{"id":3498,"date":"2011-04-08T15:13:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T21:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=3498"},"modified":"2011-04-14T15:37:34","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T21:37:34","slug":"proposed-bill-adds-research-to-uccs-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=3498","title":{"rendered":"Proposed bill adds research to UCCS mission"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Icon<\/a>A bill recently introduced in the Colorado General Assembly would formally add research to the UCCS role and mission.<\/p>\n

On March 25, Senate Bill 11-204 was introduced by Sen. John Morse, D-Colorado Springs, and Angela Giron, D-Pueblo. Morse and Giron are the bill\u2019s sponsors in the Senate. In the Colorado House of Representatives, the bill is sponsored by Keith Swerdferger, R-Pueblo; Amy Stephens, R-Colorado Springs; Mark Barker, R-Colorado Springs; Bob Gardner, R-Colorado Springs, and Pete Lee, D-Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n

The bill proposes that the missions of Colorado State University, Pueblo, and UCCS be changed. For UCCS, the words \u201cand specialized graduate research\u201d are inserted to the university\u2019s existing statutory role and mission statement.<\/p>\n

The proposed role and mission reads:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Colorado Springs campus of the University of Colorado shall be a comprehensive baccalaureate and specialized graduate research university with selective admission standards. The Colorado Springs campus shall offer liberal arts and sciences, business, engineering, health sciences, and teacher preparation undergraduate degree programs and a selected number of master\u2019s and doctoral degree programs.\u201d<\/p>\n

For CSU Pueblo, the words \u201ca limited number of \u201c are inserted in a sentence that now reads \u201cThe university shall also offer a limited number of graduate programs.\u201d<\/p>\n

The proposed changes are a model of bi-partisan and community support, Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak said, with both universities and their surrounding communities benefitting.<\/p>\n

For UCCS, having research in its official role and mission means that applicants for federal and state funding no longer have to explain its absence.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur faculty and researchers have made extraordinary strides in establishing this campus as a research university,\u201d Shockley-Zalabak said. \u201cBut nearly every application had to explain why the word \u2018research\u2019 was not there. I hope we will soon no longer have that obstacle.\u201d<\/p>\n

A copy of the bill is available at http:\/\/www.leg.state.co.us\/CLICS\/CLICS2011A\/csl.nsf\/fsbillcont3\/E6E2DE2839A236C88725783E006F8C69?Open&file=204_01.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A bill recently introduced in the Colorado General Assembly would formally add research to the UCCS role and mission.<\/p>\n

On March 25, Senate Bill 11-204 was introduced by Sen. John Morse, D-Colorado Springs, and Angela Giron, D-Pueblo. Morse and Giron are the bill\u2019s sponsors in the Senate. (More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/bill.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-Uq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3537,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions\/3537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}