Five questions for President Bruce Benson CU Connections June 27, 2019
(World News USA)

Friday marks the end of Bruce Benson`s presidency of the University of Colorado. He presided over the four-campus system for more than 11 years, making him the longest-serving CU president in more than 65 years. Yet many thought he wouldn`t make it near that long. After a contentious selection process in which some questioned his lack of academic credentials (he earned a bachelor`s degree in geology from CU Boulder in 1964), his partisan political background (he was the 1994 Republican gubernatorial candidate in Colorado and twice led the state Republican party), and career as an oil-and-gas man, Benson presided over a university that saw significant increases in nearly every major metric....