CU Boulder outlines 20- and 30-year campus housing expansion, campus and off-campus projects

Laurie Call, associate vice chancellor of local government and community engagement at the University of Colorado Boulder, and Chris Ewing, vice chancellor for infrastructure at CU Boulder, presented the university’s housing context and multi-decade plan to the Housing Advisory Board Tuesday evening.

Call said the university has about 37,000 students, of whom an estimated 33,000 live in Boulder — roughly 28,000 undergraduates and about 4,700 graduate students — and described a campus strategy that would add roughly 2,300 new on-campus beds over the next 20 years and 4,400–6,000 new beds over the next 30-plus years. “A lot of that has to do with the fact that graduation rates indicate that the longer students are on campus, the higher graduation rates,” Call said.

The presentation named several projects in different phases. Ewing described CU South as a long-term site envisioned mainly for faculty and staff housing, with an overall planning target of about 2,100 units but with master planning tied to a city…