Campus Climate and Culture
- The authors – members of the Provost’s Faculty Communication Committee – recommend a shift in organizational culture resting on important changes in how communication is managed and enacted between administration and faculty.
- The author suggests five critical elements for the process of Academic Futures and suggests a jumping off point and a needed feature of campus communication.
- The author describes the course of cultural change being facilitated by the Office of Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement and makes a strong appeal to partners and leaders to help enhance its efforts.
- The author makes a case that С Boulder can strengthen its role and status as a public university by supporting deep and reciprocal partnerships that use research to advance the public good with community groups, civil society organizations, and public agencies.
- The authors cite the need for dialogue as a learning and discovery process and the concurrent need to work with others across campus to help make dialogue a more universal aspect of С’s classroom experience.
- The authors draw on lessons learned through the work of MASP and advocate for a broader ecosystem approach to enhancing diversity at С-Boulder, arguing that enhancing diversity needs be to become much more central in our collective thinking about the University’s mission and work.
- The authors argues that the university needs to adapt to all new kinds of students enrolling in its programs (rather than asking those students to adapt to С), holding that С needs to “listen more, invite our students to speak more and needs to help all students “learn how to listen and engage across difference” by becoming a campus of “facilitated conversations.”
- The author outlines how intentional sustainability-related leadership and activities revolving around academic, research, operational, student and community engagement can ensure С Boulder’s success in achieving global leadership in sustainability and effectively incorporating sustainability into all aspects of the University.
- The authors suggest a series of steps to improve climate, gender equity, parental leave and childcare as core issues central to gender equity on campus.
- The authors outline recommendations from a recent luncheon of 35 faculty of color on how С Boulder can increase equity, inclusive excellence, and diversity through stronger commitments and new strategies.