TO CLIPS INDEX Clips for January 23, 2009
Shelton: Big GOP cuts would
devastate UA
Arizona Daily Star 1/23/09
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 cuts being discussed are equal to about half of the
total university jobs funded by the state.
More than 900
protest proposed budget cuts to higher education
Tucson Citizen
1/22/09
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.
University leaders decry proposed cuts
Arizona Daily Sun 1/23/09
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 health professions programs that serve the broader state.
Proposed Budget Cuts Draw Record Crowd to Arizona Regents' Meeting
The Chronicle of Higher Education 1/22/09
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.
Our Opinion: Budget
query: Will Brewer walk her talk on education?
Tucson Citizen 1/23/09
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.
Hundreds pack meeting to protest university budget cuts
ABC15.com 1//22/09
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.
Hundreds protest proposed cuts to UA
KVOA News 4
1/22/09
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.
Proposed
UA budget cuts draw angry protest at Regents' meeting
KOLD News 13
1/22/09
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 dollars alone, or
about 40 percent of its budget.
University leaders decry proposed cuts
KSWT 13/AP 1/22/09
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.
'Call to audience' turns into battle against budget cuts
Arizona Daily Wildcat 1/23/09
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" and "40 percent = Death."
Regents plan for 'proposed' future
Arizona Daily Wildcat 1/23/09
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.
Regents meet amid rage over university
budget cuts
KTAR 1/22/09
Proposals to slash up to $600 million from Arizona's
university system in the next two years could cause
damage that would take years to fix, Regent Dennis
DeConcini said Thursday. The comments of the
former U.S. senator came as the Board of Regents
prepared to meet in Tucson and discuss the cuts,
which generated outrage in the university community
after they were suggested last week by state Sen.
Russell Pearce and Rep. John Kavanagh,
Republicans who chair the appropriations committees
in their respective houses. DeConcini and Regents
President Fred Boice said they hoped business and
community leaders and the general public would join
them in opposing the drastic cuts. "To threaten these
kind of reductions is just absolutely catastrophic,"
said DeConcini.
Arizona State University Budget May Be
Slashed
Associated Content
1/22/09
Arizona State University is the largest institution of
higher learning in Arizona. ASU has four campuses
in the Phoenix area, and had over 67,000 students
in fall 2008. ASU was ranked 121st out of the top
universities by US News and World Report, and
was also ranked #4 in the up and coming schools.
Unfortunately, all that may change soon, as budget
cuts have been proposed by the Arizona state
legislature that would slash funding by 40% of the
level that it had in fiscal year 2008. Michael Crow,
president of Arizona State University, sent a letter
to students Wednesday urging them to write their
representatives to reduce the magnitude of the
proposed cuts.
High numbers for High Country Conference
Center
Inside NAU
1/22/09
The High Country Conference Center at Flagstaff
reached some high plateaus since it opened its
shiny doors last spring. "The conference center is
doing better than expected," said Jane Kuhn,
associate vice president for Enrollment
Management and Student Affairs. "We expected
to pay a $110,249 management subsidy as the
conference center got rolling, but instead we
profited beyond the payback by more than
$45,000." Notable events at the center included
the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra's gala with
the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Flagstaff Medical
Center's Turquoise Ball and the 35th Western
Regional Honors Council Conference.
Peace Corps ranks NAU among 'Top 25'
universities
Inside NAU
1/22/09
NAU has once again secured a spot on the annual
list of Peace Corps' "Top Peace Corps Volunteer
Producing Colleges and Universities," with 23
alumni currently serving as Peace Corps
volunteers. NAU is No. 18 in the rankings for
medium-sized universities, and alumni are
currently serving in 17 of the 76 countries where
the Peace Corps operates. The highest
concentration of Lumberjacks is in Bulgaria,
Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala
and Paraguay, with the majority of volunteers
working in business, health, education and the
environment. Michael Wagner, Regent's
professor of forestry, volunteered in the Peace
Corps from 1973 to 1975 in Ghana. He says
NAU nominates many volunteers for the Peace
Corps with "scarce skills," in areas such as
agriculture, forestry and nursing.