Announcements & Deadlines
- The program aims to increase historically disenfranchised and underrepresented professionals in student affairs and higher education. Student referrals are due April 15, and applications are due May 1.
- Some good news: Rates for university medical plans will not increase this year. Discover what's changing, and see when benefits professionals are coming to campus.
- Sharing Staff Council's goal of offering paid parental leave, the campus is planning to have a new program in place by July 1 and is still determining the full extent of what it can offer given a number of factors.
- Going forward, neither General Accounting nor Sponsored Projects Accounting will be separate entities in the controller's office, a change based on assessments and campus feedback.
- The recent State of Higher Education Forum was an opportunity to hear the priorities, opportunities, challenges and most pressing issues Colorado leaders face across institutions and systems.
- After a handful of CU Boulder teams pitched their businesses before a panel of judges, the Specdrums musical startup and HASEL artificial muscles took top honors at the 10th annual New Venture Challenge.
- Several campus members were recognized earlier this week at a ceremony aimed at spreading awareness of exceptional work and advocacy, all for the betterment of the student population.
- With a focus on interdisciplinary ventures that take investigators in creative, high-impact directions, the Research & Innovation Seed Grant Program is newly awarding 16 grants.
- The country's largest interdisciplinary research association devoted to education and learning is awarding the 2018 Color Distinguished Career Contribution Award to CU Boulder's Rubén Donato.
- Three CU faculty members, including a mathematics professor on the Boulder campus, have joined a roster of educators awarded for skillfully integrating teaching and research at an exceptional level.