BFA representatives were advised of two campus issues that could impact faculty at the start of the year and asked to share this information with their constituents and colleagues.

The first was about a new email security service called Abnormal Security email that is being rolled out this week by OIT. The rollout and details were announced in

The second item is regarding faculty contract selection and the impacts to August pay. August 19th is the first date for AY24-25 faculty contracts, which means there are fewer paid days for August paychecks.The deadline to make changes to faculty contract pay (9x9 v. 9x12) was in July and was communicated to department HR liaisons in May and June. It's recommended that faculty use the to ensure they know what to expect. 

Please use the links above and view additional details from OIT and HR listed below. 

Why is this needed now?

• It takes on average 28 seconds from a phishing email鈥檚 arrival to a successful phish (Verizon DBIR 2024). On a recent August Saturday evening at 11:47pm, a phishing attack was launched against CU 麻豆影院 and within 65 minutes, 254 CU 麻豆影院 accounts were compromised because they fell for this attack. Such attacks put personal and university data at risk.
• Over the past year, CU 麻豆影院 students have lost thousands of dollars to phishing attacks while faculty and staff have had their paychecks impacted, lost control of their personal data, and had their accounts used to attack students and other faculty and staff members.
• During the past six months while OIT was piloting the service, Abnormal Security detected and would have stopped 793,000 advanced attacks from reaching members of our campus community including the recent August attack.
• The start-of-semester time frame historically sees a significant spike in attempted attacks.
• For questions regarding Abnormal please contact: oithelp@colorado.edu or 303-735-4357

What is the risk to faculty?

• During the six-month pilot, OIT has seen a 0.0004% false positive rate out of all emails arriving to CU 麻豆影院. A false positive is when an email is incorrectly identified as malicious and blocked. Abnormal Security is an additional layer on top of the Microsoft 365 quarantine service.
• What is OIT doing to prepare for false positives? OIT reviews Abnormal Security logs daily for false positives, proactively contacts recipients if a suspected false positive is discovered, and continues to train the system to reduce this possibility.
• OIT met with other universities who have implemented Abnormal Security and ensured our practices around reporting phishing and inquiring about suspected missing emails is in line with best practices.
• OIT can always be contacted by any faculty, student or staff who believe an email they were expecting was not received. If the email was stopped because of Abnormal Security, it can be recovered if reported to the IT Service Center within 30 days of expected receipt.
• OIT and Abnormal Security continue to train the system and measure false positives to continue to reduce the 0.0004% rate further to best support and protect the campus community.

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Please see the letter sent to BFA representatives and liaisons on Tuesday, April 2, 2024 and share widely.

Dear Colleagues,
Today President Saliman sent an  with details on the selection of  as the finalist for the CU 麻豆影院 Chancellor search as well as information on the open forums scheduled for Thursday, April 4th in the UMC Aspen Rooms. 

OPEN FORUM SCHEDULE
Thursday, April 4 - all forums will be held in the UMC Aspen Rooms (or via livestream):
鈥� Faculty 鈥� 8:00 鈥� 9:00 a.m.
鈥� Staff 鈥� 9:15 鈥� 10:15 a.m.
鈥� Students 鈥� 5:00 鈥� 6:00 p.m.

Please attend one of these sessions in person or via livestream and encourage your colleagues to attend too. You can view details on the .  Campus members are asked to complete a  after these sessions. 

As a BFA representative I ask that you ensure all your constituents are aware of the visit and the importance of faculty feedback. State law requires a 14-day waiting period in which feedback about the candidate is gathered and reviewed. The survey will launch on April 4 and remain open through Tuesday, April 9 at 5pm.

See this page for more information on the chancellor transition process. /students/chancellor-transition

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Best,

Shelly Miller PhD  

Professor, Mechanical Engineering & Environmental Engineering Program

Chair, 麻豆影院 Faculty Assembly

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Traditional territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations
Associate Editor, 

麻豆影院 Faculty Assembly (BFA)

Norlin Library 鈥� E138

303-492-6271

The 麻豆影院 Faculty Assembly acknowledge that the University of Colorado is located on the traditional territories and ancestral homelands of the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Ute and many other Native American nations. Their forced removal from these territories has caused devastating and lasting impacts. Full CU 麻豆影院 land acknowledgment

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The BFA held it's first Assembly meeting for spring semester on Thursday, February 1, 2024. BFA Chair Shelly Miller began the meeting by reading the CU 麻豆影院 Land Acknowledgment statement and recommending members connect with the Center for Native American & Indigenous Studies.  

