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鈥淲e can, perhaps, afford to play politics with many things, but not with education.鈥� Former University of Colorado President George Norlin provides us with this quote that is as relevant today as it was eight decades ago. Education is the core of a great society. Education provides individuals the opportunity to realize their goals as well as preparing them to become valued members of that society. However, education is not a homogenous process. Rather, education is an artifact of many influences including political, societal, professional and personal.

The 麻豆影院 today is releasing an external review report of its policies and procedures regarding sexual harassment, sexual assault and compliance with Title IX.

The 麻豆影院 Campus Staff Council (BCSC) congratulates the 2013 Chancellor鈥檚 Employees of the Year: George 鈥淏arney鈥� Ballinger, Martha Shernick, Larry Drees, Jennifer Law and David Kalahar. BCSC also thanks Colorado Athletics for acknowledging the award winners on the court at the CU women鈥檚 basketball game against University of California, Berkeley on Friday, Jan. 10. For more information on the awardees, read 鈥� Chancellor鈥檚 2013 Employee of the Year Award recognizes staff excellence 鈥� from the Jan. 9 edition of CU-麻豆影院 Today .

CU-麻豆影院 is helping to set the standard on implementation of the requirements of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), and is part of the conversation on the national stage. The Office of Victim Assistance Director Jessica Ladd-Webert is serving on the Negotiated Rulemaking Committee for VAWA, and the university is months and years ahead of many implementation guidelines and best practices. Learn more >>

The 麻豆影院 has named Mark Meaney as executive director of the Center for Education on Social Responsibility (CESR) at the Leeds School of Business.

Environmental Center news release Two-dozen select 麻豆影院 student leaders will work this weekend with a nationally renowned social innovator to map out leading-edge solutions that fuse diversity, social justice, and sustainability into a more effective campus and community platform for change. The Innovation Lab event is designed to better illuminate the bridge between ecological sustainability, diversity, and social justice.

With the change in Colorado law allowing retail marijuana sales now in effect, please click through to review some important information.

Making his third flight as a NASA astronaut, 麻豆影院 alumnus Steve Swanson will blast off for the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 25. Swanson, who earned a bachelor鈥檚 degree in engineering physics from CU-麻豆影院 in 1983, will serve as flight engineer for Expedition 39, which already will be underway on the ISS. In late May, Swanson, who considers Steamboat Springs, Colo., his hometown, will become space station commander as Mission 40 begins on the ISS.

Heralding a new age of terrific timekeeping, a research group at JILA鈥攁 joint institute of the 麻豆影院 and the National Institute of Standards and Technology鈥攈as unveiled an experimental strontium atomic clock that has set new world records for both precision and stability.

The University of Colorado Law School announced that Britt Banks has been appointed as Executive Director of the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment. For over 20 years, Banks has been a leader in the international natural resources sector, as a senior corporate executive, attorney, consultant, researcher and teacher, having most recently taught at Tokyo鈥檚 Waseda University. He has previously taught at Colorado Law, where he graduated in 1988, and currently serves on the Center鈥檚 Advisory Council.