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Volume 2, Issue 3 .__ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
© MetroPress September 19,-1979
Meeting with CCHE dire~tor:
Students Charge board:is ''unresponsive'·' I
by Frank Mullen Auraria student government ~ leaders told the director of the Co~ lorado Commission on Higher Education Sept. 13 the Auraria Jloard is unresponsive to student input concerning campus consolidation plans. ~ Mike Knipps, chairman of the University of Colorado Executive Council, told CCHE director Lee Kershner the Board makes decisions with only limited input from the student "impact population" _,.. cµid there is "a general climate of non-cooperation" between the students and the Auraria Board. Floyd Martinez, president of the Associated Students of Metropolitan State College; Neil Harlan, of .-. the MSC Student Affairs Board; and Knipps presented Kershner with a joint position paper on Auraria consolidation. The report defined the areas of student government agreement and dis_.., agreement over the proposed changes in the structure of the •campus. "W_e ive tried to deal directly with the·Board," Knipps said. "lt is not a problem of a~cess; it is a ~ problem of, ~o~municatjon. The Board does not look to the stu.dents' needs."
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Kershner · said the students campus and the consolidation of · through a central administrative should channel their comments the support services. Under the officer. . "I see one major flaw in that through their institutions. The stu- current proposal, some support services would be consolidated plan," Kershner said. "And that is dent~ replied they understand Kershner does not want to circum- under the authority of the Auraria the assumption that (the three institutions) can get things done abvent the authority of the governing Board. boards and the institutions by The stud~n!s said the B~ard sent of any outside force ... I'm dealing directly with the students, should be elimmated and the cen- convinced there would never have but that the meeting was meant to tralized authority should come been a common calendar (among be an "information exchange" from the governing bpards of the the three institutions) or the sharinstitutions and the Institutional ing of resources we have now (if about Auraria problems. · contlnuedonpage7 Kershner said the position paper executives who would work _was ''clearly written and thoughtful'' and he welcomes the chance to exchange information and ideas with students. "I want to make it clear that I do support what the Auraria .Board has done up to this point,'' he said. "I want to spend more time with it -(position paper) ... I'm not saying I will agree with it." The Auraria campus has been put under the state's "suns~t ~ro vision" and the CCHE must ' report to the legislature on Jan. 15, 1980 on the elimination, continuation or restructuring of the three- _g school higher education center. ~ ,, The three institutions have been ~ . working towards the consolida- a; tion. elimination or joint opera- ~ tion of many of the duplicative ct) academic programs offered on the · Student government leaders meet with CCHE Director Lee Ker:.mer.
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