Metro State is embarking on a new era of improved student services and an expanded community profile. Students will be asked during the April elections to invest in the College by voting on a student fee that will eliminate the registration run-around, do away with classrooms in trailers and build a neighborhood on campus designed specifically with Metro State students in mind.
Metro State is embarking on a new era of improved student services and an expanded community profile. Students will be asked during the April elections to invest in the College by voting on a student fee that will eliminate the registration run-around, do away with classrooms in trailers and build a neighborhood on campus designed specifically with Metro State students in mind.
BLOGMetro State is moving forward with the student fee for the first building of the neighborhood. However, as I promised the student body at yesterday’s SGA meeting, if the higher ed funding crisis is not solved, we will drop the fee. If the state does not restore funding to higher ed, we would not have such a critical space problem, and our enrollment could be reduced dramatically.
Read More »Though things may look bad for higher education, we are not without hope.
Read More »I have been asked by a number of students about the details of the proposed bond fee. I thought it would be helpful to post the actual ballot language that students will be asked to vote on in the coming election (April 13th through the 17th).
Read More »It’s nice to know that there is a plan to update the campus, modernize the way services are provided to students, and to create a home for Metro State
Read More »Listen to this audio interview (4:54) between former Student Government Assembly president and political science major Aaron “Jack” Wylie, associate professor of Communications David Kottenstette and former SGA Chief Justice and recent graduate Kevin Harris about the Metro State Neighborhood concept.
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Aaron “Jack” Wylie was elected Student Government Assembly president as a sophomore and served three terms – a record tenure at Metro State. His support for the Neighborhood resulted from the time he spent in leadership, getting to know the college’s assets as well as its challenges. Now 23 and about to graduate with a major in political science and a minor in women’s studies, Wylie has started the lobbying firm Beacon Inc. with Metro graduate Kevin Harris. As a seventh-generation Arvadan, Wylie has an innate love of Colorado politics. “When everyone else is in Cancun on spring break, I’m at the legislature watching the budget process.”
