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The University of Colorado at Boulder was tied for 31st in the annual rankings of the nationÂ’s top public four-year institutions in U.S. News & World ReportÂ’s 1999 Best Colleges issue. The nationÂ’s top public university in the latest U.S. News rankings was the University of California-Berkeley, followed by the University of Virginia. The University of California-Los Angeles and the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor tied for third, while the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was fifth.

MEDIA ADVISORY Freshmen joining a new leadership program at the University of Colorado at Boulder will help clean up trails and clear noxious weeds at Boulder's Chautauqua Park on Saturday, Aug. 21. The community service project will take place between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. starting at the Chautauqua Ranger Cottage.

The 30th annual Virginia Westerberg Children's Literature conference at the University of Colorado at Boulder will feature three-time Newbery honor award winner Zilpha Keatley Snyder on Saturday, Oct. 2. Snyder is the author of "The Egypt Game," "The Headless Cupid," and "The Witches of Worm," in addition to many other titles. She will be the featured speaker at the daylong event at the CU-Boulder School of Education.

Distinguished Professor Carl E. Wieman of the University of Colorado at Boulder has been appointed one of 13 Visiting Scholars for 1999-2000 by the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Each of the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars will travel to about eight other U.S. colleges and universities during the academic year, spending two days on each campus. During each visit the scholar is expected to meet with undergraduates in informal settings, to participate in classroom lectures and seminars and to make one major address open to the entire academic community.

The University of Colorado at Boulder may have a record number of students this fall, which is increasing the demand for on-campus housing. Despite the increase, the universityÂ’s housing department remains cautiously optimistic that most freshmen will be accommodated, if not at the start of the semester then within a week or two. Classes begin Aug. 23. CU-Boulder has 22 residence halls scattered around the campus and at Williams Village. Together they provide space for close to 6,000 students, with freshmen getting first priority.

The University of Colorado at Boulder expects to enroll a record number of students this fall – about 25,800 – according to current estimates. If those figures hold, fall 1999 enrollment will be about 650 students higher than fall 1998 and more than 200 ahead of the previous high enrollment of 25,571 in 1991.

Few people are looking forward to the start of the new school year at the University of Colorado at Boulder so much as Artis Selby -- on Aug. 16 she moves into a house with three student girlfriends and a week later itÂ’s back to work. Selby plans to pick up on last yearÂ’s freshman studies, working toward a four-year degree, which will put her in line for a further three years at a physical therapy school, possibly one in Denver.

The chancellor of the University of Colorado at Boulder and CUÂ’s BugMobile officially kicked off the CU in Residence community education program in Chaffee County on Friday, Aug. 13. CU-Boulder Chancellor Richard Byyny outlined the details of the innovative educational program at a luncheon he hosted for 65 business, education and community leaders at the Mt. Princeton Conference Center. Byyny noted that CU in Residence will bring a wide range of educational programs and special events to Buena Vista, Salida and Poncha Springs throughout the coming year.

"Words to Stir the Soul: Readings from the American West," will be hosted by the CU-Boulder Center of the American West at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 31, in the Old Main Chapel on the Boulder campus. The program also will be held, with different readers and reading selections, at 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 3, at the LoDo Tattered Cover Bookstore at 1628 16th St. in Denver. Both programs are free and open to the public.

Key elements of the University of Colorado at Boulder Master Plan will be described to campus and community members in an open house on Wednesday, Aug. 18, hosted by Paul Tabolt, CU-Boulder's vice chancellor for administration, and the Department of Facilities Management.