The first item on the agenda came from CUSG Tri-Exec Chase Cromwell regarding a and student efforts to get the CU Board of Regents to change the system policy allowing for concealed weapons on campus. The will be held in 麻豆影院 at SEEC. Cromwell also shared a from National Higher Education Concealed Carry Status showing how CU ranks compared to peer institutions across the country on this issue. A recent story in the Denver Post gives a rundown of pending legislation at the state level that will likely impact what changes CU might make. Miller and Cromwell recommended faculty share this information with constituents and encourage them to reach out to their congressional leaders as well as to colleagues at other Colorado institutions. 

Members discussed and approved BFA-R-1-112823 Credit for Prior Learning resolution that was introduced in December by the BFA Academic Affairs Committee chair - Garrett Bredeson, Sr. Vice Provost for Academic Planning & Assessment - Katherine Eggert, and Asst. Vice Provost & University Registrar - Kristi Wold-McCormick. Discussion included upcoming plans from the Registrar and Bursars offices regarding business processes for course challenges, as well as the distinct processes and needs individual departments/units will have for course challenge requests.  

BFA Chair Shelly Miller gave members an update on the committee on which she serves. Committee members are reviewing a large number of applicants and begin meetings on those this week. Additionally, Miller noted that the campus Climate Action Plan was scheduled to rollout and be open for public comment. She encouraged representatives to alert their constituents and asked faculty to review the plan and comment between February 5 to March 5. 

CU President Todd Saliman joined Assembly members and spoke with them regarding several areas that the BFA Executive Committee asked about. The questions included:

1. How are you raising awareness of the value of a 4-year degree and breaking down barriers to higher education?
2. How are you and your office working with state legislators and Governor Polis to increase CU funding and work towards the elimination of TABOR?
3. Where will we find resources for climate action on our campus and how is system supporting the goal to drastically reduce our carbon footprint?

Regarding the first question, Saliman noted that state institutions are working together on a marketing campaign about preparing for college and attending in-state colleges and universities. The campaign is called "It's closer than you think" and is aimed at encouraging Colorado high school students to look in-state and to help families realize the cost is often more affordable than out of state. Additionally related to the second question, Saliman noted that due to a lack of funding and financial aid funding CU was working with state leaders to access surplus funding in TABOR for possible AP/IB credit funding for in state students to help with this. He also noted that the Governor's budget fell short this year, and higher ed presidents are advocating for increased funding. He also suggested members review a recent showing how state support had declined by 27%.  Regarding climate action resources, Saliman noted that resources for these measures will come from each campus, such as the campus Climate Action Plan and follow through from groups like the Campus Sustainability Executive Council. Additionally, he will be creating a system group that will draw on what 麻豆影院 is doing and try to see what we can learn from each other and elevate the issue system-wide. 

The final two items on the Assembly agenda included the annual report by the Faculty Athletics Representative, Joe Jupille. Jupille went over this NCAA-mandated position and the duties. He will be stepping down next year and encouraged representatives to consider running. The role has several key "buckets" he works in: Academic integrity and success; institutional control/compliance (with NCAA, Conference, and CU rules); student athlete well-being and campus-athletics relations. The position description is being updated now and Jupille expects a call for applications on campus to begin during 2024 so that the incoming faculty can shadow him during spring 2025. Please contact him directly for any questions: joseph.jupille@colorado.edu. BFA Intercollegiate Athletics (IAC) committee chair Don Oest also announced the third event in the committee's campus athletics series featuring Kris Livingston and a conversation on student athlete success and wellness on Feb. 14 from 3-4pm at the Center for Teaching & Learning in CASE. 

And lastly BFA Secretary Vicki Grove announced that nominations are open for nine BFA At-Large Representative seat vacancies. Please see the BFA elections page for more information. All eligible faculty received an e-memo on February 1 regarding the seats and how to self-nominate. 

Additionally, Assembly members may wish to review the CUBT story on the meeting. Meeting minutes will be sent to Assembly members by February 29, 2024. Contact the BFA office for any questions: bfa@colorado.edu 

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The 麻豆影院 Faculty Assembly is pleased to announce the winners for the 2023 Excellence Awards!

