Courtesy of Northeastern Junior College
Colorado lawmakers and college officials hope a name change will help reverse years of sharply declining enrollment at two rural campuses, and in turn, also help support the towns they serve.
The change, requiring legislation, would remove the “junior” from Otero and Trinidad State junior colleges. The bill would leave Northeastern Junior College as the last remaining higher education institution bearing the name in the state and one of the few left in the country. Its enrollment has declined 48% in a decade, but community backlash over the proposed name change caused legislators to exclude the college from the bill.
State lawmakers plan to put an additional $20 million into the Colorado Water Plan under a bipartisan measure that won preliminary approval in the Colorado House on Wednesday.
That money comes on top of whatever revenue the state earns from sports betting, which voters approved in Proposition DD in 2019. The money would go to the Colorado Water Conservation Board, a division of the Department of Natural Resources that provides grants for water projects across the state.
âItâs going to require at least $100 million a year for us to satisfy the needs that have been outlined in that plan,â said House Speaker Alec Garnett, D-Denver, who introduced House Bill 1260 with Rep. Marc Catlin, R-Montrose.
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Rep. Iman Jodeh, D-Aurora, finds being a member of the Colorado House almost surreal.
The first Muslim and Palestinian-American elected to the Colorado General Assembly said she never considered running for elected office before it all just fell together.
“I’m not used to it yet,” she said in an interview at HiRa Cafe & Patisserie in Aurora, a block away from where she grew up.
“I was never advocating or doing social justice work to build a track record,” Jodeh (pronounced E-man JU-dah) said. “The end game was never to be an elected (official).”
It was to give a voice and to help others in need, she said, whether through the Interfaith Alliance or Meet the Middle East, the non-profit she started 10 years ago to build relationships between citizens in the United States and the Middle East.
Rep. Iman Jodeh, D-Aurora, finds being a member of the Colorado House almost surreal.
The first Muslim and Palestinian-American elected to the Colorado General Assembly said she never considered running for elected office before it all just fell together.
âIâm not used to it yet,â she said in an interview at HiRa Cafe & Patisserie in Aurora, a block away from where she grew up.
âI was never advocating or doing social justice work to build a track record,â Jodeh (pronounced E-man JU-dah) said. âThe end game was never to be an elected (official).â
It was to give a voice and to help others in need, she said, whether through the Interfaith Alliance or Meet the Middle East, the nonprofit she started 10 years ago to build relationships between citizens in the United States and the Middle East.