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There are many mental health resources available to you through our universities, local nonprofits, and government organizations. Please visit our health information page to see a list of resources.
ColoradoSPH instruction will continue to be remote for the 2021 spring semester at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus and at the University of Northern Colorado. We will continue to leave open the possibility that some courses may have some optional on-campus components depending on the circumstances.
Other units on the CU Anschutz campus are following the same course as in the fall. Decisions are still pending for Colorado State University.
If you have questions related to students and/or academic requirements, please contact Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs Dani Brittain, or Student Affairs and Academic Operations Director Chloe Bennion. Any questions related to online instruction and teaching support should be sent to Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs Carolyn DiGuiseppi.
Other units on the CU Anschutz campus are following the same course as in the fall. Decisions are still pending for Colorado State University.
If you have questions related to students and/or academic requirements, please contact Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs Dani Brittain, or Student Affairs and Academic Operations Director Chloe Bennion. Any questions related to online instruction and teaching support should be sent to Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs Carolyn DiGuiseppi.
A new family care program has launched to help CU Anschutz students, faculty, and staff balance care needs during this challenging time. The campus is partnering with Care@Work by Care.com to offer family care services to CU Anschutz employees and full-time students, as well as consolidated and administrative services (CSA/ASA) employees.
As you work remotely, you may need to pick up additional equipment and items from your offices on campus. ColoradoSPH employees should communicate with their supervisors about the university-owned items they wish to take home (tracking of these items is necessary). Employees can go to their offices to pick up items after receiving approval and going through the steps below.
We receive reports of anyone using a badge to access a building on campus and who is not approved. Anyone who needs to be on campus must adhere to the return to campus processes established by leadership at the CU Anschutz campus.
We receive reports of anyone using a badge to access a building on campus and who is not approved. Anyone who needs to be on campus must adhere to the return to campus processes established by leadership at the CU Anschutz campus.
Steps to take beforehand:
- Be invited and approved to return by leadership. Contact Associate Dean for Administration and Finance Christine Gillen to receive specific approval.
- Take the required, one-time Skillsoft training “CU: COVID-19 Return to Campus - CU Denver | Anschutz”.
3 steps you must take each day you will be on campus:
- Complete the health questionnaire each day before arriving on campus, and bring your confirmation email to a designated check-in point (details regarding check-in points are in the questionnaire).
- Bring and wear your CU Anschutz badge and a face covering at all times, indoors and outdoors.
- Visit the designated check-in point (selected in the health questionnaire):
- Show your health confirmation email
- Get your temperature taken
- Pick up your wristband in a specific color for each day*
*Everyone in a university building during business hours must have a building access wristband.
Spring 2021 announcement: Remote/online teaching will continue at our CU Anschutz Medical Campus and UNC locations. Decisions are still pending for Colorado State University.
Fall 2020 announcement: Remote/online teaching will continue at our CU Anschutz Medical Campus and UNC locations. CSU will resume in-person classes.
If you are teaching this fall, it is recommended that you:
- Schedule a one-on-one design consultation with Christine Mousavi, ColoradoSPH's instructional designer, as soon as possible.
- Visit the Office of Digital Education (ODE) site for resources and and sign up for a workshop or training.
- After you have completed workshops and trainings with ODE, schedule a second 1-on-1 design consultation with Christine Mousavi to discuss how best to incorporate what you have learned.
- Check out additional resources on the Office of Information Technology remote teaching resource hub.
If you are not teaching until spring:
Pending decisions on how courses will be offered next spring, you may postpone individual consultations and choose a later webinar/workshop offering, from late July through December.
During this time of leaner budgets and a chill on hiring, there are many faculty and staff in the school who are taking on more. We encourage you to nominate your employees and/or your colleagues for recognition. There are many options within the school, on campus, and across the university.
Recognize a colleague >
Recognize a colleague >
Parking fees were reinstated on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus. If you are working remotely and want to cancel or change your plan with the Parking office, email CUParking@cuanschutz.edu, call 303.724.2555, or submit an online request to change or cancel. You may cancel permit parking and park in the hourly visitor lots for $1 per hour or a maximum $8 per day.
The Office of Admissions & Student Affairs has launched a co-curricular Canvas course for all current ColoradoSPH students called "ColoradoSPH Connect."
In addition to our weekly student newsletters, this will serve as a way to communicate with students throughout the upcoming academic year and as a hub for students to access resources and engage with each other and the school.
Faculty instructors, advisors, and department staff who would like access to this “course” in Canvas, should contact Chloe Bennion.
