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VOLUME 106 • ISSUE 40
Regents offer Brewer’s chief of staff position of board president BRITTNY MEJIA Arizona Daily Wildcat
The chief of staff for Gov. Jan Brewer has been offered the position of president of the Arizona Board of Regents. The regents’ Presidential Search Committee named Eileen Klein as a finalist for the position and authorized contract negotiations to begin, according to a news release from the board. When regents invited Klein to participate in the selection process following Tom Anderes’ decision to step down in late July, she said it provided the perfect way to complement her economic recovery work in the governor’s office and to continue building a stronger future
for the state. “I see this opportunity at ABOR as being the chance to really go in and work with a very distinguished group of committed leaders on advancing our state’s higher education system,” Klein said. Klein has served as Brewer’s chief of staff since fall 2009, helping to oversee the day-to-day operations of the state government and execute Brewer’s agenda and working closely with the cabinet to make sure the state is running effectively. “I think it’s just a passion for solving the big problems that governments try to solve,” Klein said. “I have always been interested in those challenges and how to make life better for people through the efficient use of government resources.”
Klein said that if she becomes the board’s president, she will focus her attention on ensuring there are enough degrees in the right areas to meet the workforce need of the state, as well as working to attract research dollars. “We also have to be very focused on how we make sure opportunities for students stay affordable and attainable so they can complete their degrees in a reasonable amount of time and that they can afford to complete their education,” Klein said. The president of the board serves as the “glue” that holds the three state university presidents together, and the four of them cooperate so the universities are the best they can be and the state is the best it can be, said Rick Myers, the board’s chairman.
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The seventh annual Tucson Zombie Walk on Saturday featured a costume contest, dance party and free concert. All proceeds went to the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona.
“Our feeling is Eileen is an established and experienced senior executive, she has great experience in health care, in government, and we believe she’s the perfect complement to our three university presidents,” Myers said, “and that the four of them are just going to be a fantastic team.” Now that Klein has been selected as a finalist, she has received a contract and information about the position. There are high hopes that Klein will take the position, Myers said. “I’m really very deeply honored,” Klein said. “This is a very significant role and I was very honored to have the support and the confidence of the board. I’m looking forward to continuing this conversation with them and seeing where we wind up.”
EILEEN KLEIN, REGENTS’ PRESIDENT FINALIST
UA College of Science sees no bias against women despite study MATT BURNS Arizona Daily Wildcat
Although the College of Science sees a disparity in gender among its leaders, many of them say a bias against women doesn’t exist in their college. A study conducted at Yale University found that professors at six major research universities were less likely to offer qualified women research positions, but College of Science Dean Joaquin Ruiz said he feels the UA does not experience such bias. “We have had various studies in the College of Science trying to determine if there is overt or covert discrimination against women,” Ruiz said. “There is no clear indication that there is, in general. I suspect that there may be pockets here and there where that problem may exist.” Ruiz said that the enrollment in the College of Science is approximately even between men and women, and has been for the past several years. According to Elizabeth Glisky, head of the College of Science’s psychology department, only four of the 17 department heads are female, including herself.
In addition, both the dean and associate dean of the College of Science are male. However, Glisky said that the number of female students in the College of Science has increased in the past few years, but that this may be due to Psychology becoming part of the college in 2010. Currently 70 percent of psychology students, or 1500 students, are women, according to Glisky. “I am not aware of any outright bias against women in science,” Glisky said. “In my department, of the last four hires we made, three were women.” Bias against women in scientific careers may be the product of a collection of small biases toward men over the course of time, said Mary Peterson, a professor with the department of psychology and director of the cognitive science program. “There are lots of biases operating implicitly that wind up holding women back because they tend to be rated lower than men even if qualifications are the same … and they tend to be paid salaries that are lower than
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Congressmen hold forum to address WORTH NOTING deferred action, tuition payments This day in history
for legal residency. Grijalva agreed that Pima RACHEL MCCLUSKEY Community College should be the next on board Arizona Daily Wildcat and that once most of the community colleges offer in-state tuition for undocumented students Rep. Raul Grijalva, of Arizona, and Rep. Luis on deferred action, the UA will follow. Grijalva Gutiérrez, of Illinois, held a question and answer said that he would help to make that happen. Grijalva said his next step is to help session on deferred action at 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 13 at the Young Women’s Christian Association. The two congressmen updated locals on their current efforts for undocumented immigrants and what their next steps will be after the election and listened to the concerns of their constituents. Currently, all undocumented students in Arizona who go to college have to pay out-ofstate tuition because of Proposition 300, which prevents undocumented students from receiving state financial aid. Deferred action status doesn’t — Raul Grijalva, affect this provision. U.S. representative Scholarships A-Z co-director and co-founder Matt Matera explained that most undocumented students end up going to community college since it is more affordable. The whole audience applauded for the undocumented workers to wrap up their GEDs Undocumented Youth in Action group when it more easily and to be able to take accelerated explained that Maricopa Community Colleges classes rather than working toward in-state will allow undocumented students on deferred tuition. He added that he wants to offer these action to pay in-state tuition beginning in courses and facilitate the process for obtaining January. The loophole around Proposition 300 a GED so that undocumented students can comes from the work permit and social security meet one of the qualifications for filing for number that deferred action status provides, deferred action. “We see in our office, unfortunately, too both of which are on the list of requirements
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We see in our office, unfortunately, too many of the kids that come in lack that primary criteria.
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many of the kids that come in lack that primary criteria,” he said. Gutiérrez, who is also the chair of the Democratic Caucus’ Immigration Task Force, cleared up misconceptions at the meeting by explaining that if someone fills out the form for deferred action incorrectly, they do not get deported. Instead, the form is simply returned to them so they can fill it out again. The only way to get deported, he said, is to have a criminal background. Grijalva clarified that people with disabilities are qualified for deferred action as well. Gutiérez added that a total of 180,000 DREAMers have applied for deferred action so far . Of those, 158,000 are scheduled for a security background check, get fingerprinted and have their photo taken. From there, 6,400 are working with adjudicators and 4,591 already have their work documents. Gutiérrez also emphasized how much of a change has been made so far by giving examples from the Democratic National Convention, such as Julian Castro’s speech about deferred action and President Obama’s new commercial that is completely in Spanish. “When the president of the United States stops calling you illegal and starts saying you are just like his kids,” Gutierrez said, “that is a shift in the way things are seen.”
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