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Interested in providing guidance on AI policies and adoption as well as oversight for other IT procurement decisions.

As an educator who actively integrates emerging technologies into design education, I am interested in helping shape thoughtful, accessible, and equitable approaches to academic technology across campus. I would bring experience with digital design tools, AI, immersive technologies, and technology-enhanced pedagogy while advocating for faculty and student needs.

I have agreed to serve as chair of the committee. However, since I've only been a resource member for many years, I don't have an actual seat on the committee and need to be elected to a seat in order to chair the committee. I have served on many OIT/ASSETT advisory committees over the last 19 years at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØproviding input on various academic technologies.

The evolving campus relationship with technology - be that artificial intelligence, digital platform providers and services, digital infrastructures, or teaching technologies and platforms like Canvas and classroom capture - has become an increasingly central concern of faculty-led campus governance. I believe faculty need to play a stronger role and have a louder voice in shaping the nature of this the rapidly changing relationship between academic research or instruction and technology.

Faculty need to have meaningful power over which technologies are introduced into our classrooms and how. I want to contribute to ongoing efforts across campus to slow this top-down flood of "AI," which is costing all of us time, eroding our autonomy as educators, and hurting our students.

I look forward to applying a shared governance, labor rights, and academic freedom lens to campus operations, including the digital realm. My work at the system level (EPUS and AI) and with AAUP (chapter and national) inform my perspective and strategy, as operational matters that CORC must address are rarely unique to Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØor the Boulder campus.

I belong to a very diverse department (Spanish and Portuguese), and the courses I teach reflect on DEI issues. Besides, lately the conversation around DEI has shifted both in the US and around the world. I would like to participate on the conversation and protect DEI policies on campus.

I remain invested in continued leadership of the FAC to undertake their charge. "The Faculty Affairs Committee (FAC) shall address matters of faculty responsibilities and rights in teaching, research, and service. In particular, it shall periodically review existing (or proposed) policies and practices that impact faculty research, teaching, and service and will provide perspectives to the Assembly."

Having spent the last decade as a faculty member and department chair at a small private university, I want to bring what's worked well there to Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder while learning from the practices already in place here — serving on the Faculty Affairs Committee would let me help shape faculty evaluation, compensation, and rights policies with that comparative perspective, even as I'm still new to the university. As someone building my career here, I'm also motivated to understand these processes firsthand and ensure they work well for faculty across different colleges, including units like CMDI.

I've served on the GAC for the last three years, including as Chair last year. I've got experience with the issues and have been working on some ideas for reforming the PRR.

I’m interested in serving on the Teaching Faculty Affairs Committee because I care deeply about supporting teaching faculty and ensuring that their perspectives are represented in university policy and governance. I would bring an interdisciplinary perspective from the Center for Asian Studies and a collaborative approach to faculty service.

I hope to contribute a broad perspective on the issues facing teaching faculty, having progressed over the course of my career from adjunct instructor to full-time rostered teaching/clinical faculty member to my current administrative role as the director of clinical education in audiology within the SLHS department. I am grateful to be considered and would welcome the opportunity to serve the wider campus community on the Teaching Faculty Affairs Committee.

As a faculty member in the program with the highest concentration of Teaching Faculty on campus, I bring a broad understanding of issues that affect this constituency. I would be eager to serve on the Teaching Faculty Affairs committee to more equitably represent the unique needs and interests of this group, and to help shape policies that will benefit the endeavor of teaching & learning for both professors and students.

Glenda has done a superb job of leading the Teaching Faculty Committee the last couple of years, with one year remaining on her term as chair. Please re-elect her to this committee so that she can continue its important work, with an eye towards transitioning leadership in the near future.

At this moment we face a range of attacks on higher education and democratic systems, and a rapidly changing socio-political context. Strong, assertive faculty governance that can adapt to the times is crucial; it is in the interests of the university and of students to ensure faculty have a strong voice in campus decision-making. I have served as a BFA representative for the School of Education and a member of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee for eight years. For the past year I’ve worked with colleagues in the School of Education to establish our own faculty governance council. I’ve come to deeply appreciate the importance of shared governance systems in the university. While we watch some universities shrink or outlaw faculty governance and threaten academic freedom, at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØI believe it’s time to expand our voice.

Last year, with several colleagues from across the university, I worked to revive our campus chapter of the American Association of University Professors in order to best leverage the tools and resources of that well-established national advocacy organization to ensure our faculty and university continue to move forward in this time of retrenchment. I’ve collaborated with colleagues to advance several resolutions this year activating faculty governance to protect the integrity of the institution, and I support collective bargaining for university workers to further strengthen shared governance. I am not afraid to take strong stands when necessary; at the same time I believe it’s crucial to understand as many facets of an issue as possible in the process of decision-making. My goal as incoming BFA chair will be to work hard on behalf of faculty from all disciplines to ensure our university hears our perspectives and leverages our expertise. CU’s faculty is a tremendous asset; we must make sure our leadership remembers this.

