The Denver Post: The University of Colorado has instructed communications staff on the school’s campuses to avoid partisan language and submit any statements dealing with “sensitive” topics — including COVID-19 science, race relations, climate change and the First Amendment — to the office of President Mark Kennedy prior to publication.

That directive, made in a July memo recently obtained by The Denver Post, was denounced Monday by a CU regent and the chair of the systemwide Faculty Council as a move to control speech.

But the memo was not sent to, nor intended to impact, faculty, said Ken McConnellogue, the CU system spokesman who authored the document. Rather, he said, it was a heads-up to campus higher-ups calling for more measured, coordinated communication as the election approaches.

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