Higher Ed Press Clips September 2007

September 29-30, 2007

Denver Post:

• College Admissions Get Dose of Sanity
  
• Romer Campaigns for Education Focus
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• Discovering Why Women Avoid Computer Science
  

Daily Camera:

• Report: When Freshmen Get Video Games Grades Dip
  
• Fraternity Membership Continues to Grow
  

Coloradoan:

• Five Ways to Finance College
  
• Lawsuit Looms as Collegian Hearing Proceeds
  

Chieftain:

• Joe Garcia’s Overall Plan
  
• Ritter Focuses on Work Force Needs in Alamosa Stop
  
• CU’s Brown: Make Grades Meaningful, not Inflated – Guest Columnist
  

Northern Colo. Business Report:

• Woodward grants CSU $1 Million
  

9news:

• Students Go Green at CSU, Not Just Because it’s a School Color

 

September 28, 2007

Denver Post:

• CSU editor will face hearing
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• Ward Churchill to teach unsanctioned course on CU campus
  

Daily Camera:

• CU Regent Carlisle intends to run for Tupa's seat
  

Coloradoan:

• Complaints against Collegian editor McSwane have 'merit'
  
• CSU dorm residents live a green example
  

Chieftain:

• Upward Bound program for vets receives grant
  

GJ Sentinel:

• Mesa State seeks $5M from city
  

Gazette:

• UCCS wants site to pay off
  

September 27, 2006

Denver Post:

• CSU Editor Defends Free Speech
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• Head of Community Colleges: ‘Ouster was not a Witch Hunt’
  
• Editor’s Fate in Hands of CSU Panel
  

Daily Camera:

• CU Malpractice Suit Tossed
  

Coloradoan:

• CSU Editor Offers No Apology
  

Chieftain:

• Retired Steelworker Gives $100,000 to University
  

Tribune:

• Textbook Prices Out of Control Student Group Says
  
  

 

September 26, 2007

Denver Post:

• CU President Brown Named Citizen of the West
  
• Slow Search to Keep Brown at CU’s Helm
  
• U.S. Students Tally Math Score Gains
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• Okay of Prof’s Work Contributes to College Chief Losing Her Job
  
• Firing’s Advocates Claim to Have Smoking Gun
  
• Vision of College Evaporates Leaving Ghost Campus, Classes
  

Coloradoan:

• Fate of Collegian’s Editor at Stake
  

Chieftain:

• Speaker Urges Revival in Teaching History
  

Sentinel:

• Lawmakers to Take on Ritter’s Education Funding Measure
  
  

September 25, 2007

Denver Post:

• CSU, CU Have Big Hopes for Higher Education Aid
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• A College President is Gone: How it Happened
  
• Education Star ‘far from finished’
  
• Officials Hope Hunt for New CCD Boss Aids Healing
  
• 300 at CSU Urge Firing of Editor
  
• Dumb and Dumber – Editorial
  

Daily Camera:

• US Study: College Students Lacking Basic Civics
  

Coloradoan:

• GOP Group Wants Editor Fired
  

September 22-24, 2007

Denver Post:

• Study: College Campuses May Nurture Faith
  
• CSU: Editor Used Profanity to Make Point
  
• Tough Sell for CSU’s Penley – Opinion Editorial
  

Daily Camera:

• Students See Alternative in Wyoming
  
• CU Professor to Pioneer New Bipolar Study
  
• Academic Freedoms Under Debate: Political Issues Fair Game for Profs?
  

Coloradoan:

• Fallout Follows Expletive in CSU Collegian’s Editorial
  

GJ Sentinel:

• College Museum Team Finds Shape Things Past
  

September 21, 2007

Rocky Mountain News:

• CU welcomes freshman class of 5,555 to Boulder campus
  

Daily Camera:

• In-state enrollment a record for CU
  

Coloradoan:

• Computer Science Department gets permanent home
  

Chieftain:

• PCC gains in retention of students
  
• University officials say they work to limit debt
  

September 20, 2007

Denver Post:

• Seeds are Currency at CSU Bank
  
• Educator Warns of Brewing Crises for Minorities
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• Colorado’s Economy ‘Healthy’
  

Coloradoan:

• Where will we be in 15 Years?

KCRR Radio Station:

• Higher Ed Chief Making the Case for More Funding
  

September 19, 2007

Denver Post:

• Gates Foundation Gives $4 Million to CSU
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• CSU Wins $3.7 Million for Drug Research
  

Daily Camera:

• $80,000 to go Untapped?
  

