Uriel Nauenberg, BFA Chair
Michael Preston, Vice Chair, BFA Bylaws and Athletics Committees Chair
Greg Carey, BFA Secretary & Nominating Committee Chair, BFA Academic Technology Committee Rep
Deane Bowers, BFA at-large rep & BFA Committee on Women Representative
Clayton Lewis, BFA at-large rep, Faculty Compensation & Benefits Committee Chair

Dan Dessau, BFA Academic Affairs Committee Co Chair
Cathy Comstock, BFA AAP Committee Chair
Stein Sture, BFA Budget & Planning Committee Chair
Bud Coleman, BFA GLB Affairs Committee Chair
Paul Levitt, BFA Faculty Affairs Committee Chair
Martin Walter, BFA Student Affairs Committee Chair

Tony Barker, Arts and Sciences Council Chair
Bill Kaempfer, AVC for Budget and Finance
Jefferson Dodge, Silver and Gold Record

Tom Mayer, Communications Committee Chair
Anne Bliss, BFA Minority Affairs Committee Chair
Mark Dubin, BFA Libraries Committee Chair

Francis A. Beer, Former BFA Chair
TBD, Administrative Services Committee Chair

MOVED by Michael Preston and seconded by Deane Bowers that the minutes of the BFA Executive Committee meeting of February 11, 2002 be approved.

The motion passed without dissent.

Nauenberg's report included the following items:

• The March meeting of the BFA has been rescheduled: the meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 12th from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. in the School of Law room 154. President Hoffman will discuss the Quality for Colorado initiative.
• The BFA Executive Committee will hold two executive sessions this spring, February 25th and March 4th, to discuss results of the Administrator Appraisal Program.
• The March 4th meeting of the Executive Committee will include a presentation by Vice President for Academic Affairs and Research Jack Burns, on the "University Without Walls."
• The list of vacancies to be filled in the BFA spring election has been distributed on line and via hard copy to the faculty. Nominations may be forwarded to Elections Committee Chair Greg Carey [Gregory.Carey@Colorado.edu].

Instructor Numbers on the Boulder Campus

Nauenberg reported that the number of instructors on the Boulder campus has increased significantly in recent years and is now at more than 230 FTEs, up from 146. Discussion followed, including the following points:

• Lewis commented that as long as the cost of instruction increases at a rate faster than that of inflation institutions will be under pressure to reduce instructional costs, usually accomplished by hiring more instructors.
• Nauenberg requested the Faculty Affairs committee examine the increase in numbers of instructors.
• It was suggested that programmatic initiatives have also increased numbers of instructors, such as the new Program in Writing and Rhetoric and enhancements in Boulder campus residential programs.
• Lewis commented that it is important to look at the big picture in considering solutions to problems, because fiscal constraints limit the number and scope of projects the campus can initiate.
• Nauenberg commented that Quality for Colorado and its associated increase in fiscal support for the university may be the only solution that will work to address all of the fiscal needs currently under consideration.
• Lewis commented that Quality for Colorado may work in the short term, but for the long term other funding sources will need to be accessed, perhaps via an endowment. Lewis continued that increases in numbers of instructors and freshmen threaten the ability of the university to build up its endowment. Lewis added that the university must examine the reasons that people give to endowments in order to work towards building the endowment for CU.
• Levitt asked whether the quality of undergraduate education and its relationship to giving is worthy of study by the BFA. Nauenberg asked the Student Affairs and Academic Affairs committees to examine the issue.

BFA Question of the Month: Fiscal Year 2003 Budget

There was discussion of the format and content of the BFA "Question of the Month" (QOTM) survey on the issue of fiscal year 2003 budget constraints. [The survey will be available until March 8th on line: http://www.Colorado.edu/FacultyGovernance.]

It was suggested that the increasing number of instructors on the Boulder Campus be considered as a topic for a future QOTM survey.

Respectfully submitted by Sierra Swearingen, BFA Administrator