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Mandatory enrollment for employees enrolled in a state of Colorado medical or dental plan

If you are a classified employee currently enrolled in a state of Colorado medical plan (including State Kaiser and the other state plans) or dental plan, you...
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May 12, 2010
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Cafeteria plans (formerly CU Flex)

You must re-enroll and actively elect your annual contributions for health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts each year at open enrollment.
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May 12, 2010
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Optional term life insurance

If you and/or your spouse, common law spouse or SGDP are nontobacco users, meaning that you have not used tobacco products within the past 12 months, you are...
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May 12, 2010
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Higher ed flexibility legislation moves forward

Senate Bill 10-003, the legislation that would give higher education institutions greater freedom in determining tuition and financial affairs, passed a third...
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Cynthia Pasquale
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May 5, 2010
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CU System
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Benefits rates, online open enrollment will be available Thursday

Though Payroll & Benefit Services had expected to post final rates and launch the open enrollment web application today, both have been delayed one day...
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May 5, 2010
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CU System
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Workshops explain shift in thinking about fundraising

A new fundraising approach is taking root throughout the CU Foundation , and among campus and volunteer partners. "The old model of fundraising is us simply...
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May 5, 2010
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Boulder campus gets Googled for mapping project

Thousands of campus denizens wander the University of Colorado at Boulder by bike or on foot, but later this year, the entire world will get to take the tour...
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Cynthia Pasquale
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May 5, 2010
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CU Boulder
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Regents name recipients of honorary degrees for 2010

The University of Colorado Board of Regents has released its list of award recipients for 2010. They will receive their honors at commencement ceremonies...
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May 5, 2010
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CU System, CU Boulder
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Five Questions for Steve Lekson

Steve Lekson has stirred up a lot of dust in his time. He's spent years researching prominent archaeological sites, including Chaco Canyon in New Mexico,...
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Cynthia Pasquale
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May 5, 2010
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CU Boulder
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Symposium to examine personalized medicine, biotech advances

Words such as invention, technology, diagnostics and wellness were rarely mentioned during recent health care reform deliberations, but a health care...
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May 5, 2010
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Muller-Sievers named director of Center for Humanities and the Arts

Helmut Muller-Sievers, professor in the department of Germanic and Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been named...
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May 5, 2010
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CU Boulder
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GUEST COLUMN: Understanding political, philosophical and intellectual diversity

Jim Geddes, M.D. Our greatest responsibility as a university is to provide our students a rich, ethical and diverse educational environment that promotes...
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May 5, 2010
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CU Anschutz Medical Campus
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Faculty, students to chase tornadoes again this spring

University of Colorado at Boulder faculty and students will join a storm-chasing science team for the second year in a row across the nation's infamous "...
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May 5, 2010
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CU Boulder
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Educator to speak on U.S. security at National Press Club

Kurt Johnson Kurt Johnson, an educator at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs whose background includes providing legal counsel to senior military...
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May 5, 2010
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UCCS
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Program transforms schoolyards into farm land serving school, community

A year of project planning and preparation came to reality last week as McGlone Elementary held a special kind of groundbreaking ceremony. Not only is a Denver...
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May 5, 2010
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CU Denver
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Breakthrough treatment extends lives of prostate cancer patients

The Food and Drug Administration has approved an immune therapy against prostate cancer, a major breakthrough that will extend the lives of many advanced-stage...
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May 5, 2010
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CU Anschutz Medical Campus
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CU-Boulder freshman campaigns for scholarship in memory of friends

Larkin Poynton Soon after the tragic 2008 automobile death of Longmont High School senior Kyle Metcalf and University of Colorado Denver freshman Caitlin Epple...
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May 5, 2010
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Dance professor honored with diversity awards

Ozuzu Onye Ozuzu, University of Colorado at Boulder professor of theater and dance, received the CACMA Diversity Service Award during the recent Excellence and Equity Lunch. The Chancellor's Advisory...
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May 5, 2010
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CU Boulder
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Biotech company expands Alzheimer's disease partnership with CU

The University of Colorado and AmideBio, LLC have completed an agreement creating a research collaboration with a CU-Boulder lab, and giving AmideBio an option...
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May 5, 2010
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Financial manager named UCCS Employee of the Quarter

Elyse Dunckley, right, receives her award from Shannon Cable, general professional in the Office of Financial Aid and Student Employment and co-president of the Employee of the Quarter committee...
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May 5, 2010
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Dropping names ...

Johnson Thomas E. Johnson, professor of molecular behavioral genetics at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has received the Denham Harman Research Award...
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May 5, 2010
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CU Anschutz Medical Campus, CU Denver, CU Boulder
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SkillSoft offers improved navigation

A new version of the SkillSoft Course Player released late last month makes navigation easier for users taking SkillSoft courses. The SkillSoft Course Player...
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May 5, 2010
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Rebalancing investments can turn losers into winners, professor says

When it comes to investing money in the stock market, actively rebalancing your portfolio is so critical that it can help turn individual investment losers...
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May 26, 2010
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CU Boulder
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State budget-balancing measure leads to shift in PERA contributions

University of Colorado employees who are PERA members will see a 2.5 percent reduction in wages during the 2010-11 fiscal year in order to comply with a new...
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Cynthia Pasquale
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April 28, 2010
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CU System
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UPDATE: Flex bill clears first hurdle at Capitol

The Colorado legislative bill aimed at giving higher education institutions more flexibility in financial affairs and in setting tuition rates was unanimously...
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Cynthia Pasquale
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April 28, 2010
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CU System

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