Tech Training for Immigrants and Refugees

One of the Common Good Network's (CGN's) primary areas of focus is community outreach. And one of the center's key partners for this outreach is TechNation Careers. They provide technology skill training to immigrants and refugees so that they can more effectively integrate into our community and earn viable wages, while providing needed skills to our marketplace. The CGN provides critical support for this effort by providing funding for training materials as well as instructors.

In addition to funding, TechNation's partnership with the CGN provides that organization with the necessary relationships with an accredited educational institution that adds credibility to their job placement process.

From Regis' perspective, in addition to alignment with pursuit of the Common Good, this relationship also promotes Regis University's academic programs to the organization's trainees who wish to continue their higher education aspirations.

SEED Funding Research Grant Program

Climate change has increasingly been labeled an “existential threat” by both climate scientists and major world leaders. Given that business is one of the most powerful institutions on earth, some business leaders and educators have called for business educators and practitioners to realign the systems, tools, and assets of business with the tenets of social and environmental sustainability in order to protect our planet and advance environmental justice.

While there is a significant business case to be made for such realignment in terms of reducing operational costs, attracting talent and courting customers, little conclusive research exists to support more sustainable business operations. This lack of data has meant that many business leaders have thus far been disincentivized to change their practices for more environmentally friendly ones. Moreover, while many consumers express positive attitudes toward sustainable brands, actual consumption behavior often does not reflect these professed attitudes.

Enter the SEED Funding Research Grant Program. This responsible business-focused program aims to provide financial support for faculty/student-led research, exploring sustainable business practices and consumer behaviors that can inform current business practice, business education and policy.

Your gift on Regis Gives Day will help to fund student stipends to conduct this important research. For Regis students, this represents an incredible opportunity to engage in innovative sustainable business research, which may help them find career paths in the corporate sustainability field or gain access to top MBA or other graduate programs. Moreover, it will help them to develop close relationships with faculty, which has been shown to increase academic success.

Help Regis do more for our planet by funding student research on sustainable business practices this Regis Gives Day. Your gift of any size could help support the research needed to save our planet and provide our students with a life-transforming education.

Virtual and Immersed Global Experience/The Service-Oriented Field Experience (SOFE)

The Service Oriented Field Experience (SOFE) is a three-credit capstone course within the master of nonprofit program. We bring students to learn from and experience different cultures and work contexts. We have run this class for over 20 years with travel to many parts of Latin America and Africa. Due to COVID and general uncertainties in the journey, we have paused this class for the last three years. We expect to resume the course in the summer of 2023.

With the Instructional Design and Technology department, we are exploring the possibility of making this both an experiential and a VR-immersive course. To do this well, we need to bring a videographer and a photographer to Uganda and Rwanda next summer to document/record the class in action. We would also need to pay the way for the instructor to manage the class and the recording process.

This would give students who cannot travel an opportunity to take the class from the US using augmented reality-type technology. The IDT team is excited because this will be the first course of its kind. We also see possibilities for offering this as a standalone course for revenue purposes to support further experiential studies.

Regis Athletics Sports Performance

The athletics department is looking to build our sports performance department with the addition of ForceDecks from Vald Performance. This will allow us to measure, train and monitor strength with ForceDecks, the world’s fastest, easiest and most powerful dual plate system for analyzing neuromuscular strength and imbalance. This addition will directly benefit every student athlete who becomes a part of our department by enabling them to train and monitor their progress and manage their rehab assignments.

Taking PBLA Outdoors

Porter-Billups Leadership Academy (PBLA) believes outdoor education positively impacts our youth's educational, physical, and emotional development. To take our outdoor education program outdoors, we hope you'll consider supporting PBLA with a gift for our Summer 2023 Academy. $7,500 will provide outdoor education opportunities for our middle and high school students.

