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Clips for March 20, 2009
AP/Forbes.com
3/20/09
Dozens of Arizona
state agencies have projected how
they would respond to budget reductions of 5,
10, 15
and 20 percent, listing cuts including mass layoffs of
university
personnel, truncating social-welfare services
and shutting down police aviation
units…Arizona State
University said cuts in its state-provided funding would
require mass layoffs that likely would have to be
targeted a professional and
classified staff because
student demand would limit possible cuts of faculty.
The reductions of 5-10-15-20 percents would require
lay-offs of 740, 1,010, 1,280
and 1,550 professional
staff, the university said.
Phoenix Business Journal
3/20/09
Arizona is getting $55 million for state energy programs that
could help propel solar and renewable energy sources, and
$12 million to outfit
schools to use more technology. Funds
also will be available for U.S. Small
Business Administration
loans to help startups, and tax breaks and financial aid
for
lower-income families to send their kids to college. All of
that could help spark the next wave of energy
production,
help high-tech firms or bear some great entrepreneurs and
innovators. But Dennis Hoffman, an economist at Arizona
tate University’s W.P.
Carey School of Business, would
have liked to see more money allocated for
science and
technology.
Arizona Republic
3/20/09
About 50 protesters
gathered Thursday evening on the bridge
over University Drive at Arizona State
University to protest the
Iraq War.
Traffic was nearly at a standstill at about 6
p.m. on
University Drive from Mill Avenue to Rural Road past the
university,
with many passersby honking in support of the
protesters. The event marked the
sixth anniversary of the start
of the war in 2003. People on the bridge
were holding about
30 different signs, with such messages as “War is Not the
Answer,'' “Support the Troops in the War,'' “We Cannot Afford
to Make More
Enemies,'' “Not One More Death, Not One More
Dollar,'' “War is Over if You Want
It,'' and “Fund Education, Not
Occupation.''
Arizona Daily Star
3/20/09
University of
Arizona research professor Richard J. Ablin
has long been saying what two new
studies concluded
this week: that the PSA screening for prostate cancer
does
little if any good. Not only that, but the studies say
the PSA blood test can
lead to painful, expensive and
unnecessary medical treatments. It's all quite
frustrating
to Ablin, an immunobiologist who was 30 years old in
1970 when he
was part of a research team that
discovered PSA — prostate-specific antigen,
which
is a protein produced by the cells of the prostate
gland.
Tucson Citizen
3/20/09
Until now, there was scant hope for children who suffer
from
irreversible small-bowel failure in Arizona. But soon,
University of Arizona
Medical Center will offer the life-
saving treatment of full intestine and liver
transplant, and
the surgeon heading the team will speak on the topic
from 4 to 6
p.m. Friday. Khalid Khan, associate professor
of surgery and pediatrics in UA's
Department of Surgery
and director of the Pediatric Liver and Intestinal
Trans-
plantation Program, will speak on "Innovations in Liver
and Intestine
Transplantation in Infants" in the DuVal
Auditorium, 1501 N. Campbell Ave.
CAVIAT part of school innovation
Arizona Daily Sun
3/20/09
The difference with CAVIAT is that vocational students still
must complete all high school graduation requirements,
including passage of the
AIMS tests. Another is that many
CCC credits are transferable to a four-year
degree. That
program, called CCC to NAU, is another example of local
cooperation over competition in local higher education.
While many community
colleges across Arizona are
lobbying for the right to award their own four-year
degrees,
CCC and NAU officials have recognized the possible
duplication that
such a move entails within the Flagstaff
region. Instead, they've coordinated
courses and academic
counseling so that students who choose can move
seamlessly
from a two-year to a four-year degree
program.
KNXV-TV (ABC) Ch. 15
3/20/09
A Valley company is offering over two dozen scholarships to
students who will be attending a Maricopa Community College
or Arizona State
University’s West campus. Arizona Public
Service will be awarding the
scholarships to students who
have a 3.0 cumulative grade point average, who is
an Arizona
resident and in financial need. ASU West students who want
to apply
must be a high school or current ASU West student
studying business or
education.
ASU
Web Devil
3/20/09
Bravo to the Arizona Board of Regents for rejecting plans to
wipe out the AIMS scholarship program — for now. While the
regents were not
quick to give the scholarship its blessings
for long-term security, they did
save the day for the thousands
of high-school students statewide who have been
working
toward a tuition waiver to help them pursue a higher
education. But at
least if that didn’t work, the universities still
could have lured them to
campus with the upcoming higher
tuition, housing and dining rates. Or not.