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@Metro (Vol. 4, No. 21)
On July 7, MetroConnect, the college's portal system, goes live. MetroConnect will provide the college with a number of opportunities to gain efficiencies and reduce costs, including no longer printing information that can be obtained online. To learn more, go to http://www.mscd.edu/~collcom/@metro/@metro_vol4/portalv4052803.htm
The Board of Trustees is scheduled to hold its regular monthly meeting Wednesday, June 4, from 8 a.m. to noon in room 320 of the Tivoli Building. A meeting agenda will be posted on the trustees section of the college Web site: /trustees/
AHEC has lifted its ban on the use of campus athletic and recreation fields and other grassy areas on campus. "With all the rain we've received this spring, we decided we could open up the fields to use," said Jim Kelley, director of facilities management, adding the situation could again change. Organized activities still must be scheduled through AHEC Facilities Planning and Use at 303-556-8376. AHEC will use non-potable water from its well to irrigate the playing fields and about three-fourths of the rest of campus grounds. Citywide drought restrictions require campus water use to be reduced by 30 percent.
The AHEC Board has approved the site and design concept for the new campus parking garage, to be built on the site of the tennis courts, at the corner of 9th Street and Auraria Parkway. The tennis courts will be moved to the east side of the Tivoli, using a piece of the playing field. Davis Partnership, a Colorado architectural firm, has been hired to design the garage. Depending on the final design, the garage will provide 650-900 parking spaces. Groundbreaking is expected to take place in October or November, with completion anticipated in fall 2004.
Saying funding cuts to higher education are not in the best interest of Missouri students or the state's economy, Gov. Bob Holden (D) has vetoed his state legislature's budget proposal for higher education. The legislature's proposed budget appropriates $819.6 million to higher education, about a $56 million cut over the previous year. To offset the cuts, the University of Missouri System had planned to increase tuition by 19.8 percent, and at colleges around the state, 300 faculty and staff would have to be laid off. Some classes would have to be eliminated, some buildings closed and almost 8,500 students would see reduced scholarships. "This is one of the most harmful tax increases Missouri families could suffer and one that will keep many of Missouri's young people from going to college," Holden said. Republicans who voted for the vetoed budget argued the budget situation is critical and cuts must be made throughout state government. Holden has scheduled a special session June 2 to address budget issues before the new fiscal year begins in July.
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