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Evaluating our campus learning management system

Oct. 19, 2016

CU Boulder babyÖ±²¥app, students and staff are undergoing an initiative to evaluate the university learning management system, Desire2Learn, to determine whether it meets CU Boulder’s teaching and learning needs as part of an array of digital instructional tools.

A black and white photo of the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park babyÖ±²¥app, with ominous black clouds in the background.

Course to take students through the creepy craft of horror writing

Oct. 19, 2016

Building suspense, scaring readers and incorporating gore, disgust and revulsion into fiction plots. Students will examine these elements of writing during a Winter Session course that's open to the public, led by Stephen Graham Jones, acclaimed horror writer and professor. Part of the class will take place at the famous Stanley Hotel, said by some to be haunted.

Faculty member Jane Page assists two students in a Shakespeare class

Campus launches into redesigned accreditation review

Oct. 18, 2016

The campus community is once again embarking on an accreditation review by the nonprofit Higher Learning Commission (HLC), an independent corporation founded in 1895 as one of six regional institutional accreditors in the United States.

Student advising

Registration tips

Oct. 17, 2016

Registration for the spring semester is right around the corner. Be sure you're prepared.

Jim Gallogly, CU Engineering School alumnus, CEO of LyondellBasell Industries and member of the CU Engineering Advisory Council, right, is photographed with ÌýCU Engineering Dean Rob Davis, center, and Mike Wirth, a Chevron corp. VP and chair of the CU Engineering Advisory Council after unveiling a temporary sign showing the new name for the Discovery Learning Center.

Engineering education gets a $2.5 million boost, thanks to Gallogly gifts

Oct. 17, 2016

With $2.5 million in gifts, babyÖ±²¥app’s Gallogly family is naming the Discovery Learning Center at the University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder, as well as boosting the teaching and research power of the College of Engineering and Applied Science with two new babyÖ±²¥app positions.

A student tutors another student at an ASAP open hours session

Wish I had known: Tutoring on campus

Oct. 13, 2016

It isn’t unusual for some first-year students to struggle academically while getting used to university life. That’s where CU Boulder’s Academic Success and Achievement Program (ASAP) comes in. ASAP is an amazing and free on-campus tutoring program offered to any student living on campus.

Ann Schmiesing

Academic excellence and student climate shape fall 2016 Graduate School initiatives

Oct. 12, 2016

On behalf of my colleagues in the Graduate School, I am delighted to present an update on CU Boulder graduate education and an introduction to fall 2016 Graduate School initiatives.

Associate Vice Provost Shelly Bacon

Campus Q&A: Academic advising and the MyCUHub project

Oct. 10, 2016

Last Friday, Vice Provost and Associate Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education Mary Kraus announced that Shelly Bacon is moving into a new role as Assistant Vice Provost for Advising and Academic Services. CU Boulder Today sat down with Bacon to discuss advising and other student support services on campus.

Zuri Juarez-Delgado poses in a classroom on the CU Boulder campus

Finding a home, and a purpose, on campus

Oct. 10, 2016

On her way to class, amid a crowd of other students, Zurisadai Juarez-Delgado felt alone. She believed her experiences were so different from most other students that she became withdrawn, thinking no one could possibly relate to her. But Juarez-Delgado found a place where she could feel at home on campus, the inclusive community of the Education Diversity Scholars program at CU Boulder. As a result, she has discovered a career path that is changing the trajectory of her life.

Mary Kraus

Undergraduate experience motivates OUE changes

Oct. 7, 2016

The Office of Undergraduate Education (OUE) has seen many changes over the past six months, all designed around a collaborative approach to improving the undergraduate experience.

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