Shared Governance
Running across and throughout the governance structure on campus are a number of entities and procedures that ensure a strong process of shared governance. The Faculty Senate is composed of faculty members elected from each college. They meet monthly to discuss and decide upon a wide variety of academic and related matters. The president and the provost attend senate meetings and work closely with its members to discuss and to decide on a wide range of issues. Various boards and committees advise the senate in its decisions. These include the General Education Board, the Academic Policies and Standards Board, the Faculty Compensation Committee, and the CAPB, among many others.78 In addition to these boards and committees, the different colleges maintain a wide variety of committees staffed by faculty and students from those units. As in most academic institutions, these boards and committees create a rather unwieldy and time-consuming bureaucracy on campus, but they also ensure a healthy process of shared governance. As a public, regional university with strong roots in the democratic process, CSU-Pueblo is proud that for every major internal proposal or decision made on campus, students, staff, and faculty from differing units have the opportunity to hear about it, make suggestions, and express their opinions before final decisions are made.
In sum, the Board of Governors has supported and refined the mission of CSU-Pueblo to better serve its constituencies, has supported the campus in its proposals to pursue its mission, and has respected the healthy sense of shared governance that exists on campus.
78 For a list of boards and committees, see http://www.colostate-pueblo.edu/facultysenate/BoardsAndCommittees/