Becker honored as advocate for community colleges

    The State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education and the Colorado Community College System has honored five Colorado legislators, which included House Republican Jon Becker of Fort Morgan, for their efforts to understand issues and advocate for Colorado’s community colleges.
    “The work CCCS and its colleges do transforms lives. Morgan Community College gave me a path and pushed me to take on leadership roles while attending and helped me to transfer on to a four-year university. Now I have the opportunity to serve the community colleges as an adjunct professor,” Becker said.
    According to SBCCOE and CCCS, the Legislator of the Year award is given annually to legislators who make an extra effort to understand and advocate for policy to help community colleges. In addition to Becker, Reps. Paul Lundeen (R-Monument) and Janet Buckner (D-Aurora) and Sens. Tim Neville (R-Littleton) and Irene Aguilar (D-Denver) were given the award.

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