BOULDER — A split among the University of Colorado’s elected leaders over tuition and budget issues has become an increasingly public battle, and some regents say President Bruce Benson’s approach to leadership is causing the divide.
In the past few years, there have been several close votes on the Board of Regents — which have not followed party lines — on hot-button topics such as tuition increases and the closure of the journalism school.
While the university’s elected leaders agree that bringing forth different opinions is healthy, some of them say Benson has formed alliances with regents that have ultimately led to a fracture on the nine-member board.
“There are regents who place as a high priority their support and loyalty for the president,” said Regent Jim Geddes, R-Sedalia. “And then there are regents — including myself — who place as their highest priority the welfare of the university and its students and who have disagreed in a number of instances with decisions and actions President Benson has taken.”
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