All ColoradoSPH students active in fall 2020 are required to sign a document confirming their intent to follow all public health requirements and recommendations while participating in any school-sponsored, in-person activities. This includes in-person coursework and any in-person events in the upcoming academic year, and their understanding that despite precautions, any in-person activity may carry a non-zero risk of contracting the COVID-19 virus.
Please keep in mind that school-sponsored, in-person activities are currently prohibited at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus. If faculty or staff have any questions about the required statement, please contact Chloe Bennion.
Please keep in mind that school-sponsored, in-person activities are currently prohibited at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus. If faculty or staff have any questions about the required statement, please contact Chloe Bennion.
As a school of public health, a first priority is to protect and promote health at all levels. For the safety of our students, faculty, and staff, we have made the difficult decision to move all coursework at the CU Anschutz and UNC campuses for Fall 2020 to remote offerings, leaving open the possibility that some courses may have some optional on-campus components depending on the circumstances.
Each of our partner institutions has a unique set of circumstances to consider related to the COVID-19 pandemic and safety on campus. The program will continue to follow decisions made for their campus, and will provide information to students about details and plans for the fall semester as it becomes available.
We believe firmly that, as a school of public health, it is our responsibility in this unprecedented situation to provide leadership in protecting the health of students, staff, and faculty. We believe we can create both a safe and quality learning experience for our students using remote approaches. By making this decision now, we allow our faculty the time to plan a robust remote curriculum for Fall 2020, and allow you to make decisions about housing and living situations and, if applicable, childcare needs.
We know that many of you will have questions. Below is some important logistical information that may be helpful:
- Course fees will be assessed according to the original plans for fall instruction, so that courses originally planned as in-person will not be assessed the usual $100 online fee and courses originally planned as hybrid will continue to be assessed the $50 hybrid fee.
- Students who were planning to apply for in-state tuition, but whose residency in Colorado has been interrupted due to COVID-19, will likely be able to maintain their original plans for qualifying as Colorado residents even though they will not be physically in the state. If this applies to you, please complete this form.
- “Remote learning” is not the same as “online learning,” which is usually delivered asynchronously. Courses that were originally planned for in-person or hybrid may be delivered by a variety of modes, including real-time live zoom sessions, taped sessions, asynchronous content, online discussions, and more. You should currently plan to be available at any times that appear in the course schedule to participate in virtual class sessions. As the semester evolves and if COVID-19 conditions improve, some courses may offer optional in-person sessions.
- We know that a sense of community is a very important part of an academic program. We are hard at work developing community-building activities for students to connect with their peers and faculty. This will include virtual activities, and may include some socially-distanced in-person activities in Fall 2020. If you have ideas to share with us, please complete this form.
Please email questions to our Office of Admissions & Student Affairs at ColoradoSPH.StudentAffairs@cuanschutz.edu; please allow us 24-48 hours to respond.
Colorado State University will provide face-to-face instruction on campus this fall, beginning as scheduled on August 24. Some classes will be online-only, and CSU administrators are working to facilitate remote learning for those with health and other concerns. CSU will move to remote, online classes following Fall Break. This means that the last two weeks of classes (November 30-December 11) and finals week (December 14-18) will be delivered virtually. Read more from CSU President McConnell’s email communication.
Please email questions to our Office of Admissions & Student Affairs at ColoradoSPH.StudentAffairs@cuanschutz.edu; please allow us 24-48 hours to respond.
Please email questions to our Office of Admissions & Student Affairs at ColoradoSPH.StudentAffairs@cuanschutz.edu; please allow us 24-48 hours to respond.
Pause on all but critical hires
Among the many consequences of the COVID-19 epidemic is a pause on all but essential or critical hires, given the fiscal uncertainties consequent to the epidemic. Approval and sufficient rationale will need to be demonstrated that a position is indeed an “essential” hire.
- ColoradoSPH Hiring Guidelines during COVID-19 | May 4, 2020 (from Christine Gillen and Carolyn DiGuiseppi)
- Please review the hiring guidelines memo for more information | April 6, 2020 (HR & Faculty Affairs)
If you have any questions, please reach out to the following:
- Faculty/PRA Positions – Bettina-Martine.Warden@cuanschutz.edu & Brendan.Green@cuanschutz.edu
- University Staff – Kevin.Young@cuanschutz.edu
- Student and Temporary Employees – Thuy.2.Nguyen@cuanschutz.edu
Hiring a critical position funded in partnership with other schools
To hire a mission critical position funded in partnership with other schools, i.e., any positions that are funded through other speedtypes/schools, you must obtain written approval from that school. For the School of Medicine, the hiring authority needs to fill out an online SOM form to obtain the required approval. For other schools, the hiring authority must reach out to the respective school's Associate Dean for Finance to obtain the required approval. Once written approval has been obtained, please forward it to ColoradoSPH Faculty Affairs or Human Resources, and the request will be routed through ColoradoSPH for approval.
