New CIT shape: Bricks and mortar

Moving beyond a vision of the Colorado Institute of Technology as a statewide network of high-tech training centers, state officials are now focused on establishing a separate campus and faculty for the institute.

Newly appointed state Secretary of Technology Marc Holtzman said in a Northern Colorado Business Report interview that he and Colorado higher-education officials now plan a free-standing institute housing 6,000 students and graduating 1,500 to 2,000 information-technology professionals annually.

“We’re now looking at the institute from two different perspectives,” Holtzman said. “One is short-term, beginning as early as September of next year. We want to have in place CIT courses,…