Spring Break
Regents to discuss state stimulus
By: Dan Sullivan
Issue date: 4/24/08 Section: News
The UA has secured funding to replace its legacy systems, and spring enrollment is up 2.2 percent this year - two things known as the Arizona Board of Regents continues its stay on campus this week.
The regents will occupy the Student Union Memorial Center today and tomorrow to vote on a $1.4 billion proposal to bolster the state's economy, make two key UA appointments and designate three new Regents' professors, among other tasks.
The board's Technology Oversight Committee approved yesterday $90 million over three years that will replace the UA's critical computer systems.
UA President Robert Shelton has decried the systems as being outdated to the point of hurting the university's ability to remain a competitive research institution.
No new fees for students will be implemented to pay for the new communication technology, said Sen. Dennis DeConcini, the committee's chair.
"We didn't want the cost to go to the students," he said.
The committee will vote tomorrow to approve new policies that would allow university administrators to spend certain amounts of money for technology and security without approval, but would call for an annual report, he said.
The money limit will be revealed tomorrow, he said.
Regents will hear an annual report today detailing spring enrollment for the state's three universities.
The current enrollment at the UA is 34,737 undergraduate and graduate students - a 2.2 percent increase since 2007.
More students could mean more graduates in engineering and the sciences, ingredients in the intended effect of the Economic Stimulus Plan regents will discuss tomorrow.
Regent Robert Bulla expects the board to approve the proposal, which will also fund new construction for Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University and the UA.
The UA will use more than $300 million to build a new environmental and natural sciences building, an engineering research building and renovations to Centennial Hall.
The regents will occupy the Student Union Memorial Center today and tomorrow to vote on a $1.4 billion proposal to bolster the state's economy, make two key UA appointments and designate three new Regents' professors, among other tasks.
The board's Technology Oversight Committee approved yesterday $90 million over three years that will replace the UA's critical computer systems.
UA President Robert Shelton has decried the systems as being outdated to the point of hurting the university's ability to remain a competitive research institution.
No new fees for students will be implemented to pay for the new communication technology, said Sen. Dennis DeConcini, the committee's chair.
"We didn't want the cost to go to the students," he said.
The committee will vote tomorrow to approve new policies that would allow university administrators to spend certain amounts of money for technology and security without approval, but would call for an annual report, he said.
The money limit will be revealed tomorrow, he said.
Regents will hear an annual report today detailing spring enrollment for the state's three universities.
The current enrollment at the UA is 34,737 undergraduate and graduate students - a 2.2 percent increase since 2007.
More students could mean more graduates in engineering and the sciences, ingredients in the intended effect of the Economic Stimulus Plan regents will discuss tomorrow.
Regent Robert Bulla expects the board to approve the proposal, which will also fund new construction for Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University and the UA.
The UA will use more than $300 million to build a new environmental and natural sciences building, an engineering research building and renovations to Centennial Hall.
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Marvin L Foushee
posted 4/24/08 @ 4:26 PM PST
Twenty percent of the debt is 280 million dollars, payable over 4 years is 70 million dollars, not 20.7 million dollars a year. This is money that needs to be put up just to begin financing the balance of the amount: 1. (Continued…)
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