For a generation raised on the promise that education opens doors, the long-held belief that a degree leads to opportunity has started to crack. Let’s face it. Tuition keeps rising, forcing families to make trade-offs in real time. At the same time, students are watching graduates struggle through lengthy job searches as they navigate hiring processes that stretch for months, and encounter roles labeled “entry level” that still ask for experience they have not yet had the chance to build.  Read more

Where do blushes and brushes transition from hobby to career? Dribbling a soccer ball, journaling, crafting a coffee, and solving puzzles. Many pastimes remain just that. A threshold, or rather a starting point, exists at which a person’s next step becomes intentional. That next step is rarely discussed. It is common to hear, “follow your passion,” but rare to consider what passion requests in return: discipline, structure, and the willingness to learn the parts that don’t come naturally.  Read more

From Large Language Models (LLMs) that fundamentally change how humans work, learn, and create to reusable orbital rockets that cut space research costs by nearly 10x, according to SpaceX, technological breakthroughs have richly influenced the past decade. National Inventors’ Day celebrates such occurrences and honours both historical and current innovators who contribute to technological progress.  Read more

Reinvention is one of life’s quiet constants. It keeps showing up and invites us to grow or imagine something different. The beauty of it lies in our ability to answer that invitation when we’re bold enough to do so, to move forward not because we have to, but because we choose to. ​For Brittany Guzmán Taylor, reinvention has long been a way of moving through the world.  Read more

Money feels loud these days. Everywhere you look, someone is talking about making it fast or trying to keep up. Rising costs don’t make it any easier, and the online culture adds pressure to figure things out early, even when most people are still trying to find their footing. It creates a mix of urgency and confusion, an overwhelming public assumption that everyone should understand money instinctively, even though financial education can be limited.  Read more

In the early days of AI, before the headlines and the hype, most people saw it as something far away that only tech insiders needed to care about. Then it quietly slipped into everything. The same thing is happening with quantum technology, except the timeline is moving faster, and the impact will reach farther. This is precisely why CU Denver Business School is opening space for this conversation now.  Read more

When people are young, their dreams often feel certain and clearly defined. They imagine careers that fit neatly within what they know at the time — teacher, doctor, engineer, astronaut, something they can picture. Yet life has a way of revealing other paths. For Tasnim Ahmad ’21, MBA ’26, that moment of realization came when she reconsidered her long-sought passion to serve in healthcare.  Read more