HomeMy WebLinkAbout974 - SUPPORTING the University of Colorado 7/19/05, AMEND/APPROVED 07/19/2005Resolution No 974
A Resolution in Support of the University of Colorado
WHEREAS, the City of Boulder has been the proud home to the flagship campus of the
University of Colorado (CU) since 1876; and
WHEREAS, CU's Boulder campus (CU-Boulder) was recognized in 2004 by Economist
magazine as the 11`h best public university in the world; and
WHEREAS, CU and Harvard were the only two schools in the country to have faculty
members awarded MacArthur fellowships four years in a row from 2000 to 2003; and
WHEREAS, CU professor Carl Wieman, one of CU's three Nobel laureate faculty
members, was named U.S. Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation in 2004;
and
WHEREAS, CU-Boulder brings to the City of Boulder the Colorado Shakespeare
Festival, the Conference on World Affairs, the CU Concerts Artists Series, access to
libraries, athletic events, noncredit courses, and numerous other social and cultural
offerings, all of which significantly contribute to the city's vibrancy; and
WHEREAS, CU-Boulder directly employs more than 12,000 people with the demand for
goods and services generated by CU-Boulder leading to the creation of more than 22,000
jobs; and
WHEREAS, CU, its students, and their visitors spend more than $2 billion in the state
with CU-Bolder accounting for nearly three-fourths of these expenditures; and
WHEREAS, the presence of CU's research facilities and the highly skilled labor that CU
produces, have attracted major federal facilities, satellite institutions, and major private
firms to the city; and
WHEREAS, despite all of these remarkable successes and contributions to the city, state,
and nation, a variety of unfortunate and highly publicized events have recently combined
to challenge the reputation, morale and financial condition of CU;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF BOULDER, COLORADO, THAT
1. The Boulder City Council fully recognizes and appreciates the extraordinary
importance of CU to the city and state.
2. The Boulder City Council stands by CU during this difficult period.
3. The Boulder City Council directs city staff to work with CU staff to support efforts to
emphasize awareness of CU's continual national preeminence as an educational
institution.
4. The Boulder City Council directs staff to distribute this resolution to the governor,
state legislature, and Colorado's U.S. senators and representatives, so that they may
add their support to this important institution.
RESOLVED this 19`h day of July, 2005. ~~ ~ ~,,
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Mayor
Attest:
ity Cler on behalf of the
Director of Finance and Record