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- Clips for February 9,10, & 11, 2008
School may cut nursing curriculum
The Arizona Republic - Feb. 11, 2008 12:00 AM
Hospitals across the Valley pride themselves on partnerships they have with
schools to bring
students free medical care, give health lectures and provide healthy diet and
weight programs.
And for the most part, these programs are thriving. But a certified
nursing-assistant program at
Greenway High School in Phoenix could disappear or be altered next school year.
City ready to preview nursing-school project
The Arizona Republic - Feb. 11, 2008 12:00 AM
PHOENIX - The public can view the 2.0 version of Arizona State University's
nursing-school
project at several city meetings. Today, the Central City Design and
Architectural Review Panel
will weigh the project and Thursday, the project will be discussed at two other
meetings.
Community groups successfully pressed city and university officials to redesign
parts of a
$30- million, five-story building that is planned at Third and Fillmore streets.
The College
of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation, which is on the same corner, needs the
additional
building for classroom and office space.
Advanced high school diploma keeps students out of Arizona universities
The Arizona Republic - Feb. 8, 2008 12:07 PM
Amid new concerns about preparing students for a global economy, more Southeast
Valley
students will study under the demanding International Baccalaureate program. But
they face
one big hurdle continuing toward higher education in Arizona, where the state
universities do
not recognize those with IB diplomas. "Many of Arizona's top (students) are
going out of state,"
said Gregg Good, ...
New business-education model
Arizona Republic - Feb. 10, 2008 12:00 AM
The ultimate fantasy for a CEO is having so much demand that the organization
has trouble
producing the product or service. But this fantasy can turn to disaster if it
leads to rushed
production with inadequate resources, resulting in higher cost, lower quality
and dissatisfied
customers. Some companies match supply with demand for high-quality, high-value
goods
by raising prices to temper demand while increasing profit. Others offer
lower-feature products
to broader market segments. Both strategies have worked well for European car
companies
that offer high-priced top-end models as well as lower-feature models. Does this
model also
work for business schools, ...
Low diploma
rates hurt UA, ASU loans
East Valley Tribune - February 10, 2008 - 11:14PM
Low graduation rates at Arizona's public universities might keep students from
an increasingly
popular cash source for college expenses. Sallie Mae, the nation’s largest
student loan firm,
is reeling from the loss of at least $1.2 billion last year on defaulted private
loans. The firm
recently announced it intends to stop making such loans to those enrolled at
schools struggling
to graduate a large share of their students. Most of those bad loans came from
students who
dropped out of school, said Martha Holler, a Sallie Mae spokeswoman. “That’s why
we’re so
focused on graduation rates moving forward,” Holler said. Arizona State
University and the
University of Arizona are among the worst large, public research universities at
guiding
students to diplomas within six years.
Students note
credit card debt; bill would ban campus offers
East Valley Tribune - February 10, 2008 - 1:28AM
Former Arizona State University student Mallory Parker was walking through
campus her fresh-
man year when she was presented with an offer — a credit card that would pay for
meals, books,
rent and all other expenses that build up day after day. “I charged everything
to it,” Parker said.
That is, until she maxed out the card at $2,200, plus interest. Students could
be spared these
difficulties if HB2518 makes it through the Legislature. The bill, sponsored by
Rep. Ed Ableser,
D-Tempe, ...
Bill would help make
textbooks affordable
Arizona Daily Star - 2/11/2008
Congress and several state legislatures are advancing measures designed to halt
the rapid
price increase of college textbooks by requiring publishers to disclose the
books' cost to
professors and outline any substantive changes in new editions. In Arizona, a
bill backed by
university students and professors is the latest in a series of steps pushed by
a student-run
campaign to make textbooks affordable. Identical bills have been introduced in
the House and
Senate, and while hearings haven't been scheduled, the backing of key lawmakers
is
promising, student leaders say.
UA team creates new
holographic display
Arizona Daily Star - 2/11/2008
A 3-D holographic image that can be updated and viewed without special glasses
may soon
find its way from a UA optics lab to operating rooms and battlefield command
centers. And
what the entertainment and advertising industries could do with a lifelike image
apparently
appearing in thin air is anyone's guess. The unique component in this
holographic system
— a 4-inch-square glass-and-polymer display surface — is its ability to
change, to be
updated, rewritten, says Savas Tay, ...
