Announcements & Deadlines

The Office of Organizational and Employee Development invites CU-Boulder employees to attend upcoming seminars and courses. "Real Colors", "Emotional Intelligence", "Maximizing Generational Talent in Your Organization", and "StrengthsQuest" sessions are scheduled for the remainder of 2016. Programs are offered free of charge to CU-Boulder employees. Space is limited and sessions are filling up fast.

If you've been holding off on enrolling in CU benefits, now is the time. Open Enrollment ends at 5 p.m. Friday, May 13. It's time to select the coverage you want for you and your family from July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017.

On Tuesday, May 3, long-serving members of the Boulder campus staff and their guests joined Chancellor Philip DiStefano and members of Staff Council in the Glenn Miller Ballroom to be honored for their service to campus.

Open Enrollment Sessions and Fairs will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, May 5 in the UMC's Glenn Miller Ballroom. Open Enrollment ends at 5 p.m. May 13. </span><span>Sessions for faculty and staff will be held from 9 to 10 a.m. and 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. with a retiree session running from 11 a.m. to noon. An Open Enrollment Fair, featuring plan providers, will be open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

CU-Boulder Human Resources invites campus supervisors, managers and leaders to attend the redesigned "Managers Academy: Employee Management and Compliance Essentials" (previously "Managing the CU-Boulder Way") May 17-18. This program is offered free of charge to CU-Boulder employees. Space is limited and sessions are filling up fast.

At the April Board of Regents meeting, Chancellor DiStefano and Senior Vice Chancellor and Chief Financial Officer Kelly Fox proposed a 2 percent merit pool for classified staff and university staff. <em>CU-Boulder Today</em> sat down with Chancellor DiStefano and discussed how the approval of this merit pool is part of a larger effort towards equitable wages on the Boulder campus.

Construction of the new Baseline Road pedestrian and bicycle underpass is scheduled to start Monday, April 25. Phase one will see off-peak delays, beginning after 8:30 a.m. and ending before 3:30 p.m. Phase two, beginning in June, will see significant traffic impacts.

The University of Colorado Student Government is pleased to announce preliminary results of the spring 2016 elections.

<p>Last fall, CU-Boulder implemented a new move-in process to reduce traffic and impact on the community while ensuring the first experience incoming families and students have at the university is a positive one. The new plan succeeded in its goals, but changed “business as usual” on campus. <em>CU-Boulder Today</em> talked with the teams who are planning Fall 2016 Move-In to get an update on this year’s event, scheduled to begin the evening of Aug. 16 and continue through Aug. 17 and 18.</p>

The University of Colorado Boulder will test the CU-Boulder Alerts system at noon on Wednesday, March 30. The test will include text messages, emails, social media and website announcements. This spring’s test will also be the first small-scale test of the campus’ new Alertus desktop notification tool. Annual testing of emergency notification systems is required by the Clery Act, a federal law.