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Procurement Month means open houses
For the third straight year, the Procurement Service Center (PSC) will celebrate Procurement Month by holding open houses on each CU campus.
The CU Denver open house is set for 1-4 p.m. Thursday, March 10, at the PSC offices on the fifth floor of 1800 Grant.
The popular event allows you to meet staff from the PSC and discuss your department-specific procurement needs. Attendees report that this interaction is helpful in making their work – and their departments' work – easier.
Joining the PSC at the open houses will be staff from the Office of University Controller-Finance and Procurement Business Services, the FinPro Help Desk, and representatives from the university's strategic suppliers: Christopherson Business Travel, Colorado Correctional Industries (CCi), Dell, Fisher Scientific, Konica Minolta, Staples and Xerox.
To register, go to www.cu.edu/psc Questions: Charlene Lydick, 303-764-3450.
Boulder Staff Council sets spring luncheon
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Boulder Staff Council's 2011 spring luncheon, featuring a Western barbecue theme, is open to all CU-Boulder classified/professional exempt staff. The lunch is set for 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. March 31 in the UMC Glenn Miller Ballroom. Deadline for RSVP, which is required, is Wednesday, March 16. To view a poster for the event, click here.
Cost is $5 per person. Donations of personal care items for Emergency Family Assistance appreciated. This is a green-friendly event. Bring Buff One card. Contact Staff Council at 303-492-5473 or Scouncil@colorado.edu.
The spring lunch is just one effort of the Boulder Campus Staff Council. It also promotes the local Employee Discount Benefits pages and new state employee discounts at Colorado.PerkSpot.com; the fall staff breakfast; summer ice cream social/employee fair; several Bonfils blood drives annually; winter warmth drive; and years of service awards, certificates and ceremony and more.
Membership on the council is not required to take part in committee work; committees include awards, blood drive, communications, elections, health and wellness, outreach events and others.
Boulder campus nominations for staff council are being taken at www.colorado.edu/staffcouncil. You may nominate yourself or anyone else in the classified/professional exempt employee class. Nominees must have approval support from their supervisor.
Colloquium to examine high school girls' connection to STEM education
Distinguished Professor Margaret Eisenhart invites university personnel to attend the CU-Boulder School of Education Spring Colloquium, "We Can't Get There From Here': The Meaning and Context of High School Girls' Engagement With STEM."
The event is set for noon-1p.m. March 18 in room 220 of the Education building.
Eisenhart notes that calls for the U.S. to address the lack of diversity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are ubiquitous. Join in as Eisenhart reports results of a four-year research project, Female Recruits Explore Engineering (FREE), designed to interest high school girls of color in engineering.
From 2006-2009, she and her team worked with high-achieving girls of color in Colorado, Iowa and Ohio; all the girls were strong students in math and science, but only 18 percent were considering engineering in college. In FREE, they were encouraged, their interest rose, and many developed emergent identities as possible engineers, but most did not pursue engineering. What happened?
Eisenhart argues that the meaning and context of minority girls' attempts to engage with engineering constitute a new landscape of inequality. When one of the girls told her, "We can't get there from here," she was right.
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