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2013 VOLUME 106 ISSUE 154
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New student orientation preps incoming Wildcats chris real Arizona Summer Wildcat
With students and faculty preparing for orientation, the UA has created several changes and additions to its program for incoming students. One of the newest additions is allowing students and their families to stay in one of the UA’s residence halls, Arbol de la Vida. “We have a really great partnership with Residence Life,” said Kasey Urquidez, dean of undergraduate admissions. “We have RA’S who are putting on programs this summer for our students, which has been a really great opportunity for them to connect one on one with other students and see what it’s like to live in a residence hall.” The Admissions Office is also working to expand its social media presence, and interact with students during orientation via Twitter. “We’re using our #wildcatready to live tweet questions that students and parents have about orientation,” Urquidez said. “We have staff members dedicated to that throughout the day in order to try to answer
[questions] of any platform that we can.” The UA has also extended its enrollment deadline, from June 3 to July 1, as the number of students who signed up for orientation is lower than in recent years. It’s a problem colleges and universities nationwide are facing, Urquidez said. “Across the country, there’s data that shows that the number of high school graduates that are actually available for this year is much less than what it’s been in past years,” said Urquidez. “It’s a pretty common trend across the country from what we’re seeing because there is a lower amount of students to pull from, so it is a really competitive market out there and universities all want students who have good grades and are motivated.” Like the UA, many universities across the country have also extended their enrollment deadlines, Urquidez added. Despite the enrollment decreases, the campus has been full of students and their families the past few weeks, who are preparing for the upcoming year. Each orientation day begins at 7:15 a.m. for student check-in, said Stephanie
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Incoming freshman Sean Campbell receives directions from a UofA Bookstore employee. Campbell will be majoring in Economics.
Changes in ASA prompt universities to separate stephanie casanova Arizona Summer Wildcat
ASUA will vote this fall whether to include a student-run, statewide lobbying group in its bylaws, after the group made changes to the number of directors who represent them from each of the three universities. In past years, each university’s undergraduate student body president chose three directors to sit on the Arizona Students’ Association board, and the graduate president would choose one director. Both undergraduate and graduate presidents would also sit on the board.
Beginning this academic year, there will be four directors instead of six. While an undergraduate student body president and the graduate student body president are still invited to be ASA directors, the other two directors, one undergraduate student and one graduate student, will be chosen by former ASA directors instead of being appointed by the student government presidents. These changes were made after the newly elected Associated Students of the University of Arizona president, Morgan Abraham, had already hired three ASA directors for the 2013-14 academic year. As a result of the changes, ASUA has created three new positions for the newly hired directors to fill.
With their stipend already budgeted, Abraham said the three directors will still be lobbying and reaching out to educate students about government issues affecting students, but they will report back to ASUA rather than ASA. One of the three directors will focus on maintaining a relationship with the other two state universities so the three can work together to reach out and represent students. “The people that we hired are incredibly intelligent,” Abraham said. “And I still think they’d be incredibly effective lobbying … making relationships, talking to people and educating students.”
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