From: Channel 9
DENVER - The board of trustees votes 6 to 3 to change the name of Metropolitan State College of Denver to Metropolitan State University of Denver on Thursday, but the process it not done yet.
In a public meeting attended by about 50 people, the three-year-long process came to a close - at least on the board of trustees' part.
The name change still has to be approved by the legislature. According to the board, the proposed name change will be introduced int he senate education committee next week. If approved by the Senate, it will then move to the House.
Metro officials hope the name change will be official by June, which means logo and sign changes will have to be ready by the 2012-2013 school year.
The name is a compromise from the original name change proposal University of Denver does not plan to take any legal action against this new name proposal.
7 comments:
Looks like DU is not going to fight this.
Personally I'd make them get rid of the word "of"
I would agree with you on that one!
Fight it! DU brings billions of dollars to the community annually. This unacceptable!
From today's Denver Post...
"In a survey last fall of students and faculty, MSUD was the clear favorite. And even though this second choice actually contains the name University of Denver, folks across town at the University of Denver say they're fine with it.
"We're very happy for Metro State," said DU vice chanellor Kevin Carroll. "We didn't want to get in the way of them changing their name. We just wanted to be sure we could protect the University of Denver brand."
Carroll said the new name eliminates confusion he thinks could have resulted from Metro State becoming Denver State."
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_19880044#ixzz1lHYQVmZw
this new name sounds even worse to me than Denver State University
University of Denver needs to live with this bad decision too. Denver State University would've preferred compared to Metropolitan State University of Denver. Bush Republicans rule DU, so logical thinking is not possible.
Metro State's name change bill (SB 148) has been scheduled for a hearing in the Senate Education Committee on Feb 23, 2012 at 1:30 p.m. in room SCR 354.
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