Higher Ed Press Clips September 2010

September 1, 2010

Daily Camera:

• CU student leader: Supplement campus tours with nature journey
  

Aurora Sentinel:

• CCA, Mile High United Way Pathways partner up to provide ‘Community Voices’

GJ Sentinel:

• Employers recruit from top systems of education
  
• Clifton school gets $2.6 million to boost scores
  

Ed News:

• 19 schools to get improvement grants
  

September 2, 2010

Denver Post:

• DPS earns high ratings on pension debt
  

Camera:

• CU-Boulder researchers receive $2M grant to develop 'living wall'
  
• CU chosen to help with study on climate change and wildfires
  
• David Getches, dean of CU-Boulder law school, to resign
  

Ed News:

• Aurora expands full-day kindergarten to all
  

September 3, 2010

Chieftain:

• District gets large grant
  
• TRIO program receives boost
  

Post:

• DPS board slips, posts agenda after meeting happens
  

GJ Sentinel:

• Move afoot at Mesa State to seek university status
  
• Tutoring plan receives warm reception
  

September 4-7, 2010

Denver Post:

• DU center will help female entrepreneurs
  
• New DPS charter school for girls only
  
• On the right page for school reform
• Business of education reform continues
  
  

Daily Camera:

• CU-Boulder offers sex ed for freshmen in dorms
  
• CU-Boulder's Macky Auditorium to celebrate its 100-year anniversary
  

Sentinel:

• New Christian high school opens today
  
• College purchases land for body farm
  

Coloradoan:

• Parents could be given say in school closures
  

September 8, 2010

Chieftain:

• El Pomar Foundation to honor longtime educator
  

Sentinel:

• School accountability revised
  

September 9, 2010

Denver Post:

• High-tech success wants to help students chart brighter future
  
• Recall effort launched against DPS board member Merida
• Museum gains $3.27 million federal grant for education.

State Bill:

• Higher Ed Commisson: Stop The Bleeding

Coloradoan:

• Frank: CSU staff puts students ahead of pay
• President's Leadership Program at Colorado State University announces 2010-2011 Scholars

Chieftain:

• Teacher develops new music lessons
• City schools to vote on executives' contract

Sentinel:

• Schools to show Obama’s speech

Daily Camera:

• Boulder named best small city for college students

Ed News:

• CCHE: Stop the higher ed bleeding

September 10, 2010

Ed News:

• EdWeek: Learning-disabled enrollment dips
  

Daily Camera:

• CU-Boulder monitors fire advisories, but no classes or events canceled
  

Colorado State News:

• Colorado State University Celebrates Grand Opening of Behavioral Sciences Building Sept. 15
  
• Colorado State University Announces Record Freshman Class, All-Time High Enrollment
  

Chieftain:

• CSU-Pueblo president to leave post today
  
• CSU-Pueblo enrollment up 2 percent
  

Denver Post:

• Six Colorado schools rate national Blue Ribbon
  

Sentinel:

• Regent wants to see CU through changes
  
• Orchard Avenue Elementary wins Blue Ribbon status
  

September 11-13, 2010

Chieftain:

• Higher ed planners to discuss future
  

Journal:

• Fort Collins among best college towns — for retirees
  

CSU News:

• Colorado's Chief Operating Officer, Don Elliman, Named to CSU System Board
  
• Colorado State University Annual Research Expenditures Exceed $300 Million in 2010
  

Denver Post:

• Healthier school meals pound out new message
  
• Douglas Co. teens learning about business by doing it through school
  

Camera:

• EGo CarShare program at CU-Boulder doubling its fleet
  
• Boulder Valley losing money on healthy school-food program
  

September 14, 2010

Biz Journal:

• Colorado wins $101M stimulus grant for statewide school broadband

CSU News:

• Colorado State University President Tony Frank to Deliver Fall Address, First of Presidency, on Sept. 15

Longmont Ledger:

• Dave Gardner’s Money Talks: Colorado’s CollegeInvest program is worth it

Northern Co Business Report:

• Elliman to serve on CSU Board of Governors

Coloradoan:

• State gets grant for broadband network

Chieftain:

• CSU-Pueblo's foreign census growing

Denver Post:

• Federal grant will build high-speed Internet across Colorado

Daily Camera:

• Toyota tests electric cars in Boulder

Ed News:

• Daily Churn

September 15, 2010

Chieftain:

• Colo. higher ed must become a funded priority

CSU News:

• Colorado State University Receives $750,000 Grant to Find Next Big Internet

Denver Post:

• Merida recall petition a no-go — again

September 16, 2010

Journal Advocate:

• Colorado native joins NJC faculty
  

Sate Bill Colorado:

• New School Testing System Starts To Take Shape
  

GJ Sentinel:

• College president prefers local trustees over statewide panel
  

Chieftain:

• CCA gets extra time to replenish reserve fund
  

Ed News:

• Charters at top, bottom of DPS ratings
  
• New testing system starts to take shape
  

Denver Post:

• Fewer DPS schools performing poorly in latest rankings
  

Camera:

• CU awarded continuing accreditation
  
• NASA awards CU-Boulder $6.7M to design instruments for mission to sun
  

September 17, 2010

Denver Post:

