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Article: New U. Arizona employees may soon face new background checks
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- University Wire
- Article date:
- September 16, 2002
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(Arizona Daily Wildcat) (U-WIRE) TUCSON, Ariz. -- Proposed background
checks may lower the number of job applications drastically
The University of Arizona Human Resources Department is pushing to
get more background checks for prospective employees campuswide.
When Northern Arizona University started doing background checks on
job applicants as part of their hiring process, the number of people
applying for NAU jobs dropped 27 percent.
"We are really the only significant employer in Tucson that doesn'
t (check backgrounds)," said Cathy Nicholson, director of institutional
relations and information technology.
Prospective employees who do not pass ...