Academic Futures

The report has been delivered to Provost Russ Moore and Senior Vice Chancellor Kelly Fox, marking the end of the visioning phase, to be followed by planning and implementation phases.

With several sessions this week, town halls seeking community input on the committee report wrap up Sept. 27, and the deadline for response papers is Sept. 28.

Generated from a year-long effort across campus, the draft Academic Futures report offers a new academic vision designed to transform CU Boulder to a leading public research institution for the 21st century.

In the Academic Futures video series, subcommittee member Orrie Gartner asks for campus feedback on ideas that include reimagining staff's role, meeting the most basic needs of staff, providing flexible career paths and support for growth and more.

In the Academic Futures video series, Juan Garcia Oyervides asks for campus feedback on ideas that include improving the academic, professional and social climate for graduate students and more.

A three-year process, Academic Futures in its first year asked the community to bring forth ideas, without constraints or resource concerns, about what CU Boulder might become and how we might transform teaching, learning, creative work and scholarship.

Many months into Academic Futures, while the committee strongly believes the process will produce important recommendations for the campus, they also see the process itself as an important victory.

In the final video of the five-part Academic Futures series, subcommittee member Sarah Krakoff asks for campus feedback on ideas that include prioritizing public-spirited research, better serving the public and more.

Last week, student teams from the Program for Writing and Rhetoric presented on the future of education to the Academic Futures Committee, continuing to weave the voice of students into the conversation.

In part four of the Academic Futures video series, subcommittee member Fernando Rosario-Ortiz asks for campus feedback on ideas that include recruiting diverse faculty, reimagining how faculty are evaluated and more.