Higher Ed Press Clips May 2010

May 1- May 3, 2010

Denver Post:

• Colorado legislature still has heavy lifting to do
  
• Education confab to touch on some timely topics
  
• Jill Biden tours Arapahoe, Red Rocks colleges
  

Daily Camera:

• CU-B grades: Some say Leeds GPA
  
• DOE grants $9.1M to CU and Boulder based biofuel company
  
• Evans: Guns at CU probably won’t enable heroes or villains
  

Coloradoan:

• CSU sees growth opportunity with Chinese
  

Denver Business Journal:

• CSU dedicates business-college expansion; Colin Powell to speak
  

May 4, 2010

Daily Camera:

• CU Boulder professors penning ‘open’ textbook
  

Coloradoan:

• CSU professor works to turn beetle-killed wood into biofuel
  
• $7.8M grant to aid CSU team in gene work
  

Chieftain:

• More flexibility – Editorial
  

Journal Advocate:

• CSU President Dr. Tony Frank: CSU doing well
  

Craig Daily Press:

• ‘A long time coming’ CNCC breaks ground on new facilities
  

Longmont Times Call:

• Polis hosts college fair tonight
  

In Denver Times:

• CSAP bill gets out (Student loan bill mentioned at the end)

May 5, 2010

Denver Post:

• Tuition changes advances in Senate
  
• Colorado’s third-graders hover at 70 percent mark in reading proficiency
  

Daily Camera:

• CU-Boulder to confer 5.825 degrees at Friday’s graduation
  

Coloradoan:

• CSU  names president of CSU-Global
  

Chieftain:

• Tuition flexibility bill gets preliminary nod

May 6-7, 2010

Denver Post:

• Panel OKs teacher reform bill
  
• Gun-rights group to drop lawsuit against CSU
  
• CSU rescinds campus gun ban
  

In Denver Times:

• Tuition bill zips out of House Education Committee
  

Daily Camera:

• Boulder area businesses hope for CU graduation boon
  

Tribune:

• UNC likely will re-evaluate its campus gun ban

May 8-10, 2010

Denver Post:

• Tuition flexibility is a limited solution – Editorial
  
• Mother and daughter to graduate from Metro together
  

Daily Camera:

• Thousands gather  at CU for graduation
  

Coloradoan:

• Outlook for college graduates ‘bit better’ than last year
  
• Pursuing weapons ban would have been costly to CSU
  
• CSU expands green theme with largest solar farm of any U.S. university
  

Rocky Mountain Collegian:

• CSU to welcome new diversity leader
  

May 11, 2010

Denver Post:

• House approves bill allowing tuition hikes
  
• Colorado House ready to vote on controversial teacher reform bill
  
• Two proposals to expand gambling in Colorado killed
  

In Denver Times:

• Tenure bill teed up; CSAP bill redone
  

Durango Herald:

• Tuition increase bill passes House
  

May 12, 2010

Denver Post:

• Brain bank at CU aims to help find cause, cure of MS
  
• Tenure bill nears passage
  
• Hits and misses under the dome – Editorial
  

Daily Camera:

• Tuition flexibility legislation touted by CU now in Gov. Bill Ritter’s hands
  
• Three CU-built instruments will fly on space shuttle’s last mission
  

Coloradoan:

• CSU opens $53M research incubator
  

May 13, 2010

Denver Post:

• Colo. legislative session ends in a scramble shadowed by future education woes
  
• CollegeInvest, FirstBank offer a bonus for 529 plans
  
• Black professor at CU dental school alleges longtime racial bias
  
• Tough decisions made at Capitol –Editorial
  

In Denver Times:

• Colorado colleges graduate bumper crop
  

Ed News Colorado:

• Session ends and CSAP bill dies
  

Daily Camera:

• CU: Health insurance audit will save school $2 to $4M
  

Coloradoan:

• College of business expanding to site of old sorority
  

Tribune:

• Monfort business college to start accounting masters program this fall
  

May 14, 2010

Ed News Colorado:

• Work-study money flatlines after stimulus boost
  

In Denver Times:

