Faculty Shared Governance

Please see the letter sent to BFA representatives and liaisons on Tuesday, April 2, 2024 and share widely. Dear Colleagues, Today President Saliman sent an email to all campus members with details on the selection of Dr. Justin Schwartz as the finalist for the CU Boulder Chancellor search as well...

The BFA closed out fall semester with a final meeting on Thursday, December 7, 2023. Provost Russell Moore updated faculty on priority projects that Chancellor DiStefano had assigned Academic Affairs and Strategic Resources and COO to oversee. Academic Affairs priorities include: reviewing the alternative college option (ACO) and Program for...

The Boulder Faculty Assembly held it's first meeting of spring semester on Thursday, February 2, 2023 via Zoom. The following items were on the agenda: Katherine Eggert, SVP of Academic Planning and Assement gave members an update on the propsal for a campus common curriculum from fall and on next...

The BFA held it's final meeting of fall semester on December 1, 2022 via Zoom. Provost Russell Moore addressed members at the top of the meeting and reviewed specific topics of interest to the faculty including: Update regarding restricted proprietary and classified research funding – this type of research specific...

On February 22, 2022, Ravinder Singh, chair of the CU System Faculty Council Educational Policy and University Standards Committee (EPUS) , sent a memo to the deans of schools/colleges on all four CU campuses . The memo asked the deans to conduct a vote of the faculty members of their...

On March 28, 2022 the BFA Executive Committee endorsed the below statement by the CU Faculty Council regarding the recent invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation: Dear Colleagues, The University of Colorado Faculty Council condemns the Russian Federation’s unprovoked and inhumane invasion of Ukraine, a sovereign nation. At the...

Spring 2022 BFA Officer Elections The following seats will be up for election in April, and will be voted on at the April 28 Assembly meeting via Qualtrics. These seats are open to any BFA Assembly representatives. Nominations will run from March 28 through April 13. Please see the call...

On Tuesday, January 18, 2022, BFA Chair Tiffany Beechy sent the following message to BFA representatives: Dear BFA Reps, I write with a time-sensitive pair of proposals regarding grade policy that we will be voting on at the February 3rd General Assembly. 1) The first concerns the grade-replacement policy that...

On Monday, September 21, 2021 BFA Chair Tiffany Beechy announced to BFA Representatives and Assembly Liaisons that the Attributes That Should Guide The Selection of the Next CU President had passed. This document will now be forwarded to Board of Regents Chair, Jack Kroll along with CU Presidential Search Committee...