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GRAND JUNCTION — Gov. John Hickenlooper won a standing ovation in heavily Republican Grand Junction when he stood on a crowded student-center deck and signed a bill that officially turned Mesa State College into Colorado Mesa University.
“This a great, giant step forward. . . . This is a coming of age,” Hickenlooper said Monday morning after a signing ceremony that had local dignitaries and university boosters trying out a new school chant: “CMU, CMU, CMU.”
Hickenlooper predicted the university, which already contributes $317 million to the local economy, would grow and add even more of an economic boost with its long-sought university status.
The name change will go into effect Aug. 10. The Denver Post
