Last year, enrollment surpassed pre-pandemic numbers at 35,897 — the highest number recorded, according to the campus’ enrollment tracker that dates to 1991.
Even though the garage is a tight squeeze for the club, Abouhamad said she’s happy that DBF has been able to make it work. Unfortunately the club has to be out of the space by Sept. 5. After that, DBF hopes to spread out materials and machines among teammates and hopefully store equipment at the aerospace building, Abouhamad said. She isn’t sure what the team, which has about 30 to 40 members, will do from there.
Funding allocations for CU Boulder student organizations decreased by 12% from $868,449.53 during the 2018-19 school year to $765,214.16 during the 2019-20 school year because less overall funding was requested by student clubs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Allocations dropped again the following year to $225,150.18 or by 71% during 2020-2021. But as students returned to campus this past school year, funding allocations grew by 98% to $446,320.55.
Although CU Boulder student club Sounding Rocket Lab receives funding from the campus, it has still struggled to cover one of its largest, ongoing expenses: rent. “They invited me to come over to their space, and they were amazing,” he said. “They weren’t research students, they weren’t doing it for some class, they were just motivated about building their own rockets.”
To help pay for costs and equipment needed to build rockets, the team also held a crowdfunding campaign in 2020 and raised about $21,000. The group recently closed its second campaign and raised about $14,000 to help it cover the cost of rent. Brian Argrow, the CU Boulder former aerospace department chair, shared a similar perspective in a space allocation request form he submitted for student clubs SRL, DBF, Colorado RoboSub, the RoboBoat Team and the Robotic Mining Team, according to email records from May 2021 obtained through the Colorado Open Records Act.
CU Boulder alumnus Robert Tann was serving as the editor of the campus’ student-run news outlet, the CU Independent, in 2019, when all funding was cut from the organization to start a new, faculty-guided student multimedia enterprise. “I think it came to a head as people started coming back to campus after COVID,” she said. “We have to be more creative on how we think about space. At this point, we can’t make a long-term commitment to student groups. Certainly not at the college level to say ‘Yeah we can guarantee that you will have physical space that is dedicated to you.’”
“So many people there are part of the LGBTQ community, and it’s a way to be around other people in that community,” she said. “I think a lot of that drive was lost when we lost our physical space. Meeting over Zoom is not the same. There are no pizza parties or jokes. I think it has taken away the social side of the CUI, and that was always one of my favorite parts.”
Although Gerren said the new 180,000 square-foot building is already “strapped for space,” Sorensen said the building “has adequate space for all classes, events and approved student activities.” When it came time to move to the new aerospace building, Gerren remembers meeting with officials in charge of planning the new aerospace building and asking them to include space for student clubs to work and store equipment, but that request never came to fruition, she said.
Throughout the years, Argrow has remained involved with helping search for on or off-campus space for student clubs. In 2021, he inquired about renting space for students at the Boulder Municipal Airport, but the person who promised the hangar no longer works at the airport and no hangars were available at the time, said Julie Causa, spokesperson for Boulder Communication and Engagement.
According to records obtained, the email thread ended after Stasica responded to Summers and said the request would not be approved unless a funding source was identified.
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