TO CLIPS INDEX  Clips for January 8, 2009

Editorial: We can stem shortage
The Arizona Republic 1/8/09
The nation's nursing shortage is a "threat to the
quality of patient care," according to a report by
Homeland Security's Citizenship and Immigration
Services ombudsman. What does that have to do
with immigration? Plenty.  The nursing shortage,
which has been called a public-health problem
by experts in Arizona, is the result of a variety of
complex factors. Much of it comes down to a lack
of capacity to train nurses. The United States will
need 1.2 million new registered nurses by 2014,
according to a 2007 U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services study. A 2005-2006 study
by the National League for Nursing found that
88,000 qualified applicants to nursing schools
were rejected because of lack of space. State
and national efforts to increase capacity to train
nurses are critical. But training nurses is a long
process - especially if there aren't enough class-
rooms ready. That's why foreign nurses who
want to work in the United States represent a
valuable resource

Brewer says 'chop, chop, chop' not the answer
Associated Press/Arizona Daily Sun 1/8/09
TEMPE -- Secretary of State Jan Brewer said
Wednesday that she'll seek a balanced approach
with carefully chosen spending cuts to solve the
 state's budget crisis and isn't willing to "just go in
and chop, chop, chop." Brewer, a Republican, is
expected to become governor within weeks upon
Democrat Janet Napolitano's resignation after
she is confirmed by the U.S. Senate as homeland
security secretary in President-elect Barack
Obama's Cabinet. Brewer said during an interview
taped for airing on KAET-TV's "Horizon" program
that the budget crisis is huge and that she and her
advisers are still studying possible solutions.

UA Press chief Szuter is leaving to teach at ASU
Arizona Daily Star 1/8/09
The director of the UA's publishing arm is stepping
down to take a teaching position at Arizona State
University. Christine Szuter, 56, will resign as director
of University of Arizona Press on Friday to lead ASU's
Scholarly Publishing Certificate program. The ASU
program teaches graduate students how to succeed
in the field of higher-education publishing, and the
post brings Szuter's career back to where it began:
the classroom. Szuter, an associate professor in
anthropology at the UA, was an academic before
she moved into publishing.

Democrats' misgivings about Brewer seem to be
softening
Arizona Daily Star 1/8/09
PHOENIX — There was one Democrat who said
he had whiplash after learning that Republican
Secretary of State Jan Brewer would be the state's
next governor. Another had actually prayed that
Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano would not leave
the state in GOP hands.  They imagined the worst,
and in the weeks following Napolitano's
announcement that she'd be leaving the state for
a Cabinet position in President-elect Barack
Obama's administration, Democrats lowered the
expectations for Brewer with each breath. But that
was December.  Now it's January — weeks or even
days from the start of a Brewer administration —
and the Democratic tone toward the governor-to-be
is shifting.

Editorial: Our Opinion: County's deal in 2004 with
doctors group saved Kino
Tucson Citizen 1/8/09
It was five years ago that the Pima County Board
of Supervisors made a monumentally important
decision. Jan. 20, 2004, the supervisors voted
unanimously to go along with Pima County
Administrator Chuck Huckelberry's
recommendation to have University Physicians
Inc. take over operation of Kino Community
Hospital. It was immediately clear the board
made the right decision - right for the medical
care of Pima County residents, right for University
of Arizona medical faculty and students, and right
for county taxpayers. The passage of five years
has only made it more obvious that this was the
right way to deal with the county's legal and moral
responsibility to provide health care for those who
cannot afford to pay for it.

UA near top for Hispanic, American Indian doctoral
degrees
Tucson Citizen 1/8/09
The University of Arizona is fifth in the nation in the
number of doctoral degrees obtained by American
Indian students from 2003 to 2007, according to a
new study. The Survey of Earned Doctorates, which
looked at doctoral graduation rates from 2003 to
2007, also reports that UA is No. 6 nationally in the
number of doctoral degrees obtained by Hispanic
students. Arizona State University ranked third in
granting doctoral degrees to Native Americans
and No. 12 in the category for Hispanic students.
UA granted 121 research doctoral degrees to
Hispanic students and 14 research doctoral
degrees to Native American students from
2003 to 2007, according to the survey.

Catalina Sky Survey Sets New Record for NEO
Discoveries, Receives Funding Through 2012
UA News 1/7/09
The University of Arizona's Catalina Sky Survey
has been awarded a $3.16 million NASA grant
to continue its search for near-Earth objects,
or NEOs, through 2012. Under the direction
of Stephen M. Larson of the UA's Lunar and
Planetary Laboratory, the survey, known as
CSS, has discovered about 70 percent of all
NEOs found in the past three years.  CSS tallied
565 NEO discoveries in 2008, which broke its
record-setting number of 460 NEO discoveries
in 2007.

Napolitano pressed for early exit as budget
crisis looms
Phoenix Business Journal
1/7/09 12:25pm MST
Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano will stay on as
governor until she is confirmed as U.S. Home-
land Security Secretary despite calls by some
Republicans for her to set aside. The U.S.
Senate will hold confirmation hearings for
Napolitano later this month as members
consider president-elect Barack Obama’s
cabinet choices. Some Republicans say the
Democratic governor should resign before
her confirmation so Jan Brewer as the in-
coming governor and the Legislature can
formally start dealing with the state’s
mammoth budget deficits. The current and
ensuing fiscal year deficits could total more
than $2 billion.

Collins College site designed to spark students’
creativity
Phoenix Business Journal 1/8/09 8:57am
One of the Valley’s veteran postsecondary schools
began classes this week at a new campus designed
to spark creativity and innovation. The 31-year-old
Collins College leased 70,000 square feet at the
Liberty Cotton Center business park at 4750 S. 44th
St. in Phoenix. The school’s parent company,
Chicago-based Career Education Corp., invested
$8 million in tenant improvements and interior
design to make the campus as cutting-edge as
possible. .....CEC acquired the school in 1997. Today,
it has about 1,500 students and about 200 employees
at its two campuses, including more than 100 faculty
members. “Previously, we were spread around five
buildings (in Tempe), and moving here allowed us to
streamline our services and staff in a contemporary
facility under one roof,” Padron said. The school
offers bachelor’s and associate degrees in video
and film production, graphic design, interior design
and game design.

News Blog: State-Colleges Association Names
Top 10 Policy Issues for 2009
The Chronicle of Higher Education 1/7/09
Washington — The American Association of State
Colleges and Universities has released its list of
the top 10 state-policy issues that will affect higher
education this year. Not surprisingly, many of the
issues focus on money, or the lack of it, as states
project a combined $200-billion revenue shortfall
for the current and coming budget years. The
states’ fiscal crises, tuition policy, and student aid
make up the top three items in the list. In addition,
the new federal requirement to maintain a
consistent level of state money for higher
education will be an issue, the group notes.

For Arizona State and Penn, 2 Tech-Transfer
Offices Could Be Better Than One
The Chronicle of Higher Education 1/8/09
The University of Pennsylvania and Arizona State
University are teaming up on technology transfer
in a three-year experiment that will allow each to
take advantage of the other’s expertise in
commercializing the findings of their researchers.
“This is all about getting more out of your resources,”
said Michael J. Cleare, executive director of Penn’s
Center for Technology Transfer. “If we help one
another, we will revenue-share.” The two institutions
have established a formal schedule that sets out
how they will split income, depending on how much
each university does for the other.