Higher Ed Press Clips January 2010

January 1-4, 2010

Denver Post:

• CSU hub bridges research and marketing
  
• Taking time on higher-ed plan is just good sense – Letter to the editor
  

Daily Camera:

• CU Boulder to offer new sustainability certificate program
  
• Science, international affairs majors become more popular at CU-Boulder
  
• Admissions exemptions favor college athletes over other students
  
• Woelk: No easy Buff answer for admissions at CU
  

Chieftain:

• Opportunity knock; dropouts don’t answer
  

Gazette:

• Noreen: CU-CSU rivalry becomes local
  

Statesman:

• Free tuition could fuel dreams for students
  

Durango Herald:

• Ft. Lewis College presence at Hesperus may be pricey
  

Ft. Morgan Times:

• MCC scholarships go to 17 from area
  

January 5, 2010

Denver Post:

• Ex-UNC prof Fulkerson pleads guilty to sexual exploitation
  

Daily Camera:

• CU-Boulder students cheer troops in Iraq over holidays
  
• Higher education should not be the gatekeeper – Guest Opinion
  

Chieftain:

• State to participate in dropout study
  

Coloradoan:

• CSU gets grant to study feedlot emissions
  

Denver Business Journal:

• Three Colorado colleges named among nation’s best values
  

Boulder County Business Report:

• Bennet to speak at education forum

January 6, 2010

Daily Camera:

• CU expects to save up to $4M a year after benefits of audit
  
• CU’s $63.5M Visual Arts Complex opens on Boulder campus
  
• Damage from fire minimal at CU-Boulder biology building
  

Denver Business Journal:

• Architect named for Anschutz Inpatient Pavilion
  

Inside Higher Ed:

• Waiting for cash in Illinois
  

January 7, 2010

Daily Camera:

• CU-Boulder’s vow to Obama: More science, math teachers
  

KDVR:

• College scholarships available for air guitarists, redheads
  

Inside Higher Ed:

• Nursing tug of war
  
• New realities
  

January 8, 2010

Denver Post:

• Tax limits cost Colorado schools $3 billion, JBC told
  
• Ritter roundtable works on job creation
  
• Ritter’s chance to go for broke – Editorial
  

Daily Camera:

• Application makes aid accessible for the college-bound
  
• CU-B suspends Colorado Light Opera
  

Colorado Daily:

• Boulder students can now rent books at CU book store
  

Longmont Times-Call:

• Scholarship, bonds up for grabs in essay contest

January 9-11, 2010

Daily Camera:

• CU-Boulder students ready, or not, for classes to resume
  
• City, CU to form single coalition to fight high-risk alcohol abuse
  

Chieftain:

• CSU-Pueblo: Ed program’s low rating a myth
  

CBS News 4:

• Medical Academy closes after state pulls license
  

Denver Daily:

• School shut down
  

January 12, 2010

Denver Post:

• Tense legislative session ahead with revenues “hitting bottom”
  
• Colorado Christian ends Highlands Ranch quest
  
• Where to cut state budget – Opinion
  

Daily Camera:

• Sen. Michael Bennet calls on Colo. to commit to education during Boulder visit
  
• CU Boulder lands 7 research projects on Discovery magazine’s Top 100 list
  
• CU Boulder licenses peptide, leaf sensor technologies to Colo. companies
  

 Sentinel:

• Lawmakers must make higher ed a budget priority, encourage competition – Guest Opinion
  

Colorado Higher Ed News:

• Department of Higher Education appoints new CFO
  

CBS News 4:

• Medical academy students learn what closure means
  

January 13, 2010

Denver Post:

• CU Boulder ranked as one of the best values in the country
  
• DPS $374,290 grant boost prep program
  
• CSU presents lecture series at stock show
  
• Legislators will have hands full – Editorial
  

KUNC:

• Colorado business leaders fight tax rollback
  

Vail Daily:

• School district aims to improve math, science teaching
  

January 14, 2010

Denver Post:

• Senate fast-tracks “Race to the Top” education bill
  

January 15-18, 2010

Denver Post:

• Colo. proposal would back away from Indian treaty requiring free tuition
  
• Rules may tighten in regulating for-profit colleges
  
• As for-profit colleges flourish, focus turns to grads’ success and debt
  

Daily Camera:

• Four CU-Boulder researchers chosen for national early career grants
  
• Amgen donates $1 million to CU-Boulder’s biotechnology building
  

Denver Business Journal:

• Early-career CU, CSU scientists get stimulus research grants
  

Durango Herald:

• State eyes cuts to FLC Indians
  

Aurora Sentinel:

