{"id":2348,"date":"2012-04-13T10:20:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T17:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/news-p\/wordpress\/?p=2348"},"modified":"2012-10-31T13:53:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T20:53:22","slug":"haeger-outlines-links-between-funding-technology-and-retention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/haeger-outlines-links-between-funding-technology-and-retention\/","title":{"rendered":"Haeger outlines links between funding, technology and retention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Expanding on themes that are becoming more familiar at Northern Arizona University, President\u00a0John Haeger<\/strong>\u00a0discussed the growing connections between instructional changes, revenue and student retention during a campus forum Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cChange is the dominant theme as we face this next year,\u201d Haeger said while delivering his remarks at the High Country Conference Center. His presentation, titled \u201cA New Paradigm: Technology, Performance Funding and Student Success,\u201d covered a range of initiatives that are under way or planned.<\/p>\n

Haeger presented details about a new Technology Innovation Fund, which offers financial incentives to academic units that propose and implement innovative models of instruction that integrate new approaches to technology.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe think we can save money and give students an excellent experience at the freshman level,\u201d Haeger said. By using technology appropriately, he added, \u201cWe can even create more face-to-face contact between faculty and students because that\u2019s what students say they want.\u201d<\/p>\n

Haeger also introduced a formal name for the\u00a0math emporium<\/a>\u00a0he has discussed in recent months. The Lumberjack Mathematics Center, he said, will be located initially on the third floor of the Health and Learning Center. Finding a space large enough for students, computers and faculty facilitators, he said, posed a challenge that will recur as the model of self-directed students with faculty mentors is advanced.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole design of the campus must change if we go ahead with this solution,\u201d Haeger said.<\/p>\n

The president pointed out that a number of other initiatives directed at student retention, including the\u00a0First Year Learning Initiative<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Student Success Coaching<\/a>, already are making a difference. More must be done though, he said, because the only way for the university to receive state funding beyond its base budget is to outperform the metrics established by the Arizona Board of Regents.<\/p>\n

\u201cPerformance funding will affect everyone on campus,\u201d Haeger said, \u201cand we will be successful only to the extent that everyone gets behind it.\u201d When asked if performance funding would reach to the level of the individual classroom, Haeger replied, \u201cThis will impact how we think about the funding of departments and programs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Funding, in fact, will continue to be a challenge on many fronts as state funding levels off, Haeger said. \u201cOne of the challenges in the next several years is to develop new sources of revenue to support our educational mission,\u201d he said. \u201cThe university has continued to move forward despite the tremendous cuts it has taken.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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