Campus to host Many Voices: Co-creating CU Boulder summit April 21
CU faculty, staff, students and academic leaders will gather April 21 for a daylong summit focused on how CU Boulder can achieve student success, culture change and a thriving environment for all by making equity a shared responsibility across all roles on campus.Ěý
Many Voices: Co-creating CU Boulder is sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the Office of Leadership Support and Programming andĚýCU Boulder’s shared governance organizations.Ěý
The summit will featureĚý, director of the Pullias Center of Higher Education at the University of Southern California and Dean’s Professor of Leadership and Wilbur-Kieffer Professor of Higher Education at USC; along withĚý, assistant professor of educational leadership at Fresno State University.Ěý
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Who: Faculty, staff, students
What: Many Voices: Co-creating CU Boulder
When: Monday, April 21, 8 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Where: Williams Village, multi-purpose rooms
“We are excited to see how these workshops can add to the work we’ve been doing on breaking down barriers and improving the partnership between staff and faculty on campus,” said Jessica Sandoval, Staff Council co-chair and Outreach and Events Committee co-chair. “We invite all those invested in this relationship and in making CU Boulder a better place to attend.”
Provost Russell Moore is also encouraging of participation.
“We have a responsibility to create an environment that fosters success and belonging at all levels,” said Moore. “I’m committed to cementing a partnership of equals between faculty and staff in service to students. Professors Kezar and González will show us research-identified ways to share our responsibility for student success, create accountability, meet challenges and make progress together.”Ěý
Senior Vice Chancellor for Leadership Support and Programming SoniaĚýDeLuca Fernández lauded CU Boulder’s shared governance organizations—the Boulder Faculty Assembly, CU Boulder Staff Council, CU Student Government and the Government of Professional and Graduate Â鶹ŇůԺ—for co-sponsoring the summit.
“These vital shared governance organizations realize that how a university leads—with equity and mattering at the center—is critical to executing our mission,” DeLuca Fernández said. “Committing to shared equity leadership is how co-creating the university begins.”
Summit schedule
TheĚý on creating culture change through shared equity leadership, creating accountability for shared equity leadership and charting progress and meeting challenges.
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