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· June 27, 1979 © Volume 1, Issue 14
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Trustees adopt consolidation plan . By Emerson Schwartzkopf
A proposal to consolidate certain academic programs at Metropolitan State College (MSC) and the University of Colorado' Denver (UCD) has met with approval, uncertainty, and a laek of knowledge "Since its presentation June22. The proposal, unveiled at the Board of Trustees meeting at Alamosa last Friday, assigns responsibility for ''upper division course work and academic majors" to UCD for· Modern Languages (Spanish excluded), Philosophy, and Physics. • MSC, under the proposal, will control ''its own lower division service programs" in the above areas, and exclusively.offer degree programs in Education and Urban Studies. The proposal was presented as a ''progress report'' by Donald · Macintyre, MSC president, and John Marvel, state college consortium president, on consolidation actions resulting from footnotes in .. the "long bill" appropriating fiscal 1979-80 state funds. The footnotes--38 and 44a-authorize transfers .of funds bet-
ween MSC and UCD by both the Auraria Board of Directors and the Colorado Commission on Higher Education (CCHE). The transfer powers are designed to speed consolidation of duplicated academic programs and support services at Auraria. The trustees, meeting at Adams State College, "formally adopted the concept" of the proposal, said John Turano, consortium vice-president of academic and administrative affairs. Harold Haak, UCD Chancellor (and co-drafter of the proposal with Macintyre) called the trustee action "encouraging." "It's a reasonable proposal," Haak said. ''It addresses problem areas that constantly are cited." Haak will present the proposal before the CU Regents Thursday, and expects the board to be ''sympathetic." · · Others, however, were less enB thusiastic. Richard Netzel, MSC vice- iD president for academic affairs, said ~ he has "personal reservations" 0 about some parts of the proposal ~ which includes faculty transfer en requests and completion of degree continued on page 2 MSC President Richard Netzel: no internalstatic