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At NAU, we develop educational leaders who create tomorrow’s opportunities

Whether you want to be a teacher, counselor, school psychologist, or school leader, one thing is certain: you are passionate about inspiring others. At Northern Arizona University, we’ll prepare you to be a leader in education—so you can make a difference for the rest of your life.

Northern Arizona University has long been recognized as a leader in education, in Arizona and beyond. We offer undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs that blend the best of past successes and modern innovations in teaching, and allow you to work closely with our accomplished education faculty.

If you want nothing less than excellence in your educator-preparation schooling, we welcome and invite you to learn more about the College of Education and what it can offer you.

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3K

Students enrolled

105

Full-time faculty

17

Average class size

Our departments: making a difference

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School psychology student wins NAU’s annual 3MRP competition

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Golden toads, the effect of uranium on human skin cells, research from hundreds of feet in the air and what asteroids tell us about the location of Planet X all got a brief—180 seconds, to be exact—moment in the spotlight this week at Northern Arizona University’s annual 3-Minute Research Presentation (3MRP) finals, held Tuesday at the High Country Conference Center. Ten graduate student finalists got three minutes and one slide to present complex research in an engaging, informative manner to…

A Cohort of Leaders

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Six doctoral students can unequivocally say that they are leaders in more ways than one. The Leaders in Exceptional-education Addressing Diversity, Research, and Service (LEADERS) grant at NAU is a unique program led by Dr. Pat Peterson that offers financial support to a limited number of scholars who pursue a Curriculum and Instruction (C & I) Ph.D. program with a focus on culturally and linguistically diverse exceptional (CLDE) education. "Since receiving this grant, I have developed a deeper appreciation for the…

Life in Afghanistan for a Teacher and Her Students

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Zahal Turkmani, an undergraduate student in the College of Education, authored an article that was published in the international journal Childhood Explorer. The subject of the article, Life in Afghanistan for a Teacher and her Students, is Turkmani’s sister. Turkmani's publication was originally a submission for her ECI407 Social Studies education course. It was an interview assignment based upon one question: Can you tell me about ONE historical event that you experienced, witnessed or lived through? "When I read Zahal’s interview paper,…

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