Onboarding, training, & professional development

New student employees are required to complete an online hiring packet, initiated by their hiring manager, where they will fill out personal information and federal tax forms, as well as presenting employment authorization documents to Human Resources.  Hiring managers will also need to initiate an ePAR or FWS Hiring Form, using appropriate job codes for the position.

Background check and fingerprint requirements are determined by whether or not the position is Safety-Security-Sensitive (SSS).

• SSS Student Employment positions require a background check and fingerprints. Students can register for fingerprinting online.
• Absent a disclosure, non-SSS Student Employment positions do not require a background check or fingerprints.

Contact Human Resources for additional questions regarding background checks and fingerprints.

Departments wishing to hire minors, international students or out-of-state student employees must follow additional steps and provisions.

All new student employees must complete the three online, interactive modules, which can be found on the New Employee Orientation (Online Training) website.

Northern Arizona University requires all faculty, staff, and student employees to complete the Preventing Harassment & Discrimination (approximately 45 minutes), Building Supportive Communities: Clery Act and Title IX (approximately 45 minutes), and Accommodating Disabilities (approximately 60 minutes) trainings to help create a safe working environment and to prevent workplace harassment and discrimination. In addition to information about your rights and responsibilities under the law and university policies, the trainings also provide information based in research-informed best practices for communicating and maintaining healthy relationships with your colleagues and students. New employees are required to complete both training courses within 30 days of their hire date.

Everfi Training System login

**Please understand that every training may not be available until up to two weeks after your actual hire date. If you don’t have immediate access, please try again. If after two weeks you still don’t have access, then please contact EAOTraining@nau.edu for assistance.

Technical Info:
• Work at your own pace from any computer or tablet
• Courses will save your progress if you need to stop and return later
• Courses are best supported by the latest versions of Chrome (preferred), Firefox, and Safari, or Microsoft Edge

For technical assistance, contact EVERFI’s tech support.

This mandatory online training is designed to educate employees about secure access to the relevant data they need to conduct university business. It covers the essentials needed to help prevent unauthorized access to systems, data, and networks which can lead to misuse of, or damage to computer assets or data. The Information Security Essentials Training is found on the Information Security page at ITS.

The goal of NAU administration is to protect the health and well-being of our students and employees in all their efforts and to protect the NAU property and resources that comprise our institution. It is the expectation that every NAU employee will be an active participant in programs designed to prevent loss. The online NAU Loss Prevention Manual has been written with that goal in mind.

In order to protect the public trust and the integrity of the university, NAU requires all employees and volunteers to complete this annual disclosure form which helps to identify, manage, reduce, and if possible, eliminate any potential conflict of interest.

This training can have a delay of up to 2 business days after your start date. Additionally, you will need to complete all of your new hire paperwork, and your ePAR will have to be fully approved before you can do the training. If you receive an “employee not found” error, it is possible that our database has not updated yet or your paperwork is not complete.

This 40-minute, interactive, online training will provide you with skills and strategies to assist others experiencing mental health distress or thoughts of self-harm and/or suicide. In this training you’ll learn:

• Common warning signs of a mental health or substance use problem
• How to talk to someone in distress using helpful conversation skills
• Relevant online and campus resources

While completion is tracked, your answers and survey responses are completely anonymous!

Kognito for Students:

1. Visit the NAU.Kognito.com to access the training
2. You will be prompted to register a user profile. This is to track completion of the course.
3. PLEASE NOTE: If you are here to complete your mandated training as NAU Student Staff, please select STUDENT as your profile designation. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Health Promotion office at 928-523-8320 or at healthpromotion@nau.edu

Northern Arizona University is a community unto itself. As such, the university is the repository for various types of information about the members of the community. The sharing of that information is governed by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). FERPA became law in 1974 and provides requirements for the proper release of information pertaining to students’ educational records.

The law stipulates the conditions for the release of information to others, both within and outside the university. FERPA training for staff and faculty is available in an online session at FERPA online training.

(This training has replaced Kognito.)

Jacks Supporting Jacks is a 20-minute, interactive online course that provides training on how to approach and discuss concerns with a student who is in distress. This training is supported by the Health Promotion office.

This is required training for student employees in the Division of Student Affairs who are employed in Peer/Youth Educator roles.

• When a student completes this training an email will automatically be sent to the student with a certificate of completion attached. They should download and save this for their records.
• If a student is completing the training because it is required of them as a student employee, they will be prompted to provide their supervisor’s email address. The email containing the certificate of completion will also be sent to the supervisor in this case.
• Our hope is that these automatically generated emails will make things easier for everyone and will eliminate the need for us to look up which of your student employees have or have not completed the training. Please do your best to keep track of training completion among the students you supervise, but don’t hesitate to reach out Nikki.Meline@nau.edu if you need any assistance!

IMQ educates the Northern Arizona University community on issues relevant to the students it serves through our Zone Training Series.  The Zone Training Series includes:

• Inclusion Zone 101 & 102: a foundational training intended for NAU students, faculty, and staff that functions to facilitate understanding of frequently used concepts such as diversity, equity, and social justice through the lens of inclusion
• DREAM Zone 101: an interactive workshop that serves to introduce NAU students, faculty, and staff to issues and challenges facing the undocumented community through contexts of terminology, history, policies, and procedures.
• Safe Zone 101 & 102: an interactive training designed to provide a foundational approach to LGBTQIA+ allyship.
• TRANSparency Zone 101 & 102: an introductory training program aimed to enhance awareness of the transgender community, engage with topics impacting the community, and create steps toward a more inclusive climate.
• Unconscious Bias: a targeted, interactive, facilitator-led training program designed to help participants identify and begin to override their biases and rewire their brains to be more inclusive and productive.

The NAU Police Department provides resources for emergency preparedness and safety on campus. Students and supervisors can learn more about fire emergency procedures and evacuation protocol for their areas on the Fire Safety Evacuation Plans website.