{"id":162819,"date":"2025-03-18T14:26:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T20:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=162819"},"modified":"2025-03-18T14:26:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T20:26:06","slug":"call-for-submissions-2025-cu-innovation-efficiency-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=162819","title":{"rendered":"Call for submissions: 2025 CU Innovation &amp; Efficiency Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/CU-Innovation-Efficiency-Awards-2025-low.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-162820\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every day, CU employees implement innovative ideas that save time, money, and effort across our shared systems. The CU Innovation &amp; Efficiency (CU I&amp;E) Awards Program recognizes and celebrates these forward-thinking solutions, providing a platform to share success stories that inspire and benefit the entire CU community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2025 CU I&amp;E Awards Program is now accepting submissions through March 31, 2025. This is your opportunity to showcase your ingenuity and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement at CU. We are especially interested in hearing from employees who have gone outside the scope of their usual duties and responsibilities to develop solutions and solve problems for their teams, programs, or units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year\u2019s submissions covered a wide range of impactful innovations, including enhancements in accessibility, security, student onboarding, and financial aid. Winning projects came from across CU\u2019s multiple campuses and System Administration. Who will take home this year\u2019s honors?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cash prizes of up to $1,500 will be awarded to up to five individuals or teams whose innovations stand out, as determined by our judging panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cu.edu\/controller\/innovation-efficiency-awards\">Learn more about the CU I&amp;E Awards Program<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cu.edu\/controller\/forms\/2025-cu-innovation-efficiency-awards-submission-form\">Submit your project here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don\u2019t miss this chance to inspire others and be recognized for your contributions! Share your success story, and help drive innovation at CU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The CU Innovation &#038; Efficiency Awards Program recognizes forward-thinking solutions, providing a platform to share success stories that inspire and benefit the entire CU community. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=162819\" title=\"Call for submissions: 2025 CU Innovation &amp; Efficiency Awards\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":162820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[398,332],"class_list":["post-162819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","tag-cu-system","tag-more-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/CU-Innovation-Efficiency-Awards-2025-low.gif","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-Gm7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162821,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162819\/revisions\/162821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/162820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}