Can a college change it's name?

You’ll notice that in the next few days, I’ll be posting much more, many of those posts being one right after the other as I scramble to make my post count before deadline. So just as a warning, some of the stuff I’m posting should have been posted earlier. Forgive me if I post about topics that happened weeks ago, though not all of them will go that far back.

Just a few days ago, in fact, I was riding the trusty Regency shuttle back home from school when I overheard something interesting. On the shuttle were two high-ranking Metro administrators that I had recognized from the night before at Metro’s annual scholarship dinner. No one but Regency residents are supposed to ride the Regency shuttle, but the administrators said they had a meeting at our dorms. Who the meeting was with or what it was about I have no idea, but I did hear something interesting in their quiet conversation. I think the Metropolitan State College of Denver is considering changing its name to Denver State College, or possibly Denver State University. At first I thought it was odd, since Denver isn’t a state, but then one of the administrators pointed out to the other that it’s not uncommon for a city’s university to be named that, i.e.: Mesa State, which I believe is located in southern Colorado.

And as for the changing of College to University, it’s well known that Metro is one of the most populated commuter/diversified colleges in the nation, it’s about time we achieved University status.

Whether that’s what the meeting was about, I’m not sure. But I think University status would be a great nod to Metro and increase its reputation.

Who knows, if it happens, maybe more people will stay at the Regency. I know that UCD is considering making it a requirement for incoming freshmen to stay at the Auraria Campus’ second student housing communitee, Campus Village. Maybe the same thing can happen here.