Posts Tagged ‘Arizona Board of Regents’
Time for ASA to walk the walk »
From its use last year of student fee money to campaign for Proposition 204, to its current cry for help as the state legislature prepares to rescind its power, the Arizona Students' Association has claimed to be the defender of student rights statewide, acting on behalf of all, with the support of all. The group's mission is to be “the one [...]
Who’s suing who and where do I come in? The ASA vs. »
As reported statewide, the Arizona Students’ Association filed a federal lawsuit against the Arizona Board of Regents lask week, accusing the Board of violating students’ First Amendment right to free speech. You might be asking what ASA, ABOR, the First Amendment and your wallet have to do with each other. The answer is: It’s a long [...]
Does the UA presidential search committee care what »
The ongoing search for the new UA president is a process that concerns not only all current and former UA students, but also anyone concerned with the future of higher education in the state. With the UA's standing among national universities steadily plummeting, the decision will dictate whether the UA will aspire to regain its former aims at [...]
UA falls from #27 to #116 in national ranking »
As much as the UA's public relations team may attempt to paint a flattering picture of how the UA ranks in national publications, a direct comparison of the rankings and how they've changed over the last few years reveals a less than brag-worthy picture: As is clear from this graph, the perceived quality of the UA has rapidly decreased in [...]
You got autocracy in my oligarchy! The cautionary tale »
There's a new face at today's meeting of the Arizona Board of Regents: ASU junior Tyler Bowyer, who was appointed to the board by Governor Jan Brewer without going through ASU's traditional selection process for student regents. Instead, Bowyer submitted an application straight to the Governor's office. Students and the State Press cried foul over [...]
ABOR Halftime Update: Regents consider rejecting in »
At this morning's meeting, the Regents opened the meeting late but forceful by replacing the existing tuition and fee comparison policy within minutes of beginning the meeting. Previous policy stipulated tuition should not exceed "the top of the bottom one-third" of rates set by each university's peer institutions. The new policy adopted by the [...]
This is what a fee proposal should look like »
"Considering the current financial situation in Arizona and the average graduate student income, please do not ask us to make the choice between our future and short-term survival," urges the fee and tuition stance sent to the Regents by the leaders of Graduate and Professional Student Council. GPSC has sent their stance regarding tuition and fees [...]
The trouble with tuition innovation »
Considering the Green Fund's strange $24 tuition earmark, my colleague writes: An interesting aspect of the Green Fund not emphasized in this article is how different it is from other designated dollars from students: this is not a fee, but a “tuition allocation.” This marks the first time in recent memory the Regents have publicly stated [...]
I don’t always agree with ASA… »
I nearly blindsided a longboarder on my way to class as I read today's Daily Wildcat article on common course numbering. (Protip: don't read and walk). A quick summary: the Arizona Students Association called for identical identifiers between core courses at state universities and community colleges, the legislature passed a bill [...]
Regents to Raise Out-of-State Enrollment Caps? »
Faced with dramatic decreases in state funding, falling academic reputations, and dismal graduation rates, Arizona leaders are debating whether to raise the maximum percentage of out-of-state students allowed into Arizona universities from the current 30% maximum level to allow for 40% of students to be from other areas of the US. The always-keen [...]
Dumbing Down Definitionally »
Among this site's bugbears is the recent lurch of the UA away from any semblance of selectivity and quality, towards an ASU-South. It's better, though, not to look at the problem as some sort of nefarious plot hatched by McBrewton Raytheon III™; rather, like most policy errors, it stems from a bad alignment of incentives. There's no better [...]
Unsustainable Metrics »
This site has mocked the UA's tendency to show no retreat when it comes to statistics, unless they have anything to do with quality. So it's worth mentioning that the school's five-year plan presented at last month's ABOR meeting included several metrics with projected decreases from the current 2010 numbers by the time 2016 rolls around: K-12 [...]