Arizona Daily Star reporter Kathryn Palmer's Top 5 stories of 2021
We are sharing Arizona Daily Star reporters' and photographers' favorite work from 2021.
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Accreditor: UA Global Campus' academic improvement plan 'seriously inadequate'For Star subscribers: When the University of Arizona acquired the troubled for-profit Ashford University last year and rebranded it as the non-profit UA Global Campus, the online school had been on accreditation notice since 2019.
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For Star subscribers: The University of Arizona will lead the newly launched Precision Aging Network, which aims to recruit 350,000 people to participate in the largest-ever study of normative aging brains.
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For Star subscribers: Meanwhile, the percentage of in-state students enrolled at the University of Arizona has dropped since 2019. Why is this happening and what does the COVID-19 pandemic have to do with it?
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The University of Arizona said it's not currently planning to sell the Campus Agricultural Center property it acquired in 1909.
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Despite strong dissent, the Pima Community College Governing Board voted 3-2 at a virtual meeting Wednesday night to extend Chancellor Lee Lambert’s most recent contract by one year and increase his annual base salary from $342,093 to $348,935.
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The university says mandating COVID-19 testing next semester "is on the table."
