Faculty-Staff Edition - Aug. 13, 2024
麻豆影院 8,000 new students and their families will arrive on campus next week, marking the start of Fall Welcome. Here鈥檚 what faculty and staff need to know to prepare.
Campus Community
Tuition assistance benefit applications open for fall 2024
Expanded tuition assistance benefits offer more savings and greater flexibility for eligible employees and their dependents. Apply now for the fall 2024 semester.
Kick-start the academic year with ACUMent, a spotlight on faculty mentoring
Learn more about ACUMent and its transformative potential for your career. Apply to become a mentor, mentee or part of a peer mentoring circle by Sept. 6.
New bus lanes on Colorado Avenue
The city of 麻豆影院 has implemented changes to the lanes on Colorado Avenue that may affect your daily commute.
New email security to protect campus accounts
A new email security service will begin providing protection to CU 麻豆影院 email accounts by using advanced detection models to protect against email attacks such as phishing, social engineering and account takeovers.
Faculty Takes
Are school boards becoming politicized? Expert weighs in
This month, children across the U.S. are heading back to class. Their educations will be shaped by the decisions of nearly 13,000 school boards. Anna Deese, a former school board member from Montana, breaks down some of the biggest misconceptions.
Remembering Nixon鈥檚 resignation, 5 decades later
Political science professor Kenneth Bickers reflects on what made the ex-president鈥檚 decision to step down following the Watergate scandal a watershed moment in American history and how it has influenced politics today.
Bipartisan data-privacy law could backfire on small businesses
Privacy comes at a price. The American Privacy Rights Act could undermine small entrepreneurs who rely on targeted digital advertising. Read from CU expert John Lynch and colleague Jean-Pierre Dub茅 on The Conversation.
Research Updates
Those with the biggest biases choose first, according to new math study
In a new study, researchers created a sort of simulated voting booth鈥攁 space where people, or mathematical 鈥渁gents,鈥 with various biases could deliberate over decisions. The results may help reveal the mathematics of how the human brain acts when it needs to make a choice.
Events & Exhibits
Cultivating and maintaining healthy relationships on Aug. 26
The relationships we have with family, friends, significant others, coworkers, neighbors and ourselves can be hard (and important). This workshop will teach techniques for maintaining healthy relationships with those around us and ourselves.
The oboe as vocalist鈥攁 Faculty Tuesdays performance Aug. 27
Join an eclectic program designed to inspire your thinking about the overlap between the human voice and the voice of the oboe.
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