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, Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØStudent 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