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Universitas Arizona atau The University of Arizona (juga dirujuk sebagai UA, U of A, atau Arizona) adalah sebuah intitusi pendidikan tinggi dan riset negeri yang berlokasi di kota Tucson, Arizona, Amerika Serikat, yang menerima dana hibah untuk pembangunan fasilitas kampus dan pengembangan riset teknologi angkasa. UA merupakan universitas pertama di negara bagian Arizona, didirikan di tahun 1885 (27 tahun sebelum Teritori Arizona menerima status negara bagian). Universitas ini mencakup University of Arizona COllege of Medicine yang merupakan salah satu dari tiga sekolah kedokteran dan satu-satunya sekolah kedokteran yang menganugerahkan gelar MD (Doctor of Medicine) di Arizona. Hingga musim gugur tahun 2010, jumlah mahasiswanya adalah 39,086 orang.[2] UA dibawah pengelolaan Arizona Board of Regents. Misi UA adalah "untuk menemukan, mendidik, melayani dan menginspirasi."[3] UA adalah salah satu anggota terpilih dari Association of American Universities (suatu organisasi dari institusi-institusi riset terkemuka di Amerika Utara) dan merupakan satu-satunya wakil dari negara bagian Arizona dalam asosiasi ini.

Universitas Arizona
UA Seal (Trademark of Arizona Board of Regents)


 
Peta
 
Peta
Peta
Informasi
MotoBear Down!
JenisNegeri
Didirikan1885
Dana abadiAS$ 393,4 juta
PresidenRobert N. Shelton [1]
Staf administrasi
2.462
Sarjana28.462
Magister8.574
Lokasi
Tucson
,
Arizona
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AS
KampusUrban, 1.253.500 m²)
YearbookDesert Yearbook
WarnaMerah kardinal dan biru laut
Atletik18 tim universitas
MaskotWilbur Wildcat
Situs webwww.arizona.edu
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Sejarah

 
Old Main, bangunan tertua di kampus Univeritas Arizona

Universitas Arizona disetujui pendiriannya oleh Badan Legislatif Teritori Arizona yang dikenal dengan julukan Thieving Thirteenth di tahun 1885. Kota Tucson sebelumnya berharap menerima dana untuk pembangunan rumah sakit jiwa Teritori Arizona yang dialokasikan sejumlah USD 100,000 dan bukannya USD 25,000 yang dialokasikan untuk pembangunan satu-satunya universitas di teritori ini (Arizona State University juga disetujui pembentukannya di tahun 1885, tapi pada saat itu direncanakan sebagai sekolah guru Arizona, dan bukannya sebagai sebuah universitas). Para anggota dewan kota Tucson terlambat tiba di kota Prescott, Arizona, akibat banjir di Sungai Salt (Arizona) dan saat mereka tiba keputusan yang mengalokasikan dana untuk institusi-institusi teritorial telah diambil. Perwakilan Tucson sangatlah kecewa menerima alokasi dana yang dianggap sebagai hadiah hiburan belaka.

Saat tidak ada pihak yang mau manju dan menyediakan tanah untuk institusi baru yang diputuskan, warga Tucson bersiap untuk mengembalikan dana kepada Badan Legislatif Teritori Arizona. Mereka berubah pikiran setelah dua orang penjudi dan seorang pengusaha bar memutuskan untuk menyumbangkan tanah yang dibutuhkan untuk membangun universitas tersebut. Proses belajar-mengajar terlaksana pertama kali di tahun 1891 dengan jumlah 32 mahasiswa di gedung Old Main, bangunan pertama yang dibangun di kampus, dan masih digunakan hingga hari ini.[4] Oleh karena tidak ada sekolah menengah atas di Teritori Arizona saat itu, UA menyediakan program pendidikan persiapan masuk universitas secara terpisah dalam masa 23 tahun pertama kegiatan kuliah mereka.

 
Mall Universitas Arizona
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Akademisi

Universitas Arizona mengajarkan 334 disiplin ilmu yang mengarah pada dianugerahkannya gelar sarjana, pasca-sarjana, doktoral dan pofesional. Departemen dan program akademisi ditata ke dalam berbagai Kolese dan Sekolah. Daftar kolese dan sekolah universitas ini bisa dilihat di http://www.arizona.edu/index/colleges.php.[5] Universitas Arizona adalah satu-satunya sekolah dalam Konferensi Pac-10 yang tidak memberikan nilai "plus" atau "minus" untuk kelas-kelasnya. Saat ini, nilai diberikan dalam skala 4-point yang ketat dengan "A" bernilai 4, "B: bernilai 3, "C" bernilai 2, "D" bernilai 1 dan "F" bernilai nol. Di tahun 2004 muncul berbagai diskusi antara mahasiswa dan pengajar yang mungkin membawa UA menggunakan sistem penilaian puls-minus di masa depan.[6] Hingga bulan Juli 2010 UA masih menggunakan skala 4-point.

