Higher Ed Press Clips April 2008

April 1, 2008

Daily Camera:

• CU Explores Building Hotel and Convention Center
  
• Paper: Harvard Needs Hank Brown
  

Summit Daily

• Lawmakers Fight Over $1.5 Million

April 2, 2008

Denver Post:

• Nobel Laureate to Resume CU Research Role
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• Nobel Winner Returning to CU
  

Daily Camera:

• Nobel Prize Winner Thomas Cech Back at CU
  

Chieftain:

• CSU-P Kane Scholars Selected
  
• Ritter Forms Jobs Panel
  

Sentinel:

• Mesa State to Observe Disability Awareness Day
  

Aspen Times:

• ColoradoLawmakers Try to Address Shortage of Oil and Gas Workers
  

April 3-4, 2008

Denver Post:

• CU’s Benson Will Fight Medicaid Cut
  
• Two Year Schools to See Metro Professors
  
• Senate Passes $17.6B Budget
  
• Budget Needs a Solid Reserve – Editorial
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• Tapping Oil and Gas Windfall
  
• CU Title IX Adviser: Women Angry About Campus Climate
  
• Philosophical Split Obvious in Budget Split
  
• High School Grade Rate Improves
  
• A Better Ballot Measure – Editorial
  

Daily Camera:

• Adviser Counsels CU on Gender
  

Coloradoan:

• CSU Applauds Higher-ed Investment, Savings Plan
  
• Lawmakers Propose Tuition Fee
  
• CSU Students Struggling to Understand Tuition Increase Plan
  

Chieftain:

• Lawmakers Want Rainy Day Fund
  
• Eight Graders Urged to Prepare for College
  
• Dems to Unveil Plan to Use Oil, Gas Royalties for Rainy Day
  
• Early College – Editorial
  

Gazette:

• Bill Ties Oil and Gas Drilling to Higher Ed Funding
  
• CU’s Creed-Based Litmus Test – Editorial
  

Sentinel:

• Meis, Rowland Opponents Question Sincerity in Push for State Impact Aid
  
• Buescher Bill Would Divert Revenue from Minerals to Higher Education
  

Colorado Daily:

• A New Day at the University
  

Summit Daily:

• Divided Senate Backs $17.6B Budget
  

April 5-7, 2008

Denver Post:

• Panel Set for Amend. 41 Issues
  
• CSU Boosts Bamboo Fabric
  
• It’s No Wonder a Nobel Scientist is Returning to CU – Guest Columnist
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• Ethics Panel Awaits Questions
  

Daily Camera:

• Weissman Offers P-20 Plan
  
• CU to Test Text Messaging Alerts
  
• Speaker Brings Mideast to Light
  
• CU Uses Chalk Art to Raise Suicide Awareness
  
• CU Puts Brakes on Bikes
  

Coloradoan:

• CSU Vet Hospital to Hold Open House
  
• Tuition Hike Proposal Not Properly Vetted – Editorial
  

Chieftain:

• Lawmakers ‘Surprised’ at Rainy Day Tag
  
• CSAP Tests? – Guest Columnist
  

Sentinel:

• Buescher, Governor Workout Issues that’s Costing Taxpayers
  

Tribune:

• A Year After Virginia Tech, Campuses Ramp Up Security
  

April 8, 2008

Denver Post:

• CSU’s Push for Financing
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• Severance Tax Hike Talks Facing Tough Resistance
  
• CSU to use Clams to Track Bird Flu
  

Coloradoan:

• New Degree Builds Management Skills for Changing World
  
• Student Government Elections Underway at CSU
  

Chieftain:

• Education Panel Seeks Input on Grad Guidelines
  

Sentinel:

• Buescher: Teacher Bill too Expensive

April 9, 2008

Denver Post:

• CU Study: Regional Nuclear War Means Global Ozone Devastation
  
• Ritter Signs Cheaper Textbook Bill
  
• For Ritter, All Labor and Few Results – Editorial
  

Daily Camera:

• CU Students to Advocate for Guns on Campus
  
• Ritter Signs Text Book Bill
  

Coloradoan:

• CSU Students Turn Attention to Textbook Cost Awareness
  

Sentinel:

• College Can Spend Funds on Housing

April 10, 2008

Denver Post:

• School Gets A+ in Kids Going to College
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• Purple Heart Tuition Bill Dies
  
• Century-Old ‘M’ Going Green
  

Coloradoan:

• CSU Gets Lovin’ From Governor, FRCC Misses Gravy Train
  

Sentinel:

• Mesa State Project Eyed for Funds Under Mineral Lease Revenue Plan
  

GJ Free Press:

• Science Center Could Get Improvements
  

April 11, 2008

Denver Post:

• Staying Loyal to Ref C Promises – Editorial
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• 79 Seniors, 79 Bound for College this Fall
  

Daily Camera:

• Lawmakers want Students to Vote on Higher Ed Fees
  
• Boulder City Manger Accepts Job at CU
  
• CU Students to Compete in Hacking Contest
  

Coloradoan:

• FRCC Shut out of State Funding
  

Chieftain:

• Governor to Visit Upper Ark Valley
  

Sentinel:

• Mesa State Project Needs Higher Ranking – Editorial
  

GJ Free Press:

• Some District 51 Members Wary of CSAP Bill

April 12-14, 2008

Denver Post:

• Some Rethink Budget Rules
  
• Joking Students Called on the Carpet
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• Dental Students Find School Isn’t Accredited
  

Daily Camera:

• Saving Dying Languages
  
• CU Plans $59.5 Geosciences Building
  

Coloradoan:

• CSU Workers Eye Benefits
  
• CSUnity Students Help Out Neighbors
  

Chieftain:

• Ritter Sees Education as Prison Alternative
  

Gazette:

• Group Wants to Carry Guns at UCCS
  
• UCCS Students Want their Guns – Editorial
  

Sentinel:

• A Private College Experience at Public College Prices
  

Tribune:

• Butler-Hancock Renovation on Priority List
  

 April 15, 2008

Denver Post:

• New Center Will Fight Depression
  
• 37 DU Students Get Mysterious Illness
  

Daily Camera:

• Acceptance Date Looms for Colleges
  
• Colleges ‘Coming Out’ for Gays
  
• William Rense, CU Physicist and LASP Founder, Dies at 94

 April 16, 2008

Denver Post:

• State Fiscal Plan Simple but Bold – Editorial
  

Coloradoan:

• Faculty Proposes Spinning off Collegian, Other CSU Media
  
• CSU Fostering Biotech Ideas
  
• CSU Team Develops Urban Radar
  

Chieftain:

• CSU-P Surveying Students
  

April 17, 2008

Coloradoan:

• CSU boosts measures to help students in crisis
  

Tribune:

• Local educators weigh in on governor's education plan
  

April 18, 2008

Denver Post:

• Tabor Again in Cross Hairs
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• Bill Seeks More Scrutiny of Private Universities
  
• ACT at Heart of Ed Reform
  

Daily Camera:

• Scrambled Science: No Yolk, Eggcentric Contest at CU
  

Coloradoan:

• Non-Tenure Instructors Express Sympathy Over Textbook Costs
  

Chieftain:

• Plan to Alter Tabor
  
• CSU-P Professor Named Dean
  

Colorado Daily:

• CU’s Newly Elected UCSU Triumvirate Discusses Goals
  

Gazette:

• Bill May End CSAP in High School
  

Channel 7 News:

• Students Debate Guns on Campus
  

 April 19-21, 2008

Denver Post:

• Fixing the State’s Colleges
  
• Strike Now On State Fiscal Fix – Editorial
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• Lawmakers Brace for Fiscal Fight
  
• Budget Brainstorm – Editorial
  

Daily Camera:

• Benson Proposes 9.3% Tuition Hike for CU-Boulder
  
• CU Names Five Chancellor Candidates
  

Coloradoan:

• CSU Boosts Measures to Help Students in Crisis
  

Chieftain:

• Brake to Run for State Education Post
  
• Marrin Named President of Lamar CC
  

GJ Free Press:

• MSC Students Vote on Tuition Premium this Week
  

 April 22, 2008

Rocky Mountain News:

• Roan in the Deep Freeze – Editorial
  

Daily Camera:

• ‘Terrorists’ to Lecture CU: ‘Why We Want to Kill You’
  
• Law School and MBA Tuition to Increase
  

Coloradoan:

• Change in CSU’s Hiring Method Could Lower Cost of Textbooks
  

Chieftain:

• LCC’s New Skipper – Editorial
  

Sentinel:

• Vote Delayed on Study of Education Merger
  

Colorado Daily:

• First Five Chancellor Candidates Visit CU
  

April 23, 2008

Denver Post:

• CollegeInvest Loses Hard Drive with Student Info
  
• Personal Info Lost by State Division
  
• TABOR Deal Starts to Unravel
  
• Legislators Push Regents to Rename Anschutz Site
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• Regents OK Tuition Hike of 9.3% for CU-Boulder
  

Daily Camera:

• Chinese Art Comes to CU Through Exchange Program
  

Coloradoan:

• Penley Seeks 9.5% Tuition Increase
  

Chieftain:

• Ritter Letter to Outline Education Needs
  

Colorado Daily:

• CU Regents OK Tuition Hike
  

Denver Business Journal:

• Key Education Bills Advance in Legislature
  
• CU Hikes Tuition 9.3 Percent
  

News Channel 13:

• UCCS to Increase Tuition by 7.5%
  

April 24, 2008

Denver Post:

• Oil-Tax Backers Turn to Public
  
• To Save Fiscal Fix, Dems Must Bend – Editorial
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• A Bitter Pill – Editorial
  

Coloradoan:

• CSU Athletic Facility Plans Unveiled
  

Chieftain:

• Romanoff Airs TABOR Ending Bill
  

Fort Collins Now:

• Slaying the Constitution’s Fiscal Dragons
  

Colorado Daily:

• CCHE’s Future a Toss-up?
  

News Channel 13:

• Tuition Increases Despite Ref. C Money
  

April 25, 2008

Denver Post:

• Ritter Pushes Scholar Fund
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• Ritter Gets Behind Severance Tax Initiative
  

Coloradoan:

• Take Back the Night Gives Healing a Bit of Air
  

Sentinel:

• Student Body Approves Higher Fees at Mesa State
  

April 26-28, 2008

Denver Post:

• Regents Won’t Rename Aurora UCD Campus
  
• Revenue, Resources and the Roan Plateau – Guest Commentary
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• Colorado Colleges in a Hole
  
• Ed Reform Seesaws Between ACT, New Standard
  
• The Governor’s Amendment Surprise – Editorial
  

Daily Camera:

• CU Helps Meet Demand for Math and Science Teachers
  
• CU’s Chef Supreme
  
• CU’s Old Dorms Get New Look
  

Chieftain:

• Education Reform Backers Concerned Over Bill’s Direction
  

Tribune:

• Plus Minus Grading System Spurs Critics at UNC

April 29, 2008

Denver Post:

• Higher Casino Bet Limit Posed
  
• Cadaver Shortage Hits Medical Schools
  
• Staking a Claim on State’s Future – Editorial
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• Rock Climber Scaling Academic Peaks
  

Daily Camera:

• Exam Sharing Site Gets Attention from CU Students, Officials
  

Chieftain:

• Local Doctor to Run PCC Clinic
  

Sentinel:

• Mesa State Project Moves up Priority List
  

Aurora Sentinel:

• UCD Board Won’t Budge
  

April 30, 2008

Denver Post:

• Higher Ed Disappointment
  
• Amending Constitution Shouldn’t be so Simple – Editorial
  

 Daily Camera:

• Advancing CU’s Accessibility
  
• Benson Lays Out CU Campaign Rules
  
• Ex-Terrorists at CU: ‘Wake Up and Smell the Hummus’
  

Chieftain:

• House Takes Up Plan to Reform Education
  
• Ritter to Address TSJC Graduates
  

Sentinel:

• Past is Prologue at Mesa Campus, but with a Twist
  
• Colorado College Aims to Double West Slope Students