鈾xcellence in Leadership & Serivce鈾�

• Cassandra Brooks, Environmental Studies
• Janet Donavan, Political Science

鈾xcellence in Research, Scholarly, and Creative Work鈾�

• Meredith Betterton, Physics
• Benjamin Teitelbaum, Music & International Affairs

鈾xcellence in Teaching鈾�

• Nicole V. Jobin, Stories and Societies RAP and History
• Charles Nuttelman, Chemical and Biological Engineering
• Michele Simpson, Philosophy Arts and Culture RAP

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Please join us in congratulating them and see the BFA Excellence Awards page for further details, and information on the 2023 ceremony which will be on April 19, 2023 from 4:30 to 6pm in the Glenn Miller Ballroom at the UMC. 

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Sponsored by the 麻豆影院 Faculty Assembly and the Office of Academic Affairs, hosted by the Center for Teaching and Learning

Given the explosion of interest in AI both within and outside academia, the 麻豆影院 faculty will be holding a series of colloquia this spring.  Invited faculty will give informal presentations and engage in open discussions of topics related to classroom uses (and abuses) of software such as ChatGPT, but topics are not limited to pedagogy, and we imagine presentations focused on faculty research areas, as well, for example, questions in philosophy, computer science, religious studies, and the arts. 

Fri, Mar 3 from 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. MT 

• Shivakant Mishra, Professor, College of Engineering and Applied Science, Honor Code Advisory Board faculty - The Impact of AI and Cheating
• Nathan Schneider, Assistant Professor, Media Studies - Governable Spaces for Accountable AI
• Clayton Lewis, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science - Analogical reasoning in GPT-3

Tue, Mar 14 from 3:30 p.m-5:00 p.m. MT

• Eliana Colunga, Associate Professor, Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience, Institute of Cognitive Science - Human Language and the Lure of Chatbot Sentience
• Benjamin Slater Hale, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies and Philosophy - "Danger, Will Manfredjinsinjin!": Generative AI and the Perils of the XK-Red-27 Technique
• Sriram Sankaranarayanan, Associate Professor, Computer Science - Developing an Artificial Understanding of the World Around Us

Wed, Apr 5 from 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m. MT

• Peter Foltz, ICS Faculty, Research Professor, Institute of Cognitive Science - Balancing the challenges and opportunities for using Large Language Models for improving Student Learning
• Kai Larsen, Associate Professor, Information Management - The Implications of Generative A.I. (including ChatGPT) for Research into Human Behavior
• Bill Penuel, Professor, Learning Sciences and Human Development - Preparing Future Students for A.I. in Academics
• Julia Staffel, Associate Professor, Philosophy, College of Arts and Science - Teaching with ChatGPT: Against the Nuclear Option

These sessions will be meeting in the Center for Teaching & Learning, room E390. Feel free to attend all or just those that fit your schedule. Alternatively, you may . Please note the Zoom chat will not be monitored.  These events are open to the public and in-person space is limited.  For more information email Kirk Ambrose at kirk.ambrose@colorado.edu. 

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AcademicLiveCare (ALC) - New Employee Benefit

AcademicLiveCare (ALC) provides free telehealth services, including medical and mental health appointments. This service is free to all CU 麻豆影院 faculty, staff and students regardless of your health insurance plan. 

What can I use AcademicLiveCare (ALC) for? 

Medical Concerns

• Coughs/colds
• Sinus/ear infections
• Allergies
• Strep throat
• Urinary tract infections
• Minor urgent care appointments

Mental Health Concerns

• Stress management
• Therapy and counseling
• Grief
• Anxiety or depression
• General wellness
• Psychiatry, medication management
• General wellness

When to use ALC

• Evening, weekend and after-hours appointments
• Those traveling or working out of state
• Those who want one-time or short-term mental health services
• Those who want ongoing, long-term support or weekly counseling sessions

鈥淗ealthier U at CU鈥� Wellness Fair

CU 麻豆影院 faculty and staff are invited to attend the wellness fair on Wednesday, February 22nd to learn more about employee benefits, discounts, and ways to connect with programs and services. CU departments and community vendors will be there to share information about topics such as childcare, housing, savings on utilities, recreational programs and more. There will be hands-on wellness activities and a chance to win prizes!  

