Northern Arizona University (NAU) is a state funded college situated in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States. It is authorize by the Higher Learning Commission, and has 36 satellite grounds in the condition of Arizona. The college offers both undergrad and graduate degrees.
As of fall 2014, 27,715 understudies were selected, 20,134 at the Flagstaff campus.The normal expense of educational cost and charges for a full-time, Arizona inhabitant undergrad understudy for two semesters is $10,346. For the 2015-2016 school year, out-of-state students will pay an expected $23,348 for educational cost and fees NAU likewise takes an interest in the Western Undergraduate Exchange Program, which offers lower educational cost rates for understudies from the Western United States. WUE educational cost and expenses for 2015-2016 are $15,090.NAU offers Flagstaff college understudies the Pledge Program that ensures the same educational cost rate for a long time. The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education arranges NAU as an exploration college with high research activity. NAU is represented by the Arizona Board of Regents.
History
At first named the Northern Arizona Normal School, the foundation was built up on September 11, 1899. The main graduating class, in 1901, comprised of four ladies who got qualifications to instruct in the Arizona Territory. In 1925, the Arizona State Legislature permitted the school, which was presently called the Northern Arizona State Teachers College, to give Bachelor of Education degrees. In 1929 the school got to be Arizona State Teachers College at Flagstaff. Enlistment dropped pointedly, in any case, toward the start of World War II. ASTC turned into a Navy V-12 program preparing site.The end of World War II brought expanded enlistment, and in addition development past educating degrees. To mirror this development, the school changed its name to Arizona State College at Flagstaff in 1945. It turned out to be basically Arizona State College in 1958 after Arizona State College at Tempe got to be Arizona State University. With further development throughout the following two decades, the Arizona Board of Regents conceded Arizona State college status as Northern Arizona University in 1966.
Campuses
Flagstaff Campus
Roosted at 6,950 feet (2,120 m) above ocean level, and one of the most noteworthy four-year school grounds in the nation, the principle grounds is encompassed by the biggest touching ponderosa pine backwoods on the North American continent and appreciates a four-season atmosphere. Snow is basic in winter, with aggregations most predominant in January, February and March. Winter skiing is open at Arizona Snowbowl, a high ski resort situated on the San Francisco Peaks, 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Flagstaff. Notwithstanding 260 inches of normal yearly snowfall, the late endorsement of fake snowmaking on the San Francisco Peaks reliably augments the ski season from November to early April.
NAU offers 91 four year college education programs, 49 graduate degree projects and 11 doctoral degree programs, alongside 38 undergrad and 26 graduate testaments. The college was charged by the Arizona Board of Regents in 2006 to create imaginative approaches to give access and moderateness to all Arizona inhabitants. NAU added to the Pledge Program, 2NAU associations with junior colleges and NAU-Yavapai, a joint effort with Yavapai College in Prescott Valley, Arizona. NAU-Yuma simply praised its 25th commemoration of the organization with Arizona Western College.
Expanded campuses
Northern Arizona University is a state funded college licensed by the Higher Learning Commission North Central Association. Notwithstanding 19,000 understudies on the Flagstaff grounds, NAU presently serves more than 7,000 understudies statewide. NAU's Extended Campuses offer 99 online certify degree programs on more than 30 grounds all through the state. NAU is the principal state funded college to offer a competency-based online degree program that permits understudies to win credit for experience. Customized Learning was dispatched in May 2013, and government budgetary guide is accessible for the system, which has a level charge of $5,000 every year.
NAU is the primary college in Arizona to accomplish program accreditation from the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Educators (NCATE). Extra accreditations incorporate Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) and Hotel and Restaurant Management has earned accreditation from the Accreditation Commission for Programs in Hospitality Administration, a honor earned by less than 20% of the country's baccalaureate degree-conceding programs in the field.
Scholastics
In the fall of 2010, the top college degrees by enlistment were rudimentary training, science, lodging and eatery administration, nursing, and criminology and criminal justice.
School of Arts and Letters
The College of Arts and Letters (CAL) houses the Asian Studies Program, Cinema Studies, Comparative Cultural Studies (previously Humanities, Arts, and Religion), English, History, Latin American Studies, Modern Languages, Museum Studies, Philosophy, School of Art, School of Music, and Theater. The school additionally administers the NAU Art Museum, Martin-Springer Institute (advancing lessons of the Holocaust), Northern Arizona Writing Project, Ardrey Memorial Auditorium, and Ashurst Hall. The College of Arts and Letters Film Series has been giving quality exemplary movies to the NAU and Flagstaff group for over nine years, and the NAU International Film Series has as of late been set up. Office staff and understudies share their academic work and masterful accomplishment through more than 300 exhibitions, addresses, movies, and displays a year.
School of Education
The College of Education gets ready teachers, guides, school clinicians, and school executives. Fields of study incorporate instructing and learning (e.g., early adolescence, basic, and auxiliary), instructive initiative, instructive brain research, and instructive claims to fame (e.g., bilingual and multicultural training, profession and specialized training, instructive innovation, and exceptional education).
School of Engineering, Forestry, and Natural Sciences
The College of Engineering, Forestry, and Natural Sciences has eleven divisions and a Quaternary Program, thirteen focuses, and two foundations.
School of Health and Human Services
NAU's College of Health and Human Services comprises of the School of Nursing, Health Sciences, Dental Hygiene, Communication Sciences and Disorders, Physical Therapy, and a recently shaped (as of Fall 2012) Physician Assistant school based out of Phoenix, Arizona.
School of Social and Behavioral Sciences
The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences undergrad programs incorporate humanities, connected indigenous studies, criminology and criminal equity, ethnic studies, geology, arranging and entertainment, political science, brain science, correspondence, social science/social work, and ladies' and sex studies.
College College
College goes about as an entrance for understudies to make a productive, educated choice about seeking after a way for what's to come. College understudies consequently turn into a piece of University College when admitted to Northern Arizona University. Different projects, assets and backing are offered to understudies, personnel and staff which incorporate scholastic move programs, the First Year Learning Initiative, and the Bachelor of University Studies degree program.
The W.A. Franke College of Business
The W.A. Franke College of Business' essential center is undergrad instruction, however it additionally offers an expert's level training and research opportunities. Businessperson Bill Franke's dedication of $25 million brought about the renaming of the school in his honor. The W.A. Franke College of Business was completely re-licensed in fall 2008 by the national authorizing body AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. The NAU system is one of around 400 licensed projects among the more than 1,000 all through the country. In 2006, the school moved into another 111,000-square-foot (10,300 m2), LEED-ensured building.
Graduate College
The Graduate College offers programs in fields, for example, biotechnology, wellbeing, business, natural and practical frameworks, and instructing. It offers more than 50 graduate degrees, 13 doctoral degrees, and more than 20 graduate declarations, both in-individual and on the web.
Games
Understudy competitors contend at national, global, and proficient levels in football, b-ball, baseball, ice hockey, olympic style events, tennis, and swimming and plunging. The college takes an interest in fifteen intercollegiate games programs. NAU groups contend at the Walkup Skydome, a multipurpose building giving offices to football, b-ball, indoor olympic style sports, soccer, weight lifting, lacrosse, understudy diversion, significant show occasions, initiations, intramurals, and an assortment of other college and group activities.
The Lumberjacks contend at the NCAA Division I level in all games. In football, the Lumberjacks contend at the Football Championship Subdivision level (in the past known as Division I-AA). NAU contends in the Big Sky Conference in all games aside from swimming and jumping, which is a piece of the Western Athletic Conference.
As a result of its elevation, the offices are now and then utilized for preparing by Olympic competitors (who will then go ahead to contend adrift level).
On grounds activities
NAU has more than 200 perceived proficient, scholarly, administration and social associations, an intramural games program, The Lumberjack understudy daily paper, and dynamic living arrangement lobby organizations.
The Lumberjack
The college's recompense winning, week by week daily paper is a free, understudy run distribution called The Lumberjack." In May 200
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