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.
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.
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?
The University of Arizona said it's not currently planning to sell the Campus Agricultural Center property it acquired in 1909.
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.
The university says mandating COVID-19 testing next semester "is on the table."
The Student Success District, which is slated for completion in January, intends to seamlessly connect students with all of the resources they need to succeed in college and beyond.
University of Arizona students who are interested in practicing law but not attending law school now have access to an exclusive new pathway that could qualify them to offer affordable legal counsel — without a law degree — in some settings.
This comes after new research says cloth masks are not adequate protection against the omicron variant.
Read more of the latest stories covering the University of Arizona and Pima Community College here: