Higher Ed Press Clips March 2010

February 27 - March 1, 2010

Denver Post:

• CU dental school’s files show unlicensed dentist signed for sedatives
  
• Colo. higher ed must cut classes – Editorial
  

Daily Camera:

• CU won’t go private, despite funding cuts
  
• Colorado rich with tax breaks
  

Coloradoan:

• CSU vows commitment to ag
  

9News:

• Gambling money craps out for colleges
  

Aurora Sentinel:

• Body Rebuilding: New bioengineering department opens at Anschutz

March 2, 2010

Denver Post:

• Community College of Aurora librarian charged in mail threats
  
• Lawsuit planned over extractions by CU dental school
  
• CSU researchers say shell serum could save trees from bark beetles
  

Daily Camera:

• CU-Boulder Students: We want to be part of tuition setting
  

Coloradoan:

• CSU takes lead on sustainability network

March 3, 2010

Denver Post:

• Cost to attend DU going up 3%; Colo. College also planning tuition hike
  

Daily Camera:

• Alumna pledges $1 million for Caruthers Biotech Building
  

Chieftain:

• Measure that would give CSU students voting power advances
  

Denver Business Journal:

• Doyle named president at ACC
  

In Denver Times:

• CSU student bill survives floor test
  

March 4, 2010

Denver Post:

• Students lobby lawmakers on higher education funding
  

In Denver Times:

• Degree-expansion bills move ahead
  

Daily Camera:

• CU-Boulder’s fall registration delayed a week by computer changover
  

Denver Daily News:

• Students march for higher-ed
  

Coloradoan:

• CSU needs student voices on governing board – Editorial
  

Sentinel:

• CMC four-year college bill passes in Senate
  

Durango Herald:

• State Dems reject GOP plan for cuts
  

Tribune:

• College students march on Capitol
  

KUNC:

• Colorado students rally against higher ed cuts

March 5, 2010

Denver Post:

• Colorado one of 16 finalists for federal education funds
  
• CSU says 21 people were exposed to plague from dead mountain lion
  

Chieftain:

• Insurer donates $1 million to nursing
  
• House passes CSU student voting bill
  

Sentinel:

• Mesa State’s enrollment growth to lead state next year

March 6-8, 2010

Denver Post:

• Fitzsimons: From vacant Army post to medical promised land
  
• Colorado one of 16 finalists for federal education funds
  
• CU Hospital’s diabetes research sets standards worldwide
  

In Denver Times:

• Debate takes shape over CCHE role on tuition
  

Coloradoan:

• Bioscience Career Academy to offer direct link to careers for many students
  
• Three Ft. Collins students named Boettcher scholars
  

Denver Business Journal:

• Children’s Hospital ‘joins’ Anschutz Campus
  

Gazette:

• State senate supports expanded programs at two colleges
  

Chieftain:

• Health care students – Editorial
  

March 9, 2010

In Denver Times:

• Campus construction booming despite budget cuts
  

Daily Camera:

• CU veterans’ benefit money MIA
  

March 10, 2010

Denver Post:

• Auraria campus on alert after attacks and robberies
  

Daily Camera:

• CU regents could vote on 9 percent tuition hike at special meeting Wednesday
  
• New LEED test could boost curriculum at CU-Boulder
  

Coloradoan:

• CSU considers fee hike to pay for renovations
  

Gazette:

• PPCC goes where the wild things are

March 11, 2010

Denver Post:

• CU regents weighing another tuition hike for next school year
  
• CU launches probes into dental school’s operations
  
• Advancing Colorado’ new energy economy – Guest Commentary
  

Daily Camera:

• CU regents indicate they’ll OK 9 percent tuition hike
  

9news:

• CU looking at hiking tuition by 9 percent
  

March 12-15, 2010

Denver Post:

• Colorado panel on education reform meets for first time
  
• DPS Higher Education Expo helps high-schoolers plan ahead
  

Daily Camera:

• CU Boulder may make minimum financial aid contribution
  
• CU Boulder’s INVST service program celebrates 20 years
  
• CU Boulder holds ceremony for behavioral science building
  

Chieftain:

• CSU-P teacher program on the rise – Guest Columnist
  
• CSU-P lab gets a family name
  

Tribune:

• UNC considers tuition hike
  

March 16, 2010

Denver Post:

• Aims CC closing some satellite campuses
  

In Denver Times:

• Intriguing findings in declining enrollment study
  

Steamboat Today:

• Education department officials to visit Steamboat for town hall meeting
  

March 17, 2010

Denver Post:

• Colorado officials make pitch in D.C. for education grant
  
• These colleges are a deal – Guest Commentary
  

Daily Camera:

• Task force foucuses on CU-B’s ‘student-athlete welfare’
  
• Regents will vote on tuition March 29
  

Coloradoan:

• CSU’s Morgan Library proposing to eliminate two positions, cut $600K
  

9News:

• CollegeInvest wants to double your college savings
  

March 18, 2010

Denver Post:

• No action taken on CU dentist’s license
  

Daily Camera:

• BVSD holds first ever ‘Elementary College Nights’
  

Times Call:

• Frederick 5th graders get taste of college life
  

USA Today:

• Why are college students so hard to count in the Census?
  

March 19, 2010

Denver Post:

• Access versus efficiency – Guest Commentary
  

Daily Camera:

• Plenty of contenders on CU-Boulder’s student government ballot
  

Summit Daily:

• CMC bill moves to state House of Reps next week
  

March 20-22, 2010

Denver Post:

• Everest University Online to hire 600 in admissions unit
  
• Univ. of Colorado has considered adding money-saving 3 yr degree program
  

Coloradoan:

• CSU telecommunications plans to cut two jobs on Ft. Collins campus
  

Denver Business Journal:

• UC Denver med school launches stem-cell center
  

March 23, 2010

Denver Post:

• DU professor named to state Dept. of Higher Ed
  
• Appeals court hears arguments on CU gun ban
  

In Denver Times:

• College classes cut for lack of space, teachers
  

Denver Business Journal:

• Cisco, CU to partner on tech initiatives
  

Northern Colorado Business Report:

• CSU’s Farland serving on national committees
  

Sentinel:

• Mine jobs a concern in plant conversion bill

March 24, 2010

Denver Post:

• Proposed rules seek to ease for-profit college debt
  
• Colorado attorney general probes 51 complaints against Westwood College
• The real cost of TABOR – Guest Commentary
  

Daily Camera:

• Appellate court hears arguments on CU weapons ban
  

Reporter Herald:

• State Department of Education to hold meeting on postsecondary readiness
  

March 25, 2010

Denver Post:

• Group wants to free education from limits of TABOR
  

Northern Colorado Business Report:

• CSU researchers studying biofuel emissions
  

March 26, 2010

Denver Post:

• CU must justify hikes – Guest Opinion
  

Colorado Daily:

• Low-risk debit card offered to CU-Boulder students
  

Tribune:

• Would be teachers find slim pickings at UNC job fair
  

March 27-29, 2010

Denver Post:

• Thomas tapped as Ft. Lewis president
  
• CU Regents set to vote on 9 percent tuition hike today
  
• UCD architecture students help develop plans to revive Auraria Library
  

Daily Camera:

• More CU-B, other colleges students expect to pay their own tuition
  
• Obama cites savings in college student loans measure
  

Chieftain:

• CSU-P program begins to bear fruit
  
• Top scholars, top choice
  

March 30, 2010

Denver Post:

• CU bumps up tuition again
  
• Colorado loses out in first round of Race to the Top education funding
  
• Office-hotel project slated for Fitzsimons
  

Daily Camera:

• CU regents approve 9% tuition increase for in-state students
  

9News:

• $200k in scholarships available, deadline approaching
  

Highlands Ranch Herald:

• Doyle pledges to listen and learn
  

March 31, 2010

Denver Post:

• Obama signs final health care bill and revolutionizes student loan program
  

Daily Camera:

• CU tuition increase hitting law students hardest