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The Vision 2020 Plan, approved by the Regents this past spring, and discussed below, outlines ambitious, yet important targets to move Arizona's higher education system forward in order to realize greater state economic success in the year 2020. This chart shows where Arizona is now on several indicators, and where it could be in about 11 years, should the targets of the Vision 2020 plan be met.
This chart shows median earnings for 2006, the most recent national data available, based upon top education attainment level. The difference between a high school graduate's median income, and a graduate with a bachelor's degree, is nearly $20,000 per year.
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A Vision for 2020
Two years ago, the Arizona Board of Regents and the state's three public universities-Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University and the University of Arizona-began work on the Vision 2020 Plan for the state's public university system, which sets a path toward doubling baccalaureate degree production by the year 2020. The plan is built around four key themes: educational excellence, research excellence, community engagement and workforce impact, and productivity.
The plan builds on a foundation of previous strategic planning efforts of the universities and the Board, including the establishment of a medical college in Phoenix, development of new health professions programs not offered by public institutions in the state, growth in the research enterprise, and increasingly intensive efforts to provide baccalaureate access to all regions of the state.
View the Vision 2020 plan
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Realizing our Vision 2020-Improving productivity through system architecture reform.
One of the key themes of the Vision 2020 Plan is productivity. The universities' presidents presented a
plan to the Regents at their June board meeting that seeks to reform the system architecture in order achieve greater degree production and to provide lower-cost options to students.
Pathways: Access-driven Architecture for the Arizona University System is a collaborative model of deeply integrated community college-based 2+2 branch campuses, regional universities, new baccalaureate campuses, collaborative Arizona public "university centers," and the expansion of the Arizona Universities Network (AZUN) slate of online degrees.
Board President Ernest Calderόn specifically has proposed pursuing a 3+1 program that would keep students pursuing high-demand degrees at the community colleges a year longer, paying community college tuition and, thereby, significantly reducing their costs. In the fourth year, students would transfer to the university, pay university tuition and earn, in the end, a university degree.
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New report reveals impact of Arizona university grads wages on tax base.
The Arizona Board of Regents "2009 Annual Report on Wages Earned by Arizona University System Graduates" reveals that in 2007, 190,639 students who graduated from Arizona's public universities, between 1990 and 2007, earned nearly $9.4 billion in wages in Arizona, and paid an estimated $678
million in state and local taxes. Their annual average wage was $49,292, as compared to $41,551 for all similar workers in Arizona-a difference of 19 percent.
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Forbes ranks all three universities "best buys".
Getting a degree in Arizona has been determined a good buy. All three of Arizona's universities have been included in the recently released Forbes magazine's "Best American College Buy." Arizona State University ranked 28th, University of Arizona ranked 41st and Northern Arizona University ranked 64th. Incidentally, Arizona is the ONLY state to have all three of their public universities included in this ranking of 100 colleges and universities nationwide.
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Enrollment grows at all three universities.
In spite of the state's economic crisis, all three of Arizona's public universities are projecting a significant increase in enrollment. Arizona State University's ranks are expected to exceed 69,000-representing a 25 percent increase in just seven years, from 55,000 in 2002. For Northern Arizona University, analysts are predicting an enrollment of about 23,000 students-about 500 more than last year. And at the
University of Arizona, 38,800 students are expected to start classes, including 7,000 freshmen.
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12.03.09 - 12.04.09
ABOR Meeting
University of Arizona
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01.28.10 - 01.29.10
ABOR Meeting
Arizona State University,
west campus
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03.11.10 - 03.12.10
ABOR Meeting University of Arizona
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06.10.10 - 06.11.10
ABOR Meeting
Northern Arizona University
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Visit the website for more information.
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Regents
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President Ernest Calderón | Phoenix
Fred T. Boice | Tucson
Robert B. Bulla | Scottsdale
Dennis DeConcini | Tucson
Fred P. DuVal | Phoenix
LuAnn H. Leonard | Polacca
Anne L. Mariucci | Phoenix
Bob J. McLendon | Yuma
Governor Jan Brewer
Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Horne
Ross Meyer | Student, ASU
Jennifer Ginther | Student, NAU
Joel Sideman | Executive Director
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Phoenix, AZ 85004
T: 602/229-2500
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www.azeregents.edu
©2008 Arizona Board of Regents
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