The University of Colorado has a wide variety of centers, institutes, laboratories, and bureaus. These entities may be single or multi-disciplinary in scope and generally combine education, research and service activities, including patient care at the Health Sciences Center. These units represent a valuable resource within the institution that expand opportunities for student learning and for faculty research and service. The purpose of this administrative policy statement is to set forth policies and guidelines for the establishment and approval of these entities, and to provide for the renaming of existing organizations, if appropriate, as determined by campus administrations. Such entities are characterized by organizational permanency, programmatic autonomy, and an annual operating budget that is fiscally independent of other academic units.
Institutes report to the campus chief academic or research officer or their designee.
Centers may also reside within institutes and report to institute directors. In addition, agreements between the University and Industrial Affiliates, Associates, Sponsors or similar entities involving intellectual property rights shall not be included in the definition of formal affiliation agreements. Faculty proposing to create a new institute, center, laboratory, or bureau should first develop a program plan for the proposed organization. The program plan should describe the purpose and proposed administrative and fiscal structure of the organization, and will follow the general format provided in Attachment A . 2. The program plan will be reviewed and approved by the appropriate campus or multi-campus administrative officers prior to submission to the approval authority for review and approval.