Fencing to stay up around North Classroom
(Aug. 7, 2008) The construction fencing on the east side of the North Classroom Building on the Auraria Campus will remain in place until early September. This area includes the closure of the sidewalk along Lawrence between Speer Boulevard and the North Classroom Building. Detour signage is posted to direct pedestrians entering and leaving the campus at Speer and Lawrence Streets. Questions should be directed to Joyce Carnes, project manager at 303-556-8076.
Power restored following fire in back-up generator
(Aug. 5, 2008) Plans for upgrading the back-up power generator near Building 500 on the Anschutz Medical Campus hit a snag on Saturday, Aug. 2 when the rental generator being used by a contractor for the transition caught fire. Power was lost for a time to Building 500 affecting the telecom and data servers in the UC Denver Information Technology Services (ITS) and the University of Colorado Hospital Information Technology (IT) section, also served out of Building 500. As a result, emergency personnel were called in to assist with restoring systems that are dependant on electrical power. Because the work had been scheduled, ITS users and the hospital IT department were aware of the project and were available to manage the controlled shutdown of these services. The fire occurred after 8 a.m. and electrical power was fully restored by 1:35 p.m. and ITS systems were back online by 3 p.m.
19th Avenue closure at Anschutz begins Aug. 5
(Aug. 1, 2008) Tuesday, Aug. 5, through Friday, Aug. 15, 19th Avenue will be closed between Racine and Scranton streets (north of the Research 2) on the Anschutz Medical Campus for the construction of a raised pedestrian crosswalk for Research 2. The south entrance to the Breckenridge Parking Lot will be closed during this construction.
Detour routes will be set up on the west side of campus at Quentin Street and on the east side of campus at Uvalda Court and Victor Street.
Local traffic will be allowed on 19th Avenue from the west for access to the Research 2 dock and on 19th Avenue from the east for access to the east entrance of the Breckenridge Parking Lot, the Ignacio Visitor Lot, parking adjacent to Building 500 and the docks for Research 1, Education 1 & Building 500. See the maps for parking lot locations and street names.
Questions regarding this work may be directed to Mike Vigil at 303-724-1141 or e-mail to Mike.Vigil@UCDenver.edu.
President issues call for 2009 Teaching Scholar nominations
(Aug. 5, 2008) President Bruce Benson solicits nominations of University of Colorado faculty for selection of the 2009 President's Teaching Scholars. The lifetime appointment as a CU President's Teaching Scholar constitutes the University's highest recognition of excellence in and active commitment to teaching as well as active and substantial contributions to scholarly work in one's discipline or, in the case of a less senior scholar, indications of path-breaking contributions to his or her field. Chancellors, deans, departments and other faculty nominators are all encouraged to nominate candidates; self-nominations will not be accepted.
All tenured faculty members are eligible to be nominated. In addition and for the first time in the history of the program, Clinical Teaching Track (CTT) faculty members who hold the rank of associate professor or professor are eligible, as are tenure-track faculty members in the School of Medicine who hold the rank of associate professor or professor.
The President's Teaching Scholars are faculty from all campuses chosen for teaching skill and for their promise of improving education for students and enlarging educational possibilities across the University. Designees become part of a participatory, service oriented and collegial community. Appointees receive a $3,000 stipend for each of the first two years; a one-time teaching development fund of $2,000; and an addition of $2,000 to the base salary beginning the third year. The faculty member being nominated must have been a CU faculty member for at least five consecutive years. Nominees must be teaching on their campus in the Spring 2009 semester.
The nominator should work with the nominee to request support letters from faculty peers and students, both current and former. In case a nominee's career or teaching experiences are non-traditional, the nominator should explain in detail in the letter of nomination. Dossiers will be accepted no later than December 4, 2008. For details of all required material see http://www.colorado.edu/ptsp/
Direct nominations or question to:
Carol Redabaugh
Executive Assistant to the Vice President of Academic Affairs and Research
1800 Grant Street, Suite 800
35 UCA
University of Colorado
Denver, CO 80203-1185 or carol.redabaugh@cu.edu , 303-860-5619
Ucdhsc.edu domain expires Aug. 1
(Aug. 1, 2008) On Aug. 1 the domain name ucdhsc.edu expired and all website links, bookmarks, etc. will no longer work. University Web Services has used a search and replace tool to automatically update website links within the University of Colorado Denver web environment so that the transition to the new http://administration.ucdenver.edu URL is seamless. This search and replace tool began updating all references to the administration.ucdenver.edu domain at 1 p.m. July 31. Should you experience any technical problems please contact Jeremy Fulbright at Jeremy.Fulbright@ucdenver.edu or 303-315-3705.
