{"id":14789,"date":"2009-11-25T12:59:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T19:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=14789"},"modified":"2015-08-17T14:51:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T21:51:34","slug":"naus-community-college-partnerships-in-sync-with-lumina-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/naus-community-college-partnerships-in-sync-with-lumina-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU\u2019s community college partnerships in sync with Lumina grant"},"content":{"rendered":"

The $1.5 million Lumina Foundation grant awarded to Arizona this week to aid in developing \u201cno frills\u201d options to delivering bachelor\u2019s degree programs fits to a tee Northern Arizona University\u2019s new, lower-cost four-year degree partnerships with community colleges.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Lumina grant couldn\u2019t be more welcome at a time when Northern Arizona University is moving forward rapidly with solutions that address head-on the need for more affordable\u2014and accessible\u2014four-year degree programs,\u201d said NAU President\u00a0John Haeger<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor three decades, the university has taken higher education to where people live and work in communities throughout Arizona. We have stepped up that effort significantly with our joint admissions and four-year degree programs with community colleges,\u201d Haeger said.<\/p>\n

The university originally established a joint admissions program with Coconino Community College in Flagstaff, whereby students enroll at both the community college and the university to start immediately on a four-year degree path. Cost savings are significant as students pay the lower community college tuition for their lower-division coursework. The\u00a0CCC2NAU<\/a>\u00a0program, as it is called, started with about 30 students in August 2008 and today enrolls about 230.<\/p>\n

In October, the university celebrated the opening of\u00a0NAU-Yavapai<\/a>\u00a0in Prescott Valley, which will allow area students to earn bachelor\u2019s degrees in targeted areas through accelerated programming in less than four years and at less than half the cost of a traditional, residential college experience.<\/p>\n

The university also has established\u00a0AWC2NAU<\/a>, a joint admissions program with its longstanding community college partner, Arizona Western College, at NAU\u2019s branch campus in Yuma. \u201cWe\u2019re looking at the potential for specific, streamlined four-year degree plans within the NAU-AWC partnership,\u201d noted\u00a0Larry Gould<\/strong>, NAU associate vice president and the Yuma branch campus executive officer. Gould also said the Yuma branch campus is using its curricular process to help develop the four-year degree programs at NAU-Yavapai.<\/p>\n

Haeger said he envisions the potential of regional universities evolving in Prescott Valley and Yuma in collaboration with NAU\u2019s community college partners. Such an evolution would take time, he said, and it would be imperative for the university and community colleges to retain their distinctive missions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cAt NAU, Haeger said, \u201cwe are developing the model for lower-cost education by working with Arizona\u2019s already-existing community colleges to focus just on teaching and offer a limited number of degree programs that the community says it needs and wants. And the Lumina grant will help us get there.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Lumina Foundation of Education awarded the Arizona Board of Regents up to $1.5 million on a multi-year initiative that includes expanding the lower-cost options for delivering bachelor\u2019s degree programs and creating a new state funding formula for higher education that rewards student progress and degree completion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The $1.5 million Lumina Foundation grant awarded to Arizona this week to aid in developing \u201cno frills\u201d options to delivering bachelor\u2019s degree programs fits to a tee Northern Arizona University\u2019s new, lower-cost four-year degree partnerships with community colleges. \u201cThe Lumina grant couldn\u2019t be more welcome at a time when Northern Arizona University is moving forward…<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14789","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=14789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}