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10th Circuit reinstates MSU Denver student’s lawsuit alleging First Amendment violation
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Calling the issue an “easy one,” the federal appeals court based in Colorado reinstated a lawsuit by a Metropolitan State University of Denver student who claims an administrator violated her First Amendment rights when he prohibited her from speaking about a professor to other students. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for…
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Denver cracks down on college students, athletics to fight COVID-19 outbreak
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Denver issued a public health order targeting college students and athletes in an attempt to stop a recent uptick in COVID-19 cases, Mayor Michael Hancock announced Thursday. Denver’s two-week cumulative incident rate average has more than doubled since Sept. 9, increasing from 78.4 cases to 160 cases Thursday, according to Bob McDonald, executive director of…
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Gardner bill would force VA to pay student veterans full benefits
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Colorado’s U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner said Tuesday he plans to introduce bipartisan legislation aimed at forcing the Department of Veterans Affairs to pay benefits to student veterans who have been shorted because of the VA’s information processing and accounting difficulties. “The VA let these veterans down and this cannot be tolerated,” Gardner said in a…
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As Colorado cuts back, costs soar for college students
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In 2000, Colorado taxpayers footed 68 percent of the costs of a college degree, with students chipping in about one-third. Two decades and two recessions later, that ratio has nearly flipped as state funding has been cut and tuition has steadily risen to replace it. Even after a 9 percent boost to higher education funding…
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Beall: It’s time for regime change at the University of Colorado
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President Bruce Benson’s stewardship of the state’s flagship university system has stalled, and neither he nor his massive administration is articulating a clear vision or mission for CU. The university system has strayed from its role as the state’s preeminent university and increasingly resembles a profit-seeking enterprise. From the beginning, Benson was an unlikely president…
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Student free speech protection legislation signed into law
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Gov. John Hickenlooper on Tuesday signed legislation that aims at protecting free speech on college campuses. Senate Bill 62 addresses “free speech zones” on campuses, where people are confined to an area of campus to express political and other views. The bipartisan bill’s sponsors, Sen. Tim Neville, R-Littleton, and Reps. Jeff Bridges, D-Greenwood Village, and…
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Noonan: State required tests risk religious, citizenship discrimination in higher ed
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Student data privacy and standardized testing have floated around the Capitol as hot issues for several years. In this legislative session, religious and citizenship discrimination has been added to this boiling stew through SB17-102, a bill concerned with demographic information collected by the College Board testing service through its Preliminary Scholastic Assessment Test (PSAT) and…
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Hickenlooper names Kim Hunter Reed to head higher education department
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Gov. John Hickenlooper has appointed former Obama administration official Kim Hunter Reed as the executive director of the Colorado Department of Higher Education, his office announced Wednesday. She takes office Feb. 15. “Kim’s knowledge of best practices in higher education and her extensive experience in innovative ways to make college more accessible – as well as her focus…
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New CU Regent Jack Kroll discusses key problems facing CU and the higher education community
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Having won a hard-fought 2016 Democratic primary race for the open seat on the University of Colorado Board of Regents and then cruising uncontested in the general election, 1st Congressional District Regent Jack Kroll, D-Denver, says he is ready to fight the important battles facing the university. Not long before his, 4th Congressional District Regent…