Faculty Council Task Forces
A Faculty Council Task Force is a temporary organization/unit (or special committee) formed expressly for the purpose of studying a particular problem. Task Forces typically are convened for a semester or two but can be longer in duration. Refer to Section D of the Faculty Council Procedures Handbook (PDF) for additional information.
Current Task Forces
Task Force on Adjusting the Academic Calendar to Foster Student and Faculty Success
Charge: Consider potential modifications to the CSU – Fort Collins academic calendar with the goal of fostering student and faculty success.
Co-Chairs: Steve Dandeneau, Associate Provost and Executive Director of UERU | Joseph DiVerdi, Vice Chair of Faculty Council
Membership: Chigozie Ozor, ASCSU Director of Academic Relations | Steve Benoit, College of Natural Sciences & Faculty Council Executive Committee Representative | D. Tobiassen Baitinger, University Registrar | Roze Hentschell, Chief Academic Officer for the CSU System | Laura Jensen, Vice Provost for Planning and Effectiveness | Michelle Stanley, Interim Vice Provost for Undergraduate Affairs | Kauline Cipriani, Vice President for Inclusive Excellence | Ann Van Arsdale, CSU Summer | Alysha Tarantino, CSU Online | Sara Ann Tompkins, Associate Dean for the Graduate School | Jonathan Zhang, College of Business | Alan Bright, Warner College of Natural Resources | Jordan Jarrett, Walter Scott Jr. College of Engineering | Kellie Enns, College of Agricultural Sciences | Kimberly Miloch, Provost Chief of Staff (ex officio) | Helen Carpioglio, Associate Provost, CSU-Pueblo
Task Force on Extension Faculty
This task force will consider establishing a new Faculty Council Standing Committee on Extension Faculty. Such a standing committee could provide a means by which Faculty Council can explore ways in which Extension faculty can be represented on Faculty Council.
Co-Chairs: Sonali Diddi, College of Health and Human Sciences | Barbie Garnett, Extension Director
Membership: Jennifer Martin, College of Agricultural Sciences & Committee on Responsibilities and Standing of Academic Faculty Representative | Lindsey Shirley, AVP for Engagement and Extension | Steve Reising, Chair of the Committee on Faculty Governance | Rachelle Ramer, Libraries | Erik Johnson, College of Liberal Arts | Caroline Havrilla, Warner College of Natural Resources | Libby Christensen, Extension Faculty Executive Committee | Alysha Tarantino, CSU Online | Katie Knoblach, College of Liberal Arts
Past Task Forces
All reports are in PDF format.
AY 2024-2025
Fall 2024 – Recommend activities that Faculty Council should undertake to support Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice (DEIJ) on campus, and assess the need for a Faculty Council Standing Committee on Principles of Community/DEIJ.
Co-chairs: Lumina Albert, College of Business | Jimena Bretón, Libraries
Membership: Susana Munoz, College of Health and Human Sciences | Antonio Pedros-Gascon, College of Liberal Arts | Andrew Norton, College of Agricultural Sciences | Tian Wang, College of Business | Pinar Omur-Ozbek, College of Engineering | Kauline Cipriani, Vice President for Inclusive Excellence | Susan James, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
Spring 2025 – Determine whether a standing committee on departmental code review and approval is warranted, and if so, present a model (or models) of how such a standing committee would operate and work with the Provost’s Office to review and approve departmental code. This task force will also develop a set of guidelines and required components for clear and concise departmental codes that are consistent across units, as well as develop the procedures for code review.
Co-Chairs: Ryan Brooks, Chair of the Faculty Council Committee on Non-Tenure Track Faculty | Susan James, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
Membership: Steve Reising, Chair of the Faculty Council Committee on Faculty Governance | Ryan Claycomb, Associate Dean College of Liberal Arts | Richard Eykholt, University Grievance Officer | Antonio Pedros-Gascon, College of Liberal Arts | Aaron Eakman, College of Health and Human Sciences | Charlotte Bright, College of Health and Human Sciences | Joseph DiVerdi, Vice Chair of Faculty Council | Dennis Harry, Warner College of Natural Resources | Collin Clay, Executive Associate Dean College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences | Gregg Griffenhagen, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences | Lisa Kutcher, College of Business | Cassandra Puletapuai, Graduate Student Council
Final Report — Task Force on Department Code Review and Approval
Spring 2025 – Consider how the framework produced by the Advising Student Success Working Group should and would be implemented. Additional considerations by the task force include defining faculty’s role in general in undergraduate mentoring/advising and its implications for faculty evaluations and tenure and promotion and more broadly considering faculty’s role in mentoring beyond undergraduates and establishing a common framework for expectations for faculty mentoring.
