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more time,’� Derek Bambauer said. “They just need to reply.� When they did not hear back from the U.S. Border Patrol, they decided to move further and appeal, which also has a 20-day response period. Again, they did not receive a response. “Given that we submitted a request and they didn’t respond at all,� Jane Bambauer said, “the next step to be taken under the FOIA is to go ahead and sue and demand that they respond to us, preferably by releasing the records.� Jane Bambauer added that she and her team have evidence the Border Patrol conducts some operations as if it does not have to comply with the law, and that it has its own internal practices and rules. A second-year College of Law student said she had a questionable run-in with U.S. Border Patrol officers in 2010, on her drive back from San Diego, Calif., to Tucson. The student said that when she was driving through a standard U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint, the K9 unit detected drugs in her car. The student and her two sisters were pulled over and interrogated, and ended up staying at the checkpoint for more than three hours. “They went through everything I had in my car,� the student said. “They took out all my luggage, went through every single item in my luggage. The dog was climbing all over my car, he broke my console, things, an item of luggage and more.� Jane Bambauer, Derek Bambauer and Lyall had hoped to get data on how effective K9 dogs are when detecting drugs as part of their request to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. “We feel that their decision to not respond is just an example of their noncompliance,� Jane Bambauer said. Derek said they are confident that the statute under the FOIA gives them the right to the information they are requesting. He added that it’s unfortunate the trio had to sue the DHS to get the information, but they are confident the DHS will give the them what they are requesting. “This is obviously an agency that has tremendous impact on everyone who resides in Arizona, but it’s also an agency that is really not transparent in any way,� Derek Bambauer said. “It’s both been increasing in power and decreasing in transparency.� — Follow Adriana Espinosa @adri_eee
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Janelle Mughannam business marketing freshman “Going home to California and traveling with my family.�
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“It’s one of those things where we’ve kind of reset our expectations,� Myers said. “If you went to someone in the Legislature and said, ‘We’d like you to [fund] U of A at the same level you funded them in 2007,’ they’d laugh at you and say, ‘Well, there’s no way we can come up with that money for U of A.’� Despite the significant decrease in state funding since 2008, base funding has increased almost 6 percent since 2012, from more than $265 million in the 2012 fiscal year to more than $280 million in the 2015 fiscal year. While Arizona’s revenue projections are better now than they were six years ago when the recession started, Rep. Ethan Orr (R-District 9) said the state still doesn’t have as large a budget as it did in 2008, before the downturn in the economy. The state budget this year is $9.3 billion, compared to almost $13 billion in 2008. Orr said the state has also managed to provide the UA with $15 million in incremental funding in the past three years. Orr is optimistic that the UA will be better funded by the state in the future since parity funding, an agreement to make per-student funding equal among the three state universities, ended this year. “The very large sums of money that we have been giving to [Arizona State University] and [Northern Arizona University], which has really sucked a lot of the oxygen out of the room, that is finished,� Orr said, “and so that frees
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up a lot more of our higher education resources to adequately fund the U of A.� A push for philanthropic dollars As government funding has decreased, the UA, like many universities, has turned to private donors for support. The UA publicly launched its fundraising campaign, Arizona Now, last month and announced a goal of $1.5 billion in gifts and commitments from donors. The campaign has reached more than 50 percent of that goal from the period before the campaign went public. Arizona Now had been in a quiet phase since 2010, meaning the almost $860 million that has been
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to redirect resources to our education and resource mission,â€? Hart said. “It’s a continuous chain and innovation process that we are now engaged in.â€? Never Settle is more than just a plan — it’s a new direction the university is taking, and it requires a diverse set of revenues in order to make projections, said Andrew Comrie, UA provost. “If one piece doesn’t work out, you have all the other pieces working for you still,â€? Comrie said. Administrators will constantly have to adapt and change as the university looks to new sources of revenue, Comrie said. At the same time, state support remains important, and the university will continue to push for that support, he added. “That said, if over time we simply don’t get ‌ the kind of sustained investment that is needed to reach these goals that the state would like us to reach, then clearly that will have an impact,â€? Comrie said. Hart said there is no plan at the moment to revamp or review the goals in Never Settle, as that would have to come more gradually, after the business plan is redefined. Myers said department heads and college deans are having to re-prioritize some goals based on the resources they have from the university’s base funding. “In my mind, Never Settle is going to happen,â€? Myers said. “It’ll just be slower if we don’t get more incremental funding.â€?
raised was raised over a four-year period. Arizona Now will support Never Settle’s goals, but the UA won’t actually have $1.5 billion in savings all at once. About 98 percent of all gifts to the university are restricted and directed by the donors, said Jim Moore, president and CEO of the UA Foundation. Moore said a lot of the money that has come in the last four years has been allocated and used to support students, for endowments to bring in faculty and for the Lowell Stevens Football Facility, among other designations. “So over the eight-year period, the funds flow in and then get put to work right away in many cases,� Moore said. Deans and division heads are also developing fundraising goals, which will be invested in the outcome of the strategic plan, Hart said. Having a vision for the university and being able to explain the UA’s goals and opportunities helps build relationships with donors, she added. Moving forward with Never Settle Along with seeking other revenue sources, efficiency will be key to implementing Never Settle. University administrators, faculty and staff will constantly have to reevaluate where they can improve in saving money in order to increase the amount of the revenue that goes into the core mission of the strategic plan, Hart said. “It’s a new day for places like the University of Arizona in that we’re constantly going to be surveying ways
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