The CU Boulder Office of Information Technology welcomes applications for an associate director of network engineering and operations. 

This individual has primary accountability for the ongoing delivery, operations, support and continual improvement of CU Boulder’s network infrastructure, an infrastructure vital and central to CU Boulder’s ability to successfully deliver on its three strategic imperatives: 

• Shape tomorrow’s leaders
• Be the top university for innovation
• Positively impact humanity

The associate director will work closely and collaboratively with other OIT service managers, the campus community, peer institutions, the city and county of Boulder, and partner organizations such as the Front Range GigaPop, to understand their requirements and ensure network services continuously serve our stakeholders. 

This position will set the direction for day-to-day decisions regarding the business-critical network services delivered to our customers. It will also develop policies, procedures, and operating guidelines for the standardization, maintenance and protection of our central networking systems in alignment with OIT service management processes. The associate director will create and monitor budgets and manage internal projects, and you will supervise and manage a team of professional network engineers.

What we require

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution. A combination of education and/or relevant experience may substitute for the degree on a year-for-year basis.
• Five years of experience in the management of mission-critical/high-availability networks, both wired and wireless, services in a large, complex enterprise IT environment including planning, formulating and managing complex budgets.
• Three years of experience directly supervising a team of three or more IT professionals.

How to apply

Non-CU Boulder employees: Apply at colorado.edu/jobs.

Current CU Boulder employees:

• Log in to MyCUInfo portal.
• Navigate to the CU Resources tab.
• Select Business Tools.
• Select the CU Boulder Jobs tile.
• Search "Associate Director, Network Engineering & Operations" or "17837."

Are you interested in learning about improv? Do you like environmental science?

Join the Improv + Science Workshop at the CU Museum of Natural History! The workshop takes place from 9 a.m to 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 11. 

About the workshop

The workshop will bring together local high school students and CU Boulder undergraduate/graduate students studying environmental science to learn about improvisational theater and how the principles of improv can foster communication and collaboration in science. Students will learn and perform improvisational theater games and scenes in the context of environmental science.

Improv requires the communication skills (e.g., listening, responding, storytelling) that are beneficial to engaging with others in science, particularly in collaborating to develop research ideas. We believe this is an innovative way to teach young people and have them practice these skills as they learn about environmental science topics. And…it’s fun!

Register now

Sign up by Monday, May 6, to claim your spot! 

High school student sign-up | CU Boulder student sign-up

For more information or questions, contact Megan Littrell at megan.littrell@colorado.edu.
 

The Cognitive Development Center in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience is looking for children ages birth to 12 years old who are interested in playing games that will help teach us about self-control, language and cognitive strategies. 

A visit, scheduled at your convenience, lasts about 60 minutes. Babysitting is available for siblings. Parents are compensated for travel and kids receive a fun prize.

To sign up, please do one of the following:

• Visit our website.
• Email cogdevctr@colorado.edu with your child’s name, gender, date of birth, and parent contact information (address, phone number, email address).
• Call us at 303-492-6389.

For more information, feel free to check out our Facebook page and website. 

Join Human Resources for the Find Your Power, Find Your Force art therapy workshop on May 22. 

We will bring awareness to this important part of us through guided meditation, and bring it to life giving it its own personality by applying art therapy. You will receive tools to access your power and force and will be able to take your drawing to stick in your wallet, put on your fridge or just to see what it looks like. It can be a helpful tool to remind us when we need to feel solid, strong, confident, and empowered. Come ready to learn and have fun tapping into your creative side.

If you go

Wednesday, May 22
12-1:30 p.m.
UMC 425
RSVP now

The CU Boulder Department of Human Resources (HR) and Engineering Management Program (EMP) have partnered to offer a leadership and management graduate-level certificate for employees. The certificate was developed to help our current and future leaders enhance and refine their leadership skills, and learn new ways to measure and enhance organizational effectiveness. 

CU Boulder employees may use their tuition benefit for the certificate courses.  The application deadline for the summer 2019 term is Monday, May 20. Learn more and apply now.

Cash, convenience, competitive prices. And we will buy it no matter where you bought it!

The CU Book Store will be buying textbooks May 2–10 at the store in the UMC and locations throughout campus. See website for hours, locations and sellback prices. You can also return your rental textbooks to any of our sellback locations.

