Colorado § 23-31-101 - University established - role and mission.
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§ 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.
Source: L. 2007: Entire article amended with relocations, p. 524, § 2, effective August 3.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 23-31-101 as it existed prior to 2007.
ANNOTATION
Law reviews. For note, "The Problem of the Local Improvement District in Colorado", see 12 Rocky Mt. L. Rev. 45 (1939).
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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