Published: June 20, 2001

Approximately 400 students from several CU-Boulder summer diversity programs have been invited to the third annual Diversity & Excellence Summer Gathering on June 27 from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

The gathering will be held at Observatory Field, south of the Business College along Regent Drive, and will include food and entertainment. The event is an opportunity for middle school, high school and undergraduate students from various summer diversity programs to meet each other and experience a college atmosphere, according to organizers.

The summer diversity programs include the I Have A Dream Summer Internship Program, Pre-Collegiate Development Program, CU Upward Bound, the Multicultural Engineering Program and the Minority in Arts and Sciences Program summer bridge program, McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement Program, Summer Multicultural Access to Research Training Program, Undergraduate Research Assistantship Program, and Academic Excellence "Summer Ready" Program.

The gathering is sponsored by the Office of Diversity and Equity and the Leadership, Excellence, Achievement and Diversity Alliance.

For more information contact Mary Ann Sergeant at (303) 492-0680 or e-mail Mary.Sergeant@Colorado.EDU.