Requests that have received mission critical approval from all funding sources will then require an updated MOU and letter of offer signed by ALL schools.
ColoradoSPH Positions, a Microsoft Team to help employees experiencing job/FTE loss due to COVID-19
ColoradoSPH Positions, a Microsoft Team to help employees experiencing job/FTE loss due to COVID-19
The ColoradoSPH Positions Microsoft Team is now live. Its purpose is to facilitate communication between ColoradoSPH hiring authorities and current employees experiencing job/FTE loss due to COVID-19, and to assist in identifying new or equivalent positions for affected ColoradoSPH employees. An invitation to join the Microsoft Team was sent (check your Outlook clutter folder). If you already have Teams installed, you should receive the invitation through Teams.
Please invite ColoradoSPH employees who are looking for a new position to join the Microsoft Team. The benefit of using this system is that the transfer does not have to be approved under the COVID-19 approval process if the total % FTE and salary match the employee’s existing position.
ColoradoSPH at CU Anschutz employees who are working remotely are required to register on our remote workforce site.
The Rocky Mountain Public Health Training Center, in partnership with the Midwestern Public Health Training Center and the Region IV Public Health Training Center, has produced a series of videos to help you and your staff thrive in an online work environment. Check out the video series, Thriving in an Online Work Environment.
Topics covered include:
• Addressing Equity Issues in Virtual Environment
• Converting In-Person Trainings to Online Trainings
• Managing Stress and Productivity
• Virtual Meeting Facilitation
• Working Remotely
Zoom, a video conferencing service, is available to all ColoradoSPH employees. Additional resources can be found on your home campus website: CU Anschutz, CSU, or UNC. Use our branded Zoom virtual background templates! Download the templates. For instructions on how to set up a virtual background, check out these instructions on the Zoom website.
ColoradoSPH Faculty Senate approved the adoption of an optional Pass/No Pass Policy for Spring 2020 that aligns with a policy released recently through the Provost’s Office. After students receive their letter grades for the semester, they will have the option to switch to P+/P/NP through June 5, 2020. The P+/P/NP grades will not be calculated into the GPA. See the full policy here.
As we continue to work from home, we wanted to provide some direction on how to order office/operating supplies to continue typical working conditions, and how to request reimbursement in Concur. Due to the remote working requirement, employees may have requests for office supplies that can’t be delivered to the university but are needed for them to operate at home. Please review this document, which provides the process to order supplies and how to receive reimbursement. Please contact Peter Hahn with questions.
Have questions about benefits and coverage? Please see HR guidance specific to your home campus: CU Anschutz, CSU, and UNC. Additional information and resources for ColoradoSPH at CU Anschutz employees, such as benefits FAQs, can be found on the Employee Services website.
Work-related travel
Effective March 13, the Colorado School of Public Health suspended all work-related travel for all employees and students. This includes any travel associated with scholarly activities as a CU employee, even if travel is funded by a government grant, foundation, company, or other university.
Effective March 13, the Colorado School of Public Health suspended all work-related travel for all employees and students. This includes any travel associated with scholarly activities as a CU employee, even if travel is funded by a government grant, foundation, company, or other university.
We will not provide exemptions for conference attendance or presentations. Exceptions will be considered only in extraordinary cases. For consideration of requests for approval, the school has created the Travel Exemption Request Form that must be completed to request a review for an exception.
Personal travel
We strongly recommend that you follow the latest CDC guidelines regarding travel and limit your personal travel.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is closely monitoring the ongoing, widespread, sustained transmission of COVID-19. As has been widely reported, travelers who have been exposed to others who have COVID-19 infection are required to be in quarantine for 14 days after the exposure. Travelers who have been to areas with ongoing community or widespread transmission will be asked to stay home for 14 days.
If you are required to self-quarantine after a personal trip, be aware of how your absence affects your unit and university operations. In cases of personal travel, you may not be eligible for administrative leave if you are required to be in quarantine. Please view the latest information from the HR department of your home campus: CU Anschutz, CSU, and UNC.
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