University of Northern Colorado

The university operates satellite centers in Loveland, Denver/Aurora, and Colorado Springs. The Lowry campus straddling the Denver/Aurora border hosts two programs of note - the Center for Urban Education (focuses on providing opportunities for working teachers), and the DO-IT Center (ASL-English interpreter training).

Old Man Mountain is a group of cabins owned by the university located in Estes Park, Colorado, and serves as a common retreat location for the community.

Michener Library was named after Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist James A. Michener, who attended Colorado State College of Education, now the University of Northern Colorado, from 1936 to 1937. He was a Social Science educator at the Training School and at the College from 1936 to 1941, and later went on to set his novel Centennial in the school's home of Weld County. Michener Library's collections include approximately 1.5 million items in monograph, periodical, government document, audio-visual and microform formats. The Library also houses the James A. Michener Special Collection.

The Howard M. Skinner Music Library specializes in curricular support of the School of Music and Musical Theatre Programs but is open to everyone. This library has more than 100,000 scores, books, periodicals, and recordings, housed in a facility that opened in October 1997. In 2005, the building was named for Dr. Howard M. Skinner, former Dean of the College of Performing and Visual Arts, in honor of his many years of dedication to UNC and to the Greeley music community.

This digital online repository service offered by the University's libraries captures, stores, organizes, indexes, preserves, and provides access to University of Northern Colorado information resources and intellectual output. It brings together selected digital materials from across campus to create a repository of the educational, scholarly, research, and historical assets of the University.

GREE (shortened from "Greeley") is the standard acronym for the UNC Herbarium, which has about 35,000 specimens, about 10,000 of which are backlogged (not mounted and filed). In recent years, GREE has been the fastest growing herbarium in the region on a percentage basis, having increased its holdings by over 300 percent. Estimated specimens by geographical origin include: Southern Rockies, 75 percent; High Plains, 5 percent; North America at large, 15 percent; world at large, 5 percent. The university's facilities provide storage capacity for about 65,000 specimens.

The SRMRC is a separate collection of one or two specimens (flower and fruit) of each taxon of vascular plant known to occur in the Southern Rocky Mountain region. The SRMRC is also used to provide a source of specimens for educational demonstrations to school classes, civic groups, and other interested visitors. The collection has over 2,200 taxa and is expanding continuously.

The Mariani Gallery, created in 1972 to show a variety of art exhibits, is located in Guggenheim Hall, Room 100.

The Oak Room Gallery focuses on undergraduate and graduate student work and is located in Crabbe Hall, Room 201.

This is a collection of 48 original works by 40 artists, including Mary Cassatt, Bridget Riley, Louise Nevelson, and Kathe Kollwitz. It is located in Guggenheim Hall.

Located in Michener Library, this gallery hosts shows by locally and nationally known artists and often displays the work of alumni, faculty, and staff of the university.

• Thomas J. Gray — 1890–1891
• James H. Hayes — Interim 1891, November 11, 1915 – 1916
• Zachariah Xenophon Snyder — 1891–1915
• John Grant Crabbe — Late summer 1916–1924
• George Willard Frasier — 1924–1947
• William Robert Ross — 1947–1964 (assumed office December 20, 1947)
• Darrell Holmes — 1964–1971
• Frank P. Lakin — 1969, 1971 Interim President
• Richard R. Bond — 1971–1981
• Charles Manning, Acting President — 1981
• Robert C. Dickeson — 1981–1991
• Richard Davies, Acting President — January 1 – August 29, 1987
• Stephen T. Hulbert, Interim President — July 1 – September 30, 1991
• Herman Lujan — 1991–1996
• Howard Skinner, Interim President — June 1996 – June 1998
• Hank Brown — July 1998 – June 2002
• Kay Norton — July 2002 – July 2018
• Andy Feinstein - July 2018 – present[9]

• Alpha Omicron Pi
• Alpha Sigma Alpha
• Alpha Phi
• Delta Zeta
• Sigma Kappa

• Delta Chi
• Delta Sigma Phi
• Lambda Chi Alpha
• Pi Kappa Phi
• Pi Kappa Alpha

• Lambda Theta Nu
• Pi Lambda Chi
• Sigma Lambda Gamma
• Lambda Theta Alpha
• Kappa Delta Chi

• Sigma Lambda Beta
• Nu Alpha Kappa
• Lambda Sigma Upsilon

• Asian/Pacific American Student Services
• César Chávez Cultural Center
• Marcus Garvey Cultural Center
• Native American Student Services
• Gender & Sexuality Resource Center
• Women's Resource Center

The university has 17 student residence halls; 12 on Central Campus and five on West Campus. They also offer Arlington Park Apartments located roughly one block east of West Campus and three blocks south of Central Campus. These alternative housing options offer students a more "apartment-style" of living. On-campus housing options include same-gender communities for males and females, co-educational communities, and co-educational rooms. Room options include traditional suite-style rooms to fully furnished on-campus apartments. The "living & learning communities" at UNC include floors for elementary education majors, performing and visual arts majors, quiet lifestyles, GLBTA, leadership focused and healthy-living/wellness in certain dormitories.

UNC Student Radio (UNCSR) broadcasts 24/7 on the internet. The station generally plays pre-programmed rock/pop during the day, with live, student-hosted shows in the afternoons and evenings during the school year.

The station, first chartered in 1995 and which is almost entirely student-run, operates from the basement of Davis House and streams to all the UNC dormitories via cable TV channel 3.

The University previously owned and operated local radio station KUNC from 1967-2000. However, that station is now operated by a separate organization.

Founded in February 1919, The Mirror is the university's student-operated newspaper. It is published every Monday during the fall and spring semesters. It is not published during school breaks. The publication is funded by student fees as well as advertising from local businesses. The newspaper operates out of its own building on 16th Street, one-half block from campus, and employs an average of 80 students a year.

The university's mascot, "Klawz"

The bear became UNC's mascot in 1923. Before the school adopted the bear, athletes used the nickname "the Teachers."[11] The bear was said to be inspired by a bear on top of an Alaskan totem pole donated by an 1897 alumnus in 1914. The totem pole was kept in the University Center, but under the federal Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990, the pole was reclaimed by the Tlingit in 2003.

Klawz is the mascot that attends all university sporting events. Klawz is the newest addition to the long line of Bears' mascots over the years at the university. Klawz made his first appearance in Nottingham Field on August 30, 2003, before the UNC football team opened their season against New Mexico Highlands.