Office of the Chancellor > State of the Campus Address 2002

State of the Campus Address
September 25, 2002

Good afternoon. I appreciate your joining us here today as we review some of the accomplishments and challenges of the past year, as well as take a look ahead to the coming year and beyond. We will close today’s event on a celebratory note: recognizing each of the faculty members who have been promoted or tenured this year.

The Boulder campus has many achievements to celebrate as we begin the 126th year of our existence — even as we contemplate serious statewide fiscal difficulties.

Today we are a highly-regarded campus with nearly 28,000 students, over 2,100 faculty members, and more than 3,400 staff members. Our stature can be traced to the entrepreneurial spirit that has infused the campus community from its modest beginnings. Partly through necessity and partly through choice, CU-Boulder has engaged in entrepreneurship all along the way.

At times, we have had to pull ourselves up by the bootstraps to survive — an appropriate metaphor for a university in the American West! But we have survived — and managed to thrive — with hefty doses of creativity, collaboration, energy, innovation, and determination. The current economic climate and the state’s financial situation represent yet another serious challenge for us. We will need to rely heavily on collaboration, innovation and determination to overcome these obstacles as well.

The spirit of enterprise can be found in all corners of this university — from faculty experimenting with creative teaching methodologies to student leaders running one of the country’s largest student governments to staff members finding ways to trim costs while increasing effectiveness.

• Faculty
• Students
• Staff
• Institutional Achievements
• Administration (Quality for Colorado)
• Budget
• Conclusion
• Data Table