102 Administration Building
0100 Campus Delivery
Fort Collins, CO 80523-0100
(970) 491-6211
presofc@lamar.colostate.edu
President's Spotlight
- Penley to serve on National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges special committee to increase the number and quality of math and science teachers, May 7, 2008
- Message from President Penley - 2008 Spring Semester Update, April 22, 2008
- FY 2009 Proposed Budget for Colorado State University and the CSU System, April 18, 2008
- CSU's push for financing, The Denver Post, April 8, 2008
- Beyond Pledges and Light Bulbs, Inside Higher Ed, March 28, 2008
- Rocky Mountain Collegian - Higher education must move beyond campus sustainability, February 29, 2008
- It Takes a Village: Expanding the Role of Higher Education in Addressing Global Sustainability, February 26, 2008
Welcome to
Colorado State University
Universities are society’s greatest sources of ideas and innovation. Our nation's research universities have, within their reach, the power to change lives for the better — through education of a knowledge workforce and with ground-breaking research solutions to global problems, deployed through market-based enterprises.
At Colorado State University, we have a particular focus on the challenge of global sustainability and environmental stewardship. And as a major research university, our focus is not just on running a green campus though such actions as changing out old light bulbs for energy efficient ones, but on engineering a better light bulb — and educating the knowledge leaders who will invent a replacement for the light bulb. The anticipated explosion of "green collar" jobs worldwide over the next two decades is well-aligned with CSU's historic academic excellence in related fields like natural resources, clean energy, engineering, atmospheric science, sustainable enterprise, water resources, communications, and much more.
We also take seriously our obligation and opportunity to demonstrate that we have the agility, vision, and enterprise-based focus to be an effective partner in deploying innovation in support of environmental and other global challenges. Our pioneering Superclusters concept is a testament to this commitment. Here at Colorado State, we continue to take great research ideas, narrowly focus in specific areas, and move innovation rapidly into the market space where it can improve human lives worldwide.
This new mission of globally deploying innovative solutions developed at Colorado State to help solve global problems dovetails with our mission since this institution was founded in 1870: To educate the next generation of leaders, conduct groundbreaking scholarship and research, and extend that learning beyond our campus for the betterment of society.
Sincerely,
Larry Edward Penley
