In recent years, we’ve noted that Colorado colleges haven’t placed especially well in national rankings. In 2014, for example, Forbes listed only two Colorado colleges among the 100 best in the country: the Air Force Academy and Colorado College. Neither of these schools is included in a new report Buffalo Business First, a sister…
The ACLU of Colorado has filed a lawsuit against Adams State University on behalf of a former professor who started a website critical of hiring practices and was then banned from campus — and subsequently accused of posing a public safety risk by the university’s president. As we first reported last…
The tweet — in which a teacher is compared to a penis prior to the use of the hashtag #douchebag — seems like the kind of thing a pissed-off student might send. But it went out into cyberspace from the (now-deleted) Twitter account of a teachers union, the Douglas County…
In a part-timer economy, fast-food workers and janitors aren’t the only ones feeling the pinch. Skimpy wages, long hours and a lack of benefits can also be found in the white-collar sweat shops operated by the Colorado Community College System. Last night, a group of CCCS instructors gathered at the…
It’s not often that an academic study gets coverage on a website such as Bustle, whose main home page items at this writing includes “What Happens When You Use Tinder in the 1950s” and “How Different Does the ‘Fuller House’ Look?” But the site — like more expected sources, such as Inside…
We tend to think of snow days as being universally beloved by students of all ages. But that wasn’t the case for everyone impacted by the decision by the University of Colorado Boulder to close the campus yesterday. That’s because the closure took place during finals week — and students…
“Abortion, sex — these are all forbidden topics. The good news about this organization is that because these are forbidden topics, you don’t usually expect to have a pro and affirming religious voice, and that’s what we want to be,” says Reverend Valerie Jackson, the new president of the Colorado Religious…
Earlier this year, we interviewed Amy Hasinoff, a CU Denver communications professor and the author of Sexting Panic, a book highly critical of the way our society deals with the sexting phenomenon — often by criminalizing teens who take part in the activity. “One of the reasons we have such terrible…
It’s not uncommon for hundreds of Colorado College students to read or submit posts on Yik Yak during an average weeknight. The app, which allows users to post, or “yak,” anonymous text and picture messages that become visible to anyone with the Yik Yak app within a five-mile radius, is…
Among the arguments traditionally made by advocates of commuting by bicycle rather than car are the health benefits for the cyclists, who are pumping pedals rather than pressing them. But a study by Colorado State University researchers just published in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology reveals that this…
The rhetoric has been heating up — in fact, it’s just about gone nuclear — in the bizarre dispute between Adams State University officials and a former professor who’s been prohibited from setting foot on the Alamosa campus, under threat of arrest. Danny Ledonne claims that his banishment is in…
For more than a year, the Jefferson County School Board — and specifically a voting bloc consisting of members Julie Williams, Ken Witt and John Newkirk — have been a lightning rod for controversy The trio’s alleged efforts to turn Jeffco’s history curriculum in a more “patriotic” direction, coupled with…
It’s not personal. It’s just business. Last week’s post about Danny Ledonne, the former Adams State University film instructor who was abruptly banned from the Alamosa campus with little explanation shortly after he launched a website critical of the school’s administration and pay policies, has generated some interesting e-mails and…
Filmmaker Danny Ledonne says he had no reason to expect the chief of campus police at Adams State University to show up at his Alamosa home last week. He was even more surprised when the chief told him he was there to deliver by hand a letter from ASU president…
Some Lincoln High School students are pushing back against a plan by Denver Public Schools to open a middle school charter school at Lincoln, located in southwest Denver. A protest organized by the community group Padres y Jovenes Unidos is scheduled for 5 p.m. tonight in advance of a 6…
On Tuesday, Aurora Public Schools released “APS 2020: Shaping the Future,” a report that puts a positive spin on educational reform efforts in the district — and the timing certainly doesn’t seem to have been coincidental. The next day, the If Not Now Coalition, a group of seventeen organizations that…
Grinding — a dance floor move that calls for one person’s ass to be ground into another person’s crotch — is hardly a new phenomenon. Videos of the move have been popping up on YouTube for years; see examples below. Now, however, Arapahoe High School has banned grinding at dances…
Last month, we posted about Forbes list of the top Colorado colleges — and noted that their performance left plenty to be desired. Note that only twelve institutions from Colorado were included in the 650 institutions of higher learning nationwide that made the magazine’s cut, as opposed to thirteen the previous year…
Our post earlier today highlighting sexist comments made about reporter Chase Olivarius-McAllister by sheriff’s office employees who didn’t realize their conversation was being recorded demonstrates the continuing challenges women face in the workplace. So, too, do cases involving Stephanie Barnett, a Montrose city employee who claims she was fired due to her…
Today starts a new era at the Emily Griffith Technical College, which will welcome students to a new campus at 1205 Osage Street. The facility has cutting-edge training spaces for Emily Griffith’s College of Trades and Industry and ever-expanding Continuing Education Division — a stark contrast to the three continuing…
Late last month, our Melanie Asmar reported that the parents behind a recall effort aimed at three controversial Jefferson County school board members — Ken Witt, John Newkirk and Julie Williams — had turned in well over double the number of signatures required for the matter to reach the November ballot…
Around this time last year, we shared a list of Forbes’ top thirteen Colorado colleges and noted that their national rankings were mostly unimpressive. That’s even truer in the 2015 edition. The headline of this post offers one piece of evidence for the downturn: Only twelve colleges were included in the 650…