• Students left in lurch after local med school flatlines
  

Chronicle of Higher Education:

• Stimulus money staved off deep cuts in state appropriations
  

Steamboat Pilot:

• Renewable energy education comes to Northwest Colorado
  

Northern Colorado Business Report:

• Colorado researchers share $85 million from DOE
  
• CSU, Solix collaborating on DOE research
  

January 19, 2010

Denver Post:

• Colorado scrambles for dollars with new school reform plan
  

Chieftain:

• CSU-P votes a split on weapons
  

Northern Colorado Business Report:

• CSU, UNC share Daniels grant for business ethics initiative
  

Canon City Daily Record:

• A jump start
  

Highlands Ranch Herald:

• Search committee introduces finalists for ACC presidency
  

January 20, 2010

Denver Post:

• Lawmaker says Ft. Lewis cuts won’t affect American Indians’ free tuition
  
• Colorado Race to the Top application pushes “collaboration without rancor”
  
• False start on Race to the Top – Editorial
  

Daily Camera:

• Public university execs seeing smaller pay increases
  
• Howard Dean, Karl Rove booked for a debate at CU –Boulder
  

Coloradoan:

• Ethics education grants come at the right time – Editorial
  

Denver Business Journal:

• CSU switching on solar-power system
  

January 21, 2010

Denver Post:

• Plan for gun ban at CSU unveiled
  

Daily Camera:

• CU-Boulder’s  UCSCU looks to boost election turnout
  
• CU-Boulder’s budget for JILA expansion needs to grow to $37M
  

Coloradoan:

• CSU proposes weapons ban at Ft. Collins
  
• CSU cited for violating research protocol
  
• CSU Ventures to aid researchers in discovery of new medicine
  

Chieftain:

• Academics to lobby lawmakers
  

January 22, 2010

Daily Camera:

• CU looks at ways to search for new presidents, involving all nine regents
  

Chieftain:

• Pueblo native to be PCC graduation speaker
  
• On the map – Editorial
  

Durango Herald:

• Rep. ‘sorry’ about bill
  

January 23-25, 2010

Denver Post:

• CSU dedicates solar plant
  
• Lawmaker pulls bill on Native American Tuition
  
• Tighten rules on for-profit schools – Editorial
  

Daily Camera:

• New credit card laws more stringent for those under 21
  

Chieftain:

• Deed discovery muddies nursing home sale
  

Durango Herald:

• FLC fight bruises feelings at Capitol
  
• Scrapping of FLC Indian bill a regional victory – Guest Opinion
  

In Denver Times:

• Flap dooms Ft. Lewis tuition bill
  

Steamboat Pilot:

• Hire Colorado program aims to help with jobs
  

Gazette:

• Gun ban may make students unsafe – Editorial
  

January 26, 2010

Denver Post:

• Colleges play into demand for video-game developers
  
• CU researchers find mice noses can detect disease-causing bacteria
  
• Colorado public schools enrollment up nearly 2%
  
• A better way to grade teachers – Editorial
  

Chieftain:

• Universities favor similar weapon rules
  
• Enrollment up at Adams State
  
• AG should review – Editorial
  

Coloradoan:

• Coalition threatening to sue CSU because of weapons ban proposal
  

January 27, 2010

Denver Post:

• Industries, lobbyists sour on proposals to curb Colo. tax breaks
  
• Gun-rights group to protest CSU’s proposed gun ban
  
• When stimulus dollars for education run out – Guest Opinion
  

In Denver Times:

• Ritter names higher ed study panel
  

Daily Camera:

• CU Boulder engineering school honored for international programs
  

Coloradoan:

• Higher education committee has tough road ahead
  

KDVR:

• CU gets rid of ‘critical thinking’ requirement to save money

January 28, 2010

Denver Post:

• 9% tuition hike likely at CSU
  
• Booster fundraising plan to get look
  

Daily Camera:

• CU students hunt for jobs
  
• CU-Boulder recreation center planning $30 M renovation
  
• CU satellite headed for space
  

Coloradoan:

• Tuition for residents at CSU to jump by 9 percent
  

GJ Sentinel:

• Williams gives Mesa State scholarships
  

Education News Colorado:

• Budget angst fills Capitol
  

Denver Daily News:

• Guv presents budget plan
  

January 29, 2010

Denver Post:

• CU dropping “Denver” from name of Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora
  
• Private donors fund “green” face-lift for CSU historic building
  
• Colo. Legislature plunges into bruising budget fight
  

Aurora Sentinel:

• Higher ed cuts could be the most damaging of all – Editorial
  

KUNC:

• State legislature to consider community college transfer process