Chancellor's Address
Welcome from the Chancellor Thank you for your interest in the University of Colorado at Boulder, and to those of you who will be attending CU this year, welcome to our university community! This is a momentous time for CU. Visionary goals for the campus, developed in conjunction with all its constituents--students, faculty, staff, administration, and, indeed, the citizens of Colorado--are becoming both a reality and tangible.
In 2004 our students recognized that a national comprehensive research university like CU must have state-of-the-art facilities and, as a result, created an unprecedented partnership to assist the university in raising the funds necessary to construct a series of new buildings. Today you see the results of these efforts. Critical new buildings are now open and hosting the academic programs for which they were designed. These new facilities include the Alliance for Technology, Learning, and Society (ATLAS) Building, the Wolf Law Building, and the Koelbel Building, home to the Leeds School of Business. A new Visual Arts Complex in the heart of campus will open in the 2009-10 academic year.
We are enormously proud of these new buildings and pleased that we are able to provide the type of learning environment that you and your classmates will need as you prepare for the 21st century. Included in the plan for these facilities was a commitment to environmental sustainability. As a result, they use some of the most advanced building strategies for water savings, energy efficiency, materials, and indoor air quality.
Last year the University of Colorado Board of Regents approved a new strategic plan for CU-Boulder that reflects the ideas of hundreds of CU's constituents and will transform the university for decades to come. Titled "Flagship 2030: Serving Colorado, Engaged in the World," the plan builds on our current strengths, while literally reinventing the institution over the next two decades. Students today, tomorrow, and long into the future will be beneficiaries of this plan, as will all the citizens of Colorado.
Our university is rapidly becoming a leading model of the "new flagship university" for the 21st century--by redefining learning and discovery in a global context and setting new standards in education, research, scholarship, and creative work that will benefit you, Colorado, and the world.
It is with great pride that I welcome you to CU!
Sincerely,
G. P. "Bud" Peterson
Chancellor
