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Leeds Professor Chris Leach talks about $3.7 million in new gifts to support the Hernando de Soto Capital Markets Program, which introduces first-year business students to foundational ideas in ethics, business, law and economics, including those of de Soto, a Peruvian economist who champions individual property rights as one of the cornerstones to economic empowerment for people in emerging nations.

In 2016, we again celebrated a campus community that brings innovation and positive impacts to Colorado and the nation. We marked new discoveries, faculty achievements, Olympic medalists and a resurgent football program while welcoming high-profile visitors to campus and sending satellites throughout our solar system. Enjoy this recap of an outstanding year.

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.

December 14, 2016 Dear graduate students: As you know, my office received both a letter from the faculty and a petition from you related to supporting alternative events on the day that Milo Yiannopoulos is scheduled to speak. First, thank you for the consideration and thought put into your petition...

December 14, 2016 Dear faculty members: Thank you for the consideration and thought put into the letter you sent to us and other members of the campus leadership about issues related to free speech and how that should interface with the Colorado Creed and our values as a campus. We...

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.

This week CU Â鶹ӰԺ will be awarding 1,614 degrees, including 1,214 bachelor’s degrees, 299 master’s degrees, 97 doctoral degrees and four law degrees.

Earlier today, senior campus leadership received a letter from more than 200 faculty members and a petition signed by more than 200 graduate students. The documents asked the administration to lend their support to events proposed as alternatives to the Milo Yiannopoulos talk on Jan. 25. Chancellor DiStefano met with faculty and graduate student representatives to hear their concerns, and provided preliminary responses via letter to both groups.