{"id":22680,"date":"2006-06-21T11:28:21","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T18:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=22680"},"modified":"2015-08-17T15:05:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T22:05:29","slug":"nau-and-paradise-valley-community-college-partner-to-offer-business-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-and-paradise-valley-community-college-partner-to-offer-business-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU and Paradise Valley Community College partner to offer business degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Northern Arizona University and Paradise Valley Community College are offering students an opportunity to earn a four-year degree in business administration on the PVCC campus starting this fall.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 2+2 partnership allows students to attend PVCC for the first two years and pay lower tuition, while earning a bachelor&#8217;s in business administration from NAU without having to leave the PVCC campus. Class sizes are small, so students receive personalized attention from faculty and staff at both schools.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This program fits perfectly with the mission of the College of Business Administration to provide the highest quality undergraduate business education in the Southwest,&#8221; said\u00a0<strong>Mason Gerety<\/strong>, dean of the College of Business Administration at NAU.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This partnership offers students an outstanding choice for earning an associate&#8217;s and bachelor&#8217;s degree from two great schools.&#8221; said\u00a0<strong>Doug Small<\/strong>, NAU&#8217;s assistant dean for Distance Learning. &#8220;It makes sense to draw upon the existing resources of both schools to provide students with a quality education.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In addition to access and affordability, this program brings our students the opportunity to complete a bachelor&#8217;s degree at one of Arizona&#8217;s finest universities,&#8221; said Patti Marsh, chair of PVCC&#8217;s Business\/IT Division.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Arizona University and Paradise Valley Community College have a long-standing relationship of more than 10 years, when PVCC first invited NAU to locate administrative offices on the campus. Since then, NAU and PVCC have partnered on bachelor&#8217;s degrees in elementary and early childhood education, sociology, organizational communication and now business.<\/p>\n<p>For information on the bachelor&#8217;s degree in business administration, call the NAU-Paradise Valley office at (602) 493-2728 or visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.distance.nau.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.distance.nau.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-and-paradise-valley-community-college-partner-to-offer-business-degree\/\">Northern Arizona University and Paradise Valley Community College are offering students an opportunity to earn a four-year degree in business administration on the PVCC campus starting this fall. The 2+2 partnership allows students to attend PVCC for the first two years and pay lower tuition, while earning a bachelor&#8217;s in business administration from NAU without&hellip;<\/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-22680","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\/22680","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=22680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}