Announcements and Events

  • February 05, 2025
  • Provost Proceedings

Please send any accomplishments, announcements, etc. to provost@regis.edu or directly to Jake Bucher.

 

 

 

  • Registration for the 2025 Migrant Trail opens on April 1. You can learn more at azmigranttrail.com. Please reach out to Melissa Nix or Jake Bucher if you’d like to learn more about the experience.

 

  • Congratulations to the School of Pharmacy students and faculty. The School received their NAPLEX school report had a 80% first time pass rate, continuing to be higher than the national average at 77.5%.

 

  • Jake Bucher presented on “Healthy Masculinities” at the National Organization for Victim Advocacy conference for military domestic abuse victim advocate professionals.

  • Regis has received a National Humanities Center's Being Human Festival grant. The grant will fund the development of a walking tour of Denver's Little Saigon for our students and members of the public. It is a part of our Stories from Wartime programming this spring that is focused on the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. The walking tour will highlight the histories of local Vietnamese refugees and their children who helped to establish the Far East Center and Little Saigon. Thanks to Rose Campbell (Regis College) for leading this effort.

  • In other grant news, Regis has also received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to build a Museum Studies program. Thanks to Khristin Montes (Regis College) and colleagues for their work on this.

  • One more on grants – Regis was selected as one of the inaugural Faith & Health Campus Grant cohorts from Interfaith America. The grant will provide $60,000 to help us launch the Spirituality in Health and Healing certificate in partnership with St. Joseph’s Hospital. This is a wonderful cross-college collaboration of colleagues in RHCHP and Regis College.

  • Faculty and Students from RHCHP recently completed their immersion trip in the San Luis Valley. Working with La Puente, the Regis group engaged with the Adelante Family Resource Center, Food Bank Network, PALS (licensed after school program for children with unstable home lives), Health Fair, Crisis Intervention, Community Shelter, Street Outreach, Rethreads (clothing and resource “store”) VEGI – Valley Educational Gardens Initiative (providing community garden and nutrition education), the Rainbow Bridge Thrift Store and Milagros Coffee/Restaurant (social enterprises supporting La Puente programs and services), the St. Benedicts homeless encampment, and off-grid residents of the area and the challenges they face related to the climate, food insecurity, health/addiction, and more.

  • I am happy to share an initiative led out of the Provost Office in close collaboration with Admissions to bolster our post-traditional enrollment through “Reengage Regis”. We are working with MyFootpath to identify and recruit students who started at Regis (or were admitted) but never finished. We will work to get them started back on their path, and if they finished a bachelor’s path elsewhere – we will talk with them about our graduate programs.

 

  • We will be moving our Course Evaluations to SmartEvals. This platform is operated by a company that is committed to sustainability, and provides technology that is more user-friendly, will increase response rates, and will provide more useful reports.

 

  • To better support students, and to assist/relieve faculty advisors and other staff across campus, we are engaging College Vine to bring Artificial Intelligence into our student support efforts. The hope is to build this out over the Spring, with some opportunities for piloting this spring and summer, and full use in the fall – so more to come!

 

  • Please consult your Dean, University Senate representative, and/or the Provost directly if you have any questions about the program modifications mentioned in this month’s letter. We are following the Faculty Handbooks’ language on communication, and that language does not include broad/public announcements. We are not withholding information, we are respecting due process and privacy. The Deans, Senators, and Provost can discuss the state of things with you if you reach out.

 

  • In our continuing efforts to support students, including those dealing with immigration emergencies, please consult this document. As with program modifications, please consult your Deans, the Community of Belonging folks, or the Provost directly if you would like to discuss questions, concerns, and/or ideas related to executive orders and other implications of new/forthcoming federal policies.