The Arizona Republic
Jan. 29, 2009
Whichever way they slice it, lawmakers will make excruciating cuts to balance this year's budget. That's inevitable when revenues are falling $1.6 billion short in a $9.9 billion general-fund budget.
But there are ways to slice that reduce long-term damage. We should minimize the impact on the most vulnerable members of society. We have to be sure that, when the economic turnaround comes, Arizona still has the strength to move forward and compete. And we need to take full a...
ABC 15 News
Jan. 28, 2009
Students from Arizona's three state universities held a protest rally Wednesday near the Capitol to protest spending cuts being considered to help erase a state budget shortfall.
University of Arizona student, Rachelle Colavito said to ABC15, "I can barely afford to eat and I really need the money and if I wasn't in school I know I'd probably be homeless."
The Arizona Republic
Jan. 28, 2009
Arizona's public universities on Tuesday unveiled their offers to make cuts in their budgets this year, saying they would strip thousands of employees of weeks of pay and eliminate jobs and some programs.
The moves would mean larger classes, higher tuition and less financial aid for students starting next year.
The proposal to cut $100 million from their operating budgets before July is a move by the universities to head off a cut more than double that si...
The Arizona Republic
Jan. 28, 2009
Of all the dire warnings issued over the past few days, as our leaders have begun revving up their chain saws, hands down the award for the most bone-chilling comes from Robert Shelton.
The University of Arizona president says a proposal to cut more than $100 million from his school's budget this year would be devastating.
"We would have no alternative but to declare a financial emergency and that would allow us to lay people off," he said Monda...
NPR
Jan. 28, 2009
Students from across Arizona are demonstrating Wednesday at the state Capitol against budget reductions in education funding. Some of their professors canceled classes to allow them to attend the protest.
The Arizona Republic
Jan. 27, 2009
TUCSON - University presidents and the Arizona Board of Regents believe the state's higher education system can shoulder a $100 million budget cut.
Education officials, including the presidents of the three state universities, arrived at the figure in response to House Speaker Kirk Adams' call for them to develop their own set of options for budget cuts.
The Arizona Legislature is trying to find cuts to deal with a $1.6 billion shortfall in the state budg...
Arizona Daily Star
Jan. 27, 2009
I listened with pride last week as students, faculty and community leaders raised their voices in a shared concern about the future of higher education in our state. I now add my voice to theirs.
While budget adjustments at the University of Arizona, Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University are necessary given the economic downturn, it's imperative that the details be left to the leadership within the universities, rather than to legislative micromanagers wh...
The Arizona Republic
Jan. 26, 2009
Arizona has made enormous progress in building a muscular university system, powering our education and economy.
Our students benefit from highly rated programs, such as Arizona State University's W.P. Carey School of Business, with five departments in the top 20 rankings of U.S. News and World Reports.
Research dollars flow into the state, creating jobs and sparking new companies. The University of Arizona consistently ranks in the top three schools rece...
Tucson Citizen
Jan. 26, 2009
The Arizona Board of Regents and the state's three university presidents have settled on an amount they believe higher education could trim in a midyear budget cut: $100 million.
UA Executive Vice President and Provost Meredith Hay gave the news to the UA Faculty Senate Monday in a report about the status of proposed budget cuts for this fiscal year, which ends June 30.
Charlotte Observer
Jan. 26, 2009
The public debate about what to include in an economic stimulus package has focused mostly on tangible improvements to the nation's infrastructure, and with good reason. Critical resources such as roads, Internet connections and the power grid have suffered and deteriorated from a lack of investment.
Yet the get-real and get-to-work speech President Barack Obama made at his inaugural suggests he sees the nation's economic recovery in broader terms. Good.
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The Arizona Republic
Jan. 23, 2009
TUCSON - The emotional backlash to proposed budget cuts at Arizona universities reached a fever pitch Thursday when more than 900 people crowded a University of Arizona meeting room here, most to express outrage.
