Inclusive Excellence

Helping ensure transparency and accountability, CU Boulder is establishing a community board that will enable students, faculty and staff to provide guidance on campus policing and public safety policies and procedures.

The CU Police Department has eight commissioned female officers among its ranks, comprising about 17% of its total corps. Since taking the helm, Chief Doreen Jokerst has hired three new female officers and intends to continue this trend among women and officers of color.

Join the Anti-Racism Challenge, explore the inclusive staff hiring process online course and dive into the importance of pronouns with the Department of Human Resources' latest new offerings.

The Cultural Events Board is sharing this video with the campus community in hopes that we will all commit ourselves to continuing to lead with love in the face of challenges and injustice.

I want to share some of the steps we are taking to build a more inclusive police department that serves and protects our campus and Boulder community. We will be sharing updates in a series of stories that CU Boulder Today will begin publishing today.

Public safety agencies, including the University of Colorado Police Department under the leadership of Chief Doreen Jokerst, are reassessing how to serve the communities they are sworn to serve and protect through greater transparency, accountability and trust.

Suspending bylaws in order to vote, the Boulder Faculty Assembly passed a resolution at its April 1 meeting supporting more awareness around anti-Asian racism. The resolution, which Staff Council also voted to support, includes a number of resources for the campus community.

Racial injustice and inequity have been embedded in our culture for centuries, and the events of the last 12 months have spurred long overdue national discussions about these issues. Read more from Athletic Director Rick George.

DaWon Baker will be CU's first-ever associate athletic director for diversity, equity and inclusion. Coming from the University of Nebraska, where he served in a similar role, Baker will start May 1.

CU Boulder leaders are encouraged by federal immigration legislation moving through Congress that seeks to protect Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and other Dreamers, and to clear a green card backlog that is impacting international scholars.