- Higher education executives had questioned why faculty and staff across Colorado, who have been teaching in-person since fall, were not classified as “frontline workers in education.”
- The proposed 3 percent increase would be the first in three years and, if approved, would apply to all incoming in-state students.
- Twenty years ago, a majority of funding Colorado universities got came from the state. Today, those same universities find themselves relying on tuition and fees to fund vital programs.
- Around 150 staff at CU Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics helped the United Arab Emirates launch its first interplanetary exploration mission.
- Elementary, middle and high school teachers will be able to get their COVID vaccine as early as Feb. 8. What about higher education teachers?
- Classes for the new semester begin on Thursday but will stay completely remote for at least the first month.
- A Denver restaurateur and health experts on the crisis facing restaurants as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.
- Colorado became the first state to discover a case of the new COVID-19 variant that swept through the United Kingdom. Dr. Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention and control for UCHealth, discusses what is and isn't known about the strain.
- A long-documented and painful history of racism in health care and in the public health system impacts people of color to this day.
- Colorado’s largest university is targeting February 15 as a potential start date for the reopening of campus and the resumption of in-person classes.
- The identity of the American West is changing. How it’s changing is the subject of “The Modern West,” a podcast from Wyoming Public Media. The host is a native of Walden, Colorado, west of Fort Collins, population 580. Melodie Edwards puts her hometown front and center in the latest season, which is about the fate of rural communities.