In recognizing low-income students do not have the same opportunities to experience all the excellent outdoor options Colorado has to offer, your gift will help PBLA provide our middle school students the opportunity to experience hiking, fishing, archery, and horseback riding while learning about African American history in Colorado at Lincoln Hills Cares. Middle school students will further their outdoor education with the Colorado Parks Rangers, learning survival skills and how to be better stewards of the environment with their 'Leave no Trace" program. Finally, Lucky to Ride offers our middle and high school students a stem-based cycling program, and upon completion of the program, our students receive a bike, new helmet, lock, and tool kit. Every gift makes a difference.

• $15 allows 1 student to participate in horseback riding, archery, fishing, and hiking
• $50 provides 5 students education on the importance of environmental stewardship from Colorado Wildlife Park Rangers
• $100 provides 5 students to participate in the Lucky to Ride program and receive a new bike and all the accessories upon program completion
• $200 will help pay for sack lunches
• $500 will help towards bus transportation costs to the outdoor excursion sites

We encourage you to support our PBLA students by contributing today, knowing you are providing ways to positively impact their physical and social-emotional health by engaging with nature in glorious Colorado.

Student Emergency Fund

Our students work extremely hard to better their lives at Regis University, but sometimes life circumstances can get in the way. The Student Emergency Fund is an emergency stipend for Regis students who are dealing with unanticipated and/or catastrophic life events that might otherwise cause them to stop or pause their educational goals. Your gift on Regis Gives Day would cover necessities such as:

• Funding for school supplies or computers for students who lost housing to a natural disaster or other emergency i.e. COVID-19.
• Funding for a student who is struggling to pay for basic needs.
• Travel expenses so a student can attend a family member's funeral or assist their family during a time of need.
• Rent or living expenses to make a transition or move out of an unhealthy living situation.
• Counseling services to resolve issues from a traumatic life event.
• Testing services for disabilities if not covered by insurance.

In these challenging times, your support means more to our students than ever before. We hope you will consider a donation to the Student Emergency Fund on Regis Gives Day.

Regis University Excellence Fund

Support Regis’ mission of providing an outstanding Jesuit education at the frontiers of faith, reason, and culture with a gift to the Regis University Excellence Fund. Gifts to the RU Excellence Fund support the areas of greatest need for the University including student scholarship support, teaching and research, student development needs, campus improvements, programmatic innovation, and more.

The RU Excellence Fund is critical to continuing Regis’ leadership in Jesuit scholarship, faculty research, and student development for generations to come. Please consider a donation today to support the future of Regis.

General Scholarship Fund

Help Regis University provide the gift of an education with a donation to The General Scholarship Fund. This critical scholarship fund provides both need and merit-based assistance to students from any College or department across the University.

Student scholarships are critical to Regis’ success as they enable the University to continue to attract and retain talented students regardless of their financial circumstances. 99% of undergraduate Regis students receive some form of scholarship or financial aid.

Your donation to support general scholarships this Regis Gives Day will make an incalculable difference in our students’ lives propelling them towards success in the classroom and beyond.

Bike Shop Renovation

Regis University’s Bike & Ski Shop is looking to source a new set of bikes for the bike fleet. The new bike fleet would provide the Bike Shop Program more opportunities for bike trips to explore Denver and neighboring communities.

Currently, the bike models that the Bike Shop has are outdated and it is becoming difficult to source parts to fix them since they are no longer being manufactured. The New Bike Fleet Campaign would help buy hybrid bikes so that the bikes can ride on the road and on the trail for mountain biking trips as well.

In the past, there have been trips that have included intro to mountain biking, taste of Tennyson food and bike tour, bike to the climbing gym, and the Vail Flyer bike ride from Vail Pass to Frisco. The Outdoor Adventure Program runs the bike shop and bike trips and having a set of reliable bikes for the trips would help grow our Outdoor Adventure Program and Bike and Ski Shop as well.

Our fundraising goal is $5,000 to buy new bikes. With wholesale prices each, the goal is to find bikes that fit a hybrid model of half road bike and half mountain bike model for under $1,000 for each bike. The hybrid bikes have a flat handlebar for mountain biking and allow for more upright riding while zooming around town.

