CU not the only good school
The article quotes CU President Hank Brown as saying “"Over the years, you’ll ghettoize those students,” he said. “They’ll have to go to less-challenging institutions because we’ve priced them out.” The implication is that other, comparable (four-year) Colorado universities and colleges are somehow second rate or “less challenging” when compared to the mighty University of Colorado. To hear Brown and others, one would think that every great thinker or scientist in western civilization was an alumnus of CU.
Well, I’m sick of it.
While Brown totes his university’s supposed superior standing, he should remember that Colorado has other excellent state colleges that not only do a fine job, but often share the same accreditation as CU.
Colorado State University and Metro State (both mentioned in the article) probably do as good a job as CU without embarrassing the state with the type of scandals that seem to have appeared with some regularity at Colorado’s flagship university.
It’s time that Brown and his like realized that Colorado has more than one first rate institution of higher learning.
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