Brittany McMurry
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Updated March 4th, 2026 by Brittany McMurry

Off-Campus Housing Information

Off-Campus Housing & Neighborhood Relations Office Phone: 303.492.7053 Email: och@colorado.edu Website:   https://www.colorado.edu/offcampus/  ...

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Updated March 3rd, 2026 by Brittany McMurry

Professional Graduate Degree Students are Not Eligible to be GRAs

Please note, graduate students who are on leave or in a professional program are not eligible for graduate assistantships. This means, graduate students enrolled in "non-traditional" graduate programs cannot be hired into job code 1505 and they are not eligible for tuition remission waivers. If a graduate student enrolled in a professional graduate ...

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Updated March 3rd, 2026 by Brittany McMurry

Graduate Student Dental Insurance

The Graduate Student Dental Insurance Plan is available to students on full external fellowships or those with a graduate appointment of 20% or greater (RA/TA/GA or GPTI only), regardless of their medical insurance coverage (CU Anthem Gold SHIP or private insurance). Eligible students are automatically enrolled in the dental plan and cannot opt out;...

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Updated March 24th, 2026 by Brittany McMurry

Benefits & Housing Resources for New Hires

Quick Benefits Overview: https://static.helpjuice.com/helpjuice_production/uploads/upload/image/23225/direct/1772742471437/Quick%20Benefits%20Overview%20-%20for%20Onboarding%20or%20Recruiting.docx   CU Boulder Housing Resources Rental Housing Options: CU Boulder Off-Campus  Housing Office:  https://www.colorado.edu/offcampus/finding-housing ; contac...

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Updated March 4th, 2026 by Brittany McMurry

Postdoctoral Associates Supervising GRAs

The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs (OPA) and the Graduate School confirmed that Postdoctoral Associates can supervise GRAs. They confirmed there are no restrictions to Postdocs hiring GRAs or student employees. The Associate Director for Science also thought this would be a good experience overall. One thing to note, the OPA mentioned that we should...

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Updated March 4th, 2026 by Brittany McMurry

Moving Reimbursements: Can I get a reimbursement for my first month's rent?

A new hire asked if they could get reimbursed for the first month's rent since they did not have any short-term rental or hotel costs. The Campus Controller's Office confirmed that first month's rent is not an allowable expense.  Any fees or costs associated with acquiring a new home (including rent) are not allowable on sponsored projects. Unallowa...

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Updated March 4th, 2026 by Brittany McMurry

Can Research Affiliates supervise employees?

Since Research Affiliates are non-employees, they can’t supervise employees. MyLeave may allow Research Affiliates to approve timesheets if they are assigned as a supervisor, but either way, someone else should be assigned as the supervisor....

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Updated March 10th, 2026 by Brittany McMurry

Leave of Absence / Short-Term Leave

Generally, someone can request to go on leave (paid and unpaid) for up to 3 months. If the leave extends beyond that, we will need approval at higher levels of CIRES and RIO to request an exception to the 3-month limitation. From the perspective of RIO and CU HR, it is possible to take this leave, assuming the supervisor and unit are supportive and ...

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Updated March 9th, 2026 by Brittany McMurry

Summer Semester Internship Lodging

Information from Hilary Brenneman, Assistant Director of Conference Services: We do have an intern lodging program that runs for most of the summer. We haven’t finalized our dates yet, but I estimate they will be 5/18/2024-8/3/2024. These dates are subject to our academic calendar and we are unable to expand lodging dates beyond that unfortunately. ...

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