A Message from the President | University of Colorado

2012 Colorado legislature concludes

The 2012 legislative session ended on Wednesday (the governor called a special session next week to deal with a handful of specific issues), and Colorado public higher education and CU fared better at the end of the session than at the beginning. In the governor's November budget, higher education faced $60 million in cuts (half to financial aid, half to operating). Positive revenue forecasts in December and March lessened the cuts. CU's 2012-13 budget will likely be reduced about $5.8 million. We appreciate the work of the governor, Joint Budget Committee and legislators in reducing the cut to higher education. We are still on the wrong side of the state funding equation (cuts), but smaller than expected reductions resulted in smaller than expected tuition increases.
We promoted a notable piece of legislation that passed this session, House Bill 1350, which allows some dependents of active duty military personnel to attend any CU campus at resident tuition rates. We recognize what active duty military personnel do on our behalf and are happy to extend this benefit to the children of the men and women serving our country.

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