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News Item forwarded from Arizona Regents Central Office -
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Arguments to be heard on tax law
Arizona Republic – 01/23/2008, 04:28 am
Court to determine merit of Ariz. scholarship credit Pat Kossan The Arizona
Republic Money that
helps to send about25,000 kids to private and religious
schools will be on the line Thursday as
a federal appeals court hears oral
arguments in an eight-year-old challenge to Arizona's scholarship
-tax-credit
law.
Swiss firm purchases Ventana for $3.4 bil
Arizona Republic – 01/23/2008, 00:11 am
After seven months of letter-writing, lawsuits and public appeals, Swiss
drug-makerRoche and
Tucson's Ventana Medical Systems on Tuesday announced a $3.
UA preps for primary elections
Arizona Daily Wildcat – 01/23/2008, 01:36 am
The Arizona Students' Association, the Associated Students of the University of
Arizona
and Arizona
Student Public Interest Research Group will kick off their
week long effort
today to encourage students
to vote in the Arizona primary and
national presidential elections.
Arizona Governor appoints 2 new regents
Arizona Daily Wildcat – 01/23/2008, 01:36 am
Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano named two new members to the Arizona Board of
Regents
yesterday.
Bob McLendon, a former member of the Yuma County Board of
Supervisors served
on the Arizona State
House of Representatives from 1983 to
2001.
Fewer Low-Income Students Attending Yale
Calibre Macro World – 01/22/2008, 05:18 am
The number of low-income students at Yale is declining, a new study
shows, even as Harvard
and some
top-ranked public institutions, including the
University of Connecticut, have
made gains in admitting more
students from the
bottom of the economic ladder.
Fairs offer worker-education options
Arizona Republic – 01/23/2008, 12:00 am
Editor's note: This article was submitted by Celeste Winters, marketing chair of
Arizona Education
Consortium. The Arizona Education Consortium (AEC), a
non-profit association of 35 member
colleges
and universities, has a solution to
one common New Year's resolution: going back to
school to fulfill
educational
goals. Consortium members work cooperatively in an effort to bring
higher education
opportunities...
$9.6 billion collected may be gone before fiscal year is over
East Valley Tribune - January 22, 2008 - 10:38PM
Arizona's cash to pay its bills will dry up sometime in late May without
legislative action, state
Treasurer
Dean Martin warned Tuesday. Martin said at
the rate the dollars are going "out the
door," the entire $9.6
billion that legislative staffers predict the state will collect this fiscal year
will be
gone more than a month
before it actually ends. That's because state agencies
were
authorized to spend $10.6 billion under the
assumption - now disproved ...
Editorial: We cannot ignore Arizona’s growing legion of students
East Valley Tribune - January 22, 2008 - 9:49PM
Competing budget proposals released Friday by Gov. Janet Napolitano and the
chairmen of the
Senate
and House Appropriations committees agree on one critical
point: Arizona’s budget
problems are so
serious that the state doesn’t have $417
million to build new schools next year.
Sen. Bob Burns, R-Peoria,
and Rep.
Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, say the solution is simply don’t try.
They want the
Legislature to
suspend all construction for elementary and high schools through
June 2009 ...
Hopi official, former legislator join regents
The Associated Press - January 23, 2008
PHOENIX — Gov. Janet Napolitano has appointed a former legislator and a Hopi
tribal official to
the
board that oversees the three state universities, her
office announced Tuesday. One of the
new Board
of Regents member is Bob
McLendon, a former high school teacher in government
and American
history who
served in the state House of Representatives from 1983 to 2001 and
later was a
member
of the Yuma County Board of Regents. The second new member is LuAnn
Leonard, executive director
of the Hopi Education Endowment Fund.
UA seeks approval for dorm designs
Tucson Citizen - January 23, 2008
The University of Arizona will request approval to move forward with the design
stage of its
proposed
Sixth Street residence halls at the Arizona Board of
Regents meeting here Thursday.
The regents will
meet from 2 to 4:15 p.m. Thursday and from 9 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Friday in the
North Ballroom of the
Memorial Student Union. The meeting is open to the public. UA's plan for
increasing on-campus
housing was originally approved by the regents as part of
the university's
Capital Development Plan
in October ...
Ariz. treasurer: State's spendable cash runs out in late May
Tucson Citizen - January 23, 2008
PHOENIX — Noting he'd have few options to pay the state's expenses unless
lawmakers act,
State
Treasurer Dean Martin said Tuesday that a revenue shortfall
has the state on track to run
out of cash
it can spend in late May — five weeks
before the fiscal year ends on June 30. "You
do have to do some
sort of action,"
Martin told the House and Senate Appropriations committees
during a joint
meeting.
Republican legislators and Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano are
debating how ...
University of Phoenix gets high marks in diversity
Phoenix Business Journal - January 23, 2008 8:36 AM MST
A report issued by Diverse Issues in Higher Education magazine rates the
University of Phoenix as the
top-ranked institution in granting master's degrees
to minority students in the subject areas of business,
health care and
education. In addition, the magazine said the private university system grants
the biggest
number of master's degrees in all academic disciplines ...
From the Publisher: Let's not fumble our growth asset
Phoenix Business Journal - January 23, 2008
The state budget season opened this week, and I hope our 90 esteemed lawmakers
have checked their
eyes to make sure their long-range vision stays in focus.
With a large deficit looming, we can't afford short
-sighted decision-making that
we'll regret once we pull out of this down business cycle, which we will.
What's
the long-term view? People. Lots more of them. Pretty much the same story line
we've enjoyed for
the past 50 years. The Maricopa Association of Governments
says about 2.5 million more people will be
living in the Valley by 2020 ...
Space is big business in Arizona, study finds
Inside Tucson Business - January 17, 2008 11:20 AM MST
The space industry in Arizona generates $252 million annually and accounts for
about 3,300 jobs. That’s
what a first-ever study by the University of Arizona
has found. Nearly half of the economic impact – $120
million – and 57 percent of
the jobs in the industry come from the UA itself....
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