The Chair-Elect will assume the duties and responsibilities of the Chair in the case of absence or incapacity. In addition, the duties of the Chair-Elect include but are not limited to the following:

· to work closely with the current Chair to understand the responsibilities and operations of the Chair position, ensuring a smooth and peaceful transition of leadership;

· to support the Chair in executing their duties, including attending meetings, helping coordinate initiatives, and representing the BFA in the Chair’s absence;

· to chair the annual Boulder Faculty Senate meeting;

· to join the Chair for meetings with the Chancellor at least twice before transfer of leadership;

· to join the Chair for meetings with the Provost from the start of the spring semester through June 30th;

· to chair or co-chair committees, task forces, or special projects as assigned by the Chair or the BFA;

· to serve on the BFA Bylaws Committee;

· to serve as a Boulder campus representative to the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØSystem Faculty Council;

· to engage in professional development activities to enhance leadership skills and knowledge relevant to the role and responsibilities of the Chair;

· to develop and implement succession planning strategies to ensure the long-term leadership and sustainability of the BFA; and

· at the end of the Chair-Elect’s term, to automatically assume the position of Chair for the subsequent term, subject to the approval of the BFA if required by circumstances specified in the BFA Standing Rules

The duties of the BFA Chair include but are not limited to the following:

· to act as chief administrative officer and head of the Boulder Faculty Assembly;

· to exercise supervision over the organization and its activities;

· to represent and speak for the organization;

· to meet with the Chancellor on a regular basis, at least three times per semester and twice in the summer;

· to meet with the Provost and Academic Affairs Administration at least once per month;

· to preside at meetings of the Executive Committee;

· to refer matters to standing and ad-hoc committees for consideration;

· to sign letters or documents necessary to carry out the will of the Assembly;

· in collaboration with the Immediate Past Chair, to coordinate a new committee chairs’ orientation event at the beginning of the academic year

Immediate Past Chair will assume the duties and responsibilities of the Chair in the case of absence or

incapacity of both Chair and Chair-Elect. The Immediate Past Chair’s responsibilities include but are not

limited to the following:

• to serve as a voting Member of ExCom for a period of one year;

• to serve on the Bylaws Committee;

• to be available for consultation with Chair, Chair-Elect, and BFA Coordinator; and

• in collaboration with the Chair, to coordinate a new committee chairs’ orientation event at the

beginning of the academic year

Through my work in the graduate school I have gotten more involved in understanding how systems and structures support or hinder student and faculty success. I've been working with six departments on systemic change efforts to improve graduate mentoring experiences. This systemic change outlook has made me more interested in the work of BFA. I have an interest in helping to promote structures that support faculty.

I am currently serving as a member of the BFA Budget and Planning Committee, and have served as a BFA representative in the past. I have experience as a department chair, and I am interested in upholding shared governance. I have particular interests regarding budget and campus operations vis-a-vis climate impacts.

I have served as a BFA department or at-large rep since 2016. I have enjoyed serving on committees ranging from Intercollegiate Athletics to Bylaws to my current time as chair on the Teaching Faculty Affairs Committee. Issues impacting teaching faculty and undergraduate education are of particular interest to me especially as these support the larger University mission.

As a newly promoted computational social scientist who studies how communities govern themselves online, I am interested in participating in shared governance with the Boulder Faculty Assembly as an At-Large Representative. My cross-disciplinary work spans Information Science, Computer Science, and the social sciences positions me to represent faculty perspectives from across the college and university, and my experience on advisory boards — including as Vice Chair of the City of Boulder's Cannabis Licensing and Advisory Board — has prepared me well for the deliberative work of faculty governance. I am particularly interested in issues at the intersection of data governance, AI policy, and academic freedom, as well as ensuring long-term sustainability of the university's mission.

I'm running for BFA to defend academic freedom and shared governance, especially by applying critical lenses to the digital realm, which has been a fulcrum for creeping surveillance and denial of agency at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØand across the country. I am co-president of AAUP Boulder, a proud member of UCW Colorado, and co-chaired the BFA Working Group on IT Security Standards (which identified serious academic freedom and surveillance issues, and made recommendations that were endorsed near-unanimously by BFA), and it has been an honor to co-author multiple resolutions passed by BFA and Faculty Council in recent months. I believe BFA has a duty to assert its responsibilities and authorities under shared governance, and that upholding the university mission requires pluralism and fierce solidarity across the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØcommunity and beyond.

I am fortunate to have been associated with the BFA long enough to have served on six BFA standing committees and several ad-hoc committees. Over those years I've learned a few lessons from my surrounding BFA members and leaders, and our University administrators. There is always so much work to be done by the BFA. I'm proud and appreciative of the past and current accomplishments of the BFA, and I have confidence that our successes will continue. We now have a stronger, more functional, and more representative Assembly. I sincerely want to continue to be part of the BFA's ongoing endeavor, offering any services or experience that I can provide. I am particularly interested in the changing roles of our Teaching Track faculty, as well as how Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØresponds to, and incorporates, the evolving technology available to the educational community.

I’m interested in serving in this capacity. I have served the BFA before as my department’s representative. I am self-nominating for at-large representative out of my deep concern for the state of higher education in numerous areas, including threats to academic freedom, and the importance of faculty governance to meet the demands of this moment.