- While the Colorado School of Mines is holding in-person ceremonies this year, other schools like University of Colorado at Boulder and Colorado State University will stick with virtual commencements.
- The tuition increase is the first for the CU system in three years. Regents hope it will help make up for a budget shortfall of $218 million.
- College leadership consulted students, faculty, staff and the Board of Trustees before making the decision.
- Some of those who knew the man now accused of killing 10 in a Boulder King Soopers remembered him as troubled, but not someone they would have suspected to act on his aggression in such a horrifying way.
- A man is in police custody after a shooting attack that left at least 10 people dead, including a Boulder police officer, at a King Soopers grocery store.
- Of the nearly 2,400 Native American students enrolled in Colorado’s public institutions in 2019, 955 of them were attending Fort Lewis. A new bill attempts to raise that number.
- Great news: dressing up animals in jackets or sweaters is not only adorable — it also protects pets against the cold.
- The true effects of the incident as a superspreader event are yet to be seen.
- The Confucius Institutes at CSU and elsewhere have faced bipartisan opposition in recent years, mainly due to its reliance on Chinese government funding.
- Three rural Colorado system colleges — Trinidad State Junior College, Otero Junior College and Northeastern Junior College — would drop the title.
- 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.
