Live coverage: Arizona Board of Regents meeting
3:18 p.m. Those of you who are interested can view the regents’ enterprise plan, a series of performance metric goals up to 2020, here. 3:08 p.m. The board is discussing progress on institutional...
View ArticleBoard of Regents approves UA tuition proposal
The Arizona Board of Regents has increased tuition for resident, undergraduate students by more than 20 percent each of the last three years. During its meeting on Thursday, however, the board elected...
View ArticleRegents OK 2012-13 tuition freeze
Tuition for resident undergraduates will not increase for the first time since 1991, as decided in a unanimous vote by the Arizona Board of Regents on Thursday. The regents have increased tuition for...
View ArticleUAEureka: How do the UA’s recent tuition increases stack up against its peer...
Q: How do the UA’s recent tuition increases stack up against its peer universities? A: When the Arizona Board of Regents approved the UA’s tuition proposal during its meeting on Thursday, it marked...
View ArticleRep. Daniel Patterson resigns
Rep. Daniel Patterson has officially resigned from the House of Representatives, according to Speaker of the House Andy Tobin. The house was planning on taking a vote on whether to expel Patterson...
View ArticleBoard of Regents nominee wrong to put economics over education
In my two years covering the Arizona Board of Regents for the Daily Wildcat, I’ve learned one thing above all else: You can’t separate education from politics in Arizona — partly because nobody seems...
View ArticlePatterson resigns from House
Several weeks into a far-reaching ethics complaint about his conduct as a legislator, Rep. Daniel Patterson has officially resigned from the House of Representatives. The House Ethics Committee voted...
View ArticleWhedon’s ‘Cabin in the Woods’ reinvents horror
One of the most regrettable things about the movie industry’s long, slow slide into creative oblivion (see “The Three Stooges” and say that’s not true) has been the death of the horror film. Scratch...
View ArticleModern Streetcar construction will close portions of Second Street today
Second Street will be closed between Park Avenue and Olive Road today so construction crews can continue work on the Tucson Modern Streetcar project. According to a release from Bill Davidson,...
View ArticleLetter from the editor: Years of stress, worth it
I still remember the first time I ever came to the UA. It was for freshman orientation and my mother and I, being from Flagstaff, thought it would be easiest to get a hotel about a mile and a half...
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