Why Regents are important and why YOU should care
REGENTS are responsible for:
Setting tuition for each campus
Hiring the president, auditor, treasurer, and secretary
Approving tenure for professors
Approving the 5.5 plus billion dollar annual budget, with an economic impact of over 9 billion dollars
CU is the third largest employer in Colorado with 36,000 people
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
Talking points:
CU has a growing partnership with colleges and high schools in all of CD3, from the western slope to the I-25 corridor and should continue to expand that mission.
The focus should be on in-state students as well as looking for out of state tuition money. With that being said, I will be looking for ways to make CU as accessible and affordable as possible for the diverse range of students coming from CD3.
The modern workplace is ever changing and I will strive to give CU students a competitive advantage in those environments, as well as hope for their own futures.
Having been a public high school educator myself for the past 27 years, I am acutely aware of the needs of students at that stage of life.
Why is the Regent position important? 67,000 plus students attend the four campuses with hundreds of majors to choose from and thousands of classes to enroll in. With that in mind, we can’t lose focus of the primary goal, and that is providing people with a world class education at CU.
CU isn’t just the students, but the faculty, staff and communities they are a part of. Each group deserves the time, respect and attention that a Regent can provide.
CD3 is larger in square miles than 17 states.
