Tag: University Of Colorado
Obama personalizes student loan message for cheery CU Boulder students
BOULDER — President Barack Obama dropped into town Tuesday, swung by the Sink to pick up a pizza, and he tested out a young entrepreneur's smart phone-controlled ball on University Hill before imparting a few words of wisdom to 11,000 screaming students at the nearby Coors Event Center.
What Colorado can teach other states about college vouchers: not much
The lesson from the Colorado Opportunity Fund is not that a voucher system for higher education is flawed, The lesson is that the voucher plan introduced in Colorado has failed because it did not change the status quo and require real reform in higher education.
CU unveils 10-year master plan for campus construction and renovation projects
The University of Colorado today released a draft of the master plan for campus construction and renovation projects in the next ten years.
Doh! CU missing as many great black students as ‘great black...
Former CU-Boulder Coach Bill McCartney told the Denver Post that the university will never win again until its sports teams become less white. "You...
WATCH: CU students gearing up for the elections?
BOULDER -- The youth vote that helped sweep President Barack Obama and a wave of Democrats into office in 2008 may not have the...
CU Regents urge McInnis to step down
Yet more calls for Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis to step down are coming in, this time from some of the University of Colorado...
Rosen says McInnis, Churchill not comparable, others disagree
It seems like an age has gone by since the Denver media, gamely led by the bygone Rocky Mountain News, was in full-bore media...
Vilsack to keynote North American Biochar conference in Boulder
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack will be the keynote speaker Monday evening, Aug. 10, at the North American Biochar conference at the University...
News Nuggets: 27 July 2009
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MUST READ: The Gazette unfurls a gripping two-part series examining a rash of murders — and other crimes — committed by...
While CU cuts exec salaries, CSU hires chancellor and hikes tuition
As Colorado State University prepares to hire a top executive at the school, expanding its administration significantly, it appears University of Colorado President Bruce Benson is taking the state's leading research university in the other direction, eliminating 54 administrative offices and slashing executive pay to cut a total of $6.2 million from the university's $39 million operating budget.