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From: Scott Leppla [mailto:Scott.Leppla@NAU.EDU]
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 12:15 PM
Subject: McConnell Majors Fair!
Directors, Deans, and Chairs,
As the semester progresses, the McConnell staff would like to take this opportunity to invite members of your college to our "Majors Fair" on Tuesday, October 25th, from 6pm-8pm in the McConnell Hall Lobby.
McConnell Hall is an all-freshman residence hall housing approximately 650 students. Many of our students have yet to choose a major or may be interested in a minor. The fair is excellent opportunity to personally extend information about your college, its areas of study, and classes offered to these individuals. The date selected will allow all students the opportunity to register for classes based on information they might receive at the Fair.
Last year's event was a resounding success with well over 100 students attending. Pizza is provided for students, and having the event in-hall yields excellent turnout. Many students from other freshman halls also traveled to McConnell to take part in the event. This year, we will be actively advertising in the other all freshman halls to promote the event to a wider population.
We will attempt to accommodate as many colleges and departments as possible, but space is limited. Please contact me via phone or email to reserve a space at the event. We will fill space on a rolling basis until all spaces are claimed. I would be happy to answer any questions or concerns about the event. We look forward to hearing from you!
Scott Leppla
Residence Hall Director
McConnell Hall
928-523-5998
scott.leppla@nau.edu
9/23/95 - Lee and I met this morning, and one topic was this coming year's geography field course. Due to commitments with the NAU self study/accreditation project this year, there is no way I will be able to teach Field in May. Lee and I have discussed options, and this message is to inform you of our plan. I am cc-ing Pam Foti as well, since she will be chair next year. Please add this to the next dept. meeting agenda so that it can be discussed soon. Lee and I strongly recommend that students be informed of this prior or during enrollment period coming up for the spring, for GGR 380. This may affect their decisions to take 380 now or next year.
Here's our rough proposal, subject for revisions:
Any questions, please let me or Lee know.
New Travel Policies - to be added to existing ones
1 - NAU will only pay for travel that is properly authorized. University funds cannot be used for any travel that is not the ultimate responsibility of the university. Personal travel or travel that could be construed as a possible conflict of interest cannot be reimbursed by NAU.
2 - Airfare -- The lowest available coach or equivalent fare should be selected. Tickets should be purchased in advance to take advantage of fare discounts. (ie. 21 day advance purchase) Airfare cost savings can sometimes be obtained if the traveler extends the trip to include a weekend stay over. Additional lodging and per diem expenses are reimbursable if the stay over occurs in the city where the conference/meeting was held and if the additional expenses are less than the costs that the traveler would incur if traveling during the week. At least three (3) airfare comparisons should be attached to the Exhibit J document.
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Subject: Draft program assessment plans
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 16:18:38 -0700
From: Thomas Paradis <Thomas.Paradis@NAU.EDU>
Alan has placed me on the faculty meeting agenda for this coming Wednesday (Jan
12) so that I can begin a discussion about updating our department's program
assessment plans. I thought I would send you the initial draft of the Geography
B.S. plan in case you wished to contemplate it and prepare questions in advance
of the meeting. Please see the draft geography plan attached in Word below.
This format can be used as a model to update the planning and parks and rec
plans as well.
Importantly, just as the department discussed and approved the 1999 geography and 2002(?) planning assessment plans, the revision of these updated plans needs to be a faculty-driven process that includes everyone. I have merely begun the process while I have time now, to help guide the revisions through spring semester, and to allow everyone to discuss and finesse them. NOTE: this plan for the Geography B.S. can be easily amended for the Applied Geography B.S. We'll discuss that on Wed.
Here are some questions to ponder regarding this plan (and to think about
in
updating the planning and PRM plans):
- What do you think of the learning outcomes for geography as written?
Revisions? (probably don't want to go beyond 10 outcomes, or the plan can
become unmanageable. But we can if you wish, or combine others).
- Should there be one assessment "person" for each program, to facilitate
the
process each year in preparation of the annual Retreat? (This ties into the
discussion about re-organizing programs within the department, also on the
agenda). How should the assessment process be embedded within the department's
annual procedures?
- Any additions or amendments to the text within this plan?
- Which additional courses would apply to the plan, with specific student
assignments in mind? We do not have to use all the course projects I have
listed, and course instructors should only designate one or two projects
maximum to be assessed at the program level (see the GGR 380 and 480
examples). How might your core courses and/or projects fit into this plan?
- PLANNING AND PRM: How can I help you to build your own assessment plans,
using this university-approved format? You provide the info (perhaps from past
plans), and I'll help you put it together if you wish. We can hopefully do
them all at once this semester and have all the plans approved by the end of
spring.
I can hopefully answer any other questions at the meeting - regarding why we are doing this, how it benefits our faculty, students and curriculum, etc.
Thanks for listening, Tom
Restructuring GGR/PL Administration
Proposal:
- Geography Programs Coordinator: responsible for MA Rural GGR
and BA GGR - including annual Assessment Reports
- GIS Programs Coordinator: responsible for MS in GIS and BS Applied GGR
(which will be renamed BS GIS) - including annual Assessment Reports
Each
of these would be eligible for a 3 cr hr release time and would be responsible
for coordinating the following aspects of their areas:
- Graduate admission and oversight (most time consuming)
- Annual assessment reports for each degree program (revising previous year's
report)
- Curriculum coordination (whatever that may entail)
There Could also be a Planning
Programs Coordinator, but with only one major, no graduate degree, and
only about 30 students, I do not see how we can justify
3 cr hr release time. Alternatively, Planning could come under one of
the other two coordinators (perhaps the GIS one could be changed to Applied
Programs Coordinator?)
GAG is currently making plans for Geography Awareness Week (11-15 to 11-19).
We would like to have poster presentations in the lobby Monday through
Wednesday of the week; physical geography posters on Monday, human geography
posters on Tuesday, and GIS/technical posters on Wednesday. If any of you have
posters and can put them up in the lobby on the appropriate day, please let
me
know. Thanks,
Chris Donnermeyer
cd74@dana.ucc.nau.edu
GGR 240 (3) - SSI - WEB – Jill Manion – cap 100
GGR 346 (3) - SSII - WEB – Lori Couture – cap 100
GGR 250 (4) - SSII - WEB- Tom Paradis – cap 50
GGR 608 - 10 Week - Dawn Hawley – cap 20 - Internship
GGR 480 (4) - Pre-session – Tom Paradis (2) & Lee Dexter (2) – cap
30
-- This is a required course for geography majors and is only taught at this
time. For this reason, the department guarantees full salary at 2 credit hours
each for the instructors
PL 201 (3) - Pre-session - WEB – Dawn Hawley – cap 35
PL 408 – 10 Week – Dawn Hawley – cap 20 – Internship
PRM 210 (1) - Pre-session – Chuck Hammersley – cap 8
PRM 220 (3) - SSI - WEB - Judy Hammersley – cap 20
PRM 252 + Lab (3) - SSI - WEB – Pam Foti – cap 20
PRM 308 (3) - 10 Week - WEB - Chuck Hammersley – cap 25 - Practicum/Internship
PRM 308 (3) - 12 Week - WEB - Chuck Hammersley – cap 25 - Practicum/Internship
PRM 308 (3) - SSI - WEB - Chuck Hammersley – cap 25 - Practicum/Internship
PRM 326 (3) - SSI - WEB – Judy Hammersley – cap 20
PRM 346W (3) - SSI - WEB - Chuck Hammersley – cap 20
PRM 360 + Lab (3) – SSI - WEB - Pam Foti – cap 20
PRM 408 - 10 Week - WEB - Pam Foti – cap 30 - Internship
PRM 408 - 12 Week - WEB - Pam Foti – cap 10 - Internship
PRM 447 (3) - SSI - WEB - Chuck Hammersley – cap 20
PRM 497 - SSI - WEB – Pam Foti – cap 5
Primary & Secondary Instructors (9/17/04)
The Office of Planning and Institutional Research (PAIR) is required to provide
regular reports to various state and local agencies. Many of these reports
require data that can only be obtained from the PeopleSoft Schedule of Classes.
Specifically, the Instructor ID and Instructor Role fields from the Schedule
of Classes Meetings Page in PeopleSoft or the Meeting Patterns Page on the
DLS Course Processing System are extremely important. These fields are so important
that we are directing this communication to you so that you also understand
their significance.
The Instructor ID and Instructor Role fields are used to report on the faculty
teaching each class section each term. The results pulled from this field have
direct implications for colleges and departments. If Instructor ID’s
and Roles are not entered appropriately, data provided for Academic Program
Reviews and Accreditation Reports may not accurately reflect the proportion
of tenured/tenure-track faculty teaching classes. These data errors resulting
from inaccurate information may have significant implications for university
funding and internal resource allocation.
Please make sure to enter the Instructor ID fields no later than the first
day of the term. If this is not possible, please enter the instructor information
as soon as it becomes available. Also, please use the following definitions
as a guide when assigning instructors/roles to the classes you create. Doing
so will allow for more accurate reporting and better assessment of college
and department resources.
Every class must have a primary instructor (PI):
Primary Instructor (PI) = Every class must have a primary instructor. The primary
instructor is the instructor of record who is ultimately responsible for
administering and grading the class. Use this value to indicate the instructor
with primary responsibility for the class even when this instructor is a
Graduate Teaching Assistant.
In addition to the primary instructor (PI), classes may also have:
Secondary Instructor (SI) = If a class has an instructor or faculty member
who is not ultimately responsible for the administration and grading of a
class, but he/she either co-teaches or assists with the class, use this value.
Teaching Assistant (TA) = The TA (Teaching Assistant) value should only be
used to indicate a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) who is assisting a primary
or secondary instructor.
Grader (GR) = The grader value should only be used to indicate an individual
who is responsible for the data entry of student grades. This individual has
no responsibility for the administration of the class or for actual grade computation
and should never be given a primary instructor, secondary instructor, or TA
role.
We sincerely appreciate your assistance in listing the appropriate Instructor ID and Role in the Schedule of Classes. Please let us know if you have additional questions.
Laura Jones, Business Analyst
Northern Arizona University
Office of Planning and Institutional Research
PO Box 4132
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-4132
(928) 523-9084 phone
(928) 523-0332 fax
(From Laura H.) -- I met this week with a couple of people from the Alumni Association. They are looking for ways to expand their offerings (educational) for alumni - NAU Discoveries - with the long term goal of building connections with alumni and eventually their support for NAU. We are looking for one or two possible programs for evening events - say, a dynamic and entertaining speaker to update alums on some interesting current issue or development in a field. These evenings can be planned to be local, or regional (eg the winetasting event going on tonight in Phoenix) or even could be planned for some city with lots of NAU connections (eg Chicago or Los Angeles). A person who does one of these might be asked to do it only once every couple of years or so - so we are not anticipating this being a huge commitment for multiple programs. I would love to be able to give them suggestions of at least one name for something scientific or technical, and one name for something humanities or culture-related. Let me know if you have a likely topic and speaker!
Also - advance warning. There are hopes to re-formulate a summer program for alumni here on the mountain campus. This would be something like a mini-course -- a week of lectures or events, say, on a given theme. They would love to come up with a program offering several of these options for a summer session to be offered in 2005 -- but that means planning and organizing NOW to allow sufficient lead time for publicity etc. So - this might be an opportunity for one of your programs to put together something attractive to alums (with the logistical support to be provided by someone else on campus!). Let me know if you have suggestions in this directio
Fall, 2004, Orientation Feild Trip (Tom)
Ok, folks, here is a ROUGH itinerary and time frame for the Sept 11 Field Trip for our first annual Agnes Allen Field Series. This is for discussion purposes right now, and we can solidify details later. However, this is what a few of us have come up with so far. What do you think?
WHEN: Sat, Sept 11, 2004. Depart 9am, return after 5pm. Three vans, plan for
around 30 people?????
WHERE: The Grand Canyon Loop: Route 180 to 64, north to Grand Canyon south entrance
(we can get fee waivers), east to Desert View, Rt 64 to Cameron, home on Route
89.
PURPOSE: A departmental social and educational event for new and returning undergrads
and grads, and faculty. Due to space restrictions, friends and family will not
be invited (is that ok?). We can hold a more social, family gathering at some
other time and place. Volunteer profs and grad students(?) will provide impromptu
talks about geography, planning, and recreation issues along the route. Some
favored stops are below:
FIELD STOPS (designed for maximum efficiency, allowing as much time at each
stop as possible. This is a common trip that some of us do regularly with students):
* Fort Valley
* Red Mountain
* West Rim Trail to Canyon Overlook, Grand Canyon Village
* Desert View
* "Indian" stands at Little Colorado River
* Cameron (time permitting)
Please start thinking about whether or not you would like to speak on some topic at one or more of these places. Although talks will be informal, it will be good to have a rough agenda for who is discussing what, and where. Then people can add in if they wish. A variety of geography, recreation, and planning topics would be great! Perhaps grad students can add in a social "mixer" game during the trip, to connect professors to students, etc.
We probably also need a trip "leader" to keep us on some kind of schedule and to keep things moving. Any volunteers? I'll do it if no one else wants to, but someone else is welcome!
Points to ponder. Thanks, Tom
SOE / Workload / Point System Issues
Issue #1 = Coconvened Courses
Issue #2 = Contradiction between our Point System and NAU COFS/Faculty Handbook?
Issue #3 - Overload Teaching
Gateway Student Success Center
To: Alan Lew
Date: January 29, 2004
Re: Priority Enrollment Plan for Fall 2004
From: Katie Sheridan
...
Our second request for assistance is even more important. Last Spring, the five members of the Gateway advising staff were responsible for the early enrollment of approximately 1,300 continuing undecided students for Fall 2003. During that time, we were also staffing two regional Previews and developing 700 Priority Enrollment schedules for Fall 2003 freshmen. We were not able to build those schