Budget & Planning and BPC Reimagined Ad Hoc Committees

The BFA Budget & Planning Committee (BPC) was paused in August 2024 with approval by the BFA Executive Committee since, for the second time in four years*, the BPC did not have an elected chair from its membership. Upon advice of the BFA Officers, BFA Chair Shelly Miller paused the committee and formed the BPC Reimagined ad-hoc committee to consider ongoing issues and to formally revise the charge and membership. 

At the 2024 September Assembly meeting, a call went out to all BFA representatives asking for volunteers to serve on the ad-hoc committee. Additionally, Miller asked all campus faculty council leaders for nominees from their units to ensure faculty from all colleges/schools were represented. Faculty from Arts & Sciences, Business, Law, Engineering, and University Libraries volunteered to serve and represent campus faculty. The group met twice a week from October through February and met with CFO Todd Haggerty, Deputy CFO Mandy Cole and several other campus administrators regarding budget issues. Along with considering charge revisions, the members also served as active members providing feedback to administration on the supplemental fund, and faculty salary issues. The BFA sincerely thanks the BPC Reimagined ad hoc committee members (see below) for their hard work this year in considering ways this committee can ensure that faculty are engaged early and often with campus leadership regarding all areas of campus budget.

BFA Chair Miller updated Assembly members and Executive Committee members on their work throughout the academic year. The final proposed charge was approved by the Executive Committee on March 3, 2025 to be introduced to Assembly on March 6, 2025 as a 30-day notice of motion. Due to feedback received the week prior to the scheduled vote, BFA representatives voted to extend the consideration period for another 30 days in order to allow representatives more time to confer with their constituents. A vote is currently scheduled for the May 1, 2025 Assembly meeting. 

*In the fall of 2021 BFA Chair Tiffany Beechy paused the BPC at the advice of former chair Bob Ferry due to a lack of a chair and ongoing issues with membership. 

BFA Representatives are asked to review the full committee charge with their colleagues, and to consider documents linked below and provide feedback prior to April 17, 2025. All questions, comments, and feedback should be sent to: bfa@colorado.edu. Please provide detailed suggestions or comments about the pending charge whenever possible. The Executive Committee will finalize proposed charge changes and communicate those to reps with ten days notice. If needed, representatives will be asked to vote by verbal consensus on all proposals received.

Information on the BPC and Ad-hoc Committee:

 

The BFA would also like to thank the former BPC members and chairs for the many hours of hard work they invested on budget and campus fiscal matters on behalf of faculty, including recent chairs:

  • AY's 2016-2018 - David Gross, Leeds School of Business
  • AY 2018-2019 - Seth Spielberg, Geography, A&S
  • AY's 2019-2021 - Scott Parker, Physics, A&S
  • AY 2021-2022 - Bob Ferry, History, A&S
  • AY's 2022-2024 - Emily Yeh, Geography, A&S

 

BPC Reimagined Ad Hoc Committee Members