If you’re living in Denver, you’re probably familiar with a restaurant named Rosenberg’s and its addictive bagels baked with replicated New York water. Yes – we said New York. That’s how passionate CEO and founder Joshua Pollack is about making an authentic New York bagel in the Colorado Front Range. But did you know how these bagels came to be? Rewind to 2012, when Pollack enrolled in entrepreneurship courses as part of the Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship’s certificate program.  Read more

More and more, companies all over the world are looking for ways to make their company and the world a better place. In the business world, this topic is commonly referred to as sustainability. Business sustainability encompasses the improvements a company or organization can make to positively impact the environment, people, and communities surrounding it.  Read more

CU Denver faculty has discussed efforts to encourage millennial students, who have shown to be more risk-averse, to engage in entrepreneurship. Madhavan Parthasarathy, director of the Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship, discussed resources the center offers to students, such as providing mentors, networks and the fundamentals to starting a business. He also outlined the Launchpad Certificate Program, which enrolls non-degree-seeking students in five courses that give them the fundamentals to start their own business or contribute an entrepreneurial perspective to an existing organization.  Read more

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.  Read more

Certificate Ceremony features prominent Colorado business leaders Jabs, Lewan DENVER – Two of Denver’s most accomplished entrepreneurs and leaders spoke at the Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship certificate ceremony on Thursday evening. One speaker was Jabs himself, who last May made a $10 million contribution to dramatically expand entrepreneurship education, research, programmatic reach and caliber within the CU Denver Business School.  Read more

The University of Colorado Denver has teamed up with CPAexcel to offer special prices on review courses for the certified public accountant (CPA) examination. CPAexcel has broken down their exam prep sections into easily digestible “Bite-Sized Lessons.” They also offer over 5,000 CPA exam practice questions, task-based simulations, unlimited practice exams, and a host of other features.  Read more

Twenty-three students will soon receive their certificates from the first Lifecycle of Oil and Natural Gas Certificate program offered by the Global Energy Management Program (GEM) at CU Denver in partnership with the Denver Petroleum Club (DPC).  Read more