NEW: The Arizona Daily Star @tucson.com has obtained the letter by the Trump administration to the U of A. It shows there is little wiggle room in the "compact" that the White House is offering the U of A and eight other schools, as opposition builds locally. tucson.com/news/local/s...

🚨: The White House letter to the UofA on the proposed higher education compact states an Oct. 20 deadline for UA President Suresh Garimella to get back with “limited, targeted feedback,” and a Nov. 21 deadline to sign onto the compact. Read my exclusive: tucson.com/news/local/s...

Column: The University of Arizona has distinguished itself as compliant collaborators with the Trump administration's takeover of higher ed. No wonder they were invited to be among the president's 9 special pets. Fortunately, this "compact" is easy to reject. tucson.com/news/local/s...

🚨: The 10-page proposed higher education compact by the Trump administration asks universities to: ban the use of race or sex in hiring and admissions; freeze tuition for five years; cap international undergrad enrollment at 15%; among others. Read the full list of demands here:

🚨: A conservative Phoenix think tank says the compact the White House is asking nine universities to sign, including the University of Arizona, is a “damning indictment of our higher education institutions.” Read for more reactions to the compact: tucson.com/news/local/e...

🚨: UA is one of nine universities in the U.S. to be invited by the White House to sign a new higher education proposed compact, with demands such as ending race and sex-based discrimination, quelling grade inflation, and promoting intellectual diversity. tucson.com/news/local/e...

Pima Community College has announced Ian Roark — who served in the interim role since 2024 — as its provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs and workforce development. Roark has been with the college since 2015. tucson.com/news/local/e...

UA Provost Patricia Prelock detailed the UA's new enrollment strategy, which included reducing the amount of merit-based financial aid for out-of-state students — one of the major reasons stated in UA's 2023 financial crisis. Read my exclusive: tucson.com/news/local/s...

🚨: Several community organizations are asking the UA to end its contract with Flock Safety, a license-plate reader company that has recently come under fire for sharing data it collects for immigration-related searches. tucson.com/news/local/s...

🚨: UA has shut down four of its micro-campuses last week after a U.S. congressional directive found that the partnerships between U.S. institutions and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) “facilitate technology transfer and pose national security risks. tucson.com/news/local/s...

🚨: It's confirmed: University of Arizona's fall 2025 enrollment shows a drop of 19% in first-year students, and an overall decline of 9% in international students and 23% in out-of-state students. Read my exclusive: tucson.com/news/local/s...

The Arizona Board of Regents has approved UA President Suresh Garimella's annual bonus of $285K at Thursday's board meeting in Flagstaff. tucson.com/news/local/e...

🚨: UA President Suresh Garimella — close to completing his first year in the role — is set to receive $285K in bonuses for completing annual goals set by the Arizona Board of Regents. This is on top of his annual base salary of $810K. Read my exclusive: tucson.com/news/local/s...

NEW: The University of Arizona has now received a donation of $20 million from the philanthropic Garcia Family Foundation to expand access to study-abroad programs for students with financial need, the largest donation to the UA's study abroad program. tucson.com/news/local/e...

The University of Arizona and the University of New Mexico will be receiving a joint seven-year $43.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, to fund research programs aimed at improving the health of people living in Arizona and New Mexico. tucson.com/news/local/e...

🚨: PCC faces a loss of up to $10 million in federal funds with cuts in TRIO, child-care, adult education and HSI-related funds. At a recent board meeting discussing these cuts, PCC Governing Board Chair Greg Taylor said the uncertainty is a "nightmare." tucson.com/news/local/s...

NEW: In the midst of federal funding cuts by NIH, the University of Arizona and University of New Mexico received a joint $43.6 million grant to fund a broad range of research programs to better the public's health in the two states. tucson.com/news/local/e...

🚨: The UA has now created a new 415,000 administrative post of senior vice provost, filled by a former provost finalist, Jenna Rickus, who visited the UA in the spring from Purdue University. Rickus will be joining the UA Sept. 29. tucson.com/news/local/e...

🚨: UA provost told faculty senators that their retention and graduation rates are not acceptable and need to be improved. The goal is - increase retention rates by 2% each year for the next 3 years and graduation by 2% each year over the next 5 years. tucson.com/news/local/s...

🚨: UA's first Faculty Senate meeting of the new academic year sparked a debate about the Salary Increase program, announced in the spring, which is giving faculty and staff some across-the-board pay raises and some merit-based. Read my exclusive: tucson.com/news/local/s...

📸: University of Arizona's Center for Creative Photography receives the archives of internationally-recognized photographer Benn Mitchell, who is well-known for his street photography in New York City, magazine photography and Hollywood photography. tucson.com/life-enterta...

🚨: University of Arizona will be losing $6 million annually in federal funds and 43 jobs part of its Cooperative Extension due to the federal termination of SNAP-Ed, as stated at the academic year's first Faculty Senate meeting. Read my exclusive: tucson.com/news/local/e...

The University of Arizona has terminated a 40-year-old writing program which provided writing instruction, by specialists with professional degrees in writing, to not just UA students but also to middle and high school students in Tucson. Read more: tucson.com/news/local/e...

🚨: The UA is shutting down SNAP-Ed — a national program that offers nutrition education and healthy living resources to underserved communities — now that it's been eliminated from the federal budget. Read my latest: tucson.com/news/local/e...

With the fall 2025 semester starting, Pima Community College marks it's 10th consecutive semester of first-day enrollment growth of 8% year-over-year. This is the college's third year of witnessing enrollment growth. Read my latest: tucson.com/news/local/e...

