Members of my leadership team met earlier today with staff from Environmental Health & Safety, the Police Department and Transportation Services to discuss management reporting line changes.
As the new semester is off and running, we wanted to take this opportunity to update you on the next important phases of Academic Futures: Rethinking the university—the futures of learning and discovery.
We strive to act with commitment and passion in our work to create new approaches and partnerships that advance diversity, equity and inclusion. I would like to provide you with an update on where that work stands and where we're going.
As we look to the future and the changing needs of our students, I'm excited to introduce a new multi-year initiative within the Division of Student Affairs called Redefining Student Support.
As we await word on the fate of DACA, now is an opportune moment to remember the university's core missions of supporting academic success and advancing scholarly research and teaching opportunities.
A university that aspires to shape tomorrow's leaders, be the top university for innovation and positively impact humanity cannot do any of those things in an atmosphere of mistrust, isolation and constant conflict.
We appreciate the understanding of our campus and community as we adjusted to developments over the weekend, and as we return to business as usual, effective immediately.
As you may know, ongoing budget negotiations have failed to produce a stopgap funding agreement in Congress. We are tracking this issue carefully and monitoring potential impacts on our students, faculty, staff and research programs.
I hope you all had an opportunity to recharge over winter break. As you gear up for a new semester and new year, I encourage you to take some time to think about what goals you'd like to accomplish.
As a community, we had a tremendous fall semester involving the Be Boulder Pact, the CU Impact Scholarship, record-breaking research revenues, countless achievements made from all corners of campus and more. We look forward to an exciting spring.
