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In the next five years, we will:

• Be a leading institution for interdisciplinary computing research.
• Be a top choice in Colorado for tech partnerships and entrepreneurship activities, especially in areas that positively impact health, safety, and quality of life.
• Be internationally recognized as a department that expands the definition of computing, informs national policy, improves climate resilience and societal sustainability, and produces world-class graduates.

To enable this vision, we will:

• Identify and launch three new Centers of Excellence in Computing that build on our research strengths.
• Identify, design, and implement multiple research support programs in the department, such as support for pre-proposal planning; mid- and post-grant reporting; pre-tenure teaching release; and post-tenure research expedition support.
• Raise and invest $5M over five years in new research computing infrastructure (e.g., GPUs), special opportunity projects, and multiple endowed professorships.
• Develop internship and hiring relationships with all major tech companies in the Rocky Mountain region.
• Double the number of CU PhD graduates who are placed into tenure-track faculty jobs worldwide, within the next 5 years.

In the next five years, we will:

• Be a leader in developing a modern computing curriculum that equips our graduates with the ethical and technical skills they need to navigate complex computing challenges.
• Be nationally recognized for being a teaching community that embraces integrating inclusive pedagogy throughout our curriculum and supports student success for all student populations.
• Be a top choice for graduate students seeking a career in academia, government, or industry.

To enable this vision, we will:

• Implement a multi-year Curriculum 2030 effort that reviews the status of all of our existing residential degree programs and creates an integrated curriculum that prepares our graduates to succeed in the modern computing environment in both industry and academia.
• Achieve adoption of inclusive pedagogical techniques throughout 75% of our curriculum and measure the impacts this change has on student success, especially for systemically marginalized student populations.
• Invest $1M over five years in new resources across faculty, staff, and space to support our goals in developing a modern curriculum, adopting inclusive pedagogy, and supporting diverse pathways into computing.
• Identify and implement strategies to reduce the sizes of all large computer science classes by 33% to 50%—or to provide small class experiences to students in large CS classes—to provide students with better student/course support staff ratios for better teaching, in particular through more time for personalized attention and quality feedback.
• Implement a multi-year Curriculum 2030 effort that reviews the status of all of our existing residential degree programs and creates an integrated curriculum that prepares our graduates to succeed in the modern computing environment in both industry and academia.

In the next five years, we will:

• Be nationally recognized as a supportive computing community that values inclusion and mutual respect via its actions and the ability of all members to contribute and pursue their academic and professional goals.
• Be a deliberative organization that prioritizes a sense of belonging among all faculty, staff, and students, and values transparency, financial and resource equity, and a shared sense of responsibility for the department’s research and teaching missions.
• Become a department that innovates in recruiting and retaining students, staff, and faculty from systemically marginalized groups to create a diverse computing community.

To enable this vision, we will:

• Increase representation of students from systemically marginalized groups in research every year, with a special focus on undergraduate scholars and domestic PhD students.
• Develop new formal and informal departmental communication practices to promote engagement and a shared sense of belonging among faculty, staff, and students.
• Improve outreach to all Colorado communities such that we reach parity of geographic representation of the state within our undergraduate student body, including through our partnership program at Western Colorado University. 
• Support diverse pathways into and through our academic programs, with equitable and inclusive admissions, recruitment, and retention practices.
• Cultivate engaged student communities that support the individual and collective success for all students in coursework, research, and computing-related extramural activities (including internships, personal projects, and research experiences). We will do this by collaborating with active student computing organizations to promote participation and visibility of CU Â鶹ӰԺ computer science students at the state and national levels.