SIRLSNews

SIRLS Removed from Elimination List - 10 April 2003 - From the Focused Excellence website, Financial Bulletin #24 - http://uanews.org/X1/excellence/fb24.html 

SIRLS Planning for New College/Center along with Journalism, Communication and the Media - 12 May 2003 - From the Focused Excellence website, Financial Bulletin #26 - http://uanews.org/X1/excellence/fb26.html

$ 1.5 million gift to benefit SIRLS - http://uanews.opi.arizona.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/UANews.woa/wa/MainStoryDetails?ArticleID=7365 

List of Newsworthy Events Related to SIRLS & Focused Excellence (January - April 2003)

Dr. Sheldon's letter of Feb. 03, 2003, to the Community: Actions You Can Take Now to Save SIRLS

SIRLS Alumni have launched a Save SIRLS Website and you can find ideas to help from there too!

The rest of this page lists the news stories that mention SIRLS and the proposed elimination. Most of the newspapers are local ones; AZ Daily WildCat is the UA student newspaper.  Sorry, but links to articles in Tucson Weekly, Arizona Daily Star, and Tucson Citizen, WILL NOT work approximately one-two weeks after date of publication. There is a miscellaneous section below which provides links to the UA's Focused Excellence website.

• 25 April 2003, AZ Daily Wildcat - http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/96/141/01_2.html (SIRLS program fees approved) - For background information see Dr. Sheldon's letter of Feb. 03, 2003, to Students about Program Fee Proposal.
• 11 April 2003, Tucson Citizen - http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breaking/4_10_03likins.html
• 11 April 2003 - Arizona Daily Wildcat - http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/96/131/01_1.html (great photo of Brooke)
• 11 April 2003 - UA News - http://uanews.opi.arizona.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/UANews.woa/wa/MainStoryDetails?ArticleID=6979 (item about SIRLS Benefit dinner - JA Jance)
• 10 April 2003 - From the Focused Excellence website, Financial Bulletin #24 - http://uanews.org/X1/excellence/fb24.html  (SIRLS removed from 'elimination list')
• 10 April 2003 - From the AZ Daily Wildcat - http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/96/130/01_1.html (UA Plans released today re changes to Elimination List)
• 8 - 14 March 2003 - From the Tucson Weekly (Focused Unexcellence, an article about the School of Landscape Architecture, but SIRLS is mentioned, note the similarities between the two schools eliminated) - http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/current/curr.html
• 13 February 2003 - From the AZ Wildcat - http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/96/95/01_1.html
• 5 February 2003 - From the AZ Daily Star (Arizona) - http://www.azstarnet.com/education/30205UATOWNHALL.html - (Students defend UA Programs)
• 29 January 2003 - From the AZ Daily Star (Arizona) - http://www.azstarnet.com/star/wed/30129UA.TOWNHALL.html (students, faculty speak out)
• 29 January 2003 - From the Tucson Citizen (Tucson, Arizona) - http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/local/1_29_03ua_th.html (Likens asks SIRLS advocates at Town Hall Meeting to present plans not slogans)
• 29 January 2003 - From the AZ Daily WildCat  - http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/96/84/01_1.html (SIRLS rally at the Town Hall)
• 24 January 2003 - From the AZ Daily WildCat - http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/96/81/03_2.html (Opinion Piece: SIRLS merger with journalism, communication, and media arts encouraged)
• 23 January 2003 - From the AZ Daily Star (Arizona) - http://www.azstarnet.com/star/thu/30123Portillo2f2frjs-jmd.html (Opinion Piece by Portillo: UA should rethink decision to fold library sciences)
• 23 January 2003 - From the AZ Daily Star (Arizona) - http://www.azstarnet.com/star/today/30123uasider.html (Mergers, SIRLS mentioned)
• 23 January 2003 - From the Tucson Citizen (Tucson, Arizona) - http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/local/1_23_03ua_focus.html (Mergers, SIRLS not mentioned) 
• 23 January 2003 - From the AZ Daily WildCat - http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/96/80/01_2.html (New college on horizon with SIRLS?)
• 22 January 2003 - From the AZ Daily Star (Arizona) -  http://www.azstarnet.com/star/today/30122uacuts.html 
• 20 January 2003 - From The HitchHiker (New Mexico) - http://www.stlib.state.nm.us/hiker2/current.html
• 20 January 2003 - From ALA Online (US) - http://www.ala.org/alonline/news/2003/030120.html
• 17 January 2003 - From NORWELD (Ohio) - http://www.norweld.lib.oh.us/norweldnews/viewer.asp?ID=1842
• 15 January 2003 - From The Tucson Citizen (Arizona) - http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/local/1_15_03ua_cuts_side2.html
• 15 January 2003 - From the Arizona Daily WildCat - http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/96/75/01_1.html (proposed cuts) and http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/96/75/01_2.html (reactions to cuts) and http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/96/75/01_3.html ("all cuts not imminent") 
• 14 January 2003 - From AZCentral.com (Arizona) - http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0114UAcuts14-ON.html

Miscellaneous

• Jaime Anderson's Journal - http://www.jaime-anderson.com/journal01-03.htm - the Jan. 22 entry provides some background to SIRLS troubles 
• UA's Focused Excellence Website - http://uanews.org/excellence.html - documents the recommendations
• The Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) Clips Index - http://www.abor.asu.edu/1_the_regents/clips/ - start with January 17, this appears to be tracking the moves of three universities' moves in Changing Directions

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