Please send your feedback on the two finalists for the Graduate School dean to gsdeansearch@colorado.edu by Sunday, April 28. Ann Schmiesing, senior vice provost for academic resource management, to whom the dean position will report, will review all feedback beginning the week of April 29 and is expected to name the new graduate dean the week of May 6–10, with a start date of July 1, 2019.

Information on candidates Bud Coleman and E. Scott Adler is posted on the graduate dean search committee webpage.

A technical issue related to email distribution of the Transportation Master Plan survey invitations on Monday led to the emails failing to send to a small portion of students, faculty and staff.

New invitation links are currently being resent to all who did not receive the survey on Monday, as well as reminders for those who received the invitation but have not yet taken the survey.

If you do not receive an invitation to take the survey today, please email mplan@colorado.edu directly so the issue can be resolved.

The TMP survey remains open through Thursday, May 2.

The Office of Undergraduate Education welcomes applications for assistant vice chancellor, a role that provides leadership and coordination for student success activities and initiatives, including the first-year seminar program and first-year interest groups, math placement, midterm feedback and analysis of persistence data related to student success initiatives. 

Based on many comments from staff and other information gathered on CU presidential finalist Mark Kennedy, Staff Council received a request per its bylaws for a special meeting. 

The special meeting was held on Thursday, April 18, which yielded a robust discussion of the diverse views of the Staff Council community as brought forth by the representative body. The resolution was voted on and approved by the majority of the council.

Now Staff Council would like to give you the opportunity to send your feedback. This link will also allow you to sign your name to show support for the resolution, if you feel so inclined.

Apply by April 24 for the 2019–20 cohort of the Making Teaching and Learning Visible (MTLV) Project. Upon completion of a course portfolio in May 2020, the MTLV faculty researcher will receive an award from Provost Russell L. Moore in the amount of $750 in their research account.

The MTLV Project

MTLV faculty work together through a structured program to gather evidence on student learning, evaluate and reflect on their pedagogical practices and document their findings in published MTLV course portfolios. The Faculty Teaching Excellence Program provides the framework and resources to support you through this intellectual endeavor to enhance teaching and learning at CU Boulder.

Reasons to create an MTLV course portfolio:

• Document the intellectual inquiry and scholarly
  research that informs teaching at CU Boulder
• Collect and analyze data on student learning
  in order to assess and improve teaching
  methods
• Showcase faculty teaching experiences and expertise
• Support promotion and/or fourth-year pre-tenure review
• Provide a multiple measure of teaching
• Publish on scholarly teaching

For more information and to see examples of MTLV course portfolios visit FTEP’s Making Teaching and Learning Visible website.

Chancellor DiStefano invites you to explore the future of life in outer space with CU Boulder faculty and alumni experts.

Please make plans to join us Tuesday, April 23, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel for the fourth annual Aerospace & STEM Summit.

Our experts in the fields of aerospace, geosciences and engineering will dive into questions like, "Will future generations be living and working on the moon or on Mars?" and "What will it take to do that safely?"

Plus, connect with our industry partners like Lockheed Martin, Ball Aerospace, United Launch Alliance, Harris Corporation and more.

Tickets to the Aerospace & STEM Summit are just $10 and include event entry, heavy appetizers, a drink ticket and dessert. Students get a 50 percent discount with code GoBuffs, don't miss it!

Register here.

Are you a historian who cares about the major environmental problems that are central to the experience and history of the American West? Become a leader in this exciting trend of expanding the opportunities to engage wider audiences in historical reflection! 

The Center of the American West with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is implementing an Applied History training program. This program will train history postdocs and adjunct faculty to become applied historians who can draw on the expertise of scholars from a range of disciplines to reach a wider audience.

Participants will receive:

• All travel expenses paid
• Meals and incidentals
• Three nights lodging in lovely Boulder
• A $750 stipend
• Automatic acceptance into our Summer Workshop Program, a three-weeklong immersion into our Applied History Program

The center is accepting applications now through June 30, with results announced by the end of July. Apply now.

Students: Participate in a focus group on messaging about sustainability on campus. Answer open-ended questions and share your thoughts, opinions and motivations for one hour, and earn $10 Campus Cash or a meal card good for one meal swipe at any campus dining hall.

Come at either 1–2 p.m. or 3–4 p.m. on Monday, April 22, in CASE W313.