Research, Scholarship and Creative Work
- The authors hold that open science is a critical pathway to accelerating the best new environmental science from big data opportunities.
- The authors argue that CU will be best served by helping labs meet their individual scientific and fiscal goals rather than by imposing “one-size-fits-all” policies across campus, which will prevent some labs from thriving and from successfully serving a broad off-campus user community.
- The authors propose ways to increase communication and more coordinated outreach related to scientific and environmental research at CU Boulder and in the Boulder science community at large.
- The authors recommend a more expansive and coordinated effort toward building campus-wide university corporate partnerships.
- The authors propose longer-term (minimum of one semester) faculty residencies to provide site-specific education around Colorado. The instruction focus could include traditional and non-traditional undergraduate student education, dual high school enrollment, co-requisite remediation, and graduate education and BA/MA programs.
- The authors unveil a vision of the university art museum of the 21st century – one that is held in high esteem by peers and with a mission to contribute to a university culture in which art, creativity, intercultural understanding, and research advance all disciplines in contribution to society.
- The authors propose different ways to begin to achieve a defined balance between transdisciplinary interests and traditional discipline-based academic rigor.
- The authors provide a model for CU Boulder to greatly expanding already robust undergraduate research experiences built on apprenticeship models by adopting Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences that allow whole classes of students to address a research question that is of interest to a scientific or local community.
- The author posits that by creating a Center for Mediterranean Studies the campus could expand its commitment to interdisciplinarity in the Humanities and build on an emerging program of strength on the campus.
- The authors advocate for an Institute of the Arts at CU Boulder that would be a catalyst facilitating and strengthening connections between faculty and students in the arts, focus on art making and learning, and being an incubator for creative work and a hub for experiments in pedagogy.