Volume 1, Issue 12 - June 13, 1979

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• VOLUME 1 , ISSUE i2 JUNE 13, 1979

;.., Incorporated in Long Bill

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gets transfer authofity _ By Frank Mullen

overcome an ·impasse among the instituitons.

The Auraria Board of Directors now has the authority to transfer funds from one Auraria institution to another and the authority to make a final decision when the institutions disagree over the consolidation of . academic· support services. State Representative Tom Tancredo (R-Arvada) said the provision granting the board its. new overiding powers is contained in·the final version of the '-'long" approprations bill. The Colorado Commission on Higher Education (CCHE) will "oversee" the boards actions, he said. Ta1wredo is the sponsor of House Bill 1498 which places Auraria under the state's "sunset provision." HB-1498 states the campus will be · reviewed . in February 1980 and could be terminated, continued or restructured at.that time. The bill passed both houses of the legislature and now awaits the governor's signature to become law. Presently the Auraria institutions - Metropolitan State

College, (MSC), the University of Colorado at Denver (UCD) and the Community College of Denver at Auraria (CCD-A) - have individual academic support programs. These services inlclude separate financial aid offices, student health centers, student activities programs, job placement. services and offices of admissions and records. In January the CCHE cited this duplication of services and instructed the institutions to work towards consolidating some of these services and eliminating academic and non-academic duplication at Auraria. When the institutions disagreed, however, there was no over-riding authority to make a final decision. Jerry V{ artgow, Aura_ria executive director, said the footnote to the "long" bill provides tbe authority needed to overcome an impasse among 1he institutions. Wartgow said eight committees were formed several months ago to study the problems of non-academic duplication on continued on page 10


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