In 2024, Web Services and UCOMM decided to decommission the existing Campus Calendar (www.csuchico.edu/calendar/) in favor of CatsConnect as the primary service for campus events. The portion of the Campus Calendar that supported employee and student announcements was extracted from the underlying system and now functions as a standalone entity under www.csuchico.edu/announcements/.
Effective Date
The Campus Calendar was officially decommissioned on March 17, 2025. Announcements (including those associated with an event) submitted before that date were carried over to the new system. Submissions with announcement dates set after March 17, 2025 continue to be announced as scheduled.
How does the new announcement system compare to the Campus Calendar announcement system?
With the exception of a few URL changes and a new look, these two systems function nearly identically. Announcements are submitted in the same manner, with the same options, limitations, and email schedule (see Submission Guidelines for more information).
A notable difference is the method by which users can view announcements on the web. Email is the primary method by which announcements are delivered to the campus community and analytics data of the Campus Calendar illustrated that viewership of the announcement index on www.csuchico.edu was limited. But, we wanted to continue to provide a way for users to browse through current announcements should they wish to. Now, rather than an open ended calendar which allows users to move back and forth months or even years, the announcement system allows users to view announcements for the current week, the week prior, and the week after.
Announcement and Event Widgets
Announcement and Event Widgets are available to sites on v3 of the template. The Announcements Widget will continue to work as expected. The Events Widget will be decommissioned on June 2, 2025.
Why CatsConnect?
Prioritizing CatsConnect will ensure students, staff, and faculty can find all campus events in a single place. And as a more feature-filled platform, CatsConnect was the obvious choice over the current Campus Calendar.
Submitting Events to CatsConnect
For more information on getting started with CatsConnect, please visit Student Life and Leadership. If you need help with CatsConnect, contact Student Life and Leadership at sllgeneral@csuchico.edu.
Integrated CatsConnect Feeds
As part of ongoing work to transition www.csuchico.edu to our new design, Web Services has developed tools that will integrate CatsConnect with the primary campus website, allowing some pages to display select events directly from CatsConnect. To ensure that users are being directed to CatsConnect, feeds are limited to the pages of organizational parent entities (e.g., Divisions, Colleges, etc.). The events of departments falling under these entities should tag their events appropriately so they will be included in the appropriate feeds.
If you have any questions regarding this transition, please contact Web Services at webservices@csuchico.edu.