Faculty/Staff Edition - Jan. 18, 2017
Campus Community
From VC Boswell: Enhancing our community
Positive change in the CU Boulder community will require continuous effort and struggle. It is on us to make our community everything we desire and know it can be, starting with individual action and outreach.
New UROP funding available for faculty grants
Tenure-track faculty and full-time instructors at CU Boulder can support undergraduates in research, scholarly and creative activities through the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP). Recent changes have simplified the process by which faculty can apply for various grants.
Discover your strengths with StrengthsQuest workshops
Faculty and staff are invited to participate in free professional development workshops based on the StrengthsQuest assessment. Participants will discover and learn to use their natural talents for both personal and professional development.
Universal Design: Instructional resources for designing accessible content
CU Boulder offers a host of universal design resources and services to help ensure content is accessible for all learners. As a new semester starts, these are the tools, services and learning opportunities instructors and content developers will find most useful.
New service automatically converts content to accessible format
As part of CU's commitment to an accessible campus environment, OIT now offers SensusAccess, an online service that allows anyone with a @colorado.edu email address to upload content and have it automatically converted to an accessible document type.
In Focus
Graduate students Barbara MacFerrin and Ariel Morrison traveled to the Arctic with Jennifer Kay, assistant professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, to video polar bears as a way to teach students about climate change.