The current model for the New Bike Fleet Campaign are the REI’s Co-op Cycle CTY 2.1. These bikes are durable, have hydraulic disc brakes, have front suspension, and uses mixed terrain tires. REI’s bikes have a large amount of inventory for replacement parts in case the bike need maintenance. The CTY 2.1 bike is competitively priced and is a reliable and versatile bike as well.

Guatemala Interfaith Medical Service Project

In 2019 Regis began a partnership with Ciudad de la Esperanza, a school and community center founded in 2003 by a Guatemalan priest, Padre Sergio Godoy. The community is a group of Indigenous, extremely impoverished Guatemalans who live off the local landfill. The center educates 450 children and provides psychological support, legal aid and job training to around 3,000 families. Regis alumna and pediatrician, Dr. Lauri Pramuk, was asked by Padre Sergio to help establish a primary care clinic for the community.

Regis has taken two student groups down to Coban to help run the clinic and has made significant partnerships with local healthcare workers to sustain the clinic year-round. Ten Regis pre-med and nursing students will travel to Coban in May 2023 to run the clinic again with the assistance of the volunteer medical staff. The project offers our future healthcare professionals an opportunity to experience a service-learning immersion in a very marginalized community. The volunteer medical team gathers with the Regis students weekly throughout the academic year to help them learn about Guatemalan history, culture and medical services.

The students also learn basic triage skills, how to take a medical history, some elements of physical exam, how to assist in dental procedures, as well as how to fill prescriptions and counsel patients on medication use. We bring medications to stock the clinic pharmacy for a year and newborn medical kits for the babies that will join the community in the next year. We also provide home water filtration systems for families who have no access to clean drinking water.

Magis House – An Intentional Living Community, Rooted in Ignatian Spirituality

In the Fall of 2020, University Ministry opened the doors to Magis House, an intentional living community rooted in Ignatian spirituality and dedicated to accompanying students who are “seeking more” in their faith journey at Regis University. Magis House residents explore questions of faith, vocation, and relationship with God while living navigating the joys and challenges of intentional community life. The members of Magis House receive regular support from University Ministry staff, including guidance and formation in Ignatian thought and spirituality in order to animate this spirituality in their daily lives.

After hosting two communities, Magis House went on a hiatus. As we look to reopen the doors of Magis House, we recognize the need to provide financial support for students choosing to live in this intentional community; our desire is that students will not need to choose between more affordable housing options and the spiritual formation opportunity offered by Magis House. Your support on Regis Gives Day will help us to make Magis House available to any interested student.

Every gift contributes to the magis of Magis House.

• $50 provides groceries for a “family dinner” prepared together, as a community at home
• $300 would provide groceries for one student for one semester
• $1300 would cover the cost of a two-night silent Ignatian retreat at Sacred Heart Retreat House for the community
• $4500 would cover the cost of housing for one resident for a full semester

"As a student, Magis House was a transformative space for me to be able to learn and live alongside others. Now as a staff member I am able to look back and know that the Ignatian Spirituality practices that are infused into my work in ministry were encountered within the caring community that Magis House fostered.”

—Taylor Vanasse (Class of 2022, Magis House resident during 2020-2021) and current University Ministry Associate

The Student Cupboard

A Project to move and expand the Regis Cupboard to a larger, more accessible place for students to secure food and hygiene items. With significantly more space and a new name, the campus food pantry at Regis University is looking to reinvent itself to meet growing demand for its services. Offering students more than free groceries, expanded offerings would include access to wellness products, microwaves and toaster ovens for heating food, a student dining space, a charging station and public-benefits support. It will be a place to nourish community and creativity in a cozy and comfortable space. The Cupboard is also hoping a new location and reimagined approach to helping hungry students will eliminate the stigma attached to asking for help.

Catalina Hooser Scholarship for DREAMers

Dreamer students, like all other students who want to pursue their dreams through education, should be supported and celebrated. Yet the reality of their journey, and the challenges it entails, can deter even the most tenacious students. Dreamers face unique challenges to securing financial support for college because they typically do not qualify for federal or state-funded financial aid. These students may even be denied private loans to fund their education.

