A different type of grading system may be ahead at Arizona State University.

A Senate panel voted Thursday to give more money to two of the state’s three universities.

The abortion flap over President Barack Obama's invitation to speak at Notre Dame's graduation is getting all the attention.

Arizona State University will become a tobacco-free campus beginning next summer, but in protest and to raise awareness of the ban, one student-led group passed out cigarettes to students on the Tempe campus Wednesday.

Starting next semester, students who smoke will have to find other places to light up between classes. All Arizona State University campuses and buildings will become tobacco-free beginning Aug. 1.

ASU is beginning a wide-ranging reorganization of its largest academic programs in order to cut $6 million from the budget this school year.

Many professors at ASU are volunteering for pay cuts this semester to avoid missing classes and office hours as part of the university-mandated furloughs. The state's three public universities must collectively cut $142 million from their budgets for the remaining five months of this fiscal year.

Some of ASU’s best teachers see their job security threatened, not by the rounds of layoffs past and future, but by a technical administrative change. Arizona State University is shortening the length of contracts it awards to lecturers, a class of untenured faculty members who specialize in educating rather than researching.

On Robert Shelton’s first day as president of the University of Arizona, he placed a foot squarely on Arizona State University’s turf.

ASU President Michael Crow has directed the university to prepare to shutter its Polytechnic campus in east Mesa as higher education faces hundreds of millions of dollars in funding cuts.

Arizona State University students have a new reason to study more: Starting in fall 2004, professors can award A-pluses in their classes. It’s part of a new "plus minus" grading system approved this summer by ASU President Michael Crow.

The vision: Three thousand people, including some of the nation’s best scientific minds, working right here in the East Valley.

May 26, 2004

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Monday to allow guns onto college campuses.

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Monday to allow guns onto college campuses.

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Monday to allow guns onto college campuses.

A demand by some lawmakers for equal spending at the state’s three universities could doom taxpayer financing to construct new buildings at ASU Polytechnic.

A demand by some lawmakers for equal spending at the state’s three universities could doom taxpayer financing to construct new buildings at ASU Polytechnic.

 The state’s three university presidents gave dire forecasts Thursday to the Arizona Board of Regents in briefings on possible cuts under state funding proposals.

Arizona's faculty associations, student associations, chiefs of campus police, administration and governing board remain united in their opposition to legislation that would allow concealed weapons on college and university campuses.

When they open their wallets for congressional and presidential candidates, professors, administrators and staff at Arizona’s public universities and colleges are far more likely to donate to Democrats than Republicans, a Cronkite News review found.

Mesa Mayor Scott Smith on Monday pointed to the passage earlier this month of two city bond issues supported by the city's first property tax in decades as evidence that Arizonans will open their wallets for public transportation and other infrastructure projects - if political leaders present a clear vision.

When they open their wallets for congressional and presidential candidates, professors, administrators and staff at Arizona’s public universities and colleges are far more likely to donate to Democrats than Republicans, a Cronkite News review found.

A group of state university economists, faculty and administrators say Arizona should temporarily raise both sales and income taxes and use accounting maneuvers to balance the budget rather than relying largely on spending cuts.