CU Connections

Tim Chamillard, associate professor, College of Engineering and Applied Science, is ready to take the plunge into the latest trend sweeping higher education, Massive Open Online Courses or, MOOCs, for short. Chamillard will be the first UCCS faculty member to offer a course without tuition or traditional enrollment processes. He plans to offer the course [...]

George Kacenga, director of International Enrollment Management at CU Denver;  Anthony Shull, executive director of International Affairs at UCCS; and John Stevenson, dean of the Graduate School at CU-Boulder participated in the fourth annual International Exhibition and Conference on Higher Education (IECHE)  April 16-20 in the Riyadh International Exhibition Center. The main theme of the [...]

Kelli Klebe, associate professor, Department of Psychology, at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, will serve as dean of the Graduate School following a campus search. “Dr. Klebe has held many leadership roles at UCCS and has had substantial success in generating external research grants,” said Provost Peg Bacon. “I believe her combination of scholarship [...]

A four-member search committee will review campus-only applications for the position of dean of the UCCS Graduate School, Peg Bacon, provost, recently announced. Michael Larson, associate vice chancellor, Research and Innovation, will chair the search committee charged with finding a replacement for Jenenne Nelson, professor, Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences, and current Graduate [...]

The University of Colorado Boulder invites the community to attend its 14th annual Colorado Learning and Teaching With Technology conference, Aug. 3-4.

University of Colorado Boulder Professor Christopher Braider has been named director of journalism and mass communication faculty.   The move, effective July 1, “marks the next key step in developing a more contemporary program in journalism and media studies,” said CU-Boulder Provost Russell L. Moore. Braider will oversee the daily administrative operations of the faculty, [...]