There is hereby established a school at Golden, to be known as the Colorado school of mines. The school of mines shall be a specialized baccalaureate and graduate research institution with high admission standards. The Colorado school of mines shall have a unique mission in energy, mineral, and material science and engineering and associated engineering and science fields. The school shall be the primary institution of higher education offering energy, mineral, and material science and mineral engineering degrees at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.
Source: G.L. § 2432. L. 1881: p. 219, § 1. G.S. § 3102. R.S. 08: § 6019. C.L. § 8038. CSA: C. 145, § 5. CRS 53: § 124-9-5. C.R.S. 1963: § 124-9-5. L. 85: Entire section R&RE, p. 764, § 8, effective July 1.
ANNOTATION
Faculty to determine which students entitled to degrees. It belongs to the faculty, by whom the instruction is imparted, to say whether a student possesses the proper qualifications to entitle him to a diploma. Steinhauer v. Arkins, 18 Colo. App. 49, 69 P. 1075 (1902).
The board of trustees merely represents the faculty in granting of degrees. In the conferring of degrees, the faculty is represented by its board of trustees, and the board is bound by the judgment of the faculty and can act only as the faculty directs. Steinhauer v. Arkins, 18 Colo. App. 49, 69 P. 1075 (1902).
Mandamus will not lie to compel the board of trustees to issue a diploma. The board of trustees of the school of mines has no authority to issue a diploma to a student of the school except when required to do so by the school speaking through its faculty, and thus mandamus will not lie to compel the board of trustees to issue such diploma where the student has failed to pass the examination required by the faculty, although his failure may have been chargeable to the hostility and wrongful conduct of the faculty. Steinhauer v. Arkins, 18 Colo. App. 49, 69 P. 1075 (1902).