Faculty-Staff Edition - Special Edition: May 2, 2018 | 抖阴旅行射 Boulder Today

Faculty-Staff Edition - Special Edition: May 2, 2018

In this special edition,听抖阴旅行射 Boulder Today听is pleased to share a look back at some of the university's听initiatives and projects from the academic year, with updates from across campus as the community heads into summer.

Reimagining our Future

Academic Futures: The year of visioning boldly

Academic Futures Strategic Initiatives Campus Community

A three-year process, Academic Futures in its first year asked the community to bring forth ideas, without constraints or resource concerns, about what 抖阴旅行射 Boulder might become and how we might transform teaching, learning, creative work and scholarship.

Creating a strategic facilities vision for the campus

Strategic Facilities Visioning Strategic Initiatives Campus Community

David Kang last year announced a strategic facilities visioning process, an endeavor to inform the next 10-year campus master plan and create a holistic approach to meeting campus space needs, both in the near term and for decades to come.

How We Teach, Learn & Build Community

A session at the 2017 Diversity and Inclusion Summit

ODECE: Moving the needle on making excellence inclusive

Administration Campus Community

The Office of Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement made progress this year in implementing plans and programs to make excellence inclusive, cultivate diversity, instill equity and improve the campus social climate.

Academic advisor speaks with a student in her office

Foundations of Excellence: A holistic look at our students' first-year experience

Foundations of Excellence Strategic Initiatives Campus Community

An initiative launched last fall to improve students' campus experiences, this self-study and improvement-planning process represents a partnership among several units and has involved over 100 students, faculty and staff members.

Dean Ann Schmiesing and other Graduate School staff welcome students to the grad student appreciation breakfast

Steps forward in improving the graduate student experience

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Dedicated to academic excellence and enhancing graduate students' experience at 抖阴旅行射 Boulder, the Graduate School realized a number of accomplishments this past academic year in partnership with the graduate students, staff and faculty.

Where We Teach & Learn

Students and business service providers working together to design for a successful student experience with the new platform.

Building a seamless online and in-person 抖阴旅行射 Boulder student experience

Administration Campus Community

Last May, Russ Moore and Kelly Fox announced the Unified Student Experience project, an effort to create a more streamlined online and in-person student experience aimed at transforming today's fragmented support structure for students.

3 key milestones on deck for space optimization initiative

Administration Campus Community

The Space Utilization and Optimization Initiative will see three key milestones come to fruition over the coming weeks as part of the ongoing efforts to improve how 抖阴旅行射 Boulder manages space on campus to best support students and the university's mission of education and research.

Canvas

During the fall semester, instructors were able to start developing and migrating courses in Canvas, the new learning management system听selected to replace Desire2Learn. Students began using Canvas, which was selected for its ease of use, intuitiveness听and mobile friendliness, in the spring semester.

抖阴旅行射 Boulder Class Search

The Office of the Registrar introduced a new class search tool in October. It听provides a more robust search and filter experience for students, is more accessible and reduces the number of clicks to register for classes.

Faculty Course Questionnaires

During the 2017-18听academic year, a faculty-led redesign team implemented a new, more modern, mobile technology-enabled Faculty Course Questionnaire platform, resulting in听higher completion rates. The new process saves vast amounts of paper.

Faculty Course Questionnaires

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Audience Webpages

Campus improved its faculty, staff and student audience webpages, adding to existing resources with such content as news headlines from听抖阴旅行射 Boulder Today, aggregate directories of initiatives and committees, and documentation such as meeting agendas and reports.听

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Faculty-Staff Edition - Special Edition: May 2, 2018

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