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Universities are required by state and federal laws to retain and then dispose of their records according to specific standards. Each department is responsible for submitting its log of destroyed records to the Campus Controller's Office for an annual report to the state archivist.

Students lose access to Desire2Learn (D2L) courses just three weeks after the conclusion of each semester. If there are any course materials you wish to keep, you have until the end of Thursday, Jan. 5, to download via D2L.

The Office of Information Technology is piloting PlayPosit, a tool that allows users to add quiz questions to video content and monitor student engagement with the lesson. This in-video quiz can be accessed from within Desire2Learn.

Our campus is constantly under attack by a barrage of attempts to steal personal information, often referred to as phishing. Often these attacks come during holidays when campus IT support is unavailable or has reduced hours. Even when you can’t contact the IT Service Center, there are still clues to help you figure out if an e-mail is legitimate or a phishing attempt.

This week CU ÐßÐßÊÓƵ will be awarding 1,614 degrees, including 1,214 bachelor’s degrees, 299 master’s degrees, 97 doctoral degrees and four law degrees.

Earlier today, senior campus leadership received a letter from more than 200 faculty members and a petition signed by more than 200 graduate students. The documents asked the administration to lend their support to events proposed as alternatives to the Milo Yiannopoulos talk on Jan. 25. Chancellor DiStefano met with faculty and graduate student representatives to hear their concerns, and provided preliminary responses via letter to both groups.

The university is beginning a faculty- and student-driven initiative to evaluate D2L and other learning management systems (LMS). Your feedback is important.

The past couple of weeks have been very turbulent for many of us Buffs, with the recent election, finals and other uncertainties that college students face. It is important for us as members of the CU ÐßÐßÊÓƵ community, to remember the Colorado Creed and reflect on how we can live our lives by its values.

CU Engage is accepting applications for Faculty Fellows in Community-Based Learning, which will provide $4,000 grants to each faculty fellow. The program provides resources and support for faculty to expand, deepen and institutionalize community-based learning at CU.

This November, the campus announced a collaborative, university-wide initiative to redesign the faculty course questionnaire (FCQ) instrument and process. This fall semester, the university successfully administered the first of two planned pilots at the ÐßÐßÊÓƵ, Denver and UCCS campuses.