Announcements

Black History Month celebration highlights role of Kansas teacher. Building on a quotation widely attributed to music mogul Jay-Z, UCCS faculty, staff and students joined in a celebration of black history and the 100th anniversary of the NAACP Tuesday night at the Lodge. “Rosa Parks sat so that Martin Luther King could walk,” Rosemary Harris-Lytle, a UCCS alum and president of the local NAACP chapter said, repeating the phrase often attributed to Jay-Z. “Martin Luther King walked so that Barack could run. Barack ran so that we all can fly.” (Read more)

Bulletin goes on-line. The era of distributing a 300 page document listing every course offered at UCCS will soon end. Beginning this spring, UCCS will join more than 400 other universities across the nation in producing an on-line, searchable academic catalog or, as it is known at UCCS, a Bulletin. (Read more)

Innovators to gather. More than 100 campus and community members will meet next week at Palisades at Broadmoor Park for a workshop to develop the Southern Colorado Innovation Strategy. Community leaders, joined by UCCS deans, vice chancellors, and faculty members will develop a strategy connecting university innovation to strengthening the economic, social and cultural vitality of southern Colorado. For more information, contact Martin Wood, chief operating officer, University Advancement, 255-3176.

It’s easy being green. Faculty and staff can go beyond turning off lights. The Office of Sustainability has several resource-saving tips and asks that each member of the campus community consider picking five.
( Read more: conservation_pledge.pdf )

Stimulus package offers hope. A new federal stimulus package announced this week in Denver has the potential to be good for students struggling to meet costs of attending college, Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak said this week. See stories from the Colorado Springs Gazette, the Chronicle of Higher Education and Shockley-Zalabak’s statement.

Meet the candidate. R. “Dan” Dandapani, interim dean, College of Engineering and Applied Science, will make a campus presentation beginning at 4 p.m. Feb. 26 in the University Center Theater. The presentation is part of his interview for the dean position.

President’s monthly news. See the latest from CU President Bruce Benson at https://www.cusys.edu/presnews/2009/02/index.html

Kudos

Abby Ferber, professor, Women’s and Ethnic Studies, was elected program chair for Smart-Girl, an organization that uses positive peer influence to support and inspire adolescent girls to make smart choices and become confident, capable and self-reliant women.

University Center. Recycling containers are now installed in University Center meeting rooms, drawing praise from the campus sustainability committee.

In the News

• The Boulder Daily Camera wrote about a speaker on the Boulder campus in Bill Ayers to defend Churchill at CU
• The Colorado Springs Gazette wrote about UCCS celebrations of Black History Month in ON THE GO!
• The Colorado Springs Gazette published a letter to the editor in Immigrants get breaks
• The Colorado Springs Gazette wrote about the sentencing of a motorist in Plea deal calls for 4 years in prison in death of UCCS officer
• The Colorado Springs Gazette wrote about athletics in Largest collegiate softball tourney in Colorado hits UCCS this weekend
• The Colorado Springs Gazette wrote about District 11 and quoted a UCCS faculty member in Community liaison post provides helping hand
• The Colorado Springs Gazette wrote about a new company and mentioned UCCS in Springs tech start-up to hire up to 500 workers in five years
• The Colorado Springs Gazette wrote about UCCS events in A lot to celebrate this year in Black History Month
• The Colorado Springs Gazette wrote about a role UCCS could play in DREAM CITY 2020 Colorado Springs harvests wind, sun

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