项目任务 & 目标
Established by Chancellor Philip P. 2020年1月, the 科罗拉多大学博尔德历史项目 seeks to communicate to the university community CU Boulder’s rich and complicated history through multiple frames using an intersectional perspectives that demonstrate our commitment to inclusive excellence and to the deepening of our institutional memory.
The goal of project is to provide a complete and accurate telling of CU Boulder’s history, and to draw out new and diverse stories that deepen our understanding of our community’s strengths and flaws. 要做到这一点, we are embarking on a process of change through openness, 透明度, 协作, 和问责制.
As we look to the past and present to find missing voices, the Chancellor has asked Dr. Polly Bugros McLean from the College of Media, 通信与信息, who has extensive knowledge on CU Boulder and Boulder’s history, to serve as the committee Chair for the project. She will be supported by 工作人员 members in my office, 教师, 工作人员, 学生 (graduate and undergrads), 和校友.
团队
The project will also be supported by six working teams who can provide subject matter expertise and institutional perspectives with a convenor who organizes the meetings and maintains a system to share information. Team leaders will also meet monthly with the project chair to guarantee that the research, 工作流, and project deliverables can be produced and delivered in a timely manner.
Additional Check Points and Monitoring
A number of CU Boulder and Boulder/Denver community checkpoints have been established to keep various audiences and interest groups aware of the project. The chair has met will all CUB deans, and with the chairs of Ethnic Studies, 历史, 英语, 新闻, 女性 & Gender Studies, the Boulder 教师 Assembly. The project will also involve the Director of the Blair Caldwell African American 研究 Library and the Carnegie Library for Local 历史. 历史观察家，博士. William Wei and Al Ramirez will be consulted on a regular basis.
资源委员会
The project will also be supported by a resource committee comprised of 教师, 工作人员, 学生, 校友 across generations and city archivists (Boulder and Denver), who can provide subject matter expertise and institutional perspectives. The resource committee will also be serving as a checkpoint to guarantee that the research, 工作流, and project deliverables can be produced and delivered.
Our collective history will be presented in easily accessible and innovative ways to be determined by the committee so that 学生, 教师, 工作人员, 校友, and the broader Boulder/Colorado community have an appreciation and understanding of CU Boulder’s unique, dynamic history and the challenges we face as a community.
项目时间表
After a delay due to the pandemic, project work began in February 2021. The project teams have monthly meetings to keep the teams steering committee will meet monthly and is anticipating continued work through spring of 2024.