Higher ed not disappointed over Amendment 58 defeat

A proposed amendment to the Colorado constitution that would have collected about $300 million annually from oil and gas drillers to help students from low and middle-income families pay for college went down at the polls by a nearly 3-2 margin.

And intended recipients of the money that would have come through increased enrollments at Northern Colorado’s biggest institutions of higher education say they didn’t have any high expectations for the increased enrollments that Amendment 58 might have brought.

“The way the proposal was laid out it was too raw for us to do any numbers,´ said Robin Brown, vice president of…