deliver special programming through vertically-connected, multi-year student communities such as Harvey Scholars, Mines scholarathletes and the First-at-Mines community. • K-14 Outreach and Other STEM Pipeline Activities will create scalable programs that increase awareness, interest and yield of the students we hope to attract to Mines.
When I got the scholarship, I thought, ‘wow, the admissions committee, the alumni who have endowed this scholarship, all the people, they believe in me and they believe that I would be an important asset to the Mines community.’
Emmaline Kim Class of 2021 • Geology
There are two important skills that I learned from my Mines education—critical thinking and problem solving. Those skills have stayed with me throughout my education and career. If something isn't clear, there is always a way to figure it out. Mines taught me to be an observer, to investigate and to problem solve your way through any challenge. Christina Volpi '12 Geology and Geological Engineering
THE MINES SIGNATURE STUDENT EXPERIENCE The preparation of our future graduates will be an everevolving, well-orchestrated combination of challenging coursework, workshops and seminars, self-guided learning, practical experiences and mentoring through which our students develop technical prowess, business acumen, professional skills and a broad understanding of the world within which they operate. This distinctive education experience and environment, the “Mines Signature Student Experience,” will prepare our graduates for the future better than any other university. • The Catalyst Fund will accelerate the creation of the Mines Signature Student Experience and support the leaders who champion it. • Honors Programs will create three to four challenging fi rst-year honors tracks, followed by six to 12 upperclass honors tracks that complement and broaden the world-class technical preparation our students have always received.
• Leadership Programming will prepare our students to have greater impact in their professional careers through development of soft skills and leadership abilities. • Professional Development will produce graduates who are better prepared for rapid success in established corporate and start-up settings. Alumni will be very visible in and play key roles in these efforts.
Mines has a very high proportion of entrepreneurs and successful business leaders as alumni already, but we picked up the skills of innovating and having an entrepreneurial mindset along the way. The new curricular focus on E&I will help jump start that for a lot of students.
Steve Enger '81 Petroleum Engineering Foundation Board of Governors
ENTREPRENEURSHIP, INNOVATION AND BUSINESS PROGRAMS In response to industry demands, alumni feedback and student interests, we will ensure that all graduates are business-literate; we will launch a new business degree option; and we will create a rich and thriving entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem across campus. • Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is where students learn how to advance their ideas from problem to concept to prototype and finally, to a product or start-up.
• Innovation and Design Classrooms are where all students will fi rst learn about and apply the design process and principles of entrepreneurship.
• Business Venture Center is where students, faculty and external partners come together to network and support each other in learning how to launch a start-up.
• Innovation Challenge Funds will support campus-wide student innovation challenge competitions.
• Business Programs will create business-savvy engineers, scientists and leaders. • Labriola Innovation Complex is where all students will be able to experience handson learning in a unique makerspace environment.
• Innovation Fund will support proof-of-concept and other work needed to attract venture and other external start-up funding.
THE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE AND DISTINCTION Investments support the pursuit of excellence and international-level recognition in all that we do, from our academic programs to our research and creative activities to our athletics programs and other extracurricular activities (e.g. student competition teams).
The culture at Mines inspires students to strive for excellence in everything they do. I have been a part of the adventure leadership community, the service coordinator for the Harvey Scholar community and a
• Excellence Funds will support success leading to national recognition of our students’ extracurricular activities, such as the Marv Kay Excellence Fund for Mines Athletics, and the Engineering Challenge Excellence Fund for our national engineering challenge teams. • Pathways of Distinction Funds will support our academic programs’ plans for increasing the uniqueness and recognition of their programs to excel in the competitive landscape. • Faculty Leaders Programs will grow the number of faculty leaders who are driving strategic initiatives at both the university and program level through named recognition and discretionary fi nancial support. • Frontiers Initiatives will position Mines’ traditional expertise and take it far beyond to the frontiers of education and research in new and developing areas of engineering and science that will be critical to society and industry in the future. This will include advanced manufacturing and materials, space resources, critical materials, subsurface infrastructure, advanced energy systems and more.
leader with the Mines Philanthropy Council, which works to make students' ideas to improve our campus possible. Erik Bensen Class of 2021 • Physics
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