Those who use Dreamweaver or another software to connect and upload changes to your UCD website, please synchronize your local files with the remote server files so you do not overwrite the work we have done. If you use Contribute to update your site you do not need to worry about synchronizing your site, because Contribute works from the remote server that we made changes to.
The University of Colorado Denver has until June 2010 to migrate the websites currently using the domain names cudenver.edu and uchsc.edu to the university's new domain name, ucdenver.edu.
Biomedical Research Building mechanical systems shutdown Aug. 6
(July 31, 2008) From 5-9 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 6, and on the first Tuesday of each month thereafter, some or all mechanical systems in the Biomedical Research Building might be off or interrupted for preventive maintenance. No hazardous operations should be performed in your hoods during these times. If you have any questions about this scheduled maintenance, call 303- 724-0699.
Employee partnership ballots due Aug. 11
(July 31, 2008) Classified state employees in financial services or professional services who have not been excluded from voting (managerial, confidential or temporary) should have received a ballot by now concerning employee partnerships. There are approximately 545 such employees at UC Denver. If you have not, it is possible your address on file with your agency is incorrect. The State of Colorado Department of Personnel and Administration advises anyone who has not received a ballot to contact the American Arbitration Association to request a replacement ballot at 800-529-5218. Supply your full name; mailing address; agency; and your classification code, title or occupational group.
Ballots are due in the hands of AAA by Monday, Aug. 11. If you have not mailed your ballot by Aug. 6 or earlier, there is a substantial chance that it will not arrive in time to be counted. The later it is mailed, the less likely it will arrive on time. The outcome of the election is determined by the majority of those voting within this timetable.
King Center main floor resurfacing Aug. 4-8
(July 29, 2008) The elevators, restrooms and vending areas of the first floor in the King Center Classroom will be closed off due to the resurfacing of the floor from Aug. 4–8. Elevators can still be accessed from the mezzanine level through the south main entrance nearest St. Cajetan’s Center.
Classrooms on the first floor can be accessed from the exterior of the building or from the north main entrance nearest the Tivoli. The interior stairs will still be open during this resurfacing project. Directional signs will be posted within the King Center. If you have any questions, call Rob Byers, director of the King Center at 303-556-2181.
Anschutz servers down Saturday, Aug. 2
(July 29, 2008) The IT Services department will be bringing down all community servers, Exchange servers, VPN and RAS at the Anschutz Medical Campus on Saturday, Aug. 2, 2008 from 5:30 to 7 a.m. and 4:30-6 p.m. The Facilities department will be performing maintenance on the Building 500 power system. There will be no power in the switch room and server room and IT Services will need to power all servers down while performing this maintenance.
Please schedule your work requirements around these two time frames. IT Services should have all services available from 7 a.m. through 4:30 p.m. and also before and after this maintenance window.
If you have any problem accessing any of the community servers after 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 2, please re-boot your system and re-login. If, after you re-boot and re-login, you are still unable to access the community servers, contact the UC Denver IT Services department at 303-724-HELP (x44357) and a technician will assist you.
Loaner van service to be discontinued
(July 25, 2008) The passenger van previously loaned for business travel to UC Denver faculty and staff at the Downtown Campus will no longer be available. Maintenance and management of the loaner van service became cost-prohibitive. Those who used the van to travel between the UC Denver campuses can take advantage of the recently instituted Van-on-Demand shuttle service by calling 303-521-2968. Check the Facilities website for Van-on-Demand service details. Those who used the van for other business destinations have other options such as car rentals or using their personal vehicle for business purposes. Individuals should note their mileage for expense reimbursements when using their personal vehicles for business purposes.
Performance plans for staff must be turned in
(July 28, 2008) Any 2008-2009 performance plans for classified staff employees that have not yet been completed must be done as soon as possible. Plans for new employees must also be completed within 30 days of hire. Photocopied pages of the signed performance plans (the front signature page and the “summary of performance” scoring matrix page) must be sent to the Human Resources Department, ATTN: Saleha, Campus Box: DDC 130. Please use the 2008-09 form. The performance management cycle this year is April 1, 2008, through March 31, 2009.
Coaching and progress reviews
In addition, every classified staff member must receive a coaching and progress review at least once during the plan year that must be initialed and dated on the front page of the form by both the supervisor and employee at the time it is conducted. Human Resources recommends scheduled individual meetings with employees for these discussions. On-going feedback, including coaching and progress reviews, are a very essential part of performance management. Please do not send documentation of progress reviews to the Human Resources Department. HR will not review the form for such documentation until the end of the performance evaluation cycle.
The Employee Relations and Training Unit of the Human Resources Department provides the required training to supervisors who do performance planning and evaluations for classified staff. Go to the website for all training classes and on-line registration. Contact Saleha Farooq at 303-315-2742 for assistance.
If you have any questions, please contact the Human Resources Department at 303-315-2700.
E-mail issues resolved
(July 24, 2008) IT Services reports that the issues with the e-mail flow that we have been experiencing this week appear to be fully resolved. There was no loss of e-mail during this issue and we believe that all e-mail that was delayed in delivery or sending has now been resolved.
If you believe you have continuing issues related to this, please contact the UC Denver IT Services Help Desk at x4-HELP (303-724-4357) and a technician will assist you.
IT Services continues to work on e-mail disruption
(July 22, 2008) The IT Services E-mail Exchange group discovered a problem with e-mail flow that began early Saturday morning July 19. The problem was caused by an error in a script which IT Services has been using as part of our domain migration process for the last four weeks. The script, designed to manage University of Colorado Denver email boxes migrated into the new domain, inadvertently changed an email attribute that negatively affected users who haven't migrated to the new domain.
This problem affected multiple categories of UC Denver e-mail recipients receiving e-mails from people between Saturday morning and Tuesday morning:
- Mail sent TO @UCDenver.edu addresses for UC Denver e-mail recipients who HAVE NOT migrated
- Mail sent FROM people who have migrated to the UCDenver.edu domain TO UC Denver employees who HAVE NOT migrated
- Mail sent FROM our UPI and UCH affiliates sent TO UC Denver employees who HAVE NOT migrated
Currently the e-mail flow is fixed. E-mail users affected by this problem may not have received, or had proper delivery of, some of the email that was sent to, or sent out, to them between Saturday morning July 19th and Tuesday morning July 22. IT Services is working on a solution that will automatically retrieve these undelivered messages for all campus users who have been affected by this problem.
Due to the complexity of the problem and the need for very thorough testing, we may not be able to get these messages delivered until Wednesday evening.
IT Services understands that this is an email problem and is extremely inconvenient for our customers and we apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused.
If you have additional issues related to this email flow problem, please contact the UC Denver IT Services Help Desk at 303-724-HELP or x44357 and a technician. will assist you further.
Five-digit dialing out of service July 26
(July 22, 2008) All University of Colorado Denver telephones at North Pavilion will experience an eight hour service outage Saturday, July 26, 6 a.m. to 2 p.m.
UC Denver IT Services Telecom will be performing an upgrade and expansion to the telephone system that serves North Pavilion. All five-digit dialing to North Pavilion extensions will be out of service and unavailable. Other then 5-digit dialing this outage should not affect the telephone service serving UC Denver Anschutz Medical Campus, the Downtown Campus and 9th Avenue and Colorado Boulevard campuses, UCH, TCH, or UPI with 303-724-xxxx, 720-848.xxxx, 720-777-xxxx, or 303-493-xxxx telephone numbers on the AMC campus. Additionally, this outage will not affect 303-315-xxxx or 303-372-xxxx numbers at the 9th Avenue campus or the Downtown Campus.
This upgrade will bring the university telephone system up to the currently supported level of software and prepare the system for future IP technology. If you have any questions or concerns, contact UC Denver IT Services Help Desk at 303-724-HELP or x44357.