Co-Chairs: Lisa Dysleski, Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Success and Advising | Graham Peers, College of Natural Sciences
Membership: Zaid Abdo, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences | Shawn Bingham, Director of University Honors Program | Louise Allen, Institute of Learning and Teaching | Will Bromley, College of Natural Sciences | Addy Elliot, College of Agricultural Sciences | Steven Fassnacht, Warner College of Natural Resources | Brett Fling, College of Health and Human Sciences | Tara Opsal, College of Liberal Arts | Vigor Lam, Graduate Student Council | Adam Schuller, Postdoctoral Fellow | Peter Jan van Leeuwen, Walter Scott Jr. College of Engineering | Anastasia Williams, Institute of Learning and Teaching
Spring 2025 – Examine potential structural models for creating interdisciplinary majors that are not housed in a single college and assess the pros and cons of these models.
Co-chairs: Sarah Badding, Nancy Richardson Design Center | Shawn Bingham, CSU Honors Program
Membership: Tim Amidon, Department of English | Jackie Bastardi, Doctoral Student, School of Education | Andrea Duffy, Assistant Vice Provost | Scott Shrake, Assistant Vice President for Strategy
Final Report — Task Force on Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Degrees
Spring 2025 – Revise the Institutional Learning Objectives (ILOs) and innovate the AUCC to align with the ILOs.
Co-Chairs: Lisa Dysleski, Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Success and Advising | Shawn Bingham, Director of University Honors Program
Membership: Steve Dandaneau, Associate Vice Provost | Michelle Stanley, interim Vice Provost for Undergraduate Affairs | Kauline Cipriani, Vice President for Inclusive Excellence | Courtney Schultz, Director of School of Global and Environmental Sustainability | Brad Goetz, Chair of the University Curriculum Committee | Stuart Tobet, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences | Dan Beachy-Quick, College of Liberal Arts | Dan Baker, Walter Scott Jr. College of Engineering | Michael Palmquist, Associate Provost for Instructional Innovation | Stephanie Foster, Director of Assessment | Kristina Quynn, Graduate School | Carolyn Larence-Dill, Dean of College of Agricultural Sciences | Marc Nishimura, College of Natural Sciences | Martin Carcasson, College of Liberal Arts | Tian Wang, College of Business | Andrew Norton, College of Agricultural Sciences | Chigozie Ozor, ASCSU Director of Academic Affairs
Final Report — Task Force on Institutional Learning Objectives (ILOs) and Revising the AUCC
Spring 2025 – The primary goal of the task force will be to examine the processes for approval of programs and curriculum at CSU and provide suggestions for ways in which they can be improved, specifically being shortened without compromising their academic rigor, while maintaining appropriate stakeholders.
Co-Chairs: Gamze Cavdar, Chair of the Faculty Council Committee on Strategic and Financial Planning | Christopher Gentile, College of Health and Human Sciences | Michelle Stanley, Interim Vice Provost for Undergraduate Affairs
Membership: Bard Goetz, Chair of the Faculty Council University Curriculum Committee | Rob Schonlau, Chair of the Faculty Council Committee on Scholarship, Research and Graduate Education | Sam Bechara, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs in the Walter Scott Jr. College of Engineering | Tanya Dewey, Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor, Department of Biology | Seth Davis, Warner College of Natural Resources | Joshua Schaeffer, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences | Julia Murphy, Associate Registrar | Sandra Dailey, Operations Manager in Graduate School | Kimberly Miloch, Chief of Staff for Office of the Provost (ex officio)
Final Report — Task Force on Revising the Program and Curriculum Approval Processes at CSU
Spring 2025 – Shepherd the implementation of meaningful, standalone undergraduate certificates for non-degree seeking students at CSU.
