Denver Among Best Cities for Female Entrepreneurs

DENVER – The website NerdWallet, a site that uses number-crunching to help consumers make informed decision, recently released their list of the 10 “Best Cities for Female Entrepreneurs.” Coming in at number 7 is Denver, thanks in part to the education offered by the Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado Denver Business School. In fact, the ranking calls out the importance the Jake Jabs Center played in Denver’s high ranking. Read the rest of this post »

CU expands to South Denver

CU Denver | Anschutz campuses lead the initial effort 3/3/2014

The University of Colorado and The Wildlife Experience, the largest cultural institution in Douglas County, will collaborate to allow CU to begin offering classes in south metro Denver in fall 2014. CU’s Denver and Anschutz campuses will lead the initial effort, which is expected to offer courses and certificates in business, education, engineering, nursing and other health areas. Programs from CU’s Boulder and Colorado Springs campuses are expected to join the effort in the future.

CU will renovate a gallery area on the second floor of The Wildlife Experience to create 11,000 square feet of classroom and administrative space.

CU identified the need for offerings after conducting a market study of the south metro Denver area and interviewing leaders from the area’s major employers and professional organizations. The south metro area, which includes one-third of the population of metro Denver, is home to a variety of engineering, finance and health care-related companies. Read the rest of this post »

Enjoying a Chat Over Coffee and Doughnuts

Faculty Upside Down sessions encourage casual conversation between students and faculty

Story by Chris Casey | University Communications

DENVER — PeterMax Miller, an instructor of marketing, has a winning style with students. You can tell by the way their faces light up when they see him, the way they greet him with a fist pump.

So it makes perfect sense that the Office of Student Life kicked off its new series of faculty-student socials, called“Faculty Upside Down,” with Miller on Feb. 26. The sessions are meant to be a casual way for CU Denver students and faculty to connect outside the classroom.

Over free coffee and doughnuts in the North Classroom Atrium, Miller chatted with numerous students about whatever was on their minds—school, jobs, interests. Read the rest of this post »

Duemke Guides Finance Students in Upward Direction

Business School team, mentored by finance instructor, advances to Trading Challenge final round

Successfully navigating today’s financial markets takes uncommon nuance, experience and strategic knowledge. Two CU Denver Business School teams competing in the 2014 CME Group Commodity Trading Challenge have found the ideal mentor in finance instructor Gavan Duemke.

Largely thanks to Duemke’s insights, one of the teams has advanced to the final round of the Trading Challenge. The team turned their preliminary round simulated account of $100,000 into $125,000 in three weeks—a 25 percent return—good enough to place 31st out of 400 teams. Read the rest of this post »

RMI Program Receives Scholarship Gift from OneBeacon

The OneBeacon Insurance Group Charitable Trust has made a scholarship gift of $10,000 to the Risk Management and Insurance (RMI) program at University of Colorado Denver Business School. This is the first gift from OneBeacon Insurance Group to the RMI program and it will continue the program’s goal to recruit more students into the insurance industry workforce.

A large proportion of risk management and insurance employees are expected to retire in the next five years, and as Denver grows as an insurance and business hub, it will require an increasing number of new industry professionals. Read the rest of this post »