Campus Actions

Update and enhance our faculty and staff hiring practices to achieve greater representation of persons of color in our community and to better express the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion to all who would consider becoming part of our university.

• Provide mandatory implicit bias training for all members of search committees and everyone who votes on faculty hires to ensure that our faculty recruiting process is not affected by unconscious biases that limit opportunities for diverse scholars.
• The provost's office will begin to reallocate open faculty lines to fund hires that broadly support diversity and inclusion.
• Evaluate the mandatory qualifications for staff searches to ensure that qualifications reflect true competencies for positions.

Update and enhance our student recruitment and retention policies and practices

• Analyze in-state and out-of-state recruiting strategies to ensure that CU Boulder recruits from schools that support communities of color.
• Develop applications and admission documents that highlight the importance of diversity, inclusion, and equity and communicate CU Boulder’s expectations that incoming students will support campus values.

Implement mandatory bystander training for faculty, staff, and students.

Engage with the CU System and CU Student Government in examining our procurement practices with Colorado Correctional Industries.

Complete a review of our campus police policies and procedures to align with best community and campus practices, including the protections contained within SB20-217.

Charge CU Boulder faculty with developing a CU 101 anti-racism module for first-year students that explores the toxicity of racism in U.S. history, U.S. life and at CU Boulder and delves into ways to act against it in our daily lives on and off campus.

Continue engagement between CU Police Department, CUSG, United Government of Graduate Students, and student organizations of color to improve mutual understanding and law enforcement transparency and accountability to the campus. 

Form the Council for Community and Inclusion recommended in the IDEA Plan and begin implementation of the IDEA Plan.