Academic Resource Management Advisory Committee (ARMAC)

Charge

The Academic Resource Management Advisory Committee (ARMAC) is charged with advising the Provost on physical and financial resource matters vital to the academic mission of the campus. 

The charge for this academic year from Provost Stevens is to provide input into these specific areas:

  1. Budget model re-design
  2. Space optimization
  3. Enrollment management and connection to budget
  4. Reserve policy

Membership includes faculty representatives from each school and college and the University Libraries, as well as the BFA Budget & Planning Committee chair, Staff Council and undergraduate and graduate student representatives. Staff support includes representatives from the Office of the Provost, Academic Resource Management, Budget and Fiscal Planning, the Office of Space Optimization, and the Division of Continuing Education. ARMAC receives its charge from the Provost and is chaired by the Vice Chancellor for Academic Resource Management and the Associate Vice Chancellor for Budget and Finance.

Academic Year 2025-26 Membership of ARMAC

  • Ernesto Acevedo-Munoz, professor, Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts
  • Francisca Antman, professor, Economics
  • Janet Lee Elsie Bercovitz, professor, Leeds School of Business
  • Nathaniel Bindel, director of budget and finance, Continuing Education
  • Danielle Brunner, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs budget and finance, Academic Affairs
  • Mandy Cole, associate vice chancellor for budget and finance & deputy Boulder financial officer, Budget and Fiscal Planning
  • Andrew Cowell, professor, Department of Linguistics, Boulder Faculty Assembly
  • Kevin Griffin, director, Infrastructure and Resilience
  • Todd Haggerty, senior vice chancellor for finance and business, Finance and Business Strategy
  • Peter Hamlington, professor, College of Engineering and Applied Science
  • Funda Kus, director of finance, Graduate and Professional Student Government
  • Grace Maniscalco, manager of provost’s office operations, Academic Affairs
  • Jeffrey C. Nytch, professor of composition and entrepreneurship, College of Music
  • Joseph Polman, professor, School of Education
  • Fernando Rosario-Ortiz, vice chancellor for academic resource management, Academic Affairs
  • Andrew A. Schwartz, professor, University of Colorado Law School
  • Miguel Sisneros, director of finance, CU Student Government
  • Krishnamurthy Sriramesh, professor of public relations, College of Communication, Media, Design, and Information
  • Zachariah Tupper, assistant vice provost for academic resource management, Academic Affairs
  • Megan Varra, senior graduate program specialist, College of Engineering and Applied Science, Staff Council
  • Alexander Watkins, professor, University Libraries