It was the largest crowd ever to attend a meeting of the Arizona Board of Regents, whose members oversee the three public universities. Many visitors expressed anger at the funding cuts outlined in a legislative proposal and wildly applauded more than a dozen speak...
Karl Fisch
Jan. 23, 2009
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The Arizona Republic
Jan. 23, 2009
Here are proposed cuts to budgets for campuses at Arizona's public universities. The fiscal-year budgets include state and federal funds and money from tuition, fees and other student costs. Proposed cuts include state funds, such as lump-sum amounts, jobs and specific programs funded by state money. Also included are transfers of money from the universities' profit-making endeavors, such as bookstores and housing, into the state general fund. Excluded are possible changes to the way student ...
Arizona Daily Star
Jan. 23, 2009
State budget cuts of the magnitude presented by Republican lawmakers would force the UA to enact massive layoffs, shutter colleges and hike tuition to unforeseen levels, the institution's president said Thursday during an Arizona Board of Regents meeting.
Moments after an estimated 950 students, faculty members, staffers, business leaders and parents rallied at the meeting to protest the severity of the proposed cuts, University of Arizona President Robert Shelton said the ...
Arizona Daily Sun
Jan. 23, 2009
TUCSON -- The state's three university presidents gave dire forecasts Thursday to the Arizona Board of Regents in briefings on possible cuts under state funding proposals.
Northern Arizona University President John Haeger said proposed, potential cuts of more than $31 million would cut deeply, requiring furlough dates for faculty, staff and administrators, layoffs and administrative cutbacks. Haeger said they also would cut an important initiative to the state -- to develop heal...
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Jan. 23, 2009
The Arizona Board of Regent meeting Thursday looked more like a public protest than a board meeting.
An estimated 900 students, faculty and community members attended the meeting in the north ballroom of the Student Union Memorial Center to protest the budget-cut proposals by the Joint Legislative Budget Committee.
Some attendees held up black and white banners reading expressions like "Goodbye quality education," "Keep Our State Alive"...
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Jan. 23, 2009
In the wake of $600 million in budget cuts proposed by the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the Arizona Board of Regents, approved an exception to increase the limit on full-time non-resident undergraduate enrollment from 30 percent to 40 percent.
The meeting Thursday in the north ballroom of the Student Union Memorial Center was the first step to try and resolve the financial crisis facing Arizona higher education.
Tucson Citizen
Jan. 23, 2009
As Gov. Jan Brewer outlined her plans to downsize state government, there were hopeful signs that she will not decimate Arizona's education system.
Although Brewer was understandably nonspecific Wednesday in her inaugural address, she did drop hints that she may put a higher value on Arizona's education system than vociferous budget-slashers in the Legislature apparently do.
Tucson Citizen
Jan. 22, 2009
It was standing room only in the Student Memorial Center at the University of Arizona as more than 900 students, faculty members and business leaders turned out for the Arizona Board of Regents meeting Thursday to protest proposed higher-education budget cuts.
It was the largest crowd in recent history at a regents' meeting, dwarfing the groups of 200- to 400-plus people who protested tuition increases in the past, university officials said.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Jan. 22, 2009
A legislative proposal to cut more than $600-million from the Arizona university system’s budget over the next 18 months drew nearly 1,000 people to a meeting of the Arizona Board of Regents today, a record crowd, the University of Arizona’s UA News site reported.
The proposal, by the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, would slash $243-million in the remainder of the current fiscal year and $388-million more in the 2010 fiscal year.
ABC 15 News
Jan. 22, 2009
More than 800 people piled into the University of Arizona student union Thursday to speak out against hundreds of millions of dollars in budget cuts to the state's three major universities.
The Arizona Board of Regents meeting was standing room only as student, parents and leaders blasted the $600 million in budget cuts proposed over the next two years by state lawmakers.
KVOA News 4
Jan. 22, 2009
An overflow crowd attended a meeting of Arizona's Board of Regents this afternoon at the University of Arizona. People from across the state came to protest a legislative proposal to cut $250 million out of Arizona's three state universities between now and June 30. Critics say that would represent a 35 to 40 percent cut.
