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Schedule of Events — Fall 2013 Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) – How Do They Work? Sept. 9, 4 p.m. ATLAS 100, Cofrin Auditorium Free Dan Grossman will share his recent experiences with MOOCs as an instructor working to reach a broad audience with a challenging...

There may be no such thing as a free lunch, but now that you’ve (almost) paid your tuition and fees, there may be things that feel like free services, and you should take full advantage of them...

How and where to get academic support You’ve seen it in just about every movie about college you’ve ever seen — the cliché slacker dude who sails through his classes without cracking a book or waking up for lab. Then there are the stoners who fail their classes ...

In recent months our community has focused on whether or not Boulder should keep its municipal electric option. Voters will decide the issue this...

Organic, local, sustainable food seems to be a growing trend in America, but it’s also a trend that almost inevitably means higher prices. When most people think of microfinance, likely what comes to mind are images of the developing world: very poor, rural people ...

Feeding the hungry is darn expensive. In fact, it’s so expensive, according to some members of Congress, that our country can’t afford it anymore...

Sarah Amorese is all about chocolate...

With the selection of current interim President Todd Saliman as the sole finalist for the presidency of the University of Colorado system, CU’s governing...

Buying groceries is a familiar ritual. The overhead lighting in a too-cool air-conditioned warehouse casts the aisles in an unreal light. A zombie-like shuffle among fellow customers is polite yet disavowing, an implicit acknowledgement of estrangement even in a ...

To declare that the way we do business has changed is probably the “Duh!” statement of the decade. Of course it has. Between the amount of business done on email and the fact that we now carry devices capable of sending and receiving those emails whether we’re at our...

Income, achievement gaps remain as Latino population increases, report shows...

Though you’ve likely already heard that college will be some of the best years of your life — which has some truth to it — there will also be times when everything isn’t coming along just dandy. But just because your mom isn’t around to help doesn’t mean you won’t ...