University of Arizona
 University of Arizona  (University)    | |
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| Motto | "Bear Down, Arizona" The seal of the university is emblazoned with the word "Sursum", Latin for "Upwards". |
| Formation | 1885 |
| Type | • Public • flagship • research university |
| Other name | Wildcats |
| University in Phoenix, Arizona with extensive space research | |
The University of Arizona is a public land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1885 by the Arizona Territorial Legislature, it was the first university in the Arizona Territory.
As of 2019, the university enrolled 45,918 students[1] in 19 separate colleges/schools, including the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson and Phoenix and the James E. Rogers College of Law, and is affiliated with two academic medical centers (Banner – University Medical Center Tucson and Banner – University Medical Center Phoenix).
UA students have been selected as Truman, Rhodes, Goldwater, and Fulbright Scholars.[2]
Research
The university's research expenditure in fiscal year 2018 was $687.1 million.[3][4] Arizona is the fourth most awarded public university by NASA for research.[5]
In June 2011, the university announced it would assume full ownership of the Biosphere 2 scientific research facility in Oracle, Arizona.[6] Biosphere 2 was constructed by private developers (funded mainly by Texas businessman and philanthropist Ed Bass) with its first closed system experiment commencing in 1991. The university had been the official management partner of the facility for research purposes since 2007.
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victor Marchetti | “To the Clandestine Services the universities represented fertile territory for recruiting espionage agents. Most large American colleges enrolled substantial numbers of foreign students, and many of these, especially those from the Third World, were (and are) destined to hold high positions in their home countries in a relatively few years. They were much easier to recruit at American schools — when they might have a need for money, where they could be easily compromised, and where foreign security services could not interfere — than they would be when they returned home. To spot and evaluate these students, the Clandestine Services maintained a contractual relationship with key professors on numerous campuses. When a professor had picked out a likely candidate, he notified his contact at the CIA and, on occasion, participated in the actual recruitment attempt. Some professors performed these services without being on a formal retainer. Others actively participated in agency covert operations by serving as "cut-outs," or intermediaries, and even by carrying out secret missions during foreign journeys.” | Victor Marchetti | 1974 |
| Victor Marchetti | “Helms asked his staff to find out just how many university personnel were under secret contract to the CIA. After a few days of investigation, senior CIA officers reported back that they could not find the answer. Helms immediately ordered a full study of the situation, and after more than a month of searching records all over the agency, a report was handed in to Helms listing hundreds of professors and administrators on over a hundred campuses. But the staff officers who compiled the report knew that their work was incomplete . Within weeks, another campus connection was exposed in the press. The contact was not on the list that had been compiled for the Director.” | Victor Marchetti | 1974 |
Alumni on Wikispooks
| Person | Born | Died | Nationality | Summary | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anita Decker Breckenridge | 19 July 1978 | Political staffer | White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations for president Barack Obama, then also for his post-presidency office, where her portfolio includes the Obama Foundation. | ||
| Dennis DeConcini | 8 May 1937 | US | Politician | ||
| Bob Dole | 22 July 1923 | 5 December 2021 | Politician | US Republican politician and presidential candidate | |
| Tom Drake | 22 April 1957 | US | Whistleblower Spook | NSA employee who blew the whistle on their illegal surveillance. | |
| Barry Goldwater | 2 January 1909 | 29 May 1998 | Politician Businessperson | ||
| Crosby Kelly | 1918 | 1986 | US | Propagandist Deep state operative Businessperson | Spooky US businessman known as a public relations pioneer. Attended Le Cercle |
| Jon Kyl | 25 April 1942 | Lawyer | US lawyer whom Sibel Edmonds named as one of her "Dirty Dozen" | ||
| Geraldo Rivera | 4 July 1943 | US | Journalist | defender of Ghislaine Maxwell | |
| John Roll | 8 February 1947 | 8 January 2011 | Judge | A judge shot less than 72 hours after ruling against US government | |
| Stewart Udall | 31 January 1920 | 20 March 2010 | US Secretary of the Interior 1961-1969 |
References
- ↑ https://uair.arizona.edu/content/enrollment
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20060218033208/http://uaadvancement.arizona.edu/highlights/retrieve.php?factcategoriesid=17
- ↑ https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/herd/2018/html/herd18-dt-tab020.html |website=ncsesdata.nsf.gov
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170208034245/http://neversettle.arizona.edu/plan-in-action%7Carchive-date=February 8, 2017
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20180222044803/https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/herd/2016/html/HERD2016_DST_62.html
- ↑ http://uanews.org/node/40358 |date=June 27, 2011
