In the summer of 2014, the CU System launched an initiative to grow academic program offerings, from any CU campus, in a wildlife museum facility located in Lone Tree, CO. September 2014, the facility was gifted to the University of Colorado. Between 2014 and the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the university worked to grow academic program offerings while maintaining the museum, movie theatre, galleries, and conference rental spaces as an asset to the community. CU sold the facility during the pandemic. The Denver campus provided oversight of the endeavor. The Denver/Anschutz Provost established the Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs position to provide oversight and support all aspects of the academic endeavor.

As the Associate Vice Chancellor at CU South Denver, my role and responsibilities centered on supporting the academic endeavor and collaborating with Denver and Anschutz leaders to grow Continuing and Professional Education programs. As a new initiative of all four campuses, the academic challenge was to grow program offerings in a location that was concurrently operating as a wildlife museum, movie theater, and event location.

In this role I collaborated with Provosts, Deans, and faculty on the Anschutz, Boulder Colorado Springs, and Denver campuses. I supervised the K-12 Education Team (Director, 3 Staff, and 5 primary volunteers),  Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Programs, Director of Learning Design Solutions, Program Experience Specialist

Summary Overview of CU South Denver:

• 10 Academic programs offered By Boulder, Anschutz, and CU Denver
• By Spring 2019, $9,801,050 tuition generated in credit bearing programs
• Spring semester 2019 snapshot: 1602 credit hours and 177 individual enrollments in credit bearing programs
• 2018 Q4 snapshot: 43,496 museum and movie theatre visitors and K12 program participants, 5,223 participants in community events developed and delivered by the Academic Affairs team and Director of Marketing, 561 participants in non-credit programs developed and delivered by the Academic Affairs Team, 10,664 museum education participants, over 170 organizations booked an educational program
• Together with the VC and leadership team developed an operational advisory board of leaders from all four campuses to guide the development of the facility, academic portfolio, policies, practices, marketing, communications, budget, and overall operations of the CU South Denver endeavor