Experience Naropa was a huge success.

Our largest group of prospective undergraduate students ever visited campus for a taste of the Naropa magic. While they were here they contributed to a collaborative art installation, met with energetic student ambassadors and staff, and sampled classes. 

Thank you for continuing to send great students our way!

Karen Wills

Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Admissions

In memory of Fay Elliott

Fay Elliott graduated from Naropa University in 2011 with an MDiv degree, and worked as a chaplain in a variety of local and regional organizations, including the Boulder Shambhala Center and Boulder County Hospice. She also served as an adjunct faculty member in the MDiv program as well as in Naropa's Core, most recently teaching the Diversity/Inclusivity classes. She was a three-time cancer survivor who had been declared cancer-free, and so it was a shock to her and her friends and family that she suddenly was diagnosed with lung cancer and died within a couple of days, on Monday, March 23, at Boulder Community Hospital. On her deathbed, she married her beloved fiancé, Richard Ehret, to whom she was to be married in May. 

Fay was a joyful and energetic presence wherever she went, translating her own experience with cancer into leading cancer support groups, visiting hospice patients, and providing spiritual care for many in physical or psychological distress. She loved Naropa and was deeply engaged in the community, full of vision for the future of the MDiv program and the Core curriculum. Her thesis, "Walking the Path of the Bodhisattva Chaplain," described her journey of transforming life's difficult circumstances into compassionate service. She is deeply missed.