Good news for the CU Boulder Department of Computer Sciences, they have hired 15 new faculty–
https://www.colorado.edu/cs/2017/10/03/meet-our-15-new-faculty-members
I wonder whether they are part of ARts and Sciences or Engineering, as CU Boulder has two different CS majors – a BA (A and S) and a BS (Engineering)
There is one CS department that offers a BA and a BS.
Here is the link for CU Boulder’s CS department. I think it is part of he college of engineering
but it does not really matter since a student can major in CS from either Arts and Sciences or Engineering.
Its one very flexible point about CU Boulder, anyone can major in CS. (for now, until it gets overrun
with students like every other college out there )
Sooner or later CU will cap the computer science major but for now, they are letting it run hog wild with kids.
The rank may go up some with some of these faculty. I would not say they are world class, some are from
Homeland Security, so a government manager with a PhD who used to work for Colorado State ,and now a professor, at CU, trying to form a computer security group
which will take time.
CU has also robbed Colorado School of Mines , applied math professor too, if you look up each of the 15 faculty they hired. One of the women is still at MIT in Aerospace Engineering but will be in Boulder next year. It will
take time to see if these 15 choose to stay at CU Boulder as well. Any of them can leave maybe.
One of the other female faculty is from U of Illinois, so she may have not gotten tenure or she just moved
before she got tenure, but UIUC has a much better rank compared to CU Boulder in CS, they are top 5,
CU is top 30-40.
The rank in CS will eventually go up, but it will take some time to hire in top faculty. It is a start.