Campus construction booming despite budget cuts
Despite dire budget times for higher education in Colorado, building is booming.
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Six small districts win healthy kids grants
The first time staff in the tiny rural Bethune School District in eastern Colorado tried to explain to youngsters that French fries would not count toward the veggie category on the food pyramid they were met with blank stares.
CU a leader in preparing STEM teachers
The University of Colorado is getting attention for itsgroundbreaking efforts to recruit future teachers in math, science, technology and engineering.
CSU online campus growing, but slowly
Colorado State University’s third and exclusively on-line campus is growing, but more slowly than its founders had hoped
CCD adapts to 33% enrollment spike
The 33 percentenrollment spike at Community College of Denver is about more than the woeful economy.
Community colleges struggle with enrollment explosion
The record-breaking enrollment surge at Colorado’s public community colleges and four-year schools could be too much of a good thing, college leaders fear.
Crowding at Metro forces tough conversations
The “trailer park” that has popped up on the Auraria campus to handle overcrowding at Metropolitan State College of Denver is symbolic of some much bigger challenges confronting the urban campus.
Student numbers are growing, budgets are shrinking, and too many students aren’t succeeding the way they should. Because of these issues, administrators, faculty, alumni, students [...]
Benson and Blake on higher ed’s future
Bruce Benson and Joe Blake are pragmatists – and optimists. State college and universities are facing their second major financial crisis in less than a decade. But, during a wide-ranging conversation with Education News Colorado, the two higher ed leaders expressed faith in their institutions’ ability to manage the crisis and hope that the state system will have better prospects in the future.
Endowment plunges causing college cutbacks
Endowed chairs. Scholarships. Research supplies.
These are but a few things paid for through the generous contributions of donors to Colorado’s public and private colleges and universities. But the fruits of these gifts are dictated by economic conditions.
With the economy still wreaking havoc on college endowments, campuses are struggling to come up with money to keep [...]
