Education

Side-by-side: A breakdown of each USGD presidential candidate’s platform

Editor's note: The following information are direct quotes or paraphrases from each USGD presidential candidate about their respective platform. Frank Smith III Current position: University...

Candidate profile: Frank Smith

Sen. Frank Smith is running for USGD president alongside freshmen Marcus Dudas and Melber Macainan. Smith said he's wanted to be president since he first joined student government.

Candidate profile: Travis Arbon

Sen. Travis Arbon is running for the USGD president position as current President Joe Grossman graduates this semester with freshmen Emily Antuna and Matthew Saria as his running mates.

ASU’s Center for Applied Behavioral Health Policy receives $3.5 million federal grant

ASU’s Center for Applied Behavioral Health Policy, which partners with UCLA, has received a $3.5 million grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Local businesses offer one week of student discounts to promote community involvement

USGD’s local affairs director is collaborating with local businesses to create a week that aims to increase student interest in the downtown community.

ASU hosts PlanPHX forum in A.E. England Building; attendees discuss future of Phoenix

A PlanPHX ASU Forum was held Wednesday at the A.E. England Building to discuss the future of Phoenix. Approximately 20 people attended, many of whom were city of Phoenix employees.

Teachers College receives grant to boost K-8 math scores in Roosevelt School District

Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help raise mathematics achievements in K-8 students in the Roosevelt School District.

Cronkite students share challenges, lessons learned from Olympics reporting trip

Five Walter Cronkite School students discussed their experience covering the Olympics last summer as part of Must See Monday.

Video: Meet a Fellow, Alma Telibecirevic

Alma Telibecirevic, one of this year’s nine Hubert H. Humphrey fellows, has found a way to express her year of cultural experience through art.

Cronkite School professor named to Defense Information School hall of fame

The Defense Information School (DINFOS) selected Stephen Doig, the Knight Chair in Journalism for the Walter Cronkite School, to be a member of their inaugural hall of fame class.