{"id":12483,"date":"2011-02-18T12:06:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T19:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=12483"},"modified":"2013-02-21T12:14:49","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T19:14:49","slug":"naus-college-going-culture-highlighted-at-regents-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/naus-college-going-culture-highlighted-at-regents-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU’s ‘college-going culture’ highlighted at regents’ meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Northern Arizona University’s distance learning opportunities were spotlighted during Thursday’s meeting of the Arizona Board of Regents at Arizona State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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ABOR praises UA’s<\/strong>\u00a0shooting response<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Arizona Board of Regents chair\u00a0Anne Mariucci\u00a0<\/strong>began Thursday’s meeting commending\u00a0the University of Arizona and President Robert Shelton for their response in the aftermath of the tragic shooting in Tucson in which six people were killed and 13 were injured, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou were a beacon of light in something so tragic,\u201d Mariucci said. \u201cIt was one of our proudest moments to be associated with your institution.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cNAU is growing a college-going culture through seamless joint admissions throughout the state,\u201d said\u00a0Fred Hurst<\/strong>, NAU senior vice president for Extended Campuses. Hurst cited\u00a0programs such as\u00a0CCC2NAU<\/a>\u00a0that bring community college students into the university by offering intensive advising and access to support services.<\/p>\n

Hurst’s presentation was part of a review on the university system’s strides toward accomplishing the board\u2019s charge to identify efficiencies while increasing access and affordability\u00a0for students seeking an undergraduate degree.<\/p>\n

Board president\u00a0Tom Anderes\u00a0<\/strong>led the review and held up\u00a0NAU-Yavapai<\/a>\u00a0as an example of offering paths to degrees away from research campuses.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are students who want the experience on a university campus,” Anderes said. “But the more low-tuition and high-quality options we can put out, the better. The universities will continue to build relationships with community colleges throughout the state.”<\/p>\n

Northern Arizona University currently has 19 partnerships with Arizona\u2019s community colleges and 34 community campuses, up from 22 in 2003.<\/p>\n

NAU President\u00a0John Haeger\u00a0<\/strong>said partnerships such as NAU-Yavapai are part of an evolution of philosophy for community colleges and universities, where the institutions previously saw each other as competitors.\u201cWe are putting to rest old tension between community colleges and universities and moving toward the common goals of teaching and controlling cost,\u201d Haeger said. \u201cWe are essentially changing the focus of these institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The board later postponed a motion until the regularly scheduled April meeting that could modify policies for setting tuition and fees for the universities, including the practice of comparing tuition rates to\u00a0peer institutions<\/a>. The board also will consider tuition requests at the April meeting, which will be held at the University of Arizona.<\/p>\n

Haeger said that while the research mission, programs, faculty and scope of an institution is reviewed when the board determines peers for each of the universities, there are additional issues to weigh when setting tuition.<\/p>\n

“There are very few states who are not having their budgets cut. But other states have large state financial aid systems whereas in Arizona, universities have to create their own,” he said.<\/p>\n

During the afternoon session, ABOR approved NAU’s request to modify ventilation systems in the Science Laboratory.\u00a0Jennus Burton<\/strong>, NAU vice president for Finance and Administration, predicted the project would come in below the estimated\u00a0$9 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Northern Arizona University’s distance learning opportunities were spotlighted during Thursday’s meeting of the Arizona Board of Regents at Arizona State University. ABOR praises UA’s\u00a0shooting response Arizona Board of Regents chair\u00a0Anne Mariucci\u00a0began Thursday’s meeting commending\u00a0the University of Arizona and President Robert Shelton for their response in the aftermath of the tragic shooting in Tucson in which…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}