Coloradoan:

• Grant goes to CSU for TB Research
  

Chieftain:

• Otero Lamar Colleges to End Shared Presidency
  
• Growing Pride – Editorial
  

 

September 18, 2007

Denver Post:

• Panel Eyes Tougher Grad Requirements
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• College Readiness Test Eyed for 10th Graders
  

Chieftain:

• Panel Reports on Education Improvement Plans
  

Tribune:

• UNC Professor’s Ground Breaking Research Could Unlock Hantavirus Treatment
  

September 15-17, 2007

Denver Post:

• Financial Aid Reform is a Step in the Right Direction – Editorial
  
• This Freeze Gives State Warm Glow – Editorial
  
• Is Ref. C Cash Being Spent as Promised? No – Commentary
  
• Is Ref. C Cash Being Spent as Promised? Yes – Commentary
  
• Is the Budget Cup Half Empty or Half Full
  

Daily Camera:

• Check on Five CU Workers Wraps Up
  

Coloradoan:

• C2B2 Launches New Initiative for Biofuel Technology
  
• CSU Tack on 32K More in Green Energy
  

Chieftain:

• CSU Pueblo Reports Rise in Enrollment
  
• State Lawmakers Betray Voters with Ref. C Shell Game – Guest Commentary
  

Sentinel:

• Fort Lewis Offers ‘Adventure Education’
  
• State May Need Second Time Out from TABOR
  
• Mesa State Hopes New Spots Park Complaints
  

September 14, 2007

Denver Post:

• Sparks Flying on Tax Freeze
  
• K-12 School Reform Plan Vast
  

Daily Camera:

• Father of Stabbing Victim Thanks CU Students
  

Coloradoan:

• Alcohol Ed Group Locks on CSU
  

Chieftain:

• New Dorm – Editorial
  

Tribune:

• Enrollment Dips 5.5% and UNC this Fall
  

KKTV:

• Grandparents Scholarship Contest
  
  

September 13, 2007

Denver Post:

• Recent Grads go to Head of Class
  
• Help All Schools, Not Just Denver’s – Editorial
  
• Pledging Hasn’t Changed – Guest Commentary
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• CSU, CU-Denver, and Metro Break Fall Enrollment Records
  

 

September 12, 2007

Denver Post:

• College Lab Trainings Fit Well with State’s Bioscience Jobs
  
• CU Prof Donates $20 Million for Biotech Center
  
• Gunsmith Program Going Great Guns
  
• Economist Predicts Downturn in ’07 or ‘08
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• DU, CSU Roll Out Emergency Text System
  
• CU Prof Amadei Wins Top Award
  
• Professor Gives CU $20 Million for New Biotech Lab
  

Daily Camera:

• Prof Donates $20 Million for Biotech Building
  
• Chancellor Delivers Annual Address
  

Coloradoan:

• CSU Offers Text Warning Service
  
• Group Works to Help Students Succeed – Guest Commentary
  

Gazette:

• State Lawmakers Weary of ‘Feeding Frenzy’
  
  

 

September 11, 2007

Daily Camera:

• State Agency Sends Letter on ACTs
  

Tribune:

• UNC Looks to the Future – Guest Commentary
  
• Diversity, Forward Thinking Highlight UNC Convocation
  

 

September 8-10, 2007

Rocky Mountain News:

• No Suit Settlement on CU’s Radar
  
• CU Ruling Should Worry all of Higher Ed – Editorial
  

Daily Camera:

• CU a Model in Housing Safety
  
• CU Officials Don’t Expect Backlash After Revival of Women’s Lawsuit
  
• Bill Ups Students’ Financial Assistance
  

Coloradoan:

• CSU Research Makes Strides Despite Times – Editorial
  

Chieftain:

• CCHE Approves Peer Institution List
  
• State Official to Host Forum on Education
  

September 7, 2007

Denver Post:

• CSU Chief Touts Strides, Jabs CU
  
• Court Revives CU Rape Lawsuit
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• CSU Pulls in Record Amount of Research Funding in 2007
  

Daily Camera:

• Higher Ed Funding May Get Face Lift
  
• Simpson Suit Reinstated
  

Coloradoan:

• Penley’s Fall Address Touts Research Intensity
  

Chieftain:

• CSU-P Plans 500 Bed Dorm
  

Gazette:

• College to Use Peer System
  

September 6, 2007

Denver Post:

• Colorado’s High School Grad Rates Drop into New Realm
  
• Letters to the Editor – Director Skaggs
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• Metro State on Track
  
• Under New Formula High School Grad Rates Dip
  

Daily Camera:

• CU Writing Profs Offer Free Courses
  
• CU Asks Judge to Dismiss Churchill Suit
  

Coloradoan:

• Ag Day to Stress Food and Biodiesel
  

Sentinel:

• Mesa State Sets Record for Fundraising
  

Cherry Creek News:

• Add College Planning to Back to School Checklist
  
  

September 5, 2007

Denver Post:

• We Must Meet Needs of Vocational Students Too – Editorial
  

Daily Camera:

• University Maintenance Workers Snag Patent
  

Coloradoan:

• Professor Improves Solar Panels’ Efficiency
  

Chieftain:

• CSU Shuffles System Administrators
  

Tribune:

• Governor Appoints Education Leader to UNC Board of Trustees
  
  

 

September 1-4, 2007

Denver Post:

• Grads Fall Shy of State Hopes
  

Rocky Mountain News:

• Shoring Up Public Education
  

Daily Camera:

• Grade Inflation Linked to Vietnam War
  

Coloradoan:

• Jobs Cabinet Holds Key to Economy – Editorial

Sentinel:

• Local ACT Scores Take Sudden Dip