Supporters Plan Ronald Reagan University

[Hane]

DENVER - Supporters of Ronald Reagan have begun raising money to establish a university in his name in Colorado.

Organizers hope to create a general university with medical and law schools and a graduate school of public and international policy. They want to open by 2010 with 10,000 students and 2,000 faculty members and staff.

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"Because he had a vision of a shining city on the hill, I want us to be on a rolling plain, looking at the Front Range," Terry Walker, the university's founding president, said Monday.

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"I love his legacy, and I will do anything I can to perpetuate it and memorialize it," said Steve Schuck, the Colorado Springs businessman who donated the land.


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[yephora]

No affirmative action admissions at RRU, you can bet on that! Just excellence.

[Melissa]

Originally posted by yephora:
No affirmative action admissions at RRU, you can bet on that! Just excellence.

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[Hane]

Nancy Reagan to University: Thanks But No Thanks

Friday, April 30, 2004

DENVER, Colo. — Nancy Reagan (search) is just saying no to the idea of a Ronald Reagan University (search) in Colorado.

Organizers wanted to name a proposed 10,000-student university after the former president, but his wife issued a statement Thursday effectively killing the idea.

"We do not support the creation of a separate university," she said.

Federal law gives former presidents or their spouses final say over the use of the president's name as long as either is alive, said Terry Walker, the founding president of the university.

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Nancy Reagan said she appreciated the founders' intentions but suggested that Reagan supporters focus on the education program at the Reagan Presidential Library (search) in Simi Valley, California.

Colorado Springs businessman Steve Schuck had offered to donate land for the university, but said Thursday he didn't know whether his offer would stand without the Reagan name.

Walker said he forwarded a formal proposal to Nancy Reagan last week; his request for a meeting was turned down. He said he had spent five months searching for a family representative.

Ronald Reagan, 93, has remained in seclusion since disclosing nearly a decade ago that he has Alzheimer's (search) disease.

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