CU prez leverages business background

DENVER — New University of Colorado system president Mark Kennedy, a former businessman and congressman, plans to leverage the qualities and knowhow that made him a successful executive to ensure CU graduates are well positioned to thrive in the ever-evolving labor market.

“There’s a number as aspects from the business world that inform my approach to higher education,” Kennedy said when he sat down with BizWest in late July at his office in Denver for a conversation about his first month on the job, his vision for the system and preparing young people for jobs that…