§ 23-31-101 — University established - role and mission

There is hereby
established a university at Fort Collins to be known as Colorado state university.
Colorado state university shall be a comprehensive graduate research university
with selective admission standards offering a comprehensive array of
baccalaureate, master's, and doctoral degree programs. Consistent with the
tradition of land grant universities, Colorado state university has exclusive authority
to offer graduate and undergraduate programs in agriculture, forestry, natural
resources, and veterinary medicine. The Colorado commission on higher education,
in consultation with the board of governors of the Colorado state university system,
shall designate those graduate level programs that are the primary responsibility of
Colorado state university. Colorado state university has the responsibility to provide
on a statewide basis, utilizing when possible and appropriate the faculty and
facilities of other educational institutions, those graduate level programs. The
commission shall include in its funding recommendations a level of general fund
support for these programs.

Legislative History

Source: L. 2007: Entire article amended with relocations, p. 524, � 2, effective August 3.