Co-chairs: Andrea Duffy, Assistant Vice Provost | Jennifer Martin, College of Agricultural Sciences
Membership: Matt Camper, College of Agricultural Sciences | Gamze Cavdar, Chair of the Faculty Council Committee on Strategic and Financial Planning | Brad Goetz, Chair of the University Curriculum Committee | Joseph DiVerdi, Vice Chair of Faculty Council | Stephanie Foster, Director of Assessment | Jordan Fritts, Senior Director of Admissions | Laura Jensen, Vice Provost for Planning and Effectiveness | Timalyn O’Neill, Director of Customer Service and Processing | Steve Reising, Chair of the Faculty Council Committee on Faculty Governance | Elizabeth Reynolds, Office of Financial Aid | Katie Risheill, Associate Registrar | Bill Sanford, Chair of the Faculty Council Committee on Scholarship, Research and Graduate Education | Michelle Stanley, interim Vice Provost for Undergraduate Affairs | Alysha Tarantino, Director of CSU Online | Jozsef Vigh, Graduate School
Final Report — Task Force on Standalone Undergraduate Certificates
AY 2022-23
Fall 2022 – This task force studied CSU’s budget and budgetary processes and devised recommendations for enhancing transparency and accountability of budgets at all levels of CSU’s administration.
Task force members: Fabiola Ehlers-Zavala, Anders Fremstad, Blake Naughton, Robert Schwebach, Anthony Maciejewski, and Kendall Stephenson.
Fall 2022 – This task force assessed the causes behind the 2018-approved adjunct-continuing-contract system producing less of a shift of faculty from adjunct and continuing positions to contract appointments than was expected.
Task force members: Christine Pawliuk, Tracy Brady, Thomas Conway, and Jared Orsi.
Fall 2022 – This task force determined current challenges and envisioned possible futures for CSU to identify opportunities for centrally involving faculty within all levels of University work.
Task force members: Rob Mitchell, Joseph DiVerdi, Jennifer Martin, James Graham, and Timothy Amidon.
Fall 2022 – Manual changes that were passed by Faculty Council in spring 2021 failed to pass the review of the Office of General Counsel that summer and hence did not become Academic Faculty and Administrative Professional Manual language and policy. This task force worked to understand the concerns that led to the rejection of the language and identified strategies for obtaining an improved outcome.
Task force members: Carole Makela, Jennifer Martin, Andrew Norton, and Mary Van Buren.
AY 2021-22
Spring 2022 – This task force deliberated curricular requirements, faculty development, assessment, implementation, and more aspects of the curricular transition from All-University Core Curriculum 3E: Diversity and Global Awareness (Foundations and Perspectives) to 1C: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (Fundamental Competencies).
Task force members: Becki Atadero, Ashby Butnor, Michelle Foster, Brad Goetz, Steve Benoit, and Mary Vogl.
AY 2020-21
Fall 2020 – In light of challenges associated with the increasing use of educational technology, this task force examined communication and engagement models to strengthen future partnership between the IT infrastructure and faculty, discussing challenges and opportunities for improving the IT system as it relates to the teaching, research, service, and administrative missions that faculty perform.
Task force members: Timothy R. Amidon, Brooke Anderson, Nancy Henke, Eric Tisdale, and Karan Venayagamoorthy.
Fall 2020 – This task force identified and provided recommendations regarding intellectual property concerns around faculty teaching materials.
Task force members: Tim Gallagher, Paul Doherty, and Stephanie Clemons.
Spring 2021 – This task force continued work from the Fall 2020 IP Task Force and focused on changes to Section J of the Academic Faculty and Administrative Professional Manual, online teaching contracts, copyright and intellectual property educational needs, and tracking progress on the fall task force’s recommendations.
Task force members: Jason Bernagozzi, Lisa Daunhauer, Paul Doherty, Aaron Eakman, Stephanie Malin, William Sanford, and Khaleedah Thomas.
Fall 2020 – This task force devised recommendations to change the Academic Faculty and Administrative Professional Manual to better acknowledge the importance of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in faculty work and support this through tenure and promotion processes.
Task force members: Susan James, Ruth Hufbauer, and Sue Doe.
Fall 2020 – Reflecting nationwide concern about the decline of shared governance practices during the pandemic, this task force developed a proposal to incorporate specific new language about shared governance into the Academic Faculty and Administrative Professional Manual.
Task force members: Lisa Langstraat, Sue Doe, and Carole Makela.