Colorado Facts
2020
Post-Secondary Pathways
Acronyms
100

This is the highest elevation in Denver?

What is 5280 ft above sea level

100

This term was coined in 2020 to describe the feeling you get after being in too many virtual meetings  

What is Zoom Fatigue

100

In 2020, the CCHE passed 4 new transfer agreements in the following areas

What is computer science, dance, journalism and public health

100

TOEFL

Test of English as a Foreign Language

200

This is the historic nickname of the Five Points Neighborhood in Denver

What is The Harlem of The West

200

According to Forbes, this entrepreneur became the first person in history to have a net worth of more than $200 billion

Jeff Bezos

200

At the bachelor’s degree level, colleges of education are less diverse than higher education as a whole, and second in lack of diversity to this degree field

What is Agriculture

200

GEAR UP

What is Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs

300

This is the longest street in the U.S.

What is Colfax Ave

300

This wildfire was the largest in Colorado’s record burning for 112 days

What is the Cameron Peak Wildfires or what is Cameron Peak

300

This is the average age of full professors

What is 62

300

RISE Grant

What is Response, Innovation, and Student Equity

400

Mob gangs took over this industry in Colorado in the 1920s

What is Bootlegging

400

A tragic helicopter accident killed this famous basketball player

Who is Kobe Bryant
400

This allows you to earn college credit for military experience

 What is prior learning credit

400

CEA - the largest union in the state

What is the Colorado Education Association

500

This flat-topped mountain is the largest in the world

Grand Mesa

500

These two rocked the Superbowl half-time show

Who is Jennifer Lopez and Shakira

500

There are this many different colleges and universities in the US

What is (approx) 5,300   

500

STAA

What is statewide transfer articulation agreements