The Big Ideas working group invites CU Boulder students, staff and faculty to drop in at the Center for Leadership (C4C, 3rd floor, S360) or via Zoom and talk through their ideas for the future of CU Boulder. Whether a fully formed concept or just a spark of inspiration, office hours are designed to provide low-barrier entry into the process.

The Big Ideas initiative is a campuswide effort to surface and amplify transformational ideas that could shape the university’s impact for decades to come. It asks faculty, staff, students, alumni and partners to imagine what challenges CU Boulder should dare to lead next—at scale, with purpose and in service of the public good.

Idea submissions so far have spanned themes including student success, climate and sustainability, health innovation, civic engagement, AI, space research and campus culture—demonstrating the breadth of imagination across the CU Boulder community.

The ultimate goal is not just to collect ideas—but to cultivate a set of community-generated, mission-aligned initiatives worthy of long-term institutional focus. So drop in, talk with us, and help answer the question: What should CU Boulder dare to build next?