Senior Instructor Michele Simpson is offering a Hatha yoga class for relaxation and coping with stress—free throughout the summer. 

Who: Students, staff, faculty, friends and animal companions

Yoga levels: Beginning, intermediate and advanced

When: Tuesdays from 5 to 6:15 p.m. (MST)

Where: Virtual Zoom room

Guide: Michele D. Simpson

Bring: Water

Don’t have a yoga mat? No problem. Create some cushioning for your body by stacking rugs, blankets, or rugs and blankets. Please join us. We’re moving forward into May and into the foreseeable future.

IUT applications for the Leeds School of Business are now available through OnBase for fall 2020 through May 31. Applications for College of Arts and Sciences and the Program in Exploratory Studies are also still open. For additional information and deadlines, review IUT steps and requirements and connect with your advisor if you have any questions.

Students who are taking summer courses may order course materials from the CU Book Store. Place your order online, and materials will be shipped.

The physical store in the UMC remains closed. If you rent textbooks, a free shipping label to check in rental books is provided. Save the box they arrive in for ease of shipping back. 

Find helpful information on course materials formats. For more information, contact assist@cubookstore.com.

Affordable teletherapy is available through CU Boulder’s Raimy Psychology Clinic, for individuals residing in Colorado. Sessions are held through the videoconferencing platform Zoom.

Raimy Clinic therapists can provide help coping with stress, depression, anxiety, relationship issues and other difficulties during this very challenging time! Special low rates are available for all CU Boulder students, staff and faculty.

For more information, call our intake line, Julia Salinger at 303-492-5177; email raimy@colorado.edu; or visit our website.

A classified staff rule hearing will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday, June 2, via Zoom virtual webinar. You must register in advance to attend this webinar hearing. Learn more.

If you already left campus or moved out of the Boulder area for the summer or due to COVID-19, please be sure to update your voter registration (or register to vote) with your new mailing address so your June ballot can find you!

Ballots for the Colorado statewide June Primary are mailed beginning June 8. You must be registered as a Democrat, Republican, Libertarian or unaffiliated voter to participate. To learn more about the primary election, see Boulder County Elections Information, or check out your local county clerk’s website.

Affordable teletherapy is available through CU Boulder’s Raimy Psychology Clinic, for individuals residing in Colorado. Sessions are held through the videoconferencing platform Zoom.

Raimy Clinic therapists can provide help coping with stress, depression, anxiety, relationship issues and other difficulties during this very challenging time! Special low rates are available for all CU Boulder students, staff and faculty.

For more information, call our intake line, Julia Salinger at 303-492-5177; email raimy@colorado.edu; or visit our website.

The Colorado Department of Higher Education is interested in hearing from faculty about experiences this semester and what the fall semester might look like. Join the: 

Impact of COVID-19 on Higher Education Operations: An Open Forum for Colorado’s Higher Education Faculty
Tuesday, May 12, 1–2 p.m.
Log in via Zoom with password: 761047—no need to RSVP

Questions to be addressed will include:

• What factors are you considering as your institution and campuses plans for the fall?
• What would give you confidence that it is “safe” to return in the fall for in-person instruction?
• What resources would be needed to make you feel safe?
• What policy considerations might be necessary (institutional, CDHE, other)?

We want to understand your experience as a first-year freshmen at CU during the COVID-19 pandemic. Complete an online survey sharing your own experiences, thoughts and feelings.

This research is being conducted by researchers in the CU Department of Psychology and Neuroscience (IRB#18-0483). You will have the opportunity to win one of ten $100 Amazon gift cards. Additional opportunities to participate in paid research may be available.

To qualify, you must be a freshman at CU, between the ages of 18-25, and fluent in English.

Please contact gruberpeplab@colorado.edu with the subject line “EMERGE COVID-19 Study,” and we will send you a survey link to complete at your convenience.

The decision has been made to proceed with the option for departments to use summer operating hours. Implementation of the summer hours schedule will vary among departments considering most employees are working remotely.

For units that choose to follow the summer hours, the hours will be 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., effective Monday, May 11 through Saturday, August 15. On Sunday, August 16 departments using summer hours for their employees will return to regular operating hours of 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Some departments maintain their own unique hours of operation. Employees should follow their department’s schedule in consultation with their supervisor.

Budget & Fiscal Planning (BFP) is launching a new group training on the Benefits Shared Solution, starting April 30. This training covers the five-pronged Shared Solution process for the Benefits Initiative. This new training will alternate Thursdays with BFP’s Benefits Localization group training.

For details and to RSVP for either training, please visit BFP’s Benefits Initiative website.

The city of Boulder has launched a question-and-answer page around CU Boulder South, addressing flood design and key elements of the annexation agreement with CU. Through May 13, you have the opportunity to review the information and weigh in with questions, which city of Boulder staff members will answer. You can also complete a questionnaire to rank the issues in order of importance to you­–valuable information for the city and CU Boulder.

Key dates in May include a planning board meeting on May 7 and a community information session on May 20. Get details.

The CU Book Store has extended the deadline for textbook rental check-in to June 1. Rental books may be returned via UPS with a prepaid shipping label. Questions? Contact assist@cubookstore.com. Free shipping labels can be accessed at cubookstore.com/rental through June 1.

If you purchased a textbook and would like to sell it back, the CU Book Store will offer textbook sellback when the physical store reopens. Information will be found here when details are announced.

Do you post events on the campus events calendar? The tool is updated with the following new features:

• The new “experience” field allows you to mark the event as virtual. Selecting virtual will present additional fields for entering dial-in instructions, a livestream URL and/or livestream embed code.
• In the “status” field, you can mark an event as live, canceled, postponed or sold out. When an event status is changed to canceled, for example, the cancellation is automatically indicated in the event title, so you do not have to manually make the edit.

Additionally, as a security best practice, Zoom meeting links should not be posted in calendar events unless the Zoom meeting has security settings suggested by OIT. The recommendation is to have interested participants register in advance to receive the Zoom meeting link. (Web Express users can create a webform to set up an event registration.)

Additional pointers on virtual events

• Any public-facing virtual event should include closed captioning to align with campus policies (PDF) (see section 4, page 3).
• If you need help with coordinating captioning, explore OIT’s “request captioning” info. 
• If you are using Zoom, you can also visit Zoom’s closed captioning third party integration information from Zoom page. You’ll need to get a Zoom webinar set up to use this functionality.