{"id":2865,"date":"2011-09-02T13:04:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T20:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/news-p\/wordpress\/?p=2865"},"modified":"2012-10-12T13:44:45","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T20:44:45","slug":"ace-fellow-chooses-nau-for-mentorship-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/ace-fellow-chooses-nau-for-mentorship-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"ACE Fellow chooses NAU for mentorship experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

After considering more than 20 universities,\u00a0Jan Bowers<\/strong>, who in July was named a 2011-12 Fellow by the\u00a0American Council on Education<\/a>, has chosen to spend her prestigious one-year fellowship at Northern Arizona University.<\/p>\n

The fellowships allow promising higher education faculty and administrators to work with a mentor at a host university. Bowers directs special programs and projects for the president and provost at Central Washington University, where she also serves as chair of family and consumer sciences. She will be guided by NAU President\u00a0John Haeger<\/strong>\u00a0and other top administrators over the next academic year.<\/p>\n

Bowers was one of 50 fellows named by the council. In her explanation of why she chose NAU, she identified \u201cthe depth of NAU\u2019s aggressive and successful infrastructure changes\u201d as a compelling factor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI admire President Haeger\u2019s approach,\u201d Bowers said. \u201cAs he has said, higher education is changing, and we need to be part of that change.\u201d<\/p>\n

In particular, as the academic leader of Central Washington\u2019s Student Success Council, Bowers said she wants to learn more about NAU\u2019s programs to improve student recruitment, retention and program completion.<\/p>\n

That interest, Haeger said, stems from NAU\u2019s progress in those areas. \u201cIt\u2019s worth noting that our focus on student success drew the attention of Dr. Bowers. I look forward to hosting her on our campus as she learns firsthand about our programs and initiatives.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to ACE, the Fellows Program \u201ccombines retreats, interactive learning opportunities, campus visits and placement at another higher education institution to condense years of on-the-job experience and skills development into a single year.\u201d ACE also notes that more than 300 of its previous 1,500 Fellows have served as chief executive officers at more than 350 institutions.<\/p>\n

Bowers hopes to apply the knowledge she gains to her work at Central Washington, where she serves a relatively new president encountering many of the same budgetary and demographic challenges that have been experienced at NAU.<\/p>\n

Although Bowers will interview all of NAU\u2019s vice presidents to \u201csee how they run their programs,\u201d she plans to give particular emphasis to enrollment management and student affairs. In addition, she looks forward to sharing details about her successes in academic service learning and civic engagement. As she put it, \u201cI also want to help while I\u2019m here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After considering more than 20 universities,\u00a0Jan Bowers, who in July was named a 2011-12 Fellow by the\u00a0American Council on Education, has chosen to spend her prestigious one-year fellowship at Northern Arizona University. The fellowships allow promising higher education faculty and administrators to work with a mentor at a host university. Bowers directs special programs and…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":2868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865","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=2865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}