Announcements

Introducing NAU 2025 – Elevating Excellence

lkf63 | May 2, 2022

Dear Lumberjacks,I am pleased to introduce NAU 2025 – Elevating Excellence, Northern Arizona University’s strategic roadmap fordelivering a bold and boundless future for all. Earlier today, the University Advisory Board unanimously passed a motion to endorse this document and advance it for discussion with the Arizona Board of Regents at their June meeting… Read more

Announcing NAU’s Access2Excellence Initiative

lkf63 | April 28, 2022

Dear Lumberjacks,I am pleased to announce today the launch of NAU’s Access2Excellence (A2E) initiative, which underscores NAU’s efforts to deliver equitable postsecondary value in Arizona and beyond. A2E makes clear to Arizona students and families that NAU is accessible and affordable. When the initiative launches in Fall 2023, Arizona resident students from households making $65,000 or less per year—the state’s current median household income—will attend NAU tuition-free… Read more

NAU support for those affected by the Tunnel Fire

lkf63 | April 22, 2022

Dear Lumberjacks,In the past several days, most of us have followed the relentless burning of the Tunnel Fire with great interest and much concern, standing by ready to help and jumping in to do so when called upon… Read more

NAU’s commitment to sustainability

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Dear Lumberjacks,With an urgency that I am confident will be sustained by our university’s sense of purpose, I hereby declare a climate emergency at Northern Arizona University and commit to heightened investments of the university community’s time, talents, effort, and resources to securing the conditions needed to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030… Read more

Announcing the Travel Service Team Optimization Taskforce

lkf63 | April 15, 2022

Dear Lumberjacks,I wanted to take this opportune moment to share a note of sincere thanks to our NAU community for a memorable and record-breaking Giving Day on Wednesday. This year represented the fourth edition of Giving Day at NAU, and it was a record for both funds raised and individuals participating… Read more

Updates on NAU’s financial outlook and compensation adjustments

lkf63 | April 6, 2022

Dear Lumberjacks,We have reached that time of the academic year when our values, aspirations, and priorities must be reflected in our institutional budget for the next fiscal year. Today, as we work through the planning and budgeting processes for Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23), which begins July 1, I want to update you on how we plan to approach the imperative of improving compensation for our faculty, staff, and student employees… Read more

Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month

lkf63 | April 4, 2022

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NAU COVID-19 Community Briefing

lkf63 | March 25, 2022

Dear Lumberjacks,At the beginning of the spring semester, as we entered the unknown with the Omicron variant on the rise, NAU reintroduced and refined a number of COVID-19 management strategies… Read more

NAU’s 2022-23 Tuition Proposal: Sustaining our mission of equitable access to excellence

lkf63 | March 11, 2022

Dear Lumberjacks,Throughout my first year as president, I have focused on refining, articulating, and advancing NAU’s distinctive mission. Guiding this work has been our university community’s shared vision of being a national leader in supporting and delivering equitable postsecondary value to our students and the communities they represent… Read more

NAU COVID-19 Community Briefing

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Dear Lumberjacks,Following last week’s update to NAU masking protocols, I am pleased to share that we continue to see a decline in COVID-19 cases throughout our statewide communities. Our university is well-positioned to deliver a rich and engaging experience through the remainder of the semester, and our Lumberjacks are making individual choices and supporting one another in realizing their aspirations for a bright Spring 2022… Read more