University College benefits
While the University College is designed to provide maximum
benefit to first-year students, there are also multiple benefits for faculty
and parents.
Students
The University College will help students:
- earn a competitive professional advantage by
providing relevant experiences earlier in their academic careers
- learn and achieve more by immersing them in stimulating
coursework designed by the university’s best professors
- accomplish their goals by providing an
environment where numerous academic resources are available
- transition more easily by communicating
expectations and the difference between high school and this university
Faculty
The University College will allow faculty to:
- design rigorous, effective first-year courses
- play an ongoing and involved role in helping
their students succeed
- participate in a university community that is doing
revolutionary work
- be part of a university that is focused on
academic rigor and is on the leading edge of course design
- help ensure that the university has the
resources it needs to achieve our goals
Parents
The University College helps parents to feel:
- confident about investing in their student’s
education at Northern Arizona University
- secure about their student’s potential life
outcome
- certain that Northern Arizona University
genuinely cares about their student’s success