Auraria Campus asbestos investigation, survey scheduled July 23-25
(July 22, 2008) In preparation for the existing North Classroom and South Classroom renovations associated with the Science Building project, Facilities Management has scheduled an asbestos investigation and survey within the North and South Classroom Buildings beginning Wednesday, July 23, through Friday, July 25. If needed, consultants may complete some follow-up observations and measurements the week of July 28.
The survey will consist of several individuals observing building materials and testing any suspect materials for asbestos / lead in the planned renovation areas (East half of the third floor within the North Classroom and two areas on the second floor within the South Classroom). The suspect materials will be collected and tested following Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment regulations and industry standards. The collection of suspect asbestos containing materials within the building will not cause any asbestos releases and therefore it is acceptable for staff / students to be in the building during the asbestos survey.
If you have any questions, please contact Mike Turman, assistant project manager at 303.556.2394 or David Krajicek, environmental health and safety manager at 303-556-8397.
Power outage Sunday, July 20
(July 18, 2008) IT Services has scheduled a power outage 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Sunday, July 20, for the community servers Lexus, Porsche, Viper and Mustang to install security patches and conduct server maintenance.
If you are unable to connect to after the scheduled time, re-boot your system and re-login. If you are still unable to connect, call the UC Denver IT Services Help Desk at 303-724-HELP (303-724-4357) for HSC issues or the UC Denver IT Services Help Desk at 303-315-HELP (303-315-4357) for Downtown Campus issues. If you would like to see a full list of outages, please go to: http://www.uchsc.edu/csa/is/hd/netalert/index.htm for Anschutz Medical Campus and http://www.cudenver.edu/Resources/ITS/Helpdesk/netalerts.htm for the Downtown Campus.
Project funding resources available online at new ORDE Web page
(July 17, 2008) The Office of Research Development and Education (ORDE) invites the university community to visit its new Web page at http://research.cudenver.edu. The office has developed a variety of new resources, which investigators and departmental administrators can use when preparing proposals for external project funding.
These resources include ORDE Excel spreadsheets for budget development – available specifically for use with the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. For proposals with other funding agencies, an ORDE Excel spreadsheet is available in a generic format.
In addition to these budgeting resources, a series of Quick Guides has been developed for your use including How to Submit a Proposal through the National Science Foundation FastLane System and Grants.gov Proposal Submission Tips. These and other resources are available at ORDE Resources.
Mandatory updated I-9 form now available in HR
(July 16, 2008) Effective immediately the revised I-9 form (the version dated 6/5/2007) must be used. The form is available on the HR website at: http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/I-9.pdf.
The acceptable documents list has changed, so please refer to the revised form/attachment when verifying documents. Old versions of the I-9 form cannot be accepted after Dec. 25, 2007. As a reminder, section one of the I-9 form must be completed by the employee on the first day of employment and the remainder of the form must be completed within three days of the employee’s start date.
Please send original I-9s and original completed affirmation forms available at: to Human Resources, campus box A005/130. The affirmation form must be completed within three days of the employees start date.
Once the department HR liaison has confirmed that I-9 information has been updated in PeopleSoft HRMS, please shred copies of the I-9/supporting documents and affirmation form.
Please review our new I-9 tips sheet. Contact Human Resources at 303-315-2700 if you have questions.
Faculty vote favors policy regarding drug-company interactions
(July 15, 2008) School of Medicine (SOM) Dean Richard Krugman announced SOM faculty have approved a new policy regulating interactions with drug company sales staff, suppliers of medical equipment and others with commercial interests in the health care industry. Here's an excerpt from Krugman's message to faculty:
"This policy precludes our faculty, fellows, residents, interns, students and staff from accepting gifts, meals, cash and other things of value from industry representatives. It also limits educational funding by commercial companies to unrestricted grants. The policy is designed to maintain objectivity in our teaching and practice of medicine.
"The new industry interaction policy attracted more faculty votes than any other policy decision in the medical school’s history. The final margin was 420 for and 319 against. Many of the faculty who voted against the policy emphasized that they understood and supported the need for a policy but voted no because they disagreed with the wording of a particular section or felt that a rewrite might be more parallel to their own particular position. I believe the level of interest and the spirited debate that took place over five months preceding the two-week vote set a healthy precedent for academic discourse and democracy.
