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Open Enrollment: Still time to attend informational sessions, fairs

Open Enrollment (OE), the one time each year when University of Colorado faculty and staff may make changes to benefits plans, ends at 5 p.m. May 25. The 2012-13 OE is a positive enrollment for all medical and dental benefits-eligible employees, which means you must take action for medical and dental benefits, even if you [...]

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Learn the keys to keeping that secret word secret

Passwords have become a critical part of our daily lives. We use passwords to log on to a computer, read email, update finances, shop online and watch movies. It seems that taking almost any action on the Internet requires some type of password. Your passwords represent the keys to your information kingdom. Cyber-criminals understand the [...]

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What do you think of the UMC? Survey offers chance at $40 gift card

You love the University Memorial Center – Why? What!?! You don’t like the UMC – Why not? Take the CU-Boulder UMC survey and tell why you do or why you don’t. You could win a $40 tasteBUD gift card, good in the Alferd Packer Grill and Baby Doe’s, home of Peet’s coffee. Click here: http://studentvoice.com/cu/umcsatisfactionsurveyspring2012

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Colorado Learning and Teaching With Technology (COLTT) Conference call for proposals

The April 28 deadline is fast approaching and we want to hear from more of you! The 15th Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology Conference (COLTT) needs your expertise and enthusiasm for this year’s conference, which will be held Aug. 1 and 2 on the CU-Boulder campus. The COLTT program committee is now soliciting proposals [...]

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Reminder: Open enrollment requires action

Open Enrollment (OE), the one time each year when University of Colorado faculty and staff may make changes to benefits plans, begins at 8 a.m. April 30 and ends at 5 p.m. May 25. The 2012–13 OE is a positive enrollment for all medical and dental benefits-eligible employees, which means you must take action for [...]

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CU Denver EPA announces recognition program

The University of Colorado Denver Exempt Professional Assembly has announced the launch of Let Your Light Shine, a program honoring an Exempt Professional Employee each month. Guidelines and the nomination form are posted the EPA website. Besides the prestigious monthly recognition, the selected employee for the month also will receive a $100 gift card. To [...]

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Securing mobile devices a must

Mobile devices such as smartphones have become one of the primary tools people use to communicate and interact with the Internet. You can instantly talk to or message anyone else around the world while carrying the power of a computer in your pocket. However, with all these capabilities come many risks to your personal information [...]

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U.S.-Brazil Network announces free Boulder events

The Center for the Study of Conflict, Collaboration and Creative Governance (3CG) at CU-Boulder will host three, free events Wednesday through April 13 as part of the U.S.-Brazil Network initiative. The events focus on environmental governance practices in Brazil. “U.S.-Brazil Network: Bridging the Humanities and the Sciences” events are: 4 p.m. Wednesday: “Populações Tradicionais no [...]

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Registration open for CU Online Spring Symposium

Does your online course have a beat? Can you dance to it? “Tune up! Make your online teaching sing” is the theme of the 2012 CU Online Spring Symposium, which promises exciting presentations, fun giveaways and practical tools educators can use to make online courses sing. The event runs 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Thursday, [...]

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University of Colorado Health and Welfare Trust launches RxConsult

University of Colorado Health and Welfare plan members (currently UA Net, Lumenos, HMO Colorado, Medicare supplement and University Kaiser) are eligible for a new program, RxConsult. Rx Consult enables you to meet for free with a clinical pharmacist on the Anschutz Medical, Boulder, Colorado Springs and downtown Denver campuses and at other sites convenient to [...]