The University of Colorado’s Board of Regents will vote Wednesday morning on the terms of President Mark Kennedy’s departure.

Wednesday’s virtual meeting will be the first public appearance by university leadership since announcing Kennedy will be leaving the institution in the near future.

“I appreciate the many smart and dedicated people who work hard every day to help the university meet its mission to serve its student and the state,” Kennedy said in a statement earlier this month. “CU is one of the country’s great public universities and I have every confidence it will continue to build on its strong reputation and upward trajectory.”

The board meeting will begin at 9 a.m. following an hour-long private executive session, according to the board’s agenda.

Details about the potential agreement were not available at time of posting.

Kennedy’s departure was announced 11 days after being censured by the Boulder Faculty Assembly on April 29, for his actions and comments made regarding diversity, equity and inclusion. 

CU elected regent Sue Sharkey, a Republican, previously told The Denver Gazette that the vote was hypocritical and “entirely political.”

“When you look at the faculty council itself of 25 members, three of those are people of color,” Sharkery said. “They make false claims that (Kennedy is) not doing enough on diversity, and I see it as being hypocrisy when I’m looking at the make up of the faculty council itself. 

Kennedy, a Republican, was confirmed in a 5-4 party line vote by the CU Board of Regents in 2019 and spared outcry from many of the university’s community.

Recently, the board flipped from a Republican majority to Democratic control for the first time in nearly 40 years.