News & Features
Water Is Life: The Standing Rock Protests over the Dakota Access Pipeline
December 20th 2016
The Standing Rock Protest became the largest Indian activist movement in history and raised extremely important concerns.
Paul Taçon wins the Rhys Jones Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Australian Archaeology
December 15th 2016
Congratuations to UPC author Paul S. C. Taçon who was awarded the Rhys Jones Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Australian Archaeology at the 2016
Maximizing Student Agency in Placement Decisions
December 13th 2016
In Decisions, Agency, and Advising: Key Issues in the Placement of Multilingual Writers into First-Year Composition Courses, I investigate how multili
The Long Count: Stephen E. Nash on Time
December 6th 2016
Time. Astronomers, philosophers, physicists, anthropologists, politicians, geographers, and theologians have all pondered the nature and meaning of ti
2016 Holiday Sale!
November 30th 2016
Books make the best gifts. Use promo code HOLIDAY16 to receive 20% off the list price of any book on our site through December 31, 2016! If your pre
Who Is Listening? Violence on Campus
November 29th 2016
This piece was originally published on October 13, 2015.
Team Maintainers
November 8th 2016
Jackie Grutsch McKinney contemplates the fetishizing of innovation within American universities.
Tershia d'Elgin speaks at the Tattered Cover Book Store
October 25th 2016
Thank you to the Tattered Cover Book Store for a lovely talk and signing with Tershia d'Elgin, author of The Man Who Thought He Owned Water!
The Timeless Wisdom of a Plagiarized Convention Speech
October 25th 2016
Melania Trump’s speech can remind us of lessons about plagiarism that extend beyond partisan gamesmanship.
How Poorly Written E-mails Cause Disasters and Cost Lives: Five Questions for Carolyn Boiarsky
October 18th 2016
Carolyn Boiarsky talks to The Huffington Post about her new book, Risk Communication and Miscommunication.
Reflections on a Career in Japanese American History
October 11th 2016
One of the most gratifying aspects of working on Japanese American history, and especially of focusing on individual biographies, is getting to know v
Why a University Press Is a Good Investment
October 4th 2016
There’s a minor miracle continually performed by the 142 university presses worldwide who compose the membership of the Association of American Univer
Mouth in My Kitchen
September 20th 2016
"Mouth in My Kitchen" is a poem from the award-winning book The Verging Cities, from the Center for Literary Publishing's Mountain West Poetry Series.
The Woman Who Thought She Wrote a Book: On the Brink with Footnotes, Marketing, and Distribution
September 13th 2016
Not until the epic 2013 Front Range flood inundated both our farmhouse and Boulder did my manuscript and I wash into University Press of Colorado.
The Book as Website: Designing for Long-Form Content Online
August 30th 2016
What happens when a web design client asks for a website that must contain dozens of chapters and thousands of words?
Maya Spirituality: Appropriation-Proof?
August 23rd 2016
An increasingly disparate swath of practices and traditions are now united in controversy as discussions of cultural appropriation go viral.
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