More than 725 people packed a ballroom at the UA Student Union. There were students and parents, faculty and staff, business owners and ...
KOLD News 13
Jan. 22, 2009
State regents heard angry words Thursday over proposed budget cuts at the University of Arizona.
"We cannot and will not stand for this," said UA student body president Tommy Bruce to applause.
Regents got an earful from students, business and community leaders who turned out at a meeting to condemn proposed state budget cuts. The U of A stands to lose more than $100-million dollars alone, or about 40 percent of its budget.
KSWT 13
Jan. 22, 2009
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - The state's three university presidents gave dire forecasts Thursday to the Arizona Board of Regents in briefings on possible cuts under state funding proposals.
Presidents of the University of Arizona, Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University all said that if cuts proposed by key Republican legislators as options to a state budget crunch are instituted, whole departments and colleges will have to be eliminated.
Solutions Through Higher Education
Jan. 20, 2009
Before the state legislature are budget options that include more than $600 million in cuts to the universities to address the state budget deficits for this year and next—cuts that will gut higher education in our state.
There will be two opportunities—this week and next—to show your support of the university system, as well as your concern over the proposed cuts.
This Thursday, Jan. 22, the Arizona Board of Regents will hold their Janu...
ABC 15 News
Jan. 20, 2009
Dozens of students from Arizona State University gathered Tuesday afternoon to protest possible budget cuts to higher education.
The protest at ASU coincided with similar protests at both the University of Arizona in Tucson and Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.
One of the ideas currently under consideration by the Arizona State Legislature is a nearly 40 percent cut to the Arizona University System for fiscal year 2010, a total of approximately $388 million.
The Arizona Republic
Jan. 16, 2009
Education, from kindergarten to the state universities, could take the biggest hit as lawmakers try to resolve the state's looming budget deficits, under a plan unveiled Thursday by Republican budget leaders.
The proposal to cut $1.5 billion from education budgets over the next year and a half drew immediate protests from education advocates, Democrats and some skeptical Republicans.
Higher Education Solution
Jan. 15, 2009
“The budget cuts that were proposed today are cataclysmic in the depth and breadth of devastation they will cause to our higher education system in Arizona. Our universities are prepared to do their fair share to help our state out of the budget crisis; however the legislature has proposed disproportionate cuts that are simply impossible to institute without gutting our universities.
“Make no mistake about it; when drastic cuts to the univ...
The Boston Globe
Jan. 12, 2009
PRESIDENT-ELECT Barack Obama has named Harvard and Woods Hole physicist John P. Holdren to serve as assistant to the president for science and technology and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Three other renowned scientists - Jane Lubchenco, Eric Lander, and Harold Varmus - also were tapped by Obama to fill key roles.
Inside Higher Ed
Jan. 9, 2009
Ask anyone who works at a public college or university about the impact of state support (or lack thereof), and they have stories to tell: of raises lost, of furloughs, of programs being eliminated and of positions frozen.
Here’s a new measure of how bad it is: The researchers who produce the definitive annual study of state appropriations for higher education are being forced today to release data they know understate (in some cases significantly) the extent of the c...
The Denver Post
Jan. 5, 2009
Really, there could be almost no worse time to dramatically increase the price of a college education.
This generation of young people, who face unprecedented global job competition and almost certainly will end up shouldering a steep national debt, must have access to an affordable college education.
Unfortunately, as national and state economic conditions have grown dimmer, higher education funding is taking a hit across the country.
The Arizona Republic
Jan. 4, 2009
Interested in becoming a teacher? If you can commit to teaching math, science or special education, the Arizona Board of Regents has a loan program that could help in a big way.
The regents created the Loan Forgiveness Program for Math, Science and Special Education Teachers to help students pay for their education, and it is truly a remarkable incentive. First-time bachelor's degree students can get a full-coverage student loan with a 100 percent forgiveness provision for ...
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