University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center

The University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center (UCDHSC) is a public university in the State of Colorado. UCDHSC is one of three campuses of the University of Colorado system. The university has two campuses, one in downtown Denver and the "Health Sciences Campus" (HSC) located in neighboring Aurora. The main medical campus is located at the Aurora Campus. The downtown campus features both undergraduate and graduate courses, with the student population currently comprising more than 40 percent graduate (or masters and doctoral) students. The university offers a wide variety of degrees and is host to the university's teaching hospital, the University of Colorado Hospital on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora. The single university is the result of the 2004 consolidation of the University of Colorado at Denver" and "University of Colorado Health Sciences Center."

There are currently more than 27,000 students at the school's two physical campuses in downtown Denver and in Aurora. The school also offers classes via CU Online. The school offers more than 100 degree programs in 12 schools and colleges. UCDHSC awards more than 3,400 degrees every year, and grants more graduate degrees than any other institution in Colorado.

UCDHSC employs more than 12,200 Coloradans, making it one of the metro Denver area's top employers. The University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center serves more than 500,000 patients a year through its hospital and clinical services.

History
The University of Colorado created a department of medicine and surgery in September of 1883. This department granted its 1st degrees in 1885.

By 1892, the last two years of classes were taught in Denver because the larger population afforded more practical experience. This practice triggered something of a turf battle with the University of Denver’s medical school and the subsequent legal battle went to state Supreme Court. In 1897, the court found that CU’s charter restricted them to Boulder. However, CU wasn't ready to admit defeat. In 1910, CU got amendment to state Constitution passed which allowed them to move back to Denver. They later combined with the Denver and Gross Medical College to form a larger school with a more comprehensive program. In 1947, the hospital assumed responsibility for patients referred from Denver General Hospital. The State paid for care and students got instruction

In 1995, Fitzsimons Army Base was officially put on the Base Realignment and Closure list. Officials from Health Sciences Center, University of Colorado Hospital and the City of Aurora presented an innovative proposal to the Department of Defense in Washington, D.C. The proposal emphasized the benefits of reusing the decommissioned base to build — from the ground up — a world-class, academic health center, including state-of-the-art healthcare facilities. In addition, the campus will be directly adjacent to the Colorado Bioscience Park Aurora, providing opportunities to take University research discoveries into the stream of commerce at an accelerated rate, through affiliation with the biotech companies located in the 160 acre research park. With unprecedented support from the City of Aurora, the state of Colorado and federal entities, the Fitzsimons master plan calls for up to 15 million square feet of new construction. At build out, more than 32,000 people will be employed at Fitzsimons. The City of Aurora has created an urban renewal zone to the west and south of Fitzsimons to catalyze new, off-campus redevelopment.

Merger
In July 2004 the University of Colorado at Denver and the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center merged to create the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center (“UCDHSC”). As a result, the University of Colorado now encompasses three campuses, down from four. The campus will soon realign many of its operations at the Fitzsimons campus of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, scheduled to open in 2007 on the grounds of the former Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Aurora.

Most undergraduate activities remain at the Auraria Campus in Downtown Denver.

Size and activities
UCDHSC is one of the largest universities in Colorado with more than 27,000 students and awarding more than 3,400 degrees in a year. It grants more graduate degrees than any other university in Colorado. It has research budget of $300 million dollars. The school operates on US dollar basis of $1.8 billion dollars including University of Colorado Hospital and University Physicians, Inc. The University of Colorado Hospital serves more than half a million patients in a year.

The university offers a wide variety of studies such as engineering, business, culture, history, language, chemistry and medicine. Because of the Downtown Denver Campus' location to the city center, business and engineering are one of the common majors in the campus. There are frequent late hours business classes for people pursuing graduate degrees in business after work. In the engineering areas, downtown campus has worked with Lockheed Martin and Raytheon and has received help from those companies for classrooms and other things.

Schools and colleges

 * Downtown Denver Campus
 * College of Architecture and Planning
 * College of Arts & Media
 * The Business School
 * School of Education & Human Development
 * College of Engineering and Applied Science
 * College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
 * Graduate School of Public Affairs
 * Graduate School


 * Health Sciences Campus
 * School of Dentistry
 * School of Medicine
 * School of Nursing
 * School of Pharmacy
 * Graduate School
 * Continuing Medical Education
 * Allied Health Programs
 * Graduate Medical Education

Downtown Denver Campus


The downtown Denver campus is on the Auraria Campus, located to the southwest of downtown Denver in the Auraria Neighborhood. The Auraria Campus contains two additional institutes of higher education: Metropolitan State College of Denver and the Community College of Denver. Once primiarily a commuter campus, the university has opened its first student housing location in 2006- Campus Village. Regional Transportation District's (RTD) Light Rail has two stops on the Auraria Campus: Colfax at Auraria and Auraria West Campus. UCDHSC's student news paper, the Advocate, comes out weekly during the school year and bi-monthly during the summer.

Health Sciences Campus
The Health Sciences Campus previously had two sub-campuses, the main campus at Ninth Avenue and Colorado Boulevard in Denver (which has now since been decomissioned), and a new campus in neighboring Aurora. The former Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in northwest Aurora is being transformed into a 217 acre campus for the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (UCHSC) and the University of Colorado Hospital and has been renamed the Anschutz Medical Campus. The Health Sciences Center will include administrative and teaching functions, as well as clinical and research programs. The University of Colorado Health Sciences Center is one of the top academic medical centers in the United States and will be the heart of an active complex of laboratories, clinics, hospitals, classrooms and offices.

The 578 acre Anschutz Medical Campus is undergoing a $4.3 billion renovation and transformation into the largest medical-related redevelopment project in the United States. The University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (UCHSC) and the University of Colorado Hospital are relocating their entire operations to Anschutz Medical Campus. The 160 acre Colorado Bioscience Park Aurora is being developed directly adjacent to the health sciences areas of campus. The remaining acres of the former military facility are dedicated to commercial, hospitality, retail and residential development.