Each year, the campus community recognizes students who have demonstrated exemplary work by nominating them for Student Employee of the Year. Please submit your nominations by Jan. 28. All nominees will be recognized and one winner chosen in mid-spring.

The Buff Pantry is collecting donations and operating drop-in hours Jan. 3–6 to support those impacted by the Marshall Fire. The Buff Pantry is located in the University Memorial Center (UMC) basement 1B73, near the lower level of the CU Book Store.

CU Boulder students can get great deals on software purchased through the university, some of it for free—including Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Cloud, AutoCAD, SPSS and much more.

Registration is now open for spring classes, trips and other activities at The Rec. Learn more.

Once you're back from winter break, be sure to check out the operating hours for campus dining centers, markets, cafés and grab-n-gos. 

Join us as a presenter at the 2022 Women’s Leadership Symposium! This year’s theme is Filling Each Other’s Cups: Collaboration and Compassion. 

The symposium seeks to explore a variety of ways women/women-identified individuals build their leadership skills and feel empowered to become tomorrow’s leaders. We are especially interested in proposals that will intentionally address the needs and interests of student audiences as part of the submission. Intergenerational or multi-audience proposals are also highly valued.

We encourage staff and students to collaborate on proposal submissions that address our key themes:

• Describe gendered challenges present at CU and in the broader workplace.
• Describe a leadership style or core tenet and how attendees can operationalize this style or tenet.
• Connect knowledge and skills to future professional pursuits.

The deadline to submit is Jan. 7, 2022.

Staying vigilant and following online security best practices is even more important around the holidays.

Each month, communications milestones and actions will be shared with faculty and staff related to the monthly CU Boulder Today update on the student-centered approach to teaching and learning. It aims to provide student-facing staff and faculty a quick glimpse into the month’s key milestones for undergraduate students, along with links to corresponding communications. Each feature will also include topics and resources staff and faculty can highlight when having conversations with students. 

Milestones for December and the spring semester

• Students should now be registered for spring 2022. Those who did not register during their enrollment period have been emailed and texted. It’s not too late to register and/or meet with their advisor. 
• Students will finish finals by Dec. 15 and grades will be posted throughout the following week. Students will be able to see all of their grades in Buff Portal’s grades and GPA card by Dec. 23.
• Winter break:
  • Most academic and administrative offices will be closed Dec. 25–Jan. 1.
  • Residence halls will be closed Dec. 17–Jan. 6.

Actions to support students

• Encourage students to log in to Buff Portal. This is where they’ll see holds they may need to clear before registering for spring and also where they’ll see their fall 2021 grades. 
  • Students can view a description of each hold, including instructions for clearing the hold and contact information for the office that manages the hold. 
• If students didn’t do as well in the fall as they had hoped and are worried about their grades, let them know that they’ll be contacted by their dean’s office during the weeks of Jan. 3 and 10, if they are receiving a notification about poor academic standing. Otherwise, encourage them to reach out to their academic advisor or academic coach during the week of Jan. 3.
• Students living in the residence halls will need to be moved out by Dec. 16 at 1 p.m. They can begin moving back in for spring 2022 on Jan. 7 at 10 a.m. There will be limited campus dining offered during break. 
• If students have struggled to make connections this semester, encourage them to participate in Spring Welcome events in January. They can view events happening all semester long by downloading the CU Boulder Life app. 

See additional winter break reminders and tips.

Google Hangouts is transitioning to Google’s newest enterprise-grade collaboration product, Google Chat. Read more from OIT.

The Graduate and Professional Student Government is seeking to fill a variety of paid positions, including director of social events, starting in the spring 2022 semester. Get details and apply.

The 2022 applications for Advancing Women in Science scholarships are open and will close on Feb. 28. Applications can be completed via the GoodGrants platform. Please contact Abby Swett, Association for Women in Science, 202-827-9798, swett@awis.org, for more information.

A group of CU Boulder students has been selected to compete in the Bateman competition, a nationwide public relations competition dedicated to empowering the efforts of various non-profits. This year's client is the Lymphoma Research Foundation.

The group is seeking CU Boulder students to participate in a survey about lymphoma.

Take the survey.

It’s time to start working with the University Libraries to reserve your materials for spring 2022 courses. Reserving assigned course materials through the Libraries provides affordable and more equitable access to scholarly resources that are often expensive or difficult for students to purchase. All material reserve requests can be placed online.

With winter break approaching, the CU Boulder campus will follow different building access protocols.

• Dec. 18–Jan. 9: Most buildings will be available via Buff OneCard swipe between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m.
• University holidays that occur during the break: Building access will only be available for affiliates with Buff OneCards who have been provisioned for 24/7 access to their respective facilities.

Visit the Campus Building Access page for more information.
 

Share your unique story with the campus community during the University Libraries’ first Buffs One Read Storytelling Contest and exhibit. Judges will select three winners to receive a $500 prize each. Contest submissions are due Jan. 26, 2022.