No registration required. Visit the Healthier U at CU fair web page for more information. 

When: Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023
Time: 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Location: Kittredge Multipurpose Room 

Skills for mental health support training

Health & Wellness services has created 2 new trainings around mental health for faculty and staff. The first is a 15 minute training designed to give faculty and staff more information about campus resources as well as how to recoginze and respond when someone is in distress. The second training is a more in-depth 2 hour course. Both courses can be accessed through the .

Wellness Wednesdays

Join CU Health & Wellness Services for its newly launched Employee Wellness Wednesday series. Workshops are available for staff and faculty to engage in self-care activities, learn about campus resources, and build community. Themes rotate regularly, allowing participants to come and go as they please. Explore the schedule and register online. 

COVID-19 Resources

• Department order form for free masks
• Distribution sites for free mask and antigen test kits 
• Free vaccine appointments for all CU students, staff & faculty

Please visit the Employee Wellness page for more information on faculty and staff resources and contact publichealth@colorado.edu if you have any questions.
 

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In August 2022, the White House  issued a calling on all federal agencies to make 鈥渁rticles resulting from all U.S. federally funded research freely available and publicly accessible by default in agency-designated repositories without any embargo or delay after publication.鈥� Federal agencies must all have a set policy in place by 2025, however certain funding agencies will need to have new agency plans ready as early as February, 2023. 

CU 麻豆影院 Libraries has created Guidance for Public Access to Federally Funded Research webpage and resources to support faculty and researchers while this process is in flux. Additionally, the 麻豆影院 Faculty Assembly is joining up with Libraries and the Research & Innovation Office (RIO) to offer three Listening & Feedback Sessions so that faculty can find out more about how this may impact research grants in their fields and what support is available on campus. Additionally, these sessions are designed to allow faculty provide feedback on what the Libraries, RIO, and other campus units can do to further support researchers. All sessions will be held via Zoom and are open to all CU 麻豆影院 faculty and researchers. 

OSTP Memo Presentation Slides - February, 2022

BFA Zoom Listening Sessions on the OSTP Memo

• Thursday, February 9 - 4-5pm
• Friday, February 17 - noon - 1pm
• Thursday, March 9 - 4-5pm

Mar. 9 4pm session Zoom link:  

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The Common Curriculum Planning committee submitted their final proposal to Provost Moore on October 7, 2022 for review. Campus faculty in each college and school* as well as BFA Representatives will vote by November 18, 2022 to approve the proposal.

**Update November 7, 2022**

Following the BFA October 20, 2022 presentation by Katherine Eggert, Sr. Vice Provost of Academic Planning and Assessment and Daryl Joji Maeda, Dean and Vice Provost Undergraduate Education, the "whereas" section of the resolution was modified based on member feedback to:

Be it resolved that the 麻豆影院 Faculty Assembly endorses the substance of the proposed common curriculum, particularly its statement regarding the purpose and distinctive nature of a CU 麻豆影院 education. Be it further resolved that implementation of the common curriculum shall be led by faculty at all stages, with the ultimate establishment of a permanent campuswide curriculum committee chaired by faculty and with a majority-faculty composition. The BFA further encourages departments and programs to proactively update their learning outcomes and curricular statements in light of the common curriculum and its guiding ethos of 鈥淪ustainable Futures: Self, Society, World.鈥� 

The final resolution was voted on at the November 3, 2022 BFA Assembly meeting and was approved with 43 votes in favor; 3 abstentions; and 6 opposed. Please see related resources and a links below:

• BFA-R-3-100222 A Resolution Regarding a Campus Common Curriculum
• Common Curriculum Proposal Slides 10.06.22
• Common Curriculum Proposal: Learning Objectives & Outcomes 10.06.22

*CU Law will not be voting since the measure is for schools that teach undergraduate students

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Excellence Awardees from 2020-2022 with Provost Moore and BFA Chair Beechy

The BFA will grant three awards in each of the following areas:

• Excellence in Leadership and Service
• Excellence in Research, Scholarly and Creative Work
• Excellence in Teaching

Nominations

Nominations are open from Tuesday, November 1, 2023, through Tuesday, February 21, 2023. Please see the specific award page for nomination packet requirements and recommendations for letters of support. Nominators/nominating committees are encouraged submit packets several days prior to the deadline for office review.

