Senate Education

Come to order. Ms. Kurtzfelin, will you please call the roll? Senators Benavidez. Here. Frizzell. Excused. Kip. Here. Rich. Here. Simpson. Present. Marchman. Here. Mr. Chair. Here. We have a quorum and we'll get down to business. We have just a few confirmations today. We'll start off with the Colorado Mesa University board. So president John Marshall, please come up and introduce your confirmations. You've done this before, so you know where the button is. Very good. Go ahead and begin. Mr. Chairman, thank you for having us. John Marshall with Colorado Mesa University. I have the honor of serving as president of our university. This year we will serve 11,500 students, primarily Colorado kids, half of whom will be first in their family to go to college. Disproportionately, those are going to be students who are first in their family, low income rural kids and students of color. Said differently, we are hard at work trying to provide an opportunity to students who haven't typically had that opportunity. We are among the fastest growing institutions anywhere and we also get the benefit of having a technical college built into our role in mission. So we are laser focused on…