administration Bruce Benson Phil DiStefano President Chancellor 2017 University of Colorado Board of Regents Back row: Jack Kroll, John Carson, Stephen Ludwig, Heidi Ganahl, Kyle Hybl. Front Row: Sue Sharkey, Irene Griego (chair), Glen Gallegos (vice chair), Linda Shoemaker. Russell L. Moore David Clough Rick George Provost Faculty Rep Athletic Director Ceal Barry Matt Biggers Lance Carl Jason DePaepe Kurt Gulbrand Cory Hilliard Kris Livingston Emily Canova Senior Associate Associate AD/CMO Associate AD/Business Associate AD/Facilities Associate AD/ Associate AD/CFO Associate AD/ Assistant AD/ AD/SWA Development & Game Day Operations Development Student Services Special Projects t J.T. Galloway Jill Keegan Prema Khanna Ted Ledbetter Lindsay Lew Scott McMichael Steve Pizzi Alexis Williams Assistant AD/ Assistant AD/ Assistant AD/ Assistant AD/ Assistant AD/ Assistant AD/ Assistant AD, CEC and Assistant AD/ Trademark & Licensing Compliance Marketing Development Digital Marketing Development Game Day Operations Ticket Operations Alexis Williams Assistant AD/ Ticket Operations Laura Anderson Chris Bader Josi Carlson Jo Marchi Dr. Eric McCarty Roger Pielke, Jr. Rachel Ripken Erin Sanders Sports Dietitian Counseling & Sports Director of Special Associate Director Director of Sports Director/Sports Community Outreach Executive Director of Psychologist Events of Compliance Medicine Governance Center Coordinator the Alumni C Club Alexis Williams Assistant AD/ Ticket Operations Ron Scott Deric Swanson Neill Woelk Gabbie Pelloni Steve Englehart Tim Horton Kari Kebach Katharine Lindauer Director of Director of BuffVision CUBuffs.com Director of Golf Strength & Equipment Trainer Academic Counselor Development Contributing Editor Operations Conditioning 2 University of Colorado Founded in 1876 at the foot of the Flatirons, 140 years has transformed the University of Colorado from a lone building on a bleak, windswept hill to one of the nation's leading public research institutions. Established in 1861, the University was formally founded in 1876, the year Colorado became a state. The Boulder campus encompasses almost 800 acres on the main campus, east campus (which includes a research park), Williams Village and the Mountain Research Station north of nearby Nederland (which supports ecology, chemistry and geology). In 1996 the Board of Regents purchased 308 acres of land in unincorporated Boulder County, now informally known as the south campus, in an effort to insure the growth of the University well into this century. While almost 31,000 students are educated on the main campus, another 13,000 study at the University of Colorado at Denver, the University of Colorado Anschutz Campus (Aurora) and the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Nine elected Regents most recent recipient in 1992. Faculty member Thomas Cech, a and President Bruce Benson lead the four-campus system, while distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, won the each campus has a Chancellor who serves as the chief academic and 1989 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Other notable alumni include former administrative officer. Dr. Phil DiStefano is in his eighth year as the United States Supreme Court Justice Byron “Whizzer” White, former chancellor of the Boulder campus. big band leader Glenn Miller and actors Robert Redford and Christopher Meloni, the latter starring for years on Law & Order: Students can enter any of 10 schools and colleges offering more Special Victims Unit, and the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and than 2,500 courses in 150 fields, representing a full range of Matt Stone. disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, physical and biological sciences, the fine and performing arts, and the professions. CU- If the aphorism, “Somewhere between the Rockies and reality,” Boulder is regularly ranked among the best of the United States’ seems too good to believe, then come for a visit. Start with a walk public universities by the Fiske Guide to Colleges, and a 2010 USA on the historic Pearl Street Mall, a downtown pedestrian mall that Today/Princeton Review survey rated the University of Colorado as is the ceremonial heart of the city actually that works despite the the fifth-best value among American public colleges. CU was efforts of its street theatre. recently ranked as the No. 33 university in the world by the Times Higher Education. Visitors may be so taken in by the scenery, the mall, Tudors and Victorians they may forget the University that put it all together. CU-Boulder has played a major role in NASA space programs, From Pearl, Broadway leads directly onto campus where the designing and building many scientific instruments flown in outer University of Colorado Museum and the CU Heritage Center, in the space, and graduated 18 men and women who became astronauts, original Old Main building, which introduces the University’s past including the late Jack Swigert, one of the three astronauts in the