Announcements & Deadlines

CU alumni, faculty and affiliates have been winning Pulitzer prizes for at least 71 years. The tradition appears to have started in 1945, when Denver native Mary Coyle Chase won the drama prize for "Harvey," a comic play about a genial alcoholic and his six-foot-plus rabbit.

Universities are required by state and federal laws to retain and then dispose of their records according to specific standards. Each department is responsible for submitting its log of destroyed records to the Campus Controller's Office for an annual report to the state archivist.

Students lose access to Desire2Learn (D2L) courses just three weeks after the conclusion of each semester. If there are any course materials you wish to keep, you have until the end of Thursday, Jan. 5, to download via D2L.

The Office of Information Technology is piloting PlayPosit, a tool that allows users to add quiz questions to video content and monitor student engagement with the lesson. This in-video quiz can be accessed from within Desire2Learn.

Our campus is constantly under attack by a barrage of attempts to steal personal information, often referred to as phishing. Often these attacks come during holidays when campus IT support is unavailable or has reduced hours. Even when you can’t contact the IT Service Center, there are still clues to help you figure out if an e-mail is legitimate or a phishing attempt.

The university is beginning a faculty- and student-driven initiative to evaluate D2L and other learning management systems (LMS). Your feedback is important.

The past couple of weeks have been very turbulent for many of us Buffs, with the recent election, finals and other uncertainties that college students face. It is important for us as members of the CU Boulder community, to remember the Colorado Creed and reflect on how we can live our lives by its values.

This November, the campus announced a collaborative, university-wide initiative to redesign the faculty course questionnaire (FCQ) instrument and process. This fall semester, the university successfully administered the first of two planned pilots at the Boulder, Denver and UCCS campuses.

With classes finishing up, finals this week and break so close you can almost grasp it, it is clear that students, and professors alike all feel the pressure. Although it’s a crazy time, it’s important to push through and finish strong. We are so close!

CU employees are eligible to meet for free with financial professionals from the university's retirement-plan service provider. Sessions are scheduled starting Friday, Dec. 9.