"We now move to the process of implementing the policy. Today, the executive committee of the medical school discussed forming an operations committee to get the policy up and running. They also suggested that we convene a forum with representatives from industry so as to be better able to mange our relationships in a positive way. I will let you know more when plans formalize.
"The new policy envisions significant decision-making power at the levels of department chair, division head, and center and institute director. To that end, we expect to produce some overall guidance documents, including Frequently Asked Questions and perhaps a template letter that can be sent to drug companies, equipment manufacturers and other industry sectors to explain how to fund education through conflicts-free grants."
New location for July 24 web redesign forum at Anschutz
(July 18, 2008) Work is moving forward on a massive project to develop a unified UC Denver website. Leadership is supporting this with a one-time infusion of funds that will result in a better interface for our external users, while meeting the needs of schools, colleges and other units. The university community is invited to learn more about this work during the following open forums. Check your schedule to attend. You’ll see new web templates available for use and have an opportunity to ask questions.
- Tuesday, July 22, 3 – 4:30 p.m., 14th floor, 1380 Lawrence, Chancellor’s Conference Room, Downtown Campus
- Thursday, July 24, 3 – 4:30 p.m., Anschutz Medical Campus, Education 2 North, 2nd floor, room 2303 (2nd Floor Lecture Hall)
IT Services responds to unauthorized network activity
(July 11, 2008) Information Technology (IT) Services at UC Denver has become aware of unauthorized access to a computer on the Downtown Campus via the Internet. An investigation determined that an intruder was able to obtain a password to facilitate access to as many as 62 additional UC Denver computers. In order to protect both Downtown Campus and Anschutz Medical Campus computing resources from further unauthorized access, IT Services immediately took steps to remove all of these computers from the network and perform further analysis. Due to the level of risk that this incident poses across all UC Denver computing systems, additional changes to the overall information technology infrastructure may be necessary. Details of any such change that affect any or all users will be announced based on the level of risk to UC Denver campuses.
At this time, IT Services continues to research whether there has been any data theft or additional malicious software installed on the compromised computers. Users of the compromised computers are being contacted to schedule additional analysis and for re-installation of the operating system. In certain cases where sensitive information is believed to be stored on a computer, it may be necessary to send the computer to a third party for evaluation on whether the data was accessed.
Individuals who have created local computer accounts (any computer account other than UC Denver, STARGATE, or UNIVERSITY that is centrally managed by IT Services) should immediately ensure that they have set a "strong" password pursuant to campus information technology policy http://administration.ucdenver.edu/admin/policies/admin/fp5-13.pdf.
Please contact the IT Services Helpdesk at 303-315-4357 or 303-724-4357 if you have questions and/or concerns regarding this incident.
UC Denver domain outage scheduled July 13
(July 11, 2008) IT Services announces a scheduled power outage 4-10 p.m. Sunday, July 13. All e-mail users in the UC Denver (UNIVERSITY) domain. Users will experience intermittent short interruptions in service during that time as IT Services will be installing the latest Microsoft security patches on all exchange email servers in ucdenver.edu. If you are unable to connect to Webmail/POP/Exchange after 10 p.m., reboot your system and reconnect. If you are using Outlook, close and restart. If you are still unable to connect to Webmail/POP after re-booting your system, call the UCD ITS Help Desk at 303-724-HELP (303-724-4357). For a full list of outages, please go to: http://www.uchsc.edu/is/netalert/index.htm.
IT Services warns of latest SPAM/phishing e-mail
(July 11, 2008) The IT Services department is receiving reports of a very high level of email coming in with a subject line of "ACCOUNT UPDATED" and stating that the email is from the "Uchsc" Email Team.
This is not an e-mail generated from the IT Services and is a Phising/SPAM e-mail.
We would like to reiterate to all campus users that the university and the IT Services department will never contact you requesting this type of information. These types of inquiries should be deleted and not responded to. If you have already responded to one of these messages, please change your password immediately or contact the IT Services Help Desks.
Whenever in doubt, contact the IT Services Help Desks at 303-724-HELP for the Anschutz Medical Campus or 303-315-HELP for the Downtown Campus and a technician can assist you in determining the content of such emails.
We also have a web site where we publish known phishing/spam alerts and you may wish to also check this site: http://administration.ucdenver.edu/admin/its/virus.htm