Named to honor the legacy of Catalina Hooser, a Regis dreamer student who passed away just a few months after her graduation, the Catalina Nicole Hooser Scholarship for Dreamers provides scholarships and educational support for first-generation students with high financial need, with a preference for undocumented or dreamer students. Please consider a donation today to ease these students’ economic worries so they can concentrate on their schoolwork and building a bright future for themselves.

The Catholic Café: Enhancing Regis’ Catholic Identity

The Catholic Cafe consists of monthly meetings of Regis students, staff and faculty on topics of importance in developing our understanding of the Catholic faith. This project was born out of conversations between the Director of the Program of Catholic Studies, Dr. Michael Baxter, and students who desire support for traditional Catholic beliefs and practices.

The first gathering focused on "The Catholic Thing," a theme derived from G.K. Chesterton's writings on becoming Catholic and elaborated on by Bishop Robert Barron. Future topics include: How to be Catholic in an increasingly secular society; being a Catholic lawyer, doctor, nurse, and business person; maintaining ethnically rooted Catholic identities (Hispanic, Asian) amid the dynamics of immigration and assimilation; the Catholic intellectual vision as regards philosophy, politics, history, literature, and science; Catholic spiritual masters and saints; and Catholic great books, such as Augustine’s Confessions, Dante’s The Divine Comedy, and (especially) Newman’s The Idea of a University.

Speakers will be invited from the Regis community, from Denver and the Front Range, and on occasion (once or twice a year) from around the country. Talks occur in the late afternoon, followed by a meal, post-dinner conversations. The tone of the gatherings is hospitable, humorous, intellectually challenging, and unapologetically Catholic. The purpose is to build up Catholic identity and community on the Regis University campus. Funds for the Catholic Cafe are devoted to publicity; honoraria and travel for speakers; food, drinks, and meals; and costs for purchasing books and articles. We invite support from those who aim to help the University nurture the faith of Catholic students, by alumni aiming to help recover and sustain the Catholic character of Regis; and by others in the area aiming to contribute to Catholic intellectual life in Denver, the Front Range, and around the state of Colorado.

Internships for the Common Good

Internships provide a way for students to figure out how to do what matters. They are one of the best ways for students to explore their passions, purpose, strengths, and values. Moreover, internships help students develop the career readiness skills that complement their Regis degree.

For these reasons, Regis encourages all students to complete an academic internship, but many students are unable to do so. Common barriers to participation include having to work to pay for college, financial responsibilities to family, and transportation issues. These barriers disproportionately impact first-generation students, low-income students, and students of color. Over the last few years, about 70% of academic internships completed by Regis College students were unpaid. Your donation today will provide funding for currently unpaid interns and help ensure more equitable access to high-quality, paid, work-based learning experiences so that we can continue to address the racial and socio-economic disparities in unpaid internship participation.

Your gift on Regis Gives Day will help us reach our fundraising goal of $7,000 allowing us to establish the Community Impact Internship Fund and offer a paid internship to three students interning at non-profits or schools. This also means that three organizations will benefit by having a qualified Regis intern for a full semester, enabling them to build their own capacity to impact our community. Donate to the Community Impact Internship Fund on Regis Gives Day with the knowledge that your gift will make a difference for a Regis student intern and for the larger Denver community. Regis Gives Day is a day to support students to do what matters.

First Scholars: Academic Scholarships for First-Gen Students

The First Scholars program, Regis academic and leadership advising group for first-generation college students, is raising money on Regis Gives Day to support academic scholarships for next year’s student cohort.

First Scholars is a four-year program which helps those who are the first in their immediate family to attend a college or university to navigate the challenges of academia. Students learn the ins and outs of creating community connections, master how to access academic support and resources, gain leadership skills, and learn how to navigate the complexities, and occasional bureaucracy, of the higher education system. This academic year, the First Scholars Program is helping 44 first-gen students achieve their academic and career goals with over $36,000 in scholarships.

