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ABOR aims to increase funding, safety By Eliza Molk DAILY WILDCAT
TEMPE, Ariz. — The Arizona Board of Regents examined ways to enhance performance metrics, increase state funding and address campus safety concerns during its meeting on Thursday. Tom Anderes, president of the board, explained that the three state universities receive less and less money from the state each year. Performance-based funding, which would link state funding with gains
in certain performance metrics will allow the state to give universities funds for reaching more targeted goals, he said. The metrics include areas such as productivity, research, competitiveness and workforce impact. Expanding online programs to serve a greater number of students and partnering with community colleges are just a few ways to increase these metrics, Anderes said, but the only way to increase access to Arizona universities is to keep tuition affordable.
“Clearly, our tuition rates have increased, there’s no question about that,” he said, adding that many other public universities in the nation face similar problems. “Low-cost options are more and more part of the dialogue we are going to have.” Mark Killian, treasurer of the board, asked why the state universities would want to “push” tuition to the median of their peer institutions instead of offering to possibly lower tuition rates while maintaining a high quality rate. “I don’t understand why we (the
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One of the reasons the state cannot justify funding higher education “We’re pricing our in Arizona is because many students who come into the university system local people (students) simply aren’t ready, said UA Presiout of business here.” dent Eugene Sander. Many first-year UA students have difficulty passing — Mark Killian, a “routine” math exam, he said, and treasurer of the board students who do poorly at universities often belong in trade schools or were regents) aren’t exploring the concept never interested in completing their of going back to the Legislature and bachelor’s degree in the first place. saying, ‘We need more money,’” he “When my car isn’t running, I said. “We’re pricing our local people ABOR, 2 (students) out of business here.”
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KEEPING PACE
Arizona’s fifth straight win keeps ‘Cats on heels of Pac-12 leaders By Alex Williams
DAILY WILDCAT If there were any questions remaining about Arizona’s ability to close out tight games, the Wildcats answered them on Thursday. Freshman guard Josiah Turner delivered a slick one-handed pass to Jesse Perry, who turned the feed into a layup and an and-1 to give the Wildcats a three-point lead with 38.8 seconds to play and the Arizona men’s basketball team took down Washington State, 76-72, in Pullman, Wash., for its fifth straight win and sixth in seven games. The win was Arizona’s second on the Washington road trip since head coach Sean Miller was hired three seasons ago. Perry spent most of the second half on the bench in foul trouble but came through when Arizona (19-8, 10-4 Pac-12) needed him most — scoring five points in the game’s final 1:20, including a twisting layup that gave the Wildcats a two-point lead with 1:21 to play. The senior from St. Louis finished the game with 14 points on 5-of-9 shooting. “We worked so hard throughout the week in practice to get those wins on the road, so it’s a beautiful feeling,” senior guard Brendon Lavender said. “As long as we can keep it up and stay together and everyone just keeps playing as hard as they can, then we’ll have a good outcome.” Arizona has now won its last two games decided by four or fewer points after dropping its first four such games this season. Washington State (13-13, 5-9)
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Arizona Assurance tightens criteria By Samantha Munsey DAILY WILDCAT
PHOTO COURTESY OF DEREK HARRISON / THE DAILY EVERGREEN
Freshman forward Angelo Chol dunks early in the first half of Thursday’s 76-72 win over Washington State in Pullman, Wash. The Wildcats won their fifth straight game and sixth out of the last seven behind Kyle Fogg’s first career double-double.
The Arizona Assurance Scholars Program is checking students’ financial history to see if they will be able to receive their financial assistance all four years of college. Starting with this year’s class, incoming students must file a form that details their family’s financial history, which will be reviewed in addition to a student’s Free Application of Federal Student Aid. “We now really do conduct a complete need analysis to make sure we are putting in students who are truly low income,” said John Nametz, director of Student Financial Aid. The new financial form is used to see if a student will qualify for Arizona Assurance funding, which is a combination of Pell Grants and university aid, while they are enrolled in college. In order to qualify for Arizona Assurance, an in-state student must have had a high school grade point average of at least 3.0, a family income that is less than $42,400 and be eligible for a Pell Grant. “That is a criteria that has always been in place for Arizona Assurance,” said Arezu Corella, director of Arizona Assurance and assistant director of Academic Success and Achievement. “After that we don’t necessarily look at the family income anymore, but in order to continue you have to continue to be Pell Grant-eligible as a student.” The federal Pell Grant gives money to low-income students to help with the cost of higher education. Pell Grant eligibility
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Astronomers receive NASA grant, develop telescope to orbit Earth By Yara Askar DAILY WILDCAT
A UA astronomy research team was awarded a $600,000 grant from NASA to develop a telescope to study how planets are formed. Glenn Schneider, a Steward Observatory astronomer and principal investigator of the project, led a team of six scientists to study what kinds of materials are needed for planets to form, and what types of star systems provide the best environment for these formations. “The motivation for this is the science,” Schneider said. “The science of this is to study other circumstellar disks around other stars that have different phases of the evolution of the planetary system that will detect what those planetary systems are and what they will become.” The project, known as Exoplanetary Circumstellar Environments and Disk Explorer or EXCEDE, is a small orbiting telescope that will use a .7-meter wide primary mirror, called a Phase-Induced Amplitude Apodization Coronagraph, built inside of the telescope. Olivier Guyon, an assistant professor of astronomy and member of the research team, developed the mirror. The optical device uses highly
PHOTO COURTESY OF GLENN SCHNEIDER
An artist’s rendering of the EXCEDE telescope. UA astronomers have been given a $600,000 NASA grant to develop the telescope over the next two years.
curved mirrors to block out light emitted from the surface of a star so that dust and other surrounding materials can be easily observed. This leads to knowing that there are asteroids in that system, which is the primary science focus behind EXCEDE, he added. The telescope will be able to orbit
about 2,000 kilometers above the Earth’s surface, Schneider said. EXCEDE would be the first mission to fly that will measure the spectra of stars and planets like Earth, Guyon said. “I hope this can be our first glimpse into how common planetary systems are and, if things go well, we just
might see about every star that has evidence of a planetary system, said Phil Hinz, an associate professor of astronomy. “What I am most excited to see is how similar these systems are to our solar systems. We might see a range of planetary systems and we are just starting to learn that information through EXCEDE which will help build that knowledge.” The reason celestial dust is interesting is because it could be the first sign that would detect for a planetary system, Hinz added. “The beauty here is being able to detect another Earth near nearby stars, to see if it’s inhabitable, whether it has water, has signs of having life on it. EXCEDE will help lay the ground work for that,” he said. In the next two years, the UA research team will develop a more sophisticated instrument that takes measurements that are the same quality. When this level of performance is reached, the project will be presented again to NASA, Guyon said. “We are really happy and excited that we were selected in the competition for the explorer mission,” Schneider said. “It’s a great opportunity and I am very appreciative of the university partnering up and contributing into the investigation.”
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