The
© P~itan October 10, · 1984
Volume 7 Issue 8
MSC Fights FTE /Decline
Here We Go Again
Brewrileister ·F or, a Day
CCHE Poses Merger Pl~ns
Jobs at Stake
by Robert Davis and Kevin Vaughan
by Michael Ocrant News Editor, The
Metropolit~n
Reporter, Editor, The Metropolitan >-~
MSC, facing the sharpest decline ever in full-time student enrollment, is expected to eliminate administration jobs, reorganize some departments and . do away with some progrB.PlS in an effort to cut costs. Under the leadership of MSC Presi~ dent Brage Golding, a reorganization plan is being studied so that proposed changes can be presented to the Consortium of State Colleges by January. Drastic cuts are necessary, Golding said, to save the school from financial ;,. disaster in the 1985-86 fiscal year. Enrollment is expected to drop by 800 FfE students this year, Golding said, leaving MSC with a $2 million deficit. And while suplus funds will make up the shortfall this year, a projected continued decline next year will
"I'm an activist. If I see something is wrong I , want to change it... I consider myself a professional administrator. I know what needs to be done." ,,. - Brage Golding need to be covered. by "taking th~ out of the operation-tightening it up." FfE, which starids for Full Time ,-- Equivalency, refers to the total number of credit hours students sign up for each semester. Twelve credit hours is considered to be one FfE student. The State Legislature, then, bases its allocation of funds of the number of FrE students. r Sin~ taking office June 4 on an interim basis, after the death of former President Richard Fontera, · Golding has gained a reputation as an administrator who likes to shake things up. He has proposed numerous policy ~ ... an d procedural changes in academic and faculty affairs to the Faculty Senate. In addition, he early on set an example for promoting change by reorganizing his own office soon after taking the .,, job as MSC president.~ When he was aksed to take the job as top MSC administrator in order to give officials time to conduct a thorough search for a new president, Golding said, he told the offieials he _t... would not simply "hol!l the fort down." I'm an activist. If I see something is wrong I want to change it," Golding said. . But an extensive reorganization of the college, Golding said, is being forced on him due to the unexpected .,. budget crunch. He said he didn't want the respon~ ' sloppin~ss
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An Oktoberfest accordionist quaffs a cold brew at the Larimer Square Celebration last · weekend. .
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by Chris Deutsch
In a 5 to I vote; the Colorado Commission on Higher Education r~om mended last Friday that the state legislature merge MSC with UCD. The proposal calls for Metro to be governed either by the University of Colorado Board of Regents or a separate board to be formed later. The decision comes after months of hearings over the structure of Colorado higher education. The commission was formed to study the governance of higher education and report those findings to the interim Committee on Higher Education. Dr. Richard Laughlin, President of the Consortium of State Colleges, said the merger would have adverse effects on the students of MSC. "The identity would be lost," Laughlin said, as Metro programs would be chipped away over the years. "With the school (MSC) under the university (CU)," Laughlin said, "guess which faculty would go first." MSC President Brage Golding said if the two schools were to merge, the· president of the institution would have to eliminate some of the duplicated ()()Urses offered by both MSC and UCD, echoing Laughlin's belief that MSC programs and employees would be eliminated. "We have here on campus two schools that teach the same first twoyear classes," Golding said. "Under the same president, that president would have to look at the system and see duplication . .He would have to change that. I would." Sen. Al Miekeljohn, R-Arvada, and Chairman of the Senate Education Committee, said Tuesday he would fight any efforts to merge any of Auraria's three schools. "I oppose it (the merger) pretty EOflt. OfJ page
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