When Celine, a senior and neuroscience major from Los Angeles, first set foot on campus, she was shy and intimidated by her new surroundings. Celine credits the First Scholars Program with helping her get involved in campus life, including as a residential assistant in her sophomore and junior years. “First Scholars helped me build the confidence I needed to put my feet on the ground and say, Yeah, I’m here. I can do this. It has opened doors for me,” she said. The pre-med student now co-leads Somos, the Latinx student group on campus, and has offered leadership and mentoring to first-year program scholars for the past three years.

When you join your dollars with those of others in the Regis community on April 12 for Regis Gives Day, you help future students like Celine reach their potential. Donate to the First Scholars Fund on April 12 to empower first-gen students to take the lead on campus and in their careers.

Preparing Servant Leaders for the World

Preparing Servant Leaders for the World will promote growth in creative leadership and skills for post-graduate students in the U.S. who are ready to make a commitment to service through international development. With the support of partial but critical scholarship funding, U.S. students will have the opportunity to learn and grow within an international community of servant leaders from all over the world. Given a financial leg up to pursue part-time study, young professionals are able to follow their passion for social justice into viable careers.

Regis University Master of Development Practice (MDP) is an innovative degree that contributes to the sustainability of our planet and to the health and well-being of communities in the U.S. and overseas. Classes use real-time video conferencing to bring students from around the world together to co-create truly global solutions to development challenges.

By supporting our project, you will allow students like Katie Larson (MDP 2018) to have a true impact on the world. Katie has taken her MDP education into Guatemala and Vietnam to work for educational equity and environmental sustainability.

"I am grateful for the Regis University MDP program because it has given me new eyes through which to see the world, its systems, its humans and the relationships between them all. My new eyes do not always show me the most hopeful sides of humanity, but they now envision a future that is more just, sustainable, resilient, happy and healthy for all. In this future vision, my MDP learning makes me feel increasingly confident that I can and must be one of the change agents, in partnership with so many others, in creating this future."

The Regis MDP equips students like Katie and so many more all over the world with the tools and mindset to pursue their passion and make a meaningful impact on communities in need in areas like environmental justice, food security, rural healthcare and refugee education resettlement.

The Father Shelton Psychology and Neuroscience Support Fund

The Father Shelton Student Support Fund provides students in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience financial assistance to pursue their academic and research endeavors. The mission of the fund is to promote exceptional undergraduate scholarships and experiential learning for psychology and neuroscience students. Students are granted these awards to advance a specific psychology or neuroscience scholarly research project, participate in a psychology or neuroscience conference, or defray the cost of membership to national honor society organizations.

The Father Shelton Student Support Fund was started by the generous support of donor and Triple Alumna Lucie Tran (BS , MBA, and MNM ). The fund is named to honor Father Charles Shelton, a Professor of Psychology at Regis who passed away in 2014 after 26 years of teaching and many years serving as a chaplain to the Regis men's soccer and baseball teams. Father Shelton was a beloved professor, mentor, and Jesuit. He was known for providing encouragement, good humor, and support to his students and athletes.

This fund supports the academic and research endeavors of our future leaders and enables the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience to promote and foster experiential undergraduate learning through a wide range of research and activities in the psychology and neuroscience fields. In the past few years, awards from this fund have enabled students to travel Chicago, Anaheim, San Diego and Salt Lake City to present their research at professional conferences including the Society for Neuroscience and the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association.

These are but two examples of the opportunities recently made possible by the Father Shelton Student Support Fund. The opportunities provided by this fund are the impactful, life-changing experiences that open doors for our students, including entrance to graduate programs and their chosen careers. These opportunities are cherished among our alumni and motivate them to give back to Regis and help provide such opportunities for our current students.

URISE: Undergraduate Student Scholarly Conference Travel & REGIS Research Camp

Undergraduate Research, Inquiry, and Scholarly Engagement (URISE) Program – 2023

The URISE Program serves as a resource for all undergraduate students to engage fully in their Regis experience through research and creative pursuits. The program oversees a wide range of initiatives from STEM summer camps for middle school girls to undergraduate student travel to scholarly conferences. This Regis Gives Day, we’re soliciting support for two funds that will benefit student researchers at different stages of their development.

