Subject: Colleges and Universities

• No Word on Ward

  June 6, 2007

• Tonight: Recycle Runway

  May 2, 2008

• The Stats Don't Lie

  Their scoring may be high, but college basketball players' graduation rates are low.

  January 20, 2000

• Best group ceramics show -- contemporary division

  June 29, 2000

• The Magic Flutie

  December 7, 2000

• Best Scandal

  March 25, 2004

• Follow That Story

  January 27, 2005

• Wake-Up Call: Back-to-school special

  Pablo would be a senior in college now. A senior in a private college, rather than a public university. Because while Pablo was a star student at West High School, he was also an illegal immigrant. His parents had come to the United States when he was just a boy, and although they'd worked hard to build a life here, they couldn't afford out-of-state tuition at a Colorado college. And as an illegal, Pablo wasn't eligible for in-state tuition. We told Pablo's story in "Head of the Class," publi

  March 3, 2009

• Best Building Makeover

  March 24, 2005

• What's So Funny

  April 28, 2005

• Westword seeks online intern, because we hear this web thing is huge

  Attention college students (and overbearing mothers of college students): Westword is looking for an online-journalism intern to contribute to westword.com. The intern will focus on growing the site's multimedia presence, specifically with audio and video, but will contribute to all aspects of the web site, including writing and editing content, shooting and editing photos, and using social media to boost the site's traffic and influence. Candidates should have experience editing audio, shoo

  March 31, 2009

• It's almost 4/20 -- and here comes Mason Tvert

  A Flickr photoMason Tvert hasn't turned narc. He's seen wearing a Halloween costume. April 20 isn't only the anniversary of the killings at Columbine High School. It's also 4/20, a national celebration of cannabis culture -- something long supported by Mason Tvert, executive director of SAFER (Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation), who led the successful 2005 campaign to legalize possession of up to one ounce of marijuana for 21-and-up Denverites. However, events sponsored by SAFER on the

  April 8, 2009

• A Major Problem

  Metro State's African American Studies major will end after less than six years.

  December 7, 2000

• Quality, Like Spelling, Matters Not at KollegeTV

  How can you portray college life at CU without a date-rape joke?

  November 15, 2007

• Metro Provost Gets a Steep Grade

  Metro’s new provost, Rodolfo Rocha, had a chance to lead the school into the future. Instead, he became a faculty pariah in less than a year.

  October 4, 2007

• Global Thinker

  An award-winning essay helps launch a local student on an overseas adventure.

  September 20, 2007

• Telluride Techies

  Learn about science and technology in the high country.

  August 10, 2006

• Love the Sinner

  When sexual orientation conflicts with church doctrine, how tolerant should a Catholic University be?

  March 22, 2007

• Life of the Party

  For drunk CU students, SEMS volunteers lend a helping hand.

  December 21, 2006

• No Whine Before Its Time

  Before these students pass the bar, they'd like to belly up to one.

  March 30, 2006

• What Class!

  Elvis has left the building, but things are looking up at the Regency.

  September 1, 2005

• Rolling, Rolling, Rolling

  The highway was the road to success for the authors of Finding the Open Road.

  May 26, 2005

• To the Lighthouse

  Samantha Spady died in the Sigma Pi house. Pastor Reza Zadeh is planning its resurrection.

  March 10, 2005

• Girl Trouble

  When CU students take the Delta Delta Delta pledge, they take it very seriously.

  December 16, 2004

• Flick Pick

  Student Awards Showcase

  September 9, 2004

• Off Limits

  Back-to-School Special

  August 26, 2004

• Slippery Slopes

  Western State seeks to save its ski team with a dash for private cash.

  July 22, 2004

• Party Patrol

  The University of Denver is bringing down the house...party.

  November 20, 2003

• Department of Higher Earning

  Other schools do the math as Metro State calculates the cost of subtracting athletics.

  November 13, 2003

• Houses of God

  Hell hath no fury like Lakewood residents protesting Colorado Christian University's new housing program.

  November 28, 2002

• An Expensive Education

  The University of Northern Colorado expels its longtime laboratory school.

  July 6, 2000

• Welcome to the Real World

  The further these students get from the classroom, the more they learn.