and present. The recently completed ATLAS building is one of the crippled Apollo 13 mission who made it dock to Earth safely from most state-of-the-art structures on any college campus. the moon. When the Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990, it was carrying seven major instruments, including a high-resolution Take in the fresh mountain air on any part of 100 miles of trails spectrograph to study the evolution of stars and designed and built and 30,000 acres of open space. Climb the Flatirons or in Eldorado by an international science team led by astronomer Jack Brandt of Canyon State Park. Swim or board sail at the Boulder Reservoir while CU-Boulder. Since Hubble has been up, CU-Boulder faculty and elite runners sprint around it. Take in a pro sporting event down the students have been among the top users of Hubble of any institution road in Denver, just one of 13 cities with teams in all four pro in the world. CU- Boulder is the only university in the country where leagues. undergraduate students have operated a NASA satellite. Rest assured, like the prophesy of an Arapaho Indian Chief, “If The University has produced 19 Rhodes Scholars, five of which you leave Boulder, you will return.” were former football student-athletes at CU, with Jim Hansen the 3 Athletic Director Rick George Rick George was introduced as just the Mike Bohn (2005-13). Two others sixth full-time athletic director in have bridged directors in interim University of Colorado history on July 17, capacities, Jack Lengyel (six 2013, returning to Boulder where he months between Tharp and helped play a role in the school’s first and Bohn) and Ceal Barry (two only national championship in football months between Bohn and some 23 years earlier. George). George, 56, came to Colorado from the George was with the Rangers Texas Rangers baseball club of the for less than three years, but saw American League, where he was named the team win two American chief operating officer on October 5, 2010 League championships and with a promotion to president of business compile a 243-176 record (.580 operations in February 2013. He agreed to a 5-year contract at CU, and winning percentage) during his he officially started on the job on August 12, 2013. In June 2016, the time there, second-best in the Board of Regents approved a contract extension that carries him major leagues during that time through 2020-21 academic and athletic year. frame. As the COO, he worked His list of achievements in his first 1,000 days in the position were closely with team president and many, but none more significant than shepherding through a $156 CEO, baseball Hall-of-Famer million Athletic Complex Expansion from creation through fruition, Nolan Ryan, and was responsible for all facets of the Rangers’ business gaining approval from the Board of Regents and then raising nearly operations, including oversight of all sales and marketing efforts, one-half of the estimated cost to initiate construction, which began broadcast and communications, ticket and suite sales, naming rights, May 12, 2014. The project is the core of the Sustainable Excellence etc., in addition to overseeing the finance, human resource and Initiative (SEI), the jewel of which was a long-awaited indoor practice operations departments. facility. Once green-lighted, he spearheaded the most successful Among his many accomplishments with the Rangers was a fundraising campaign in athletic department history, raising to date comprehensive branding study that successfully rebranded the ball nearly $101 million for the project. club, and an implementation of a new ticketing strategy that over the George implemented the department’s first-ever comprehensive course of three seasons increased ticket revenues by over $30 million. strategic plan, which has mapped CU’s immediate and long range The club’s attendance saw an increase of 40 percent from the 2010 purpose and goals. He also redesigned the management teams, made season to nearly 3.5 million in 2012, second in the American League tough budget decisions that reduced deficits he inherited (and has (behind the New York Yankees) and third in the majors. The 2013 since produced two budget surpluses), and canvassed the state, region numbers were on pace to exceed the 3 million mark again when he left and nation in both friend- and fundraising. the franchise for CU. Early in his fourth year in the position, all of CU’s athletic programs Prior to joining the Rangers, George served as executive vice that compete in the fall at were at one time or another ranked among president and chief of operations for the PGA TOUR for two-and-a-half the nation’s Top 25, a first for the school. Included in that group was years (beginning in June 2008). While with the TOUR, he worked with the football team, as the Buffaloes returned to the national rankings the corporate marketing department in renewing sponsorships and for the first time in 11 seasons, in part due to George’s support of Mike creating new events.