Diverse Learners Awareness Week, coming Feb. 20 through 24, can help you build the sensitivity and skills to become an effective advocate for diversity in learning. Nominate yourself now as an organizer, presenter, participant and more.
This time of year can be tough, with many calls for end-of-year giving that can seem like a stretch when your holiday budget is already tight. While we may not be able to make a gift right now, many of us do wish to support the agencies that make Colorado a better place for all. Consider making a giving plan for 2017 by participating in the annual Colorado Combined Campaign, an easy way to make payroll deduction gifts to more than 700 agencies right here in Colorado.
The Student Employment Office is accepting nominations for Student Employee of the Year. Work-study, hourly and salaried student employees are eligible. First place will receive Buff Gear donated by the CU Bookstore and will be nominated for the Western Association of Student Employment Administrators Award.
If you鈥檙e teaching a course in the spring and are planning to use D2L, now is great time to request your course. Requesting your course early will allow you to maximize the available time to develop your course. To request a course, instructors should log in to MyCUInfo and choose the Course Tools tab in Teaching Tools to "Request Desire2Learn Course."
The Office of Information Technology is looking for distance students to participate in a pilot involving the use of a Kubi, a robotic neck that holds an iPad and allows a remote student to actively participate in a face-to-face class.
The reopening of Euclid AutoPark, originally scheduled for Jan. 17, 2017, will be delayed into March. Parking for campus guests is still available in the lot across the street from Euclid Avenue.
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.
