Academic Enrichment Programs

  1. Advanced Placement Institutes
    A popular series of training institutes for new and experienced AP teachers.
  2. Honors Program
    An opportunity for exceptional students to be involved in learning, critical awareness, independent thinking and research.
  3. Life of the Mind
    An interdisciplinary general education program that erases boundaries and creates gateways between subjects.
  4. McNair Scholars Program
    An undergraduate research program designed to prepare first generation/low income and/or underrepresented juniors and seniors for enrollment in doctoral degree programs.
  5. President's Leadership Program MCB
    A program of training in leadership theory and practice enlisting local, state and national leaders in business, government, education and the arts.

Looking for academic growth? Here are additional programs that may interest you:

Cumbres, UNC Hispanic Alumni Partnership

A teacher education program that seeks to recruit and assist students who are committed to working with Hispanic school children in the public schools.

Frontiers of Science

Experience six weeks in intensive study of the frontiers of biological, environmental, earth & space, and physical sciences.

Hewit Institute for History and Social Science Education

The primary focus is teacher education, materials development, and research in the teaching and learning of history and the social sciences.

Latina/o Literature and Literature of the Americas

Latina/o Literature and literature of the Americas are taught in courses offered by the Department of English

MAST (Mathematics and Science Teaching) Institute

This program provides leadership and coordination for projects and programs to improve mathematics and science education, within the University, the State and nationally.

Study Abroad

The Center for International Education provided choices for Study Abroad that vary in location, length, academic focus, language, ability and costs. Each program balances academic components with the opportunity to explore another country's culture and values. Find our office ....Discover the world! (970) 351-2396.

Tointon Institute for Educational Change

Participants in this program are superintendents, principals and teachers from Colorado who are nominated and who are given an opportunity network with colleagues from across the state through residential academies where they learn from many of the state's premier practicing educators and staff developers.