Updates and Announcements

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

• In the spirit of this month’s newsletter, a reminder that the New Federal Administration group continues to meet weekly. This group, led by Janelle Ramsel and consisting of staff and faculty across campus, meets to process issues facing our state and nation, and strategizes responses.

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

• Please access updates from Teaching and Learning Excellence. As a reminder, we will keep this site active with new and helpful information.

• 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.

• For continued updates about implications of federal decisions on financial aid, please consult "Big Beautiful Bill" and Financial Aid Updates | Regis University.

• The Provost Advisory Council held our first meeting of 2026 with a focus on budget planning. The group discussed the institutional timeline for setting the budget, as well as suggested considerations and guiding principles regarding structural operations. Some ideas from the group include, among others, eligible and willing staff teaching as part of their role, enforcing budget managers to not overspend, narrow academic portfolio (“stop trying to be all things to all people, find a niche”), and protect students from discourse about budget.

• Please let students know about that Romero House Applications are due Feb. 27 to Isabell Pramuk (ipramuk@regis.edu). Romero House is a student residential program that was established in 1992 as an opportunity for undergraduates to experience an intentional community in service of others, with a commitment to social justice, exploring faith and spirituality, and living a simple lifestyle. Romero House students strive to live out Saint Oscar Romero’s call to immerse themselves in the world. The Romero House position at Regis University is a unique service learning opportunity sponsored by the Center for Service Learning. The Romero House residents’ primary responsibility is to cultivate an intentional community with fellow residents while doing service at a local non-profit and exploring issues of faith and justice through communal spirituality times, a bi-weekly class about spirituality and engagement in the world, and personal and group reflection.

• Anderson College has received $1M+ in congressional appropriations to enhance our cybersecurity programming. Huge thanks to the faculty and leadership in Anderson, members of Physical Plant and ITS, and Kelly Purdy (VP of Advancement) for helping secure this impactful funding.

• Becky Vartabedian (Regis College) had her paper "Excrescence, Errancy, and Dis-Ease in Alain Badiou's Being and Event Trilogy" published in Crisis and Critique 12:2 (2025): 408-423.

• Check out the Three Santeros exhibition at Dayton Memorial Library running now until February 27. The exhibition, coordinated by Tony Ortega (Regis College) and others, brings together Carlos Santistevan, Frank Zamora, and Sean Trujillo – three artists working within and expanding the santero tradition. Rooted in devotional imagery and Southwest cultural history, their work reflects distinct generational and material approaches, revealing santo-making as a living and evolving practice. An artist reception will be held on Thursday, Feb. 19, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public.

• Chris Pramuk (University Mission) has recently published two essays: "A Reason That Remembers and Mourns" and "We Need a New Language, a New Imagination, a New Story ... and It Won't Come from AI".