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The board on Tuesday agreed that keeping employees happy and keeping them, period, are necessary for the university’s continued success.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday announced its denial to hear an appeal from former professor Ward Churchill, just over six months after the Colorado Supreme Court affirmed that the University of Colorado is not obligated to reinstate him, nor to award back pay.

A vote on a resolution proposed by University of Colorado regents James Geddes and Sue Sharkey opposing ‘gun-free zones’ on University of Colorado campuses was postponed indefinitely by the board in a 6-2 vote, essentially killing the measure.

Stories of life-changing university research, and the people who make it possible, were celebrated at the Sixth Annual Donor Recognition Dinner. The event drew a full house to the Seawell Ballroom in the Denver Performing Arts Complex on Feb. 7. Leaders of the University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus and the University of [...]

The Board of Regents will place phone calls to recruit the best, brightest students to University of Colorado campuses. The board’s chair would like faculty members to join in.

University and city leaders will plunge shovels into earth today, marking the start of construction on a signature building in CU Denver’s 40-year history downtown. Academic Building 1, the first structure on the Auraria Campus owned and operated by CU Denver, has been a long time coming and today’s event will befit the historical significance. [...]

Four members of the University of Colorado Board of Regents took their oath of office Wednesday at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs campus, the first-time host of the event.

The University of Colorado Board of Regents on Nov. 15 concluded its two-day meeting at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus.

The daylong slate at St. Cajetan’s Church at the University of Colorado Denver on the Auraria Campus included speakers, multimedia presentations and group discussions.

Faculty member becomes fifth CU researcher to be honored with the Nobel Prize in science.

A new systemwide symposium sponsored by the University of Colorado Faculty Council aims to “check the pulse” of the CU community regarding issues and challenges affecting the gay community.

University and state leaders joined with students and faculty Aug. 23 to celebrate the opening of the University of Colorado Denver’s new Business School, hailed as a center of innovation, entrepreneurship and world-class education. Business School Dean Sueann Ambron said the LEED Gold-certified facility at 15th and Lawrence streets is far more than just a [...]

Miller and his team have been asked to assess various university systems, procedures and actions related to the Aurora theater shooting suspect.

The July 20 theater shootings in Aurora were followed by extraordinary efforts by medical professionals at the University of Colorado Hospital and the CU Anschutz Medical Campus, university leadership says.

The board on Friday voted in favor of supporting the state in an ongoing lawsuit that claims funding of K-12 schools is so low that it violates the Colorado Constitution.

Now in his second term representing the 1st Congressional District, Carrigan was elected chair on a 5-3 vote at the board’s June meeting at UCCS.

Carrigan, who is in his second term representing the 1st Congressional District, was elected chair on a 5-3 vote at the board’s meeting at UCCS. There was one abstention.

The zoo on Monday renamed its award-winning exhibit that features lions, hyenas and African wild dogs the Bruce D. Benson Predator Ridge, in honor of the CU president and longtime Denver Zoo advocate.

The University of Colorado Board of Regents passionately agreed that student safety on campus is a No. 1 priority. They passionately disagreed, however, on how that can or should be enforced.

The Board of Regents today authorized a 2 percent salary pool, enabling merit increases for many faculty, officers and exempt professionals in the 2012-13 fiscal year.

University leadership from throughout the system was represented, along with faculty, staff, alumni, donors, CU Advocates and students.

The university’s brand isn’t a logo or a slogan. It’s the feelings and perceptions our constituents have about the University of Colorado as part of their recognition of and interaction with us.

The audience at the brief ceremony included family, friends, colleagues from her career in education and leaders at CU, including President Bruce Benson and fellow regents Steve Bosley, Michael Carrigan and Joe Neguse.

The University of Colorado Board of Regents in February will consider amending its laws to change the structure of the board office and the position of secretary to the board and general counsel.

The Board of Regents today voted to approve the $63.5 million package of improvements to the CU-Boulder recreation center, which students overwhelmingly requested earlier this year.