Our R.E.G.I.S. (Rangers Empowering Girls in STEM) Research Camp introduces rising 6th-8th grade girls and gender-expansive youth from the Denver metro area to biology, chemistry, mathematics, neuroscience, physics, and more over the course of one week each summer. Camp is led by a team of dedicated female STEM faculty and undergraduate student counselors. We utilize an inquiry-based curriculum that challenges campers to see themselves as scientists through hypothesis development and testing.

All of our activities are centered around confidence building, self-advocacy, and STEM identity with the goal that our campers leave feeling empowered and with an increased sense of belonging in STEM. Girls drop out of the STEM pipeline at a higher rate than boys and the literature suggests that access to female mentors and role models is critical to keeping them engaged. Girls need to be able to “see their future” by interacting with successful women in STEM to realize that there is a place for them. We never want cost to be a barrier to attendance and your generous gift will help us welcome even more girls to camp by supporting need-based scholarships. We have set our fundraising goal at $7,000, which would allow us to offer full scholarships to 50% of our campers this year. Even small donations go a long way:

• $10 custom camp t-shirt
• $55 lunch in the dining hall & snacks for one camper all week
• $100 research supplies for one camper
• $350 full camp scholarship for one camper

Our undergraduate student travel fund supports travel to scholarly conferences. Students who have been engaging in mentored research or creative work with faculty members on campus greatly benefit from the opportunity to attend off-campus conferences to present their work and network with scholars in their field of interest. Conference attendance aids in their vocational discernment by providing opportunities for students to build their presentation skills, access professional development sessions, and interact with disciplinary peers.

These experiences are transformational for students and are critical to their success as they graduate and enter the professional world. However, conference travel is expensive which creates a barrier to this type of experiential learning. Your generous donation will support sending Regis undergraduates to conferences in their field of interest. We’ve set our fundraising goal at $7,500 which would support 15 student travel awards. Your support will provide the following for an undergraduate student scholar:

• $30 poster printing cost
• $50 one day of meals
• $90 shared lodging
• $150 conference registration fee
• $180 airfare
• $500 full travel award for one undergraduate student

Thank you in advance for supporting the URISE Program as we work to support student research at every level. Your generous donation will support high-impact learning experiences and directly impact the trajectory of young researchers as they begin to truly see themselves as scholars.

Travel Learning: Studying Monkeys in the Costa Rican Rainforest

The project is a travel learning experience that I run in the summer in Costa Rica: Primate Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation in the Costa Rican Rainforest. Students spend a month in the rainforest studying monkeys in their natural environment and learning about the pressing conservation issues facing both the non-human and human populations in the region (e.g., forest fragmentation, etc.). After a month in the rainforest, students truly experience primate behavior and ecology as well as the research process. They leave the course empowered, becoming an expert in some aspect of these animals’ lives, and having been immersed in nature. The La Selva rainforest in Costa Rica is surrounded by banana and pineapple plantations. Students begin to understand the complex relationship between humans, wildlife, economics, and politics by living in such a threatened environment and learning about the various stakeholders, both human and nonhuman.

This is a high-impact experiential learning experience for our students. I recently published a paper in American Journal of Primatology outlining how this course greatly impacts students’ passion and understanding of global conservation issues as well as their career trajectories. The program fee (~$2400) puts the course out of reach for many of our students and we would like the opportunity to be accessible to more (ideally all) of our students. Regis Gives Day is a perfect opportunity to raise funds to either cover the program fee for 1-2 students, or to defray the costs for all of the students who will participate (usually ~10 students take the course).

This project aligns closely with Regis University’s mission, particularly with respect to global environmental awareness. Habitat fragmentation is a global phenomenon, with wide-ranging effects on wildlife. Developing effective solutions to such pressing environmental concerns requires understanding the perspectives and often conflicting interests of various parties including fauna and flora, scientists, and industrial agriculture. Furthermore, this project provides critical experiential learning opportunities for Regis students. Since 2015, ~30 students have participated in this travel learning course, assisting with behavioral data collection, vegetation and population surveys, and the collection and analysis of genetic samples. This work has resulted in multiple published manuscripts and conference presentations with Regis student co-authors. These opportunities allow students to learn and practice scientific inquiry, integrate knowledge and practical skills that will enable them to become successful biologists and citizens, cultivate a respect for biodiversity, and provide motivation to confront crucial human problems.

