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TODAY'S LOCAL
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TODAY'S NATIONAL
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TODAY'S OPINIONS
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LOCAL HEADLINES
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UA student gets
the 'dream'
invite to Obama
speech
By Rhonda
Bodfield. A
University of
Arizona freshman
who spent the
summer as a
White House
intern will be a
special guest of
first lady
Michelle Obama
for the
president's
State of the
Union address
tonight.
(Arizona Daily
Star:
http://www.azstarnet.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_be2c4be2-35e1-5550-a35a-dc6918ab3976.html)
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U Of A Student
and Michelle
Obama
By Heather Rowe.
University of
Arizona student
Clayton
Armstrong will
be sitting next
to First Lady
Michelle Obama
when the
President
delivers his
State Of The
Union address
Wednesday night.
(KOLD-TV (CBS)
Ch. 13:
http://www.KOLD.com/global/story.asp?s=11885550)
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Crow gives
University
positive ‘status
report'
By Kyle Patton.
President
Michael Crow
spoke to a group
of 200 faculty
members,
administrators
and investors
Tuesday night,
outlining the
University’s
accomplishments
and its road
ahead in a
presentation
sponsored by the
ASU Foundation.
(ASU State
Press:
http://www.statepress.com/node/10274)
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Idle building
downtown weighed
as UA class
space
By Becky
Pallack.
University of
Arizona students
could be taking
classes in a
downtown Tucson
architecture and
urban design
studio as soon
as this fall.
The UA is in
talks with Pima
County for a
deal that would
put the
university in
the former
Walgreens space
with a $1-
per-year lease.
(Arizona Daily
Star:
http://www.azstarnet.com/news/local/education/college/article_30180a5a-65aa-5f02-9898-c8f2b2cf0348.html)
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UA to combine
media, theatre
arts programs
By Becky Pallack.
Citing state
budget cuts, the
University of
Arizona will
combine its
media arts
program with its
theatre arts
program.
(Arizona Daily
Star:
http://www.azstarnet.com/news/local/education/college/article_f775fd52-b2bd-5a44-94df-515ce09015dc.html)
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UA up for $650
mil from NASA
By Jazmine
Woodberry. The
UA could receive
$650 million for
the OSIRIS-REx
spacecraft from
NASA’s New
Frontiers
space-exploration
grant project.
(UA Daily
Wildcat:
http://wildcat.arizona.edu/news/ua-up-for-650-mil-from-nasa-1.1088280)
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NAU-Yuma gets
new lecturer
By William
Roller. Facing a
critical
shortage of
faculty in its
social work
department,
Northern Arizona
University-Yuma
has hired
Cordelia Holbert
as a social work
lecturer this
semester.
(Yuma Daily Sun:
http://www.yumasun.com/news/work-55763-social-yuma.html)
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Unions,
councilman
propose city
cutbacks
By Rob O'Dell.
Tax University
of Arizona
students for
parking and
textbooks. These
were some of the
ideas the city's
labor unions
brought forward
at the behest of
the City Council
as ways to
balance the
budget, instead
of layoffs and
salary cuts.
(Arizona Daily
Star:
http://www.azstarnet.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_78f2e2f5-df23-5c95-9b99-f828510607f4.html)
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UA Tech Park to
house solar
plant, flowers
By Laura
Donovan. Bell
Independent
Power Corp. has
chosen the UA
Tech Park to
house a new
solar plant.
(UA Daily
Wildcat:
http://wildcat.arizona.edu/news/ua-tech-park-to-house-solar-plant-flowers-1.1088285)
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NATIONAL
HEADLINES
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Obama's Proposed
Budget 'Freeze'
Would Fall
Lightly on
Education
By Paul Basken.
Obama-administration
officials,
proposing a
three-year
"freeze" on
domestic
spending to cope
with escalating
budget deficits,
said on Tuesday
that the
restriction
would not affect
Pell Grants and
largely would
spare other
education
programs.
(The Chronicle
of Higher
Education:
http://feeds.chronicle.com/~r/chronicle/news/~3/BOar3FLDVYE/)
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Cal State aims
to boost
graduation rates
By Carla Rivera.
California State
University is
embarking on an
ambitious
initiative to
raise its
graduation rates
and help more
low-income and
minority
students earn
degrees, even as
it faces perhaps
the grimmest
budget outlook
in its history.
(LA Times:
http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/local/~3/6Gl5h8TNDm4/la-me-csu27-2010jan27,0,7745697.story)
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Shift in college
enrollment seen
On college
campuses, female
undergraduates
have outnumbered
men and
outperformed
them
academically for
years, but a new
report out
Tuesday finds
those gaps have
stopped growing
in key areas
including
enrollment and
bachelor's
degrees.
(Arizona Daily
Star:
http://www.azstarnet.com/news/national/article_3c1a3803-1e22-582d-81ff-37ff5af907ab.html)
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Online
Enrollment Up
17%
By Scott Jaschik.
Fall 2008 online
enrollments were
up 17 percent
from a year
before, with
about 4.6
million students
taking at least
one class
online,
according to the
2009 Sloan
Survey of Online
Learning.
(Inside Higher
Education:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/01/27/online)
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OPINIONS
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ASU shaking up
teacher training
Arizona State
University is
taking teacher
education into
the 21st
century. The
college is
revamping its
approach to put
more emphasis on
the two
foundation
blocks of good
teaching:
getting
practical
classroom
experience and
mastering the
subjects taught.
(The Arizona
Republic:
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/2010/01/27/20100127wed1-27.html)
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