'New' Hotel Opening Near UA

  • Arizona Daily Star
  • March 18, 2013
A newly rebuilt and rebranded hotel across from the UA is set to open in April. The staff at Aloft Tucson University is putting the finishing touches on the 154-room, seven-story hotel on the corner of Speedway Boulevard and Campbell Avenue. The hotel was called Plaza International when it opened in 1971. It became the Four Points Sheraton Tucson University in 2001.

UA Makes 2013-14 Tuition Proposal

  • UANews
  • March 15, 2013
A modest base tuition increase of 3 percent for resident and non-resident undergraduate and graduate students is necessary for 2013-14 if the UA is to meet its local, institutional and Arizona Board of Regents-mandated goals. Tuition revenue generated will support key initiatives including the retention and graduation of students, seeding research and making engagement experiences possible for all students, among other priorities.

Festival of Books Aids Community, Workforce Development Year-Round

  • Arizona Daily Star
  • March 7, 2013
Over the last four years, the Tucson Festival of Books - March 9-10 on the UA campus - has donated a total of $700,000 to support literacy programs. Those who participate in and attend the event invest long-term in building the Tucson community and the workforce behind it. When all of the festival tents come down, the real work begins.

Festival Emphasizes Literacy, Love of Learning

  • UANews
  • March 5, 2013
With 400 authors and nearly 300 exhibitors, the Tucson Festival of Books March 9-10 is expected to draw thousands upon thousands of people from across the region and the U.S. to the UA campus. Covering topics and genres that include teen novels, romance, culture, health, current events and culinary arts, the festival has broad offerings under the tenet of improving literacy and education.

Central Tucson: The Art of Campus

  • The Denver Post
  • February 15, 2013
The Arizona State Museum and the UA Museum of Art are at the heart of the UA campus. At ASM, you'll find basketry and other woven textiles, including cradleboards, sandals and mats representing every indigenous basketmaking culture in North America, starting around 4,000 B.C. Meanwhile, the UA Museum of Art's "Broken Desert - Land and Sea" exhibition ponders human impacts on desert landscapes.

Andrew C. Comrie Selected as UA Provost

  • UANews
  • February 12, 2013
UA President Ann Weaver Hart has named Andrew C. Comrie to the permanent post of senior vice president of academic affairs and provost. Comrie, who has spent the last two decades at the UA as a professor and administrator, has served in the position on a temporary basis since August 2012.

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