{"id":4129,"date":"2011-04-12T16:35:18","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T23:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=4129"},"modified":"2012-11-08T12:09:42","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T19:09:42","slug":"cabinet-highlights-april-12-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/cabinet-highlights-april-12-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet Highlights: April 12, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

State budget includes changes for new employees<\/strong><\/h3>\n

President\u00a0John Haeger<\/strong>\u00a0said the university \u201chas the ability to work our way through\u201d the university reductions as outlined in the state budget that was signed by Gov. Jan Brewer last week. The reduction, about $30 million for NAU, will be addressed by divisional cuts, tuition and enrollment growth, efficiencies and reserves. The president hopes to have a proposal in place before his May 4 campus-wide forum.<\/p>\n

The budget also includes provisions to have a 90-day waiting period for health benefits for any university employee hired after July 1. The same employees would have a six-month waiting period before they would be admitted into the Arizona State Retirement System. University administrators are working with the Arizona Department of Administration to determine how best to implement and mitigate the changes.<\/p>\n

The president was able to keep NAU\u2019s Pledge program during a contentious ABOR meeting in Tucson\u00a0last week<\/a>. An early-morning motion to disallow any NAU tuition increase would have forced NAU to discontinue the Pledge. However, after six hours of debate, NAU\u2019s\u00a0tuition proposal<\/a><\/span>\u00a0was accepted.<\/p>\n

Sarah Ells<\/strong>, program coordinator for the Office of Regulatory Compliance, said the university is putting plans into place to help reduce loss to NAU through injury and ailments, including repetitive stress disorder. NAU has the highest rate of loss of the three state universities even if injuries due to ice and snow are discounted. Ells said all NAU employees will go through some type of training, depending on their position and risk factors.<\/p>\n

Human Resources and the Comptroller\u2019s Office are working with representatives from across campus to devise an Ethics Statement for NAU employees as well as a Conflict of Interest program.\u00a0Diane Verkest<\/strong>, HR associate vice president, and\u00a0Bob Norton<\/strong>, associate vice president on the Comptroller\u2019s Office, plan to have the statement and program for campus by the end of the semester.<\/p>\n

Ramona Mellott<\/strong>, dean of the Graduate College, said NAU is unveiling its role in the\u00a0Western Regional Graduate Program<\/a><\/span>, which allows graduate students from certain states to enroll in a limited number of graduate programs at a reduced tuition rate. The program is similar to the Western Undergraduate Exchange. Mellott said currently 60 students are eligible for 10 programs.<\/p>\n

Fred Estrella<\/strong>, chief information technology officer, and\u00a0Paul Wagner<\/strong>, academic computing team lead, presented the results from a fall 2010 survey of students regarding campus technology. The survey results can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Laura Jones<\/strong>, a director in Planning and Institutional Research, presented the President\u2019s Cabinet Report with a statistical breakdown of advancement data, grants and contracts and student data. Read the latest report\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

State budget includes changes for new employees President\u00a0John Haeger\u00a0said the university \u201chas the ability to work our way through\u201d the university reductions as outlined in the state budget that was signed by Gov. Jan Brewer last week. The reduction, about $30 million for NAU, will be addressed by divisional cuts, tuition and enrollment growth, efficiencies…<\/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-4129","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\/4129","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=4129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}