Hamilton Bean, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, co-wrote an article for The Conversation regarding the Oct. 4th national test message.The message was expected to state, “THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert system. No action is needed.” Bean instead suggests that action is, in fact,...

“College programs in prison provide students with the tools to change them from incarcerated people into tax-paying citizens. It is fiscally, ethically, and logically superior to the way we currently do things. And most importantly, it reduces recidivism,” said formerly incarcerated Communication Lecturer, Ben Boyce. Commentary - Educating Incarcerated Individuals:...

Communication Professor Stephen Hartnett knows that education can transform lives. In this op-ed he highlights the partnership between CU Denver and the Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC) which brings college classes to prisons and changed the life of Ben Boyce. He wrote, “The former addict and prisoner became Dr. Boyce,...

After a semester without implementing them, Communication Associate Professor Amy A. Hasinoff has decided that penalties for late work mainly create intense anxiety for students and may not provide that much payoff for instructors. She wrote, “As the pandemic wears on, conversations about pedagogy in higher ed have been turning...

“People on the front lines of climate chaos have long documented that Black, Indigenous, and other people of color, coastal and rural regions, and low-income and low-wealth communities are most at risk. These disproportionate impacts stem from centuries of colonial and imperial violence, neoliberal austerity measures, environmental racism, racial capitalism,...

Amy Hasinoff, Associate Professor of Communication, recently co-authored a study on image-based abuse, and said in a recent interview, "Just because someone consented to send a photo doesn't mean the receiver has consent to distribute it. That's a completely separate act." Matt Gaetz thought he could 'do what he wanted'...

On March 31, 2021, the U. S. Supreme Court heard the case of NCAA v. Alston. It is an antitrust case in which the NCAA argues that the property rights of Division I basketball and FBS football athletes should be dismissed because college athletes are amateurs. Lawyer and Communications Professor...

Using war as a metaphor for illness during a pandemic or global crisis is not just a contemporary occurrence. “There is an ancient and cross-cultural tendency to frame disease in terms of war,” said Lisa Keranen, Associate Professor of Communication, and a medical rhetorician who studies how we speak about...

Focusing on how anxiety can fuel racism, and how that can be prevented, Faye Caronan (Associate Professor and Chair of the Ethnic Studies), and Lisa Keranen (Associate Professor and Chair of the Communication) held an event on campus focusing on the Coronavirus, and also sat down with local media. Colorado...

“There is a lot of strong anecdotal evidence that child pornography laws work the same way all of our other laws do, which is they’re disproportionately applied to people of color,” said Amy Hasinoff, Associate Professor of Communication. “They’re disproportionately applied to kids in foster care, because they’re under more...