Response to the March 17th University of Colorado Statement

Call-To-Action

Please share this letter to the University of Colorado regarding their statements which are harmful to the Save NCAR movement.

How to take action:

• Email the Board of Regents: CUBoardofRegents@cu.edu
• Email the Office of the President: OfficeOfThePresident@cu.edu
• Recommended Subject: Urgent: Retraction of Statement on NCAR Preservation
• Suggested Message: "I am writing to support the formal request for the University of Colorado to retract its March 17th statement regarding NCAR. Please review the official response (https://www.savencar.org/cu-statement.html) from the Save NCAR movement detailing how this statement undermines the UCAR lawsuit and jeopardizes efforts to preserve NCAR."

Email this letter by clicking HERE.

For additional information, please read this article published by the Boulder Reporting Lab.

Official Save NCAR Response

RE: University statement on the preservation of NCAR

March 20, 2026

To the University of Colorado Board of Regents and Office of the President:

On the day following UCAR's lawsuit to prevent the dismantling of NCAR, the University of Colorado (CU) published a statement regarding the "preservation" of the center. This statement appears to be a total capitulation to the administration’s intent and directly threatens to undermine UCAR’s legal standing. As a prominent member of the UCAR consortium, CU’s statement risks legitimizing the very actions UCAR is fighting to declare unlawful. It even suggests that this restructuring may be in our nation's best interest.

Furthermore, this statement raises serious questions about whether Representative Neguse's call for an NSF Inspector General investigation should expand to include the University of Colorado and the University of Oklahoma, in addition to the University of Wyoming.

We respectfully request that the University of Colorado retract this statement and refrain from further actions which may jeopardize the UCAR lawsuit or interfere with attempts to protect NCAR from dismantlement by the administration.

Sincerely,

Jeff Boody
hello@SaveNCAR.org