  November 11, 1999

• Art Beat

  Michael Paglia's brief sketches of what's happening in the Denver art scene.

  September 30, 1999

• Head Case

  A lawsuit is driving DU's Graduate School of Professional Psychology crazy -- or was it already?

  March 11, 1999

• The Touchy-Feely Approach

  A sex-harassment case against a former chancellor breaks CU's code of silence.

  December 4, 1997

• Big Brother Ain't Laughing

  A CU-Denver online teacher pulls the plug on a student for an "obscene" essay.

  October 23, 1997

• Letters

  September 18, 1997

• What a Rush!

  Here's a loaded question: Have CU's frats cleaned up their act? We find out.

  September 11, 1997

• Aurora's Stupidest Home Video

  Was a college faculty squabble over credentials caught on film?

  August 28, 1997

• Teacher's Fret

  Part-time instructor John Hart claims he had something to teach the Community College of Aurora. But was his lesson plan too personal?

  August 29, 1996

• Fear and Groping in Boulder

  Power, politics and patronage--three reasons why CU's "zero tolerance" sexual-harassment policy could be one big nothing.

  June 6, 1996

• LOGO MOTIVES

  NIKE'S SWOOSH MAKES CU'S OFFICIALS SWOON AND ITS COFFERS SWELL.

  October 4, 1995

• A GENDER'S SHOOTING STARS

  March 23, 1994

• Avoid the swine flu and keep those hands clean, CU grads

  Oh, to have the Purell franchise at the University of Colorado at Boulder graduation ceremony, taking place at Folsom Field at 8:30 a.m. this morning. Earlier this week, reports surfaced about three possible swine-flu cases at CU, but officials decided against canceling the celebration, pimped in the press release available after the jump. Instead, they're offering the following advice on CU's commencement web page under the heading "WORRIED ABOUT GETTING SICK DURING GRADUATION?:" • Wash yo

  May 8, 2009

• Krazy Kollege Kids

  November 1, 2007

• Here's something those new CU cops can do with their time

  ​With students returning to the University of Colorado at Boulder campus for the fall semester, the Boulder Police Department is stepping up DUI patrols -- and the CU cops will be out in greater force, too. The university department has added six more officers as part of an overall plan to reduce crime on campus. Meanwhile, the BPD is ballyhooing a bust not far from the school, during which a cop riding a bike on the Boulder Creek path stumbled on a robbery in progress, leading to the arre

  August 21, 2009

• Chatfield High School smells really bad right now

  The Chatfield High School logo.​Just got a call from one of my daughters, who attends Chatfield High School in unincorporated Jefferson County. She wanted me to know that the school had been evacuated amid freshman orientation today (she's a junior, but she served as a freshman mentors) due to what she guessed was a gas leak. No confirmation on that yet, but a release from Jefferson County schools reveals that the scent has had repercussions, noting that as many as 22 staffers and students

  August 21, 2009

• Roxane White is Hickenlooper's new chief of staff

  Roxane White.​Roxane White knows a little something about the power of prayer, having graduated with a degree in religious studies from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon back in 1985 -- and she'll need all the faith she can get in her new job, as Mayor John Hickenlooper's new chief of staff. White, who previously served as manager in the Department of Human Services before taking an executive director position with the Timothy and Bernadette Marquez Foundation last year, replaces K

  September 11, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: Rico Munn appointment no trial balloon

  ​Okay, so Falcon Heene was never in the balloon. But why wasn't he in school yesterday? That's a question for Rico Munn, who's done good work during his two years as executive director of the Department of Regulatory Affairs, and yesterday was appointed by Governor Bill Ritter to head the Colorado Department of Higher Education. The education slot, vacated in August by former Congressman David Skaggs, is a good fit for Munn, a lawyer who served on the state Board of Education for five ye

  October 16, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: Legalize marijuana to save higher education?

  ​Colorado's parks, recreational areas and open space are subsidized by the Colorado Lottery, which over the past fifteen years has sent millions of dollars to Great Outdoors Colorado. Community colleges are slated to be supported by another form of gambling: Last November, Coloradans voted to expand gaming at casinos in three mountain towns to 24/7 schedules, adding games and upping the maximum bet to $100 -- all because they were sold on the proceeds going to community colleges. Now, as

  October 27, 2009