Updates and Announcements

  • April 15, 2026
  • Provost Proceedings

Please send any accomplishments, announcements, etc. to provost@regis.edu or directly to Jake Bucher.

  • Commencement News:

    • Ken Salazar has been awarded the Civis Princeps honor and will provide the commencement address at our graduate and doctoral ceremony on May 2. Sr. Sen Nguyen has been selected as our Honorary Doctorate recipient and will share an address at the undergraduate ceremony on May 3. More to come!

    • There will be opportunities to volunteer to support commencement efforts – please find ways to take part in these joyous days. Sign up to volunteer here!

  • Andrea Rexilius (Regis College) will be featured at the renowned Unbound Book Festival in Columbia, MO, Friday, April 17-19, at the Denver Art Museum’s Untitled Artist Takeover on Friday, April 24, and on IKE screens in downtown Denver through June.

  • Mike Ghedotti and Kris Voss (Regis College), along with co-authors (including one Regis student!), had their piece “Evidence of deep-sea trophic resource partitioning between the glowbellies Acropoma hanedai and A. japonicum near Southwestern Taiwan” published in Environmental Biology of Fishes.


  • Trudi Wright's (Regis College) lecture recital “Sounds of America at 250” was accepted by the Society for American Music for their community initiative “Sounding the Nation at 250.” This will be a collaboration with Trudi, Music Program faculty, and students on October 19, 2026, at 7:30 PM in Claver Recital Hall. The students will provide the lecture for the Music Program faculty’s recital.

    • The goal of the Society of American Music’s “Sounding the Nation at 250” Project is to host a concert in every state in the U.S. during 2026, and thanks to Trudi and all involved, Regis is THE representative concert of Colorado.

  • Regis University's DPT program earned a US News Report national ranking of #34, a remarkable achievement that reflects the dedication of our outstanding faculty, the excellence of our students, and the strength of our clinical training partnerships. This recognition places Regis among the elite DPT programs in the country and affirms the high caliber of physical therapy education we provide.

  • To stay informed on University Senate, please check this link for updated minutes.

  • Please access updates from Teaching and Learning Excellence, including their event calendar for upcoming VoiceThread and SmartEvals training opportunities. As a reminder, we will keep this site active with new and helpful information.

  • The 2026 OC Summer Schedule is now available in Ranger Portal. Contact Samantha Brown at sbrown004@regis.edu for more information.

  • We have some important accomplishments to recognize for our faculty. If you’re available April 16 from 3:30-5 p.m., please consider dropping by the Provost Suite for a celebratory gathering.

    • The following faculty received tenure this year: Tony Bui, Jeff Ogle, Ksenia Polson, and Isabel Rechberg.

    • The following faculty received promotion: Melissa Bosworth, Tony Bui, Kate Burns, Rebecca Downey, Christopher Garcia, Alyse Knorr, Ed Lindoo, Andrew Littman, Cameron MacDonald, Lynetta Mier, Jeff Ogle, Ksenia Polson, Ethan Sanders, Krista Scorsone, Kris Voss, Angela Whitacre, and Lisa Zenoni.

    • The following faculty were awarded Professor Emerit status: Ron DiSanto, Mike Fisher, Jude Fokwang, Damla Isik, Nan Mulligan, Daryl Palmer, Shari Plantz-Masters, Karen Smith, Nan Williams, and Kelli Woodrow.

    • Finally, the following faculty received sabbaticals to occur in the upcoming year: Stacy Carmel, Lora Claywell, Abigail Gosselin, Kristen Jagger, Nick Kallan, Wladimir Marquez, Amanda Miller, Sarah Puett, Amy Schrier, Jeff Ogle, Janet Rumfelt, and April Samaras.

  • A reminder that the Provost has open office hours each Monday, 9-10 a.m., and Thursday, 2-3 p.m. at the main campus, and Thursdays, 5-6 p.m. at the Thornton campus. If those times are not convenient, please reach out to set up a time to connect.

  • The HLC Quality Initiative Task Force has completed their work and made their recommendations for goals for our Quality Initiative project. Planning will continue over the summer, and the full scope of the project will be shared in August.

  • Additional HLC work is underway for our 2028 reaffirmation. The steering committee has begun meeting, criteria groups will soon be formed, and an AI Agent is being developed to alleviate workload on those criteria groups and others who will help with the self-study. Early in the fall we will launch a site on WorldClass for the community to stay up to date on reaffirmation efforts.

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