All members of the 麻豆影院 Faculty Senate are eligible to be nominated however, the selection process gives preference to nominees who have been with the University of Colorado for at least five years. Additionally, nominated faculty must be in good standing with the University to be considered. Although faculty may receive the award for a given category only once, they are eligible to receive awards in either of the other two categories in different years. Nomination packets that are not selected the year of submission, are automatically submitted for one additional year with approval of the nominator/nominating committee.

Excellence Awards Ceremony

Colleagues, family, and friends will honor the recipients at the April 19, 2023, presentation ceremony beginning at 4:30 p.m. in the Glen Miller Ballroom in the UMC. The keynote address given by the 2022 Hazel Barnes Awardee, Mark Ablowitz.

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At the October 6, 2022 BFA General Assembly meeting, members voted to support the . The measure was introduced at the September meeting for review and at last night's meeting members voted 46 in favor, 1 opposed, and 1 abstention to approve BFA support. CUSG will formally introduce the resolution to the Regents this month. 

The meeting began with a conversation with C.U. President Todd Saliman who spoke with members regarding several areas including faculty salary and pay issues and inflation, state funding and outreach issues that impact C.U.'s budget, and the importance of belonging for all campus members. There was also discussion related to the cost of the C.U. football coach contract buyout, athletics revenue impacts from a possible conference change and the large outstanding debt held by C.U. 麻豆影院 athletics. 

There were also presentations by Katherine Eggert, Sr. Vice Provost and A.V.C. of Academic Planning and Assessment along with Daryl Maeda, Dean and Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education regarding the proposed Common Curriculum. The final proposal by the Common Curriculum committee was submitted to Provost Moore on Thursday, and will be on the committee's webpage soon. Along with faculty approval from each college and school (except Law), BFA representatives will also vote on the proposal per Regent Law requirements of faculty approval of curriculum. The BFA will be hosting a special session on Thursday, October 20 from 4-5 pm via Zoom to delve deeper into the proposal and it's impacts for implementation. The session will be open to all campus faculty. More information will be posted on the BFA website and sent to BFA representatives. BFA Chair Tiffany Beechy introduced BFA-R-3-100222 A Resolution Concerning a Campus Common Curriculum. The resolution will be under review for thirty days and is scheduled for a vote at the BFA November 3rd General Assembly meeting. 

Janet Casagrand, Chair of Administrative Services & Technology Committee (ASTC) along with Orrie Gartner, A.V.C and Deputy CIO updated members on several tech issues that impact faculty including: 

• Delays of 1-2 days for test scoring turnaround at the Student Testing Center due to staff shortages. Members were encouraged to leave test materials with managers only. 
• OIT transition from . The ASTC has worked with Orrie to create an .
• - the BFA has held several sessions on this issue last spring. OIT has a to help campus members review their personal data useage and . For those using mjore than 5GB of storage, OIT is asking faculty to delete any unnecessary items in advance of upcoming to OneDrive. The Google imposed deadline is December 31, 2022. 

Rolf Norgaard, Chair of the Instructor Track Faculty Affairs Committee (ITFAC) introduced to pieces of legislation to members. The first motion will formally change the committee name to Teaching Faculty Affairs Committee (TFAC) along with some small updates in membership and language. Additionally, the committee is introducing a resolution to require campus units to pay a salary increment to base upon promotion to teaching faculty. Members are asked to share both items with their constituents and are under review for thirty days. Any feedback, questions, etc. can be emailed to bfa@colorado.edu or rolf.norgaard@colorado.edu. 

• BFA-M-1-092822 ITFAC Committee Name Change
• BFA-R-1-092822 ITFAC Resolution on Promotion Raises

The meeting was extended by ten minutes in order for a final presentation by Lori Call, AVC Government and Community Outreach, and Derek Silva, AVC Business Strategy on the upcoming referendum for CU 麻豆影院 South. The presentation was on the project history only since CU is not allowed to lobby around the measure. Call and Silva encouraged membes to review information provided on the upcoming referendum for full details.

The BFA General Assembly's next meeting is on Thursday, November 3, 2022 from 4-5:30 via Zoom. A meeting summary is sent to members the Tuesday following Assembly, and Meeting Minutes are sent the last Friday of the month. For any questions on BFA business or for BFA Chair Tiffany Beechy, please email: bfa@colorado.edu

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