🚨: The University of Arizona could be seeing an approximate decline of 20% in the fall 2025 new student class, majority of which would come from out-of-state and international students, according to a June email by the enrollment office. Read my latest: tucson.com/news/local/s...

🚨: UA's Cooperative Extension program faces a spending reduction at the university level for the second year in a row, said faculty leader Katie Zeiders. "To cap, restrict, or limit these funds goes against legislative intent," she said. Read my latest: tucson.com/news/local/e...

NEW: Arizona's FY26 budget has allocated an additional $16.3 million in one-time funding for the Arizona Promise Program, a guaranteed scholarship program for eligible low-income Arizona students. This brings the total funding to $54 million. tucson.com/news/local/e...

A University of Arizona cancer research lab, waiting for grant funding from the U.S. Department of Defense, has applied for a crowdfunding initiative and raised about $5,030 as of Friday. Read more: tucson.com/news/local/a...

NEW: A message to the university community Tuesday reported UA's Office of Native American Advancement and Tribal Engagement and Office of Hispanic Serving Institution Initiatives have been moved under newly-appointed Provost Patricia Prelock. Read more: tucson.com/news/local/e...

UA researchers have launched what they believe to be the first open-access catalog of animal traditions in order to explore how social learning both shapes and is shaped by human-driven environmental change: tucson.com/news/local/e...

The University of Arizona has launched a new initiative, including an inaugural Public Health and AI Summer School training program in June, to explore how artificial intelligence can be used in public health. Read more on the program: tucson.com/news/local/e...

🚨: UA Faculty Secretary Katie Zeiders shared a research and bridge funds update with faculty senators Thursday, reporting 67 grants had been terminated so far. The UA has awarded 26 grants with bridge funds totaling over $1 million. Read my exclusive: tucson.com/news/local/s...

NEW: Education Forward Arizona has now signed a June 6 letter urging Congress to reject cuts to Pell grants and need-based college tuition aid. The estimated $10.9 billion cut over 10 years would affect about 40% of Arizona students who rely on the aid. tucson.com/news/local/e...

NEW: The University of Arizona has now introduced the state's first three-year medical degree programs at its Colleges of Medicine in Tucson and Phoenix as an effort to combat Arizona's urgent need for primary care physicians. Read my latest: tucson.com/news/local/e...

🚨: Officials discussed the UA's Fuel Wonder fundraising campaign, which has raised over $1.3 billion for faculty and research positions, research funding and student support. However, these funds cannot be used to offset federal losses, they say. tucson.com/news/local/s...

NEW: A group of UA Native American faculty have asked President Garimella to remove the assistant vice provost of Native American Initiatives, Tessa Dysart, and reinstate the former director of Native American Student Affairs Julian Juan. tucson.com/news/local/e...

🚨: UA will now offer a first year, study abroad option in London for international students worried about coming to the U.S. in the midst of the Trump administration's crackdown on student visas, SEVIS records and immigration travel. Read my latest: tucson.com/news/local/s...

Pima Community College's annual FY26 budget includes no increases in student tuition, a decrease in property tax rate, and a 1% minimum raise for regular PCC employees and a 3% increase in adjunct faculty pay. Read my latest: tucson.com/news/local/e...

🚨: The University of Arizona, with currently 656 Chinese international students, will be monitoring their visa situation after U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. will be "aggressively" revoking their student visas. tucson.com/news/local/e...

🚨: UA's incoming Provost Patricia Prelock confirmed in a communication with a university administrator the plan to create a single multicultural center out of the current seven cultural centers. Read my exclusive: tucson.com/news/local/s...

🚨: Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has signed HB2880 into law, officially prohibiting encampments on university and college campuses from taking place. University of Arizona students and faculty have lots to say. Read my exclusive: tucson.com/news/local/e...

Pima Community College will be joining elements of its diversity or "Multicultural Convocation" into its main 2025 commencement ceremony due to budget considerations, officials say. Read my latest: tucson.com/news/local/e...

🚨: The University of Arizona has allocated $1 million for its bridge funding program to support 73 research awards impacted by the Trump administration's changes in federal research funding. Read my exclusive: tucson.com/news/local/s...

🎓:The University of Arizona's cultural centers will be continuing their tradition of hosting convocation ceremonies for diversity communities, despite the slate of Trump administration orders asking DEI to be removed from universities. Read: tucson.com/news/local/e...

Pls check out the new episode of The Press Room @azpm.org. Thx to @preranawrites.bsky.social Jim Nintzel, Paola Rodriguez, and Dan Shearer for joining me to talk about possible Medicaid cuts, UA faculty wanting to push back at the Trump Administration, and more. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...

Tucson families with transgender youth are devastated with El Rio Health's decision to cancel hormone therapy due to a slate of Trump administration orders and notices on protecting children from "mutilation." Read my exclusive: tucson.com/news/local/s...

🚨: UA announced the preliminary FY26 budget which includes: the elimination of the financial deficit, through 7% cuts to administration and 2% cuts to colleges among others, and employee raises promised by President Garimella. Read my latest: tucson.com/news/local/e...

NEW: 91% of University of Arizona faculty members who voted on a faculty referendum approved to urge UA President Suresh Garimella to defend the university's core values, sign the AAC&U letter, and more. Read my exclusive: tucson.com/news/local/e...

NEW: The UA announced the departure of a controversial hire from seven years ago who served as the senior vice president for health affairs, a position which will be terminated. Also, the UA's health sciences colleges will now report to the provost. tucson.com/news/local/s...