Higher Ed Press Clips December 2008

 

December 1, 2008

Denver Post:

• Colorado dropouts establish problems early on
  
• Where's the tobacco money?
  
• No rush to raise severance taxes – Editorial
  

Daily Camera:

• CU to release economic forecast
  

Tribune:

• Penley's gone but questions persist at CSU
  

Ft. Morgan Times:

• CSU offers online ag degree
  

December 2, 2008

Denver Post:

• A Canon City’s inmates frustration with education – Guest Commentary
  
• Dropout studies food for thought – Editorial
  

Daily Camera:

• CU profs say rules born during controversy need to be scrapped
  

Chieftain:

• PCC to get Daniels funds
  

Gazette:

• Postsecondary and workforce readiness
  

Sentinel:

• Grant focuses on rural health
  

9News:

• Paying for college in tough financial times
  

December 3, 2008

Denver Post:

• Take Politics out of CSU choice – Guest Opinion
  
• Sen. Wayne Allard not for CSU President – Guest Opinion
  
• David Skaggs for CSU President – Guest Opinion
  

Daily Camera:

• CU’s Helm to be remembered Friday
  

Coloradoan:

• CSU reorganization on tap
  

Chieftain:

• CSU student reps want vote on governing board
  

Sentinel:

• Report dims outlook for state funded construction in Colorado
  

Colorado Daily:

• Chancellor’s letter: Serving Colorado and engaged in the world
  

December 4, 2008

Denver Post:

• Metro State continues quest for graduate degrees
  
• Colleges, pensions forced to face ‘dirty little secret’
  
• Surviving the downturn in Colorado – Gov. Ritter
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• Steps taken to replace CSU chief
  
• State education department seeks tax ruling
  

Daily Camera:

• Conference on economy coming to CU
  
• CU student leaders may help fund GLBT center
  

Coloradoan:

• Search to start at retreat
  
• Grad students show off feed and grain site designs
  

Chieftain:

• CSU to discuss students as voting members
  

Sentinel:

• Colorado low income families take a beating on paying for college
  

Fort Collins Now:

• Intelligent by design
  

New York Times:

• College may soon be unaffordable to most Americans

December 5, 2008

Denver Post:

• ARCS scholarship helps CU students shot for the moon
  

Coloradoan:

• FRCC readies new building
  

Chieftain:

• CSU to move slowly hiring new chancellor, president
  

Sentinel:

• College offers new degrees
  

Denver Business Journal:

• Quizno’s donate $5 million to CU law school

December 6-8, 2008

Denver Post:

• CU engineering students float their ideas
  
• CSU hot on trail of safer cookstove
  
• High court OK of mill-levy freeze not its last word
  
• Time of opportunity for Colorado State University – Guest Commentary
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• Colorado to loses thousands of jobs in 2009, CU report says
  
• School tax gets nod for now
  
• Expansion of education plan urged
  
• State’s ethics commission makes hash of Amendment 41 – Editorial
  

Daily Camera:

• CU students to show off inventions
  
• CU student leaders lobby for reading days’ return
  

Sentinel:

• Community college may teach repair for alternative fuel cars
  
• Reappoint Lena to Mesa State board – Editorial
  

Steamboat Pilot & Today:

• Colleges strapped for cash
  

December 9, 2008

Denver Post:

• State’s economic forecast: Gloomy
  
• Time of opportunity for Colorado State University – Guest Commentary
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• How quickly faculty forgot – Editorial
  
• An answer to college costs – Columnist
  

Coloradoan:

• Hiring female president would be first for CSU
  

Chieftain:

• East team wins MESA competition
  

Reporter Herald:

• FRCC prepares to expand

 

December 10, 2008

Daily Camera:

• CU considers welcoming historic building into ‘welcome center’
  
• Fingers pointed in CU spill
  

Coloradoan:

• UNC ready to open Loveland campus
  

Sentinel:

• Higher education projects on hold
  

Denver Business Journal:

• CSU prepares to build research center
  

Craig Daily Press:

• Craig briefs
  

December 11, 2008

Denver Post:

• Higher ed still must be fed – Guest Commentary
  

Daily Camera:

• CU leaders propose building another dorm on will vill site
  
• Group to file lawsuit challenging CU’s gun laws
  
• Student expelled from CU sues university
  

Sentinel:

• VP of student services to retire

December 12, 2008

Denver Post:

• Colorado grads unready in college
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• Nearly a third of all college freshmen need still need remedial help
  

Daily Camera:

• CU gun ban challenged
  

Chieftain:

• 17 non-traditional graduates ready for college
  

Coloradoan:

• CSU budget wishes dashed
  

Denver Business Journal:

• 30% of Colo. college students need remedial courses
  

News Channel 13:

• Half of junior college students had remedial class
  

December 13-15, 2008

Denver Post:

• “Scholastic steroid” popular during exam time
  
• Grandma gives it the ol’ college try
  
• CSU researchers trot out therapy for horses
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• Benson: CU’s tenure program rigorous, thorough – Guest Opinion
  

Daily Camera:

• CU serves up midnight breakfast for finals
  
• Five questions for Matt Tomatz – CU counselor
  

Gazette:

• Students challenge CU gun ban
  

Sentinel:

• 55 percent of new enrollees at MSC required remedial work
  

December 16, 2008

Denver Post:

• Ritter prepares state agencies for cuts
  

Daily Camera:

• From the editorial advisory board: Reading days at CU
  

Coloradoan:

• CSU releases commuting study
  

Chieftain:

• Cripple creek votes on gambling changes
  
• CSU-P names finalist for dean’s post
  

Colorado Daily:

• Buyback time: CU students cashing in on old texts

December 17, 2008

Denver Post:

• CSU board to add post to run 2 campuses
  
• Cripple Creek expands gambling
  
• State still needs to fix fiscal mess – Editorial
  

Daily Camera:

• CU scientist wins top honor
  
• CU students seek off-campus study spots
  
• The gathering storm: College costs and funding must be addressed now – Editorial
  

Inside Higher Ed:

• Performance funding 2.0

December 18, 2008

Denver Post:

• Could higher ed go solo?
  

Daily Camera:

• CU undergrads solving global energy problems
  

Coloradoan:

• CSU continuing ed coming to Loveland
  
• Magazine gives CSU high marks for value

December 19, 2008

Denver Post:

• University leaders balk at idea of going private
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• Colorado college tuition likely to rise next year
  
• DPS backs ‘tuition equity’
  
• Casinos’ revenues falls 15% in November
  
• CSU should hold the line on its bureaucracy – Editorial
  

Daily Camera:

• Governor Ritter backs 9% tuition hike
  
• CU grads plunging into uncertain waters
  
• CU regent explores congressional bid
  

Sentinel:

• The old college try – Editorial

December 20-22, 2008

Denver Post:

• Prune or hack at state’s budget?
  

Daily Camera:

• Higher education’s safe haven
  
• CU graduates 2,189 students
  
• For some students holidays mean toil
  

Coloradoan:

• CSU looks at bugs’ impact
  

Chieftain:

• CSU-P Quality – Editorial
  

Sentinel:

• Mesa state adds course for district 51 high school students
  
• Tightening the state belt – Editorial
  

Tribune:

• Legislature ready for ax job
  

Times-Call:

• Students need remedial classes
  

Northern Colorado Business Report:

• CSU to open Centerra continuing education office
  

December 23, 2008

Denver Post:

• Incoming senator wants overhaul of TABOR as part of plan to boost economy
  
• Budgeting by a thousand cuts – Editorial
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• Rick Miranda named CSU interim provost
  

Sentinel:

• Mesa State picks interim director of development
  

Northern Colorado Business Report:

• Two CSU algae projects receive funding
  

December 24, 2008

Denver Post:

• State providing $30 million loan to CollegeInvest
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• Budget cuts could end funding for higher ed
  
• Cox tycoon donates to DU education college
  

Chieftain:

• CSU online program gains accreditation
  
• PCC administrator gets national honor
  

Coloradoan:

• CSU mum on police chief Yarbrough

December 25-30, 2008

Denver Post:

• Third of grads in state trail in basics
  
• CSU’s Police Chief on indefinite leave amid investigation
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• Penley evaluations under wraps at CSU
  

Daily Camera:

• CU student launches computer Geekz
  

Coloradoan:

• CSU president’s abrupt resignation still a mystery

Gazette:

• Just what UCCS Needed
  

Sentinel:

• King hired to audit security at Mesa State
  

Times Call:

• Too many must take remedial college classes – Editorial
  

December 31, 2008

Denver Post:

• Colorado budget options elusive
  

Coloradoan:

• Faculty seek CSU weapons policy
  

Pueblo Chieftain:

• TSJC president to retire today