Virtual Inside/Out Program: A Prison to School Pipeline

Regis University is offering incarcerated men and women in five Colorado correctional facilities the opportunity to earn college credit in video-linked remote classrooms alongside on-campus Regis students. Your donation to this transformative educational initiative has the potential to alter the course of someone's life forever.

The Inside/Out program, launched via a partnership between Regis School for Professional Advancement and the Colorado Department of Corrections, pairs 18 prisoners with seven Regis students in a virtual simultaneous class.

The students who are incarcerated will be approved for participation by prison officials. They will take a total of five liberal arts courses, each offered one at a time, in accelerated eight-week terms. The accelerated format allows the imprisoned students to earn 18 credits toward a Bachelor of Arts degree in one year.

The virtual mingling of incarcerated inside and non-incarcerated outside students will create a radically diverse and powerful learning experience for both student groups. For outside students, the program will help to build empathy, open minds, and empower these undergraduates to learn from and stand with the marginalized. For the inside students, the educational opportunities this program creates will help give them the tools they need to successfully re-enter their communities and serve the common good. The program also has the power to help reduce the rate of recidivism among participants.

According to a study by the U.S. Department of Justice and the RAND Corp., those who participated in a prison education program are 43% less likely to return to prison than inmates who did not. There is no more powerful tool against recidivism than education.

Your support will help to cover the cost of tuition for the incarcerated students. Please consider a donation on Regis Gives Day in support of this powerful program. Your gift could change a life.

Leadership & Diversity Scholarship

Our division trains highly compassionate, critically thinking, and enthusiastic health business leaders and administrators. Within the Jesuit tradition, our curriculum emphasizes health infrastructure for marginalized populations. And many of our students carry a personal identity that has historically been less resourced. We estimate that over half of our students identify as a: person of color, first generation college student, student with English as a second language, rural and frontier learners, gender and sexuality divergent students, among other marginalized intersections.

As we train our administrators to work with communities and populations who have not had a voice, we use the knowledge that leaders who make the largest difference have lived experiences like their populations. Therefore, we want to provide scholarships to those students with marginalized identities that will later build the systems to support others with similar backgrounds.

Physical Therapy Clinical Diagnostic Ultrasound Machine

Diagnostic US is used in physical therapy clinics to help diagnose musculoskeletal problems such as tendonitis, bursitis, muscle and/or ligament tears, and arthritic conditions. In addition, it is also used in various interventions such as training patients to contract core muscles and to assist with dry needling. It is also used for research purposes in faculty and student projects. The SOPT presently has one diagnostic US machine that is used in the teaching of our students in their labs and also in our RegisCares clinic for patients. This machine needs to be upgraded at a cost of $15,000.00. It is 5 years old.

Rueckert-Hartman College for Health Professions Research and Scholarships

The Deans and Faculty of the Rueckert-Hartman College for Health Professions (RHCHP) at Regis University are dedicated to advancing academic research that informs health care best practices and clinical care modalities. Equally, they are dedicated to training students in nursing, physical therapy, pharmacy, behavioral health and health services education to become better researchers by conducting their own original research and presenting their research in an interactive, interprofessional learning environment. Each year, RHCHP hosts a research symposium where students and faculty showcase their finest scholarly and innovative research. Students and faculty also present to national audiences of experts at annual meetings of professional societies.

When students are given opportunities to discuss their research, they learn critical thinking skills that improves their ability to clearly articulate key findings. Research and experiential hands-on learning have shown to better equip students to pursue some of the most competitive career paths with confidence and competence, thus strengthening their professional growth. The Rueckert-Hartman College for Health Professions aims to raise $5,000 on Regis Gives Day to provide innovative research scholarships, so that our health professions students may further their research, as well as faculty scholarships to advance their academic leadership and research.