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INSIGHTS | Colorado college funding doesn’t make the grade
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Editor’s note: Joey Bunch is away, so this week we revisit his Insights column of Aug. 3, 2018. If you’re proud of Colorado’s world-class universities, thank a donor or a tapped-out parent. The Colorado legislature? Eh, only if you’ve got any gratitude to spare, because the General Assembly has other priorities. Colorado enjoys one of…
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INSIGHTS | Colorado’s college paradox comes down to money
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If you’re proud of Colorado’s world-class universities, thank a donor or a tapped-out parent. The Colorado legislature? Eh, only if you’ve got any gratitude to spare, because the General Assembly has other priorities. Colorado enjoys one of the highest reputations for higher learning, and one of the most educated populations of any state (because of…
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ENDORSEMENT WATCH | Peg Perl unveils backers in Denver clerk race
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The municipal election isn’t for another 10 months, and she has yet to draw an opponent, but Denver clerk and recorder candidate Peg Perl is already racking up support for her bid, the attorney and former senior counsel for Colorado Ethics Watch announced this week. The current and former officials supporting Perl include House House Majority…
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At 80, CU’s Bruce Benson is too busy ‘running stuff’ to slow down for critics
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Bruce Benson turned 80 on the Fourth of July. He decided it was time to graduate into retirement after a glittering, sometimes tense, career in the oil business, Colorado politics and, for the last decade, education as president of the University of Colorado system. He plans to stay on until July 2019, once his replacement…
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TEXT: Bruce Benson announces his exit as CU president
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Bruce Benson will retire next year, the university announced Wednesday. (Full story here.) Here is the full text of a statement Benson released Wednesday in announcing his plan to step down: It has been my honor and privilege to serve as president of the University of Colorado for the past decade. Today I informed the…
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Bruce Benson to step down as CU president
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Bruce Benson, a businessman and politician who has led the University of Colorado for a decade, will retire next year, the university announced Wednesday. Benson, who turned 80 this month, has led CU through a decade of change that included getting the school system back on its feet after the 2008 financial collapse sent its…
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Fundraising for school board candidates show lopsided differences in Jeffco, DPS
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JEFFERSON COUNTY In Jeffco, school board candidate fundraising appears to be a tale of the haves and have nots. Two of the three incumbents on the school district’s board of education have out-raised their opponents by margins of at least 15 to 1. The third incumbent, board chair Ron Mitchell, raised almost $33,000 through last Friday,…
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Griego and Gallegos: Beall way off-base with his criticisms of CU
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It’s unfortunate that professor Jeffrey Beall has such an inaccurate view of his own university (“Beall: It’s time for regime change at the University of Colorado,” Statesman May 17). Certainly it’s fair for faculty or others to criticize leadership for real or perceived problems, but we believe professor Beall missed the mark in several of…
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YESTERYEAR: Nicholson draws fire from pro-lifers
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Twenty Years Ago this Week in The Colorado Statesman … Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson came under fire by an unlikely group of pro-life Republicans who compared his actions to those of Adolf Hitler. Nicholson, who considered himself pro-life, came under attack in early May 1997 by the American Constitution Party, the Colorado affiliate of the…