• Ritter: Teacher bill “capstone” of reform
  

CBS4:

• Colo. Community Colleges to allow guns on campus
  

Pueblo Chieftain:

• Budget balancing
  

Denver Business Journal:

• Ritter on the 'State of the State'
  

Inside Higher Ed:

• Huge Problem, Problematic 'Solution'
  

Greeley Tribune:

• Aims Community College shoots down gun ban
  

Daily Camera:

• CU-Boulder prof: Immigration decreases crime
  

Craig Daily Press:

• CNCC nursing program graduates 19

May 15-17, 2010

Denver Post:

• Legislators give Colorado businesses a working over
  

Ed News Colorado:

• Big four topped 2010 education agenda
  

9News:

• Lawmakers may look to lottery to help higher education
  

Durango Herald:

• Political taboos fall in session Colo. legislature determines new rules, legalities in session
  

Coloradoan:

• CSU given more flexibility to set tuition
  

Grand Junction Sentinel:

• Growth changes college
  

Inside Higher Ed:

• Community Colleges' Unfunded Mandate
  

Daily Camera:

• Cheating reports up 40 percent this year at CU-Boulder
  

May 18, 2010

Investment Advisor:

• 529 plans get more insured investment options
  

May 19, 2010

Daily Camera:

• CU-B taps Russell Moore for interim provost job
  
• New CU-Boulder student health chief: Alcohol No. 1 problem
  

Coloradoan:

• CSU names new diversity chief
  

Gazette:

• UCCS names interim dean for College of Education
  

Tribune:

• Aims Community College shoots down gun ban
  

Sentinel:

• Mesa state now offers degrees in three years
  

Journal Advocate:

• Breaking new ground
  

May 20-21, 2010

Denver Post:

• State gets millions for education data system
  
• CU chancellor Wilson steps down
  

Denver Business Journal:

• Wilson leaving as UCD chancellor
  

Daily Camera:

• CU Boulder students work alongside top scientists through $1.8M grant
  
• Colleges stingier when it comes to offering credit for AP work
  

Coloradoan:

• CSU President Tony Frank honored as Citizen of the Year
  

Chieftain:

• Kids college – Editorial
  

May 22-25, 2010

Denver Post:

• CU bolsters biotech with new building
  
• Overhauled DPS school graduates 100 percent of senior class
  
• DU to use gift for center on aging and management school
  
• CU medical school, students pay high price for state’s low funding
  

Daily Camera:

• CU-B survey: 60 percent of grads expect to enter workforce
  

Chieftain:

• CSU-P gala honors top supporters
  

Northern Colorado Business Report:

• UNC, CSU receive New Energy grants
  

Summit Daily News:

• CMC 4-yr degree bill to be signed Thursday in Breckenridge
  

Statesman:

• Education funding, political diversity are issues in regent races

May 26, 2010

Denver Post:

• University Hospital plans $400 million expansion on Aurora campus
  

Denver Business Journal:

• $400M CU hospital expansion breaks ground in 2011
  

The Street:

• CTU and CCCS sign articulation agreement
  

May 27-31, 2010

Denver Post:

• New leadership team named for UC Denver and Anschutz Medical Campus
  
• Better data for better learning – Editorial
  

In Denver Times:

• No choice but higher taxes for colleges?
  

Denver Business Journal:

• Wartgrow named interim chancellor at UCD
  

Daily Camera:

• Colleges, including CU-B, hanging up on land lines
  
• CollegeInvest takes advantage of 5/29 to push Colorado 529 savings
  

Ed News Colorado:

• For-profit colleges reshaping higher ed
  

Coloradoan:

• PSD works on access to college courses
  
• Students from out of state could ease CSU’s budget blues
  
• CSU opens Research Innovation Center
  

Chieftain:

• Bachelor’s degree transfers streamlined
  

GJ Sentinel:

• School approved for 4-year degrees
  
• CMC fills niche in offering BA degrees – Editorial
  

Longmont Times Call:

• CSU chief: Colleges need to reach out