Regents approve $2.6 billion operating budget
    The University  of Colorado Board of Regents on Monday approved a $2.6 billion operating budget for fiscal year 2009-10, a  5.7 percent increase over the current fiscal year, which ends June 30.
    
  
  
Regents satisfied with consolidation assessment, halt study
    The University of Colorado Board  of Regents on Monday unanimously passed a resolution that reaffirmed the  consolidation of the University of Colorado Denver's Downtown Campus and  Anschutz Medical Campus, halting a comprehensive assessment that was scheduled  to proceed through the fall.    
  
    Regents approve capital construction plan    
      The University of Colorado Board of Regents approved the  revised five-year capital construction plan for building projects across CU's  campuses, even though there is no state money to fund the buildings.    
    In other business, the Board of  Regents...
 
    
      - Re-elected Steve Bosley (R-Longmont) as chair  and Tillie Bishop (R-Grand Junction) as vice chair.
 
      - Appointed Mary Rinehart to the University of  Colorado Hospital Authority Board of Directors.
 
      - Approved resolutions recognizing outgoing  University of Colorado Staff Council Chair Jennifer Lahlou and outgoing Intercampus  Student Forum chair Sruthi Pandipati.
 
      - Approved the creation of the Renewable and  Sustainable Energy Institute at CU-Boulder.
 
      - Approved the second amendment to the program  plan for the Systems Biotechnology Building.
 
      - Approved the doctoral degree in Applied Science  at UCCS.
 
      - Approved revisions to the funding for the  Faculty Housing Assistance Program.
 
      - Approved implementing new federal regulation  related to identity theft protection.
 
      - Approved providing resident tuition for  honorably discharged veterans (House Bill 09-1039).
 
      - Approved an amendment to the Laws of the  Regents, Article 4 - Organization of Academic Units, and Revisions to Policy  4.H: Program Discontinuance.