Volume 2, Issue 13 - Dec. 5, 1979

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MSC faculty senate bad<s merger 'I i._

by Frank Mullen

The Metropolitan State College faculty s.enate Nov. 29 passed. a resolution recommending MSC be merged with the University of Colorado at Denver under a new governing board. Jerry Fenger; senate president, said the resolution passed "by a vote of at least two to one." The resolution calls for "a Joint Task Force" composed of faculty from both institutions to ''integrate existing academic programs into a single institutional structure.'' The resolution also stated the senate "opposed plans that would place the present institutions under the governance of the CU Board of Regents," add boards or more administrators to the present governance structures, or "prolong the present confusion in governance/administrative structures." The Auraria campus is currently under "sunset" review. Under a law signed by Governor Lamm in June the Colorado Commission on Higher Education must make recommendations to the General Assembly whether Auraria and its institutions should be ''terminated merged, continued in their present form" or placed under new governance.

Fenger said the institutions do Auraria officials have been quality. It might be best, he said, not need more time. working over the past six months to extend the sunset provision un"T.tiat (an extension) would be til the effect of the present con-on consolidation of support serContinued on page 2 efforts can be assessed. solidation vices and some academic programs between the institutions. Several proposals exist for solving Auraria's management problems. The Regents and the UCD faculty senate endorse a '.'single chief executive'' .to preside over UCD and MSC. The Trustees, MSC's governing board, baGk a "modified status quo" model-which they said will preserve separate institutions while allowing for maximum sharing of resources between MSC andUCD. MSC President Donald Macintyre said Dec. 3 a merger between MSC and UCD might sound like the most logical solution to Auraria's problems, but the plan will run into trouble from the Regents and from other institutions in ' the state which have "a vested interest against a major institution in Denver vying for the limited resources available." He said he supports the consolidation which has already taken place and believes the two institutions should remain separate entities. He said the governance """ issue is a question of political u.§ power rather than academic


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