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What’s trending now resident Barack Obama extends the 1. P U.S. role against the Taliban
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OP claims President Barack Obama uti3. G lized unconstitutional overreach in his use of executive authority on immigration.
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Tucson aces LGBTQ rating
Tucson was rated with a perfect score for LGBTQ treatment BY BENNY SISSON The Daily Wildcat
The Human Rights Campaign released an annual list scoring cities around the country on how they treat their LGBTQ residents, and three Arizona cities scored a 100 percent. The HRC releases this list based on data from its Municipal Equality Index, which lays out how a city can and how cities do support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning people who work and live there, even outside of the state or federal government, according to the HRC website. Tempe, Tucson and Phoenix all received a perfect score based on the HRC’s criteria, which included relationship recognition, municipality as employer and other factors that place each city
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INDIVIDUALS LIGHT candles for the 268 transgendered people who were murdered in 2014 due to their gender and place them in Old Main Fountain on Thursday. Tucson was rated with a perfect score for LGBTQ treatment in a list released by the Human Rights Campaign, but some LGBTQ groups on campus disagree with the rating.
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The UA Disability Resource Center works with students who may need certain accommodations in academics and campus life, but some students are saying there are communication failures between the DRC and students. While the DRC helps many students at the UA, some students are expressing concerns that are a result of a disconnect between the DRC, faculty around campus and the students. Jessica Meilech, a pre-business freshman, said the DRC is a wonderful resource and she is happy with all the help she is receiving, but that the communication and promotion from all ends could be stronger. “There is a real lack of communication between students, teachers and the DRC,” Meilech said. “I am a good self-advocate, so I’ve managed to make it work, but I know there’s probably a lot of kids that are [struggling], even with this program as a really good support system.” Some of the accommodations for students who require DRC help do not happen fast enough, Meilech said, such as note-taking. Students can receive class notes for each day from a designated note taker, so they can stay focused in class and still get the content on paper. The process, however, takes time
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BOARD OF REGENTS
Regents president proposes fee-setting changes BY MEGHAN FERNANDEZ The Daily Wildcat
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A STUDENT enters the Disability Resource Center with his dog on Nov. 14. The DRC serves UA students with disabilities, but some students think there is a lack of communication between DRC employees, UA faculty and the students.
TEMPE — The Arizona Board of Regents president proposed a policy revision she said would change the tuition-setting process for state universities during the regents’ meeting at Arizona State University on Thursday. Eileen Klein, president of the board of regents, gave her report to the regents, which focused on the tuition and feesetting process and her desire to make those processes more transparent. Klein also proposed increasing student involvement in the tuition process, as well as the tuitionsetting calendar. Klein said the biggest thing she would like to see changed is more individualized discussions among the three Arizona public universities — ASU, Northern Arizona University and the UA. Under her proposed tuition-setting calendar, the board of regents
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BOARD OF REGENTS
Regents discuss college pipeline, fees BY ETHAN MCSWEENEY The Daily Wildcat
TEMPE — The Arizona Board of Regents discussed issues with the “college-going pipeline” and transparency of student fees on the last day of its meeting at Arizona State University on Friday . Regents Chair Mark Killian said K-12 education in Arizona is struggling to send students on to college and that improvements needs to be made. He added that there are many challenges to operating a high quality high school in Arizona and sending students through the “pipeline” to college. Ten percent of high schools
in Arizona have not sent any those schools have, Klein students to state universities said, but their success model and about 10 percent of high should still be analyzed to make improvements schools are throughout responsible the state. for about I’m a firm “I’m a half of the believer that firm believer incoming every kid in the that every c o l l e g e kid in the students, state has the state has the according capability c a p a b i l i t y ,” to Eileen — Eileen Klein, Arizona Board of Regents Klein said. K l e i n , president “So, how can president of we improve the board of the system?” regents. U A Some of the reasons for half of in-state President Ann Weaver Hart said students coming from a small there is a “deep reluctance” percentage of high schools have to talk about the issue of the to do with how many students college-going pipeline on the
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State Board of Education among the current K-12 leadership. “Part of this is a ‘We’re all in this together, we’re not going to point the finger at anyone,’ that absolutely destroys the culture [of post-secondary education] that’s critical to be able to move forward,” Hart said. She suggested the regents use their relationship with the Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction sitting on the board to better address issues with the state’s K-12 education. Student Regents Valerie Hanna and Mark Naufel also presented a student regent report to the board for the first time.
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