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Posted: Feb. 18 2011,8:44 am |
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ASU announces plan to come to Havasu campus
Openning is conditional on a local foundation raising $2MBy JACKIE LEATHERMAN
Today's News-Herald
Published Thursday, February 17, 2011 11:42 PM MST
Arizona State University will open a campus in Lake Havasu City if $2 million is raised locally to renovate buildings and to help sustain classes for the first year.
The Havasu Foundation for Higher Education has a conceptual drawing of what the Arizona State University campus in Lake Havasu City may look like. The drawing has not been finalized or approved. Above is the drawing of the campus student union area. Submitted Illustration
ﾃ｢竄ｬﾅ的ﾃ｢竄ｬ邃｢ve heard a lot of people say, and I tend to agree, this is probably the biggest thing to happen to Lake Havasu City since the London Bridge was put in,ﾃ｢竄ｬﾂ said Steve Greeley, Havasu Foundation for Higher Education president. ﾃ｢竄ｬﾅ典hatﾃ｢竄ｬ邃｢s how exciting this is.ﾃ｢竄ｬﾂ
The foundation worked for seven years to get the announcement that ASU made to the Arizona Board of Regents Thursday. The Regents oversee the stateﾃ｢竄ｬ邃｢s university system.
ﾃ｢竄ｬﾅ典he reaction to the fact that we are doing this was all completely positive today,ﾃ｢竄ｬﾂ said Richard Stanley, ASUﾃ｢竄ｬ邃｢s senior vice president and university planner. ﾃ｢竄ｬﾅ展eﾃ｢竄ｬ邃｢re thrilled. Weﾃ｢竄ｬ邃｢ve been thinking about this idea ﾃ｢竄ｬﾂｦ for two years now.ﾃ｢竄ｬﾂ
The foundation announced in January 2010 that ASU would consider opening a four-year undergraduate campus at the former Daytona Middle School, now vacant at 98 Swanson Plaza.
A positive outcome of an ASU study, completed in June 2010, showed favorable enrollment should a campus open. University officials project a first-year class of 175 freshmen.
It is estimated to take around $3.5 million to start the campus. ASU officials have said $2.5 million will be for first-year operating costs and around $1 million used for renovations.
Now, the foundation is responsible for generating $2 million, leaving ASU with a $1.5 million tab to open the facility.
Stanley said ASU officials were in wait-and-see mode while Arizonaﾃ｢竄ｬ邃｢s governor and state Legislature figured where the ax would fall ﾃ｢竄ｬ窶 and how hard ﾃ｢竄ｬ窶 for this yearﾃ｢竄ｬ邃｢s round of budget cuts.
ﾃ｢竄ｬﾅ典he hang up for the last number of months has been the level of uncertainty weﾃ｢竄ｬ邃｢ve had about the overall budget situation for the university (system) as a whole,ﾃ｢竄ｬﾂ Stanley said.
He said although the stateﾃ｢竄ｬ邃｢s budget situation isnﾃ｢竄ｬ邃｢t settled, ASU officials felt they couldnﾃ｢竄ｬ邃｢t wait any longer to make a decision.
"Damn you sure know how to fock things up."-GFR
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