Article: New U. Arizona employees may soon face new background checks

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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 ...

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