President, provost to address campus town hall tomorrow

At a campus town hall tomorrow, UA President Peter Likins and Provost George Davis will take questions from the campus community.

Likins and Davis will discuss the state of the university and address current legislative initiatives.

Dr. Raymond Woosley, vice president of Health Science at the Arizona Health Sciences Center, will also be on hand to talk about the potential genomics initiative.

The International Genomics Consortium, a non-profit, biomedical research organization, is seeking a permanent location and Arizona is on its list.

Likins and Woosley have expected interest in attracting the consortium to the state and having the three universities work together on the project.

Past campus town halls have attracted students, faculty and UA staff. The last town hall - the fifth annual meeting - was in November.

At that forum, questions surrounded the university's hiring freeze, campus diversity and state budget cuts.

The town hall will be at noon in DuVal Auditorium in health sciences.

Faculty senate will discuss possible tuition hikes tomorrow

The faculty senate will discuss the possibility of raising tuition in the Arizona university system at its meeting tomorrow.

The meeting, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in room 146 of the College of Law, will be highlighted by a 20-minute discussion on tuition and financial aid.

President Peter Likins and Provost George Davis, who both serve on the faculty senate, have already indicated that they support aggressive tuition increases in light of state-mandated budget cuts.

Likins said outside a regents meeting last month that he would support a "double-digit"-percent tuition increase, which would translate into at least a $250 hike.

Davis said at the last senate meeting that he would favor a $1,500 increase over the next three to five years, which would put the Arizona near the top of the bottom third in tuition nationwide.

UA Web page to be redesigned

The UA's main Web site will see an overhaul in design and content for the fourth time since it started in 1994.

The UAWeb Team & UAWeb Council have embarked on the task "to keep up with the ever-growing amount of online information," the site states.

The teams are taking input from anyone who uses the site. A prototype is linked from the UA's main site, and comments can be submitted.

Two-hour focus groups will also be conducted to test the site. Anyone can sign up and participate in the groups.