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.
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.
The University of Colorado today released a draft of the master plan for campus construction and renovation projects in the next ten years.
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 can’t win without the great black athlete,” he said, taking a chapter from disgraced sportscaster…
BOULDER — The youth vote that helped sweep President Barack Obama and a wave of Democrats into office in 2008 may not have the same level of energy for the 2010 midterm elections, according to some observers.
So the…
Yet more calls for Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis to step down are coming in, this time from some of the University of Colorado Regents who affirmed the decision to dismiss Ward Churchill from the University of Colorado Boulder.
Democrats…
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 frenzy over a CU professor named Ward Churchill.
And who was leading the frenzy, calling for…
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 of Colorado, but the can’t-miss event at 2009’s “Char-apalooza” will be Sunday’s “Char-becue.”
The menu…
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MUST READ: The Gazette unfurls a gripping two-part series examining a rash of murders — and other crimes — committed by soldiers from a Fort Carson unit that has seen some of the most disturbing…
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.
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