Subject: Higher Education

• 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

• Best Hope for Prisoners

  April 4, 2002

• 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

• What's So Funny

  April 28, 2005

• 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

• A Real Page-Turner

  It's a mystery why Jerry Stevens can't get credit for his mystery-writing classes.

  June 21, 2001

• Quality, Like Spelling, Matters Not at KollegeTV

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

  November 15, 2007

• Global Thinker

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

  September 20, 2007

• Making Nice

  Robert Schrier took the University of Colorado to court for academic freedom. The school settled before a jury could hear the tale.

  April 5, 2007

• Love the Sinner

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

  March 22, 2007

• No Whine Before Its Time

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

  March 30, 2006

• What's So Funny

  August 18, 2005

• Law and Border

  Lilian Shea discovers that practice makes her life pretty perfect.

  July 28, 2005

• Rolling, Rolling, Rolling

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

  May 26, 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

• Throwing Fitz

  The move to Fitzsimons was supposed to send CU's Health Sciences Center sailing into the 21st century. So why are so many doctors jumping ship?

  September 2, 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

• Playing Doctor

  A parent pushing his child to perform surgery is pushing too hard, experts say.

  September 6, 2001

• 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

• Malpractice Makes Perfect

  Her father's death turned Debra Malone into a crusader for patients' rights.

  October 14, 1999

• Art Beat

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

  September 30, 1999

• In Sickness and in Health

  Dr. Tisha Dowe survived the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing. But can she survive Colorado Springs politics?

  August 26, 1999

• Doctor's Orders

  Physician Karl Shipman devoted his life to medicine. But when he needed it most, the health-care system let him down.

  March 25, 1999

• The Doctors Are In

  The Speedholes have a prescription for what ails Denver rock.

  October 22, 1998

• 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

• BEDSIDE MANNERS

  UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OFFICIALS BOOTED A PROMINENT DENVER PHYSICIAN AFTER HE WAS ACCUSED OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT. THEN THEY TRIED TO COVER IT UP.

  April 12, 1995

• DOCTOR VS. DOCTORS

  A PHYSICIAN IN TRAINING SUES AFTER GETTING THE BOOT.

  August 24, 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

• Betcha Jim Spencer loved making this call to the Post

  "And here's another mistake you guys made..."​Back in 2007, the Denver Post's Jim Spencer was downsized right out of his plum metro-columnist's gig -- and months after landing a job as the communication director for the University of Colorado Denver's School of Medicine, he was still publicly lamenting the way he was jettisoned from his beloved career. So imagine his satisfaction when he was able to force the Post to publish a correction about a Wednesday graphic identifying UCD's med scho

  October 15, 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