Friday Churn: New face at UCD
Don Elliman, a veteran business and state government figure, has been named interim chancellor at CU-Denver.
Category archives for: Higher Ed
It’s “Metropolitan State University”
With a trustee vote out of the way, the next stop for Metro State’s proposed new name is the Colorado legislature.
Thursday Churn: A new name for Metro
Updated – Metropolitan State University of Denver should be the new name of Metro State College, the board of trustees voted this morning.
What if there’s no money?
The prospect of no state funding for higher education hung over a day-long hearing on college and university budgets Monday.
Improvement possible without cost?
The uncomfortable question of whether Colorado can improve its colleges without more money surfaced during a “summit” of higher ed leaders
CCHE approves the unavoidable
The Colorado Commission on Higher Education has sliced up a smaller pie for state colleges and universities.
U.S., Colo. ACT results flat
A quarter of 2011 high school grads who took the ACT met all four college readiness benchmarks while 23 percent of Colorado grads did
Tax question likely headed to ballot
Backers of Initiative 25, Rollie Heath’s plan to boost education funding, turned in 142,000 signatures Monday in hopes of getting on the November ballot
State will use $1 million on remedial ed
Colorado will use a $1 million grant from a national nonprofit to redesign remedial education in hopes of boosting higher ed graduation rates
Bills come due for new tuition policy
A key legislative decision made a year ago will start hitting family checkbooks this summer, when state college tuition bills come due.
