Naropa In the News
Recent news about Naropa and our faculty, students, alumni:
Friends and family celebrate Boulder poet Anselm Hollo's life
Boulder Daily Camera
July 7, 2013
Matthew R. Kerns on Gay Fantasia, his late-night theater immersion project
Denver Westword
April 11, 2013
Naropa's matchbox art fundraiser: Sparked to make a difference
Boulder Weekly
April 11, 2013
Trungpa Rinpoche's works make it to print
Boulder Daily Camera
April 6, 2013
Meredith Monk, Explorer of the Voice
Boulder Weekly
March 7, 2013
Naropa art studio opens its doors, builds mentorships
Boulder Daily Camera
October 27, 2012
Can Buddhism Training De-stress Teachers?
EdNews Colorado
July 27, 2012
Poets, Writers Gather for Naropa's Summer Writing Program
Boulder Daily Camera
June 16, 2012
Naropa cited in New York Times "Buddhists' Delight" Op-Ed
New York Times
June 19, 2012
Naropa Taps Charles G. Lief as Next President
Boulder Daily Camera
May 22, 2012
Naropa Graduates 339 in Spring Ceremony
Boulder Daily Camera
May 12, 2012
Setting Fire to Sex Trafficking
Boulder Weekly
March 15, 2012
Where East Meets West
Shambhala Times
March 15, 2012
Best Underrated College Towns
NextGen Journal
February 13, 2012
Naropa Alum Creates Art to Unlock Emotions
West Seattle Herald
January 12, 2012
Naropa Alum Seth Lepore Talks about 'Losing His Religion'
Boston Globe
November 11, 2011
Writing Class with Thurston Moore
Westword
July 11, 2011
Notice What You Notice
Bomb Magazine Blog
June 29, 2011
From centered beginnings, Naropa graduates prepare to enter the world
Boulder Daily Camera
May 7, 2011
Q & A with Howard Dean
Boulder Daily Camera
May 7, 2011
Horsemanship demo leads off Learner Showcase
Delta County Independent
May 4, 2011
Summary: North Fork Vision Home and Community Program Award Winner for Wisdom, Arthur Harriman, announces he will study at Naropa University in the Fall.
Naropa student launches yogathon to benefit Boulder County foster care
Colorado Daily
April 19, 2011
Let's Get Physical: What's Happening Now?
American Theatre
January 13, 2011
Naropa student publishes first book, 'Automatic Zygote'
Colorado Daily
December 30, 2010
A Letterpress Shop Survives, Printing Poems in the Era of YouTube
Chronicle of Higher Education
December 14, 2010
Eleven Years of Naropa University Commencement Ceremonies
elephantjournal.com
May 14, 2010
Naropa Students Engage Community in Preparation for Dead Man Walking
Boulder Daily CameraApril 23, 2010
Tim Hernandez's Breathing, In Dust Offers Questions Rather Than Answers
Boulder Daily Camera
April 4, 2010
Flowers Fall: An Interview with Judith Simmer Brown
Chronogram Magazine
April 1, 2010
Making Green More Than a Catchword
Finance and Commerce
March 23, 2010
Leading International Peacemaker Dr. Paula Green
Newsblaze.com
March 23, 2010
Finding Balance in Mindfulness
Psychology Today
April 18, 2010
The Authors Are Coming: AWP to Meet in Denver
Denver Post
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Beats at Naropa
Rain Taxi
Winter 2009/2010
American University Assists Bhutan in Reforming its Education System
Newsblaze.com
Sunday, January 5, 2010
Made-in-Colorado film Entanglement debuts tonight
By Mike Roberts, Writer
Westword
Friday, Jun. 26, 2009
It’s Summer Literary Festival Season in the West
By Jenny Shank
Western Book Roundup
June 3, 2009
The Inner Scholar
Claire Dederer
NYTimes.com
November 4, 2007
To hear Thomas B. Coburn, president of Naropa University, explain the theory of contemplative
education is to grasp a simple concept. The Buddhist-inspired teaching that goes on
at this small college, he says, is aimed at giving students "a critical perspective
on their inner lives."
On the Road, Again
By Joe Woodward
Poets and Writers
September/October 2007
Summary: Over this past summer, Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, home to the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, hosted the inaugural Kerouac Festival, a three-day event that included readings, scholarly panels, film screenings, and a gala dinner.
Kerouac Fans Stage Marathon Reading
The Associated Press
WashingtonPost.com
Summary: Admirers of author Jack Kerouac celebrated the 50th anniversary of "On the Road" with a marathon reading of the novel.
Five Perfect College Towns
Kate Hamman
SmarterTravel.com
Summary: These five towns exemplify the best of college life: cafes, diners, cutting-edge music and art scenes, and a melting pot of individualism.
50 Years of Kerouac On the Road (.mp3)
Claudia Cragg, KGNU Radio, June, 2007
Summary: Claudia Cragg of KGNU interview with Anne Waldman, Steven Taylor and Lisa Birman about the Kerouac Festival, coming up June 30-July 1
With Iraq War as a Backdrop, Speakers Reflect on the Future
New York Times
June 10, 2007
Summary: For many if not most members of the class of 2007, the war in Iraq has been the constant background of their college years. And so as seniors graduated from thousands of colleges and universities in recent weeks, the war was on the mind of many commencement speakers. Alice Walker speaking at Naropa University's commencement was one of them.
The Poet that Changed America
Allen Ginsberg - Beat poet activist queer American Buddhist
Co-founder of Naropa's Kerouac School
elephantjournal.com, Autumn 2006
Please Help Me Learn Who I Am
By Barry Boyce
Shambhala Sun, January 2007
Summary: For more information about Naropa University’s approach to contemplative education, please consult this article.
To Learn in the Moment
By Caroline Hsu
American's Best Colleges 2005
2004 © U.S. News & World Report, L.P. Reprinted with permission
Liberal Education
Secularism & Spirituality in Today’s Academy: A Heuristic Model
By Thomas B. Coburn
Cultivating Spiritual Academics for Leadership—A Presidential Perspective
By Thomas B. Coburn
Journal of College and Character
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303-245-4643
ltrank@naropa.edu
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303-245-4643
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