Faculty members at the University of Colorado on Thursday called on university officials to exert more control over the Boulder campus's embattled athletics program.

In a meeting of the Boulder Faculty Assembly, professors voted unanimously for a host of proposals that would require athletes to meet the same admissions standards as other students and involve more faculty members in recruiting. The group also called for the establishment of an Athletics Governing Board, made up of faculty members, athletics-department officials, other administrators, and students, that would conduct hiring searches for major employees of the athletics department, including head coaches and the athletics director.

"The faculty has made a very strong stand about the importance of academics on the Boulder campus," said Barbara A. Bintliff, a law professor and chairwoman of the assembly. "We are willing to step up and take a leadership role in oversight of the athletic program."

Ms. Bintliff said faculty leaders on Monday would deliver a report containing the proposals to Elizabeth Hoffman, president of the University of Colorado System, and Richard L. Byyny, chancellor of the Boulder campus, both of whom already have draft copies. The university's commencement ceremony is scheduled for today.

"I appreciate everything the Boulder Faculty Assembly has done to help the university work through this very difficult and complicated issue," Ms. Hoffman said in a written statement. "They have demonstrated commendable guidance and leadership in helping the chancellor and I realize our vision to become a national example of how to create a culture of personal respect and responsibility in our football programs."

Ms. Hoffman said that she would "weigh" the faculty's recommendations "along with other forthcoming information."

The reform proposals come almost four months after allegations first surfaced that the university's football program had used sex and alcohol to recruit athletes. Eight women have spoken with police or gone public with complaints that they were raped by Colorado football players or recruits over the past four years. Three of the women have sued the university.

Gary Barnett, the head football coach, has been placed on administrative leave after making disparaging comments about a former kicker, Katie Hnida, who came forward to say that she had been raped by a Colorado player in 1999.

The report on the faculty assembly's proposals cites the university's failure to live up to its endorsement six years ago of the principles of the first Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, one of the most high-profile groups advocating reform in college sports. Those principles included "improved progress toward degree and higher graduation rates of students on athletic scholarships; greater fiscal control of athletic departments; and a general increase in institutional authority and accountability over athletic programs."

The assembly called for the faculty and administration to create an "athletics 'Sarbanes-Oxley Corporate Responsibility' document that outlines authority, responsibility, and accountability for all levels of athletics department employees." The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is a federal law on financial reporting that was approved two years ago in the wake of corporate accounting scandals.