September 3, 2023

Shake up or break up?

Prof says FRCC’s Larimer campus should go its own way, but leaders back a new plan for togetherness

FORT COLLINS — It was once a separate entity. Should it be again?

What is now the Larimer campus of Front Range Community College had been the Larimer County Vocational-Technical Center until it was absorbed into FRCC’s system in 1988, but at least a few professors there now think it’s time the northern outpost declared its independence.

“The Larimer Campus could easily stand on its own,” wrote Jeff Borg in an April 28 op-ed column in the Loveland Reporter-Herald. “With our roughly 11,000 students, we would become the sixth largest of the 13 community colleges in Colorado.”

But as Neil Sedaka sang, “Breaking…

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With BizWest since 2012 and in Colorado since 1979, Dallas worked at the Longmont Times-Call, Colorado Springs Gazette, Denver Post and Public News Service. A Missouri native and Mizzou School of Journalism grad, Dallas started as a sports writer and outdoor columnist at the St. Charles (Mo.) Banner-News, then went to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch before fleeing the heat and humidity for the Rockies. He especially loves covering our mountain communities.
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