UA leaders are being called out for conflicting and false statements ... Faculty review shows UA athletics is the worst in the country for overspending ... Big changes coming to zoning laws.
Thanks for the context about UA Athletics funding, it does seem like UArizona is an outlier in many ways.
According to the 2/19/24 news release about Coach Lloyd's contract extension, donor funds are covering the cost of his pay increase. Athletics should know very well what funds come from where as I don't believe they can be commingled with state/tuition funds, because there are restrictions on how different funds can be spent (donor funds have far fewer restrictions).
It does beg the question though of why Athletics isn't made to prioritize repaying loans to the university instead of giving out pay raises and hiring staff.
Thank you for your continued reporting on the UA financial crisis. This situation displays the importance of multiple journalistic eyes on a situation. Ellie Wolfe of the AZ Star works hard to give detailed reports. But the prominence that the Star's editors gave to the Jim Click office confab left me questioning how much Click's ad revenue influenced the decision to cover a bunch of people who clearly didn't know what they were talking about and the decision regarding the placement of the news article. I read the Tucson Agenda every morning to learn what's going on in Southern Arizona.
Thanks for the context about UA Athletics funding, it does seem like UArizona is an outlier in many ways.
According to the 2/19/24 news release about Coach Lloyd's contract extension, donor funds are covering the cost of his pay increase. Athletics should know very well what funds come from where as I don't believe they can be commingled with state/tuition funds, because there are restrictions on how different funds can be spent (donor funds have far fewer restrictions).
It does beg the question though of why Athletics isn't made to prioritize repaying loans to the university instead of giving out pay raises and hiring staff.
Thank you for your continued reporting on the UA financial crisis. This situation displays the importance of multiple journalistic eyes on a situation. Ellie Wolfe of the AZ Star works hard to give detailed reports. But the prominence that the Star's editors gave to the Jim Click office confab left me questioning how much Click's ad revenue influenced the decision to cover a bunch of people who clearly didn't know what they were talking about and the decision regarding the placement of the news article. I read the Tucson Agenda every morning to learn what's going on in Southern Arizona.
I can't find when the regents' terms are up. Could you check into two questions:
When can Hobbs start appointing regents?
Is there a process for Hobbs or Mayes to remove incompetent regents?