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Have you ever felt clueless when writing a paper? Are you worried that your paper is made up of a series of un-cohesive thoughts jumbled together? If the only thing you know about writing comes from what gets highlighted in red in Microsoft Office, then The Writing Center is your new best friend.

More than 100 middle and high school students from Boulder County are joining 35 undergraduates Friday to tour campus and participate in workshops with community and campus organizations to address public issues impacting their communities. The students are part of the Public Achievement (PA) program, a youth-led civic engagement initiative promoting student voice and transformative change.

¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder faculty, students and staff are undergoing an initiative to evaluate the university learning management system, Desire2Learn, to determine whether it meets ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder’s teaching and learning needs as part of an array of digital instructional tools.

Building suspense, scaring readers and incorporating gore, disgust and revulsion into fiction plots. Students will examine these elements of writing during a Winter Session course that's open to the public, led by Stephen Graham Jones, acclaimed horror writer and professor. Part of the class will take place at the famous Stanley Hotel, said by some to be haunted.

The campus community is once again embarking on an accreditation review by the nonprofit Higher Learning Commission (HLC), an independent corporation founded in 1895 as one of six regional institutional accreditors in the United States.

Registration for the spring semester is right around the corner. Be sure you're prepared.

With $2.5 million in gifts, Colorado’s Gallogly family is naming the Discovery Learning Center at the University of Colorado Boulder, as well as boosting the teaching and research power of the College of Engineering and Applied Science with two new faculty positions.

It isn’t unusual for some first-year students to struggle academically while getting used to university life. That’s where ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder’s Academic Success and Achievement Program (ASAP) comes in. ASAP is an amazing and free on-campus tutoring program offered to any student living on campus.

On behalf of my colleagues in the Graduate School, I am delighted to present an update on ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder graduate education and an introduction to fall 2016 Graduate School initiatives.

Last Friday, Vice Provost and Associate Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education Mary Kraus announced that Shelly Bacon is moving into a new role as Assistant Vice Provost for Advising and Academic Services. ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder Today sat down with Bacon to discuss advising and other student support services on campus.