CU focusing on conference center to serve campus needs

BOULDER – While there are more questions than answers, the University of Colorado at Boulder has confirmed that it needs a conference center.

CU recently surveyed its various colleges, schools and academic departments to determine whether or not the university itself could regularly fill an on-campus conference facility.

“What we’ve essentially identified with this survey … is a real need,´ said Bronson Hilliard, CU’s media relations director. “Our conference facilities are sub par.”

For about a decade, the university and the city of Boulder have discussed building a larger conference center that would help keep meetings in Boulder instead of organizers using space primarily…