UA experts visit
Honduras to restore lives with surgery
Arizona Daily Star - 2/11/2008
This is the fourth year that Dr. Joseph Sheppard has traveled to Honduras and
transformed
lives through surgeries. In five days, the orthopedic surgeon examined 85
patients and
operated on 35 of them at Hospital Escuela, a teaching hospital in Tegucigalpa,
the country's
capital. On Jan. 5, Sheppard was accompanied to Honduras by a team that included
Dr.
Kimberly Lindberg, a fifth-year orthopedic resident at University of Arizona
College of Medicine;
Victor Cordero and Mary Scunziano, operating room surgical technicians at
University Medical
Center; and Dr. Daniel Switlick, a former UA hand-surgery resident who is now an
orthopedic
surgeon in Roseville, Calif.
Opinion: Arizona must
see that education system is in crisis
Arizona Daily Star - 2/11/2008
Our view: A new coalition is raising the alarm about failures in education, but
must also focus
on concrete solutions The numbers are alarming — as they're meant to be. Think
about them
as you read them:
Guest Opinion: Trauma
care in Tucson is a good-news story
Arizona Daily Star - 2/11/2008
The recent articles by the Arizona Daily Star's Carla McClain regarding trauma
medical services
were accurate and demonstrated some of the current problems with trauma services
locally,
statewide and nationally ("Our deadly deficiency," Jan. 27). The stories were
informative and
raised awareness of the importance of a Level 1 Trauma Program. However, the
headlines of
the stories were misrepresentative as they implied "deficiency" and "woe." To
readers of these
articles, the headlines could incite fear and lack of confidence in our trauma
center at University
Medical Center.
One idea to
keep Rockies in Tucson: Let UA baseball take over, renovate Hi Corbett field
The Arizona Daily Star - Feb 09, 2008
In a potential bid to save spring training in Tucson, city and University of
Arizona officials have
started preliminary talks about the school taking over Hi Corbett Field and
renovating it to keep
the National League champion Colorado Rockies from bolting. One idea floated to
help finance
the $10 million to $20 million needed for renovations is for the city to also
turn the nearby driving
range and Randolph North and Dell Urich golf courses over to the university. UA
athletic director
Jim Livengood and Tucson City Manager Mike Hein met Thursday over lunch in the
office of
Arizona Daily Star Publisher John M. Humenik, ...
UA officials in developing stages of creating long delayed child care center
UA Arizona Daily Wildcat Online - 2/11/08
After years of delays and obstacles, the UA is looking to build a campus daycare
center for
student, faculty and staff parents. Earlier in the semester, the "UA Daycare
Initiative," a term
coined by Tommy Bruce, president of the Associated Students of the University of
Arizona, ...
Air Force
backing UA's hologram development
Tucson Citizen - 2/09/2008
The U.S. Air Force approached University of Arizona scientists in 2006 with a
need, essentially,
to make science fiction a reality. This week, with an article in the journal
Nature, the scientists
reported that they've been able to do just that. Postdoctoral research fellow
Savas Tay and
optical sciences professor Nasser Peyghambarian created three-dimensional
holographic
displays that can be erased and rewritten in about three minutes.
Opinion:
Arizona high schools graduate the unready
Tucson Citizen - 2/11/2008
Fewer than half of HS grads qualify for state's universities Imagine if for
every 100 cars an
automaker produced, only 68 actually ran. Would this be satisfactory? Would
anyone continue
buying cars from this company? Would you buy one of its cars? Obviously, few
people would.
And competitors selling a better product would surely drive the underperforming
manufacturer
out of business. Arizona's public education system can't boast numbers that are
any better.
Our
Opinion: Arizona's education systems flunk out
Tucson Citizen - 2/11/2008
Impartial reviews now gauge our education failures, challenges The state of our
state is sorry,
indeed, when it comes to public education. We can't graduate our kids from high
school in
reasonable numbers. Too many of those who do walk away with a diploma require
major
remedial class-work to catch up to where they need to be in order to enter
college or the work-
force. Very few of our high school graduates go on to complete college within
the ensuing four
years.