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space utilization and to review master plans and program plans for all higher
master plans for state institutions of higher education allows the Colorado
plan every ten years. The Colorado Department of Higher Education has
the authority to prescribe uniform policies, procedures, and standards of
education capital construction projects in Colorado. The ability to review

Department of Higher Education and state-elected officials to attain a better understanding of educational facilities’ needs and priorities. The Colorado School of Mines president and the Board of Trustees must review and approve facility master plans. The Mines Board of Trustees is charged constitutionally with the general supervision of the Mines campus and the exclusive control and direction of all funds of and appropria

MASTER PLAN PURPOSE
need to remain a leading environmental resource-focused research institution.
This plan outlines the facilities that the Colorado School of Mines (Mines) will
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The framework of land uses, building forms, and open spaces described in
This Facilities Master Plan will not only guide the planning and design of

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this plan are intended to be flexible and adaptable.

campus facilities, but it will also influence academic programming, existing and future space scheduling, and appropriate building and open space uses. This Facilities Master Plan should serve as a guide, not as a set of binding prescriptive actions, and the specific recommendations should be modifi as additional requirements and needs arise. However, such revisions should follow and support the plan’s guiding principles. Th

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