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Regents look toward 2020
Fee advisory board hosts open forum WHAT: Student Services Fee Advisory Board Open Forum WHEN: Today, 5 p.m. – 6 p.m. WHERE: Old Main Presentation Room WHO: Open to the public
The Student Services Fee Advisory Board — the student-composed body charged with advising the distribution of the $40 per semester student services fee — will meet today in a public forum designed to give the university community a chance to learn how the fee has been be distributed. The board had several closed-door meetings this semester and will use today’s meeting to inform the public on its decision-making process, advisory board chair Matthew Totlis, a mathematics senior, said. “If I have to pay fees, I would like to know where that money is going,” he said. The board works closely with and advises Vice President for Student Affairs Melissa Vito, who ultimately makes distribution decisions. It considers requests for the fee from any individual or department who enters an official working partnership with a department in Student Affairs, such as Campus Health Services, the Associated Students of the University of Arizona or Arizona Student Media. “It’s only right that we stay open to students,” Totlis said. — Tim McDonnell
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President Robert Shelton listens to comments from members of the Arizona Board of Regents about the future of higher education in Arizona during Thursday’s board meeting in the Student Union Memorial Center. The UA’s “2020 Vision” sets goals for the university to achieve by the year 2020.
ABOR’s vision statement addresses lack of funds with ‘new systems architecture’ three primary goals: To produce enough high-quality university degrees for the state to Future state budget cuts and be nationally competitive by the dwindling federal stimulus dollars year 2020. To increase the prominence of the were two key issues in the Arizona university system’s “2020” Vision system’s research enterprise so that at the Arizona Board of Regents it can help improve the quality of life meeting held in the Student Union in Arizona. To provide the educated workforce Memorial Center Thursday. needed to fill shortIn addition, the regents ages and to stimuconsidered moving the If you go late demand for university system’s tuition What: December ABOR higher paying jobs hearing, where the cost in Arizona. of tuition for fiscal year meeting, day two “We realize there 2011 will be set, from When: Today, 9:45 a.m. is a very steep climb March to January in order Where: Student Union to get to our goal to promptly address by 2020,” Woodley a possible need for Memorial Center said. “When you get additional revenue. to enrollments, we The 2020 Vision, have about 130,000 proposed by Sandra Woodley, chief financial officer and students on campuses. That will have strategic planner for ABOR, centers on to increase by 30 percent over the
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next 11 years.” In 2008, the Arizona university system produced approximately 20,000 bachelor degrees. The 2020 Vision calls for a 42 percent increase by 2020, which would amount to an annual production of over 28,000 bachelor degrees. The UA will need to produce 8,100 more degrees annually by 2020, an increase of 44 percent. While funding over the past several years has stayed relatively similar — FY 2010 saw $16,190 per student compared to $16,195 in FY 2008 — the sources of funding for the university system have changed dramatically. Woodley said due to the temporary nature of the stimulus funds, the state is paying a much smaller share and the students a much greater one in terms of university funding. In 2008, the universities had about a billion dollars in state appropriations. Due to significant decrease over the
past few years, the university system plans to increase tuition revenue to approximately $1 billion by 2012. The backbone of the proposed 2020 Vision will be a new system architecture that will utilize various low-cost options for students to earn a bachelor’s degree from a public university in Arizona. Currently, the average total cost for a full-time student is $16,190 per year. When fully implemented, the lower cost degree options will amount to approximately $9,000, 43 percent less expensive, said Woodley. According to the plan, over the next 10 years the UA will utilize existing relationships with community colleges, develop new online programs and develop community-based institutions that will grant degrees based on regional needs. Most of the growth incorporated in BOARD, page 3
Museums suffer from budget cuts By Jennifer Koehmstedt Arizona Daily Wildcat Some effects of budget cuts to the university, like reduced staff or course offerings, are hard to see. Others, however, are on display. Not only have UA museums had to cut staff, cut hours and charge entrance fees because of recent budget cuts, but now they must also be more selective in choosing what to put on exhibit, a museum official said. Charles Guerin, the director of the UA Museum of Art, said budget cuts are an ongoing issue for the museum, but have recently become more significant, forcing the museum to make critical changes. Along with cutting staff and charging a new $5 entrance fee for community members, the museum is now cutting down the amount of work on display, Guerin said. “We’ve had to approach the exhibition programming that we do in a very different way, forcing us to focus primarily on things that are still of high quality but are much more reasonable for us,” Guerin said. The Museum of Art has cut the number of exhibitions it shows by 20 percent, Guerin said. Guerin said budget cuts have also affected the range of work that the
museum is able to display. “We’re not bringing in artists from other countries, so we’re limiting the scope of what we’re able to bring in, but we feel that the quality is as high as it’s always been,”he said. Working on a low budget isn’t new for the smaller museums on campus, such as the History of Pharmacy Museum, located in the College of Pharmacy building. “The good news and bad news is that we have never had any funding,” said Richard Wiedhopf, curator for the museum. Wiedhopf, also the assistant dean for finance and administration for the College of Pharmacy, explained that because the pharmacy museum does not receive any funding from the university, it has not had to deal with the university’s budget cuts. Still, the museum suffers financially. “We are budget-cut-free, but have substantial material to display for which we need sizable amounts of money,” he said. The museum operates on funds from a donor to the museum, but mostly on Wiedhopf’s and pharmacy students’ volunteered time, he said. Wiedhopf said he does not anticipate receiving funds from the university, but hopes for more funding in order to put more of the museum’s
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Frank Reilly, an Arizona Historical Society docent, explains the aspects of Native American life in Arizona to his grandchildren on Oct. 14 at the Arizona History Museum. UA museums have been faced with scaling back staff and hours, and charging admission to cope with university budget cuts.
collection on display. “We also have thousands of items that are not on display that are in storage,” he said. “It will just have to wait until times are better.” Guerin said that though the museum has had to make changes to its exhibitions, they have tried to think about student needs when cutting the budget.
“We’ve tried very much for (students) not to be affected,” he said. “We feel that the museum is here primarily for their enlightenment and their educational efforts, so we have done our best to make certain that the budget cuts we have encountered do not affect the students’ immediate experience when they come to the museum.”
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3 new programs aid teens in need By Michelle Monroe Arizona Daily Wildcat The Southwest Institute for Research on Women at the UA is forming three pilot programs to help adolescents in need in southern Arizona — iTeam, Recover2gether and Step Forward. The iTeam program specifically targets gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual young adults between 15 and 23 years old. “iTeam is looking at trying to provide a lot of different services for GLTB adolescents and young adults in the community,” said Sally Stevens, director of the Southwest Institute for Research on Women and iTeam lead investigator. “Services like housing, case management, life skills, substance abuse and mental health and HIV prevention and testing.” The program will help participants find employment and health care and make sure they have a staff available to help them get what they need. Wingspan, a non-profit organization, will be doing the majority of the outreach for iTeam. “They have a network of people who are involved in the community and can help identify youth in need,” Stevens said. Individuals who are already participating will also recruit new participants via word of mouth. UA students are welcome to participate if they meet the criteria. “The process really is to call or e-mail Wingspan, then the staff at Wingspan will ask different questions and see if this is a good fit with that individual,” Stevens said. “If not, we’ll refer them to other services that might be more appropriate.” If a person needs housing or substance abuse or mental health treatment, or if they want to learn about HIV or gain life skills, they will be invited into the program. The program is funded by a federal grant, and the UA and about 15 other
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