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General Information
Libraries Engagement
• Library holdings include more than 2.8 million • CSU Extension provides services in 62 of 64 Colorado
books, bound journals, and government documents. counties. Extension applies research to address local
issues such as cutting-edge agricultural production
• Access to more than 46,700 electronic journals and technologies, water quality and conservation,
over 545,000 e-books available at http://lib.colostate.edu nutrition and food safety, gardening, 4-H youth
development and community economic development.
• 325 desktop PCs plus more than 200 laptop computers Additional information at www.ext.colostate.edu.
(Macs and PCs), Chromebooks, iPads, video cameras, and
specialized calculators are available for checkout. • The 17 district offices of the Colorado State Forest
Service provide landowners with information and
• An expedited interlibrary loan service, including technical assistance on forest management, wildfire
desktop delivery of articles mitigation, urban and community forestry, and
conservation education.
University Center for the Arts
• The Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station conducts
• 300 world-class music, theatre and dance site-specific research on agriculture and related issues
performances; exhibitions; and other high-profile through its eight off-campus research centers.
arts events annually
• CSU OnlinePlus, from the Division of Continuing
• Facilities include the University Center for the Education, combines CSU’s academic excellence with
Arts with the Runyan Music Hall, Griffin Concert the flexibility of online learning, offering high-
Hall, University Theatre and Studio Theatre, Dance quality degrees and courses to more than 10,000
Theatre, the Organ Recital Hall, University Art students annually.
Museum, and the Avenir Museum of Design and
Merchandising. • The Colorado Water Institute focuses academic water
expertise on the evolving water conditions faced by
International Programs Colorado citizens.
• Recipient of the 2013 “Senator Paul Simon National The Career Center
Award for Outstanding Campus Internationalization”
• More than 8,500 one-on-one career advising
• #1 in the U.S. for international student satisfaction for appointments annually
academics and student support in the “International
Student Barometer Survey” for 2013 • Over 8,500+ full-time jobs and internships posted
• 2,000+ on-campus interviews
• Over 20% of tenure-track faculty and 25% of new • Over 600 employers recruit on campus
faculty are international. • 81% of CSU graduates secured their first-destination
• 2,000 international students and scholars representing plans by the following December, which is 7% higher
93+ countries than the national average.
• CSU graduates were hired by more than 1,100
• 1,200 students participate annually in Education unique employers and accepted by more than
Abroad programs in 85+ countries. 200 graduate schools.
• Manages Peace Corps programs and CSU ranks 11th Alumni
in the U.S. for recruitment
• CSU has 202,013 living alumni with 38 geographic
• 17 key strategic partnerships around the world, alumni groups (11 in Colorado and 27 out of state)
including four with leading Chinese universities representing 24 states and 13 common interest groups.
• Host to the new Confucius Institute with its focus on
water and environmental sustainability
• Co-host with East China Normal University in
Shanghai for the Joint Research Institute for New
Energy and the Environment
• Integrally involved with the INTO-CSU partnership
to increase campus globalization and enrollment
with the CSU Todos Santos Center in Mexico
Institutional Research
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