• The Denver Post: CSU president talks of economy in speech
  
• Colorado education chief a finalist for Nevada superintendent job
  

Boulder Daily Camera:

• Eight Boulder Valley students earn perfect ACT scores  

Grand Junction Sentinel:

• Freshmen guys outnumber gals 

Colorado Springs Gazette:

• Morse concerned after resignation of PPCC's Kinkel

Colorado Springs Independent:

• PPCC head calls it quits 

Northern Colorado Business Report:

• Frank says CSU will weather financial crisis
  

September 18-20, 2010

Fox 31:

• CU-Boulder's freshman class, overall enrollment down

Rocky Mtn. Collegian:

• Associated Students of Colorado host first meeting

Denver Post:

• Aurora expanding school-based clinic program

Sentinel:

• School District 51 in line to put classes online

Camera:

• CU-Boulder's majors divide along gender lines

September 21, 2010

CSU News:

• Colorado State University and Collaborators Awarded NSF Grant to Develop Climate Change Education Tools at National Parks and Wildlife Refuges
  

Market Watch:

• Frontier Airlines Announces New College Sponsorships
  

Collegian:

• Colorado State University surpasses $300M in research expenditures
  

Denver Post:

• Westwood College's main Denver campus placed on probation by national accrediting body
  
• Oprah Winfrey gives Denver charter school $1 million
  
• Larger shortfall looms in Colorado budget, and schools are likely to feel the pain
  
• Poudre School District targeting 16 sites for changes
  

Chieftain:

• Deeper cuts ahead, state warns
  
• OJC lands $250,000 grant
  

Camera:

• CU regents may vote to move to Pac-10 a year earlier
  

Sentinel:

• Parachute losing students, gaining in test scores
  

Ed News:

• 6 districts get emergency state aid
  
• Another budget shortfall looms
  

September 22, 2010

Denver Post/Washington Post:

• Offering teachers bonuses for student growth didn't raise scores, study finds
  

Chieftain:

• PCC lands large grant
• CSU-Pueblo courses lauded

Trading Market.com

• Legg Mason's Scholars Choice College Savings Program Earns Top Ranking From Savingforcollege.com

September 23, 2010

CSU News:

• Annual CSU Ag Day Barbecue Showcases Colorado Agriculture, Raises Money for Scholarships

Chieftain:

• PCC unveils $13 million expansion

Sentinel:

• Nearly half of Mesa State are classes 90% full

Ed News:

• Panel moves closer to final higher ed plan

September 24, 2010

Canon City Daily:

• CSU president makes a connection
  

Morning Star:

• A Hidden Gem Gets Cheaper
  

Aurora Sentinel:

• CU's Marks juggles tuition, time, donors, data
  

Chieftain:

• Grant plants seeds for students’ return
  

Denver Post:

• Jeffco schools to increase some teachers' pay to more than $100,000
  

Camera:

• CU-Boulder Wizards begins its spellbinding season
  

GJ Sentinel:

• High schoolers to plan early for career goals
  

September 25-27, 2010

Denver Post:

• Obama: Money alone can't solve school predicament
  
• CU tackles achievement gap for Latinos
  

CSU News:

• Colorado State University's Graduate School Announces Record Enrollment for 2010
  

Camera:

• Colorado has worst ethnic education gap in the country
  

September 28, 2010

CBS:

• CSU Study: Turning Algae Into Fuel Is Ecofriendly
  

Denver Post:

• Colorado Business
  
• Enrollment up at Colorado universities
  
• Obama pushes for more school time
  

Market Watch:

• Colorado State University Powers Eco-Friendly Learning Environment With Oracle's Sun Servers and Sun Ray Clients
  

Chieftain:

• Obama: School year should be stretched
  

Ed News:

• Politics makes changing bedfellows
  

Camera:

• CU-Boulder online job postings up 8% last year
  
• CU-Boulder Theatre Department celebrates 50 years
  
• Vail Republican takes on Boulder incumbent for State Board of Education
  

September 29, 2010

Northern Colorado Business Report:

• CSU, CU Boulder make list of Top 400 Universities Worldwide

Denver Post:

• Panel unveils plan for Denver's Montbello High and its feeder schools
  
• In tough economic times, Coloradans go back to school, census stats show

Chieftain:

• Area school districts in financial jeopardy

Ed News:

• Audit hints at future district problems

Daily Camera:

• Doctoral programs at CU-Boulder rank high in National Research Council report

September 30, 2010

The Citizen Telegram:

• College in Colorado to host tailgate party
  

Chieftain:

• Colleges to unveil latest tuition hikes
  

Fox31:

• Colorado colleges preparing alternative plans for lower state funding next year
  

CBS4:

• Colleges Bracing For Lower State Funding
  

CSU News:

• Colorado State University Doctoral Programs among the Nation's Best, According to National Research Council
  

Post:

• How expensive is it to not go to college?
  
• State colleges to say how they'll address student affordability
  
• Teachers, families making connections at kids' homes
  
• Colorado education commissioner takes job as Las Vegas schools chief
  

Ed News:

• Vegas board votes for Jones
  
• Deadline nears for college tuition plans