Metro State College floats plan to add grad programs

By Tillie Fong, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)

Published October 16, 2008 at 12:05 a.m.

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Metropolitan State College of Denver is looking at offering graduate-level programs.

"It will give students more choices and opportunities," said spokeswoman Cathy Lucas.

On Wednesday, Metro President Stephen Jordan floated the idea before the faculty senate and the academic affairs and student services subcommittee.

"He wanted to seek their approval before developing this proposal," Lucas said. "He got approval from both bodies."

Jordan will submit the graduate program proposal to the college's board of trustees at its next meeting, Nov. 4.

Lucas said there are several reasons why offering graduate programs would benefit Metro State.

"It will give us an advantage in working on recruiting and retaining full-time, tenured faculty," she said. "It would really enhance some of our signature programs in the state, like criminal justice, teacher education and social work."

And, Lucas added, more students are likely to enroll at Metro if it offered graduate degrees.

"Eighty-nine percent of our students are from the Denver County area. For the students we're serving, it would be of particular relevance to them," she said. "We would have students that are placebound who would look at that."

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