Each week, Communique will be highlighting a series of campus wins, accomplishments and accolades. Please explore the list below to check out what other teams are up to, and help celebrate their good work!
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Student Life
- Student Life held a Winter Formal in February that had over 400 students in attendance! The popular event included food, mocktails and shuttles from housing.
- The Student Government Association hosted their annual debate this week, and the event was streamed for any students who were not able to make the in-person debate. Elections will be held next week.
Athletics
- UCCS Men’s Track & Field reclaimed the RMAC Indoor Title, with the UCCS Women’s team finishing second
- Gia Bradley hit a three-pointer with eight seconds left in regulation to lift the No. 6 seed University of Colorado Colorado Springs women’s basketball team to a 63-60 win at No. 3 seed Adams State University Tuesday night in the quarterfinal round of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference tournament.
- Last weekend, Women’s Lacrosse beat Missouri Western on the road in an overtime thriller, Softball swept Chadron with a perfect 4-0 weekend, and Baseball went 3-1.
Military
- Veteran & Military Affairs celebrated Women Veteran Recognition Week this past week.
Financial Aid
- The first notifications of financial aid went out, with 4,089 new freshmen, transfer, and graduate students will be getting those in the mail soon.
Cybersecurity
- UCCS Cybersecurity Programs Office is funding scholarships for 60 UCCS students to hone their Cybersecurity Analyst skills. Based on employer feedback, hands-on, real-world cybersecurity training is a key requirement for early career candidates. As such, UCCS has partnered with CENTURION Cyber Training Solutions (CTS) to train UCCS cybersecurity students as Tier 1 Cyber SOC Analysts (Secure Operations Center). CENTURION CTS has secured a partnership with a Colorado municipality to provide real-world network logs, combined with online tools and software such as Netography and Jira, to research network traffic and identify malicious traffic and vulnerabilities. Thirty students completed their T1 SOC Analyst internship in the fall of 2024, and the second cohort of 30 are onboarding with training this spring.