Peringkat

Untuk tahun 2012, U.S. News & World Report menempatkan Universitas Arizona sebagai universitas negeri terbaik ke-59 di seluruh Amerika Serikat. Program-program Eller College of Management di bidang Akuntansi, Wirausaha, Management Information System (MIS), Manajemen Organisasi dan Marketing menempati peringkat 25 terbaik oleg U.S. News & World Report. Program pasca-sarjana (S2/Master) di bidang MIS selalu menduduki peringkat 5 terbaik menurut U.S. News & World Report semenjak lahirnya sistem peringkat ini.[7] Program MBA Eller telah masuk peringkat 50 program terbaik selama sebelas tahun berturut-turut oleh U.S. News & World Report. Di tahun 2005 U.S. News & World Report menempatkannya di peringkat ke-40. Majalah Forbes menempatkan Program MBA Eller di peringkat ke-33 dalam hal Return on Investment terbaik, dalam daftar peringkat sekolah bisnis dua-tahunan yang ke-empat di tahun 2005. Program MBA ini juga menduduki peringkat ke-24 dalam Peringkat Regional Interaktif 2005 dari Wall Street Journal.

Campaign Arizona, suatu usaha untuk mengumpulkan dana sebesar USD 1 Milyar bagi institusi pendidikan ini, berhasil melewati jumlah tersebut sebesar USD 200 juta dalam waktu satu tahun lebih cepat.[8] National Science Foundation menempatkan UA ke peringkat ke-16 di antara semua universitas negeri dan ke-26 diantara semua universitas di Amerika Serikat dalam perihal besarnya dana riset.[8]


Admissions

The UA is considered a "selective" university by U.S. News and World Report.[9] Sixty-nine freshman students were National Merit Scholars.[10]

UA students hail from all states in the U.S. While nearly 72% of students are from Arizona, nearly 10% are from California, followed by a significant student presence from Illinois, Texas, Washington, and New York (2007).[2] The UA has over 2,200 international students representing 122 countries. International students comprise approximately 6% of the total enrollment at UA.[2]

Riset

Arizona is classified as a Carnegie Foundation "RU/VH: Research Universities (very high research activity)" university (formerly "Research 1" university). The university receives more than $600 million USD annually in research funding, generating around two thirds of the research dollars in the Arizona university system.[11] 26th highest in the U.S. (including public and private institutions).[12] The university has an endowment of $480.2 million USD as of 2010.[13]

The U of A is awarded more NASA grants for space exploration than any other university nationally.[14] The UA was awarded over $325 million USD for its Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL) to lead NASA's 2007–08 mission to Mars to explore the Martian Arctic. The LPL's work in the Cassini spacecraft orbit around Saturn is larger than that of any other university globally. The U of A laboratory designed and operated the atmospheric radiation investigations and imaging on the probe.[15] The UA operates the HiRISE camera, a part of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. UA receives more NASA grants annually than the next nine top NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory-funded universities combined.[8] As of June 2011, the UA's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory is actively involved in five spacecraft missions: Cassini; the Phoenix Mars Lander; the HiRISE camera orbiting Mars; the MESSENGER mission to Mercury and OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. sample return mission to an asteroid, which was just selected by NASA. [16] UA students have been selected as Flinn, Truman, Rhodes, Goldwater, Fulbright, and National Meritscholars.[17] According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, UA is among the top 25 producers of Fulbright awards in the U.S.[8]

UA is a member of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, a consortium of institutions pursuing research in astronomy. The association operates observatories and telescopes, notably Kitt Peak National Observatory located just outside of Tucson. UA is a member of the Association of American Universities, and the sole representative from Arizona to this group. Led by Roger Angel, researchers in the Steward Observatory Mirror Lab at UA are working in concert to build the world's most advanced telescope. Known as the Giant Magellan Telescope, the instrument will produce images 10 times sharper than those from the Earth-orbiting Hubble Telescope. The telescope is set to be completed in 2016 at a cost of $500 million USD. Researchers from at least nine institutions are working to secure the funding for the project. The telescope will include seven 18-ton mirrors capable of providing clear images of volcanoes and riverbeds on Mars and mountains on the moon at a rate 40 times faster than the world's current large telescopes. The mirrors of the Giant Magellan Telescope will be built at the U of A and transported to a permanent mountaintop site in the Chilean Andes where the telescope will be constructed.[18]

Reaching Mars in March 2006, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter contained the HiRISE camera, with Primary Investigator is scientist Alfred McEwen as the lead on the project. This NASA mission to Mars carried a UA-designed camera expected to capture the highest-resolution images of the planet ever seen. The journey of the orbiter was 300 million miles. The project is expected to be in its Primary Science Phase in the month of October. Currently operating on the surface of Mars is the Lander known as the Phoenix Scout Mission, led by the U of A Scientist Peter Smith. The mission's purpose is to improve knowledge of the Martian Arctic. After a successful landing on Mars in May 2008, it is the first NASA mission completely controlled by a university. The Arizona Radio Observatory, a part of Steward Observatory, operates the 12 Meter Telescope on Kitt Peak and the Submillimeter Telescope on Mount Graham.

The National Science Foundation funded the iPlant Collaborative in 2008.[19] In June 2011, the University announced that it would assume full ownership of the Biosphere 2 scientific research facility in Oracle, Arizona, north of Tucson, effective July 1.[20] 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.

Perpustakaan

 
Entrance to the U of A main library

In 2005, the Association of Research Libraries, in its "Ranked Lists for Institutions for 2005" (the most recent year available), ranked the UA libraries as the 33rd overall university library in North America (out of 113) based on various statistical measures of quality; this is one rank below the library of Duke University, one rank ahead of that of Northwestern University.[21] (both these schools are members, along with the UA, of the Association of American Universities).

As of 2009, the UA's library system contains over five million print volumes, 600,000 electronic books, and 54,000 electronic journals. The Main Library, opened in 1976, serves as the library system's reference, periodical, and administrative center; most of the main collections and special collections are housed here as well. The Main Library is located on the southeast quadrant of campus near McKale Center and Arizona Stadium.

In 2002, a $20 million, 100.000-kaki-persegi (10.000 m2) addition, the Integrated Learning Center (ILC), was completed; it is a home base for first-year students (especially those undecided on a major) which features classrooms, auditoriums, a courtyard with an alcove for vending machines, and a greatly expanded computer lab (the Information Commons) with several dozen Gateway and Apple Macintosh G5 workstations (these computers are available for use by the general public (with some restrictions) as well as by UA students, faculty and staff). Much of the ILC was constructed underground, underneath the east end of the Mall; the ILC connects to the basement floor of the Main Library through the Information Commons. As part of the project, additional new office space for the Library was constructed on the existing fifth floor.

The Science and Engineering Library is in a nearby building from the 1960s that houses volumes and periodicals from those fields. The Music Building (on the northwest quadrant of campus where many of the fine arts disciplines are clustered) houses the Fine Arts Library, including reference collections for architecture, music (including sheet music, recordings and listening stations), and photography. There is a small library at the Center for Creative Photography, also in the fine arts complex, devoted to the art and science of photography. The Law Library is in the law building (James E. Rogers College of Law), located at the intersection of Speedway Boulevard and Mountain Avenue.

The Arizona Health Sciences Library is located on the Health Sciences Center on the north end of campus and in Phoenix on the Phoenix Biomedical Campus. The library serves the Colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and Public Health, the University of Arizona Health Network, and is a resource for health professionals and citizens across the state. -->

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Catatan

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  2. ^ a b c Office of Institutional Research & Evaluation (ed.). The University of Arizona Fact Book 2006–07 (PDF). 
  3. ^ "About the UA". University of Arizona. University of Arizona. Diakses tanggal 5 May 2008. 
  4. ^ "The Old Main". UA History. Arizona Board of Regents. 2005. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal February 11, 2006. Diakses tanggal March 29, 2006. 
  5. ^ "Colleges & Schools". University of Arizona. Diakses tanggal November 23, 2005. 
  6. ^ "Arizona Summer Wildcat – Making the grade: UA's plus/minus debate – Monday, August 9, 2004". Diakses tanggal December 13, 2006. 
  7. ^ "Masters in MIS program". Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal September 9, 2005. Diakses tanggal November 23, 2005. 
  8. ^ a b c d "Academic Year 2004–05 Highlights" (PDF). Diakses tanggal 28 January 2006. 
  9. ^ "USNews.com: America's Best Colleges 2008: National Universities". Diakses tanggal February 22, 2008. 
  10. ^ Office of Institutional Research and Planning Support (ed.). Enrollment Highlights 2005–2007; New Freshmen Application, Admission and Enrollment Profile by Residency. 
  11. ^ "Campus Highlights". Highlights and Rankings. University of Arizona. Diakses tanggal 29 March 2006. 
  12. ^ "UA Highlights 2004–05" (PDF). Diarsipkan dari versi asli (PDF) tanggal February 11, 2006. Diakses tanggal July 17, 2007. 
  13. ^ "University of Arizona and Foundation" (PDF). NACUBO Endowment Study 2010. National Association of College and University Business Officers. Diakses tanggal 3 April 2010. 
  14. ^ "The First UA Undergrad to Command a Camera on Mars". Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2006-02-10. Diakses tanggal 2006-04-18. 
  15. ^ "The eyes of the world... and beyond". Arizona Board of Regents. Diakses tanggal 29 March 2006. 
  16. ^ Stolte, Daniel.[1], "UANews", May 27, 2011, accessed June 13, 2011.
  17. ^ "Student Honors". Highlights and Rankings. University of Arizona. Diakses tanggal 29 March 2006. 
  18. ^ "Giant Magellan Telescope". Diakses tanggal 2006-07-12. 
  19. ^ "National Science Foundation Awards $50 Million for Collaborative Plant Biology Project to Tackle Greater Science Questions". News release. National Science Foundation. January 30, 2008. Diakses tanggal September 21, 2011. 
  20. ^ "Biosphere 2 to Have a Permanent Home With the UA". Office of University Communications, The University of Arizona. 2011-06-27. Diakses tanggal 2011-06-27. 
  21. ^ ARL.org
 

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