A new University of Arizona microcampus will serve the Pascua Yaqui Tribe in Tucson, giving tribal members what leaders called a “homecourt advantage” to complete college degrees and certificates and access university technology, research and tutoring services.

The university celebrated the grand opening of the microcampus September 7 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony in its newly renovated, 5,000-square-foot space. A sign outside the new space reads “Huya Miisim” – Yaqui for “Wildcats.”

“This new University of Arizona location designed to serve the Pascua Yaqui Tribe represents a significant milestone in our ongoing commitment to Native American communities – especially those whose traditional homelands include Southern Arizona,” University of Arizona President Robert C. Robbins said before the event. “It has been a goal of mine for years to establish a campus for every tribe in the state, and I hope this will be the first of many.”

The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law is pleased to invite you to an evening with Jill Lepore, affiliate professor of law and professor of American History at Harvard and staff writer at “The New Yorker.” 

The theme of the lecture will be “MAKING AMENDS: Can the U.S. Constitution be Revised?”

University of Arizona Law Professor Andrew Coan will interview Dr. Lepore in a conversational format.

WHEN 

Monday, Oct. 3, 2022

5:30-6:30 p.m. (Tucson)

WHERE

This is an online event.

Zoom link will be sent out before noon on October 3.

Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History and Affiliate Professor of Law at Harvard University. She is also a staff writer at “The New Yorker” and host of the podcast “The Last Archive.” Her many books include “These Truths: A History of the United States” (2018), an international bestseller which was named one of “Time” magazine’s top ten non-fiction books of the decade.

Her long-term research project is a history of attempts to amend the U.S. Constitution. Lepore received a BA in English from Tufts University in 1987, an MA in American Culture from the University of Michigan in 1990, and a PhD in American Studies from Yale University in 1995. She joined the Harvard History Department in 2003. In 2012 she was named Harvard College Professor, in recognition of distinction in undergraduate teaching. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award; the National Magazine Award; and, twice, for the Pulitzer Prize; and winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Award, for the best non-fiction book on race.

She has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and to the American Philosophical Society. Her research has been funded by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Pew Foundation, the Gilder Lehrman Institute, the Charles Warren Center, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

We hope you’ll join us for what is sure to be a fascinating conversation.

SBA Picnic September 23

Alumni are invited to attend the annual SBA Welcome Back Picnic September 23 from 5 to 7pm. We hope you’ll come out and meet some new and returning students!

Please RSVP no later than September 19.