Arizona Daily Star reporter Kathryn Palmer's top 5 stories of 2022
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Arizona Daily Star
Kathryn Palmer
Higher education reporter
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We are sharing Arizona Daily Star reporters' and photographers' favorite work from 2022.
Kathryn Palmer is our higher education reporter whose top stories of 2022 focused on how the management of the University of Arizona and Pima Community College influences students' access to learning opportunities.
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For Star subscribers: A year-and-a-half after the University of Arizona acquired the assets of troubled for-profit online Ashford University and rebranded it as the nonprofit UA Global Campus, the university announced plans to fully integrate the online school into its operation.
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For Star subscribers: Among University of Arizona students surveyed, 35% said they had experienced food insecurity and 8%, housing insecurity. The stress of meeting basic needs makes it hard to focus on academics and the UA has been told to help.
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For more than 50 years, the University of Arizona has held New Start, which is a six-week summer program geared toward helping mostly low-income and first-generation college students adjust to the quirks of college life.
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After losing 20% of its students during the pandemic, Pima Community College's enrollment is up 6.5% since last year. One strategy has included emphasizing the wide range of short- and long-term career pathways PCC offers.
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Azucena Hughes is a stellar Pima Community College student and a mom who needs relief from juggling child care and school work. When she saw PCC has 20 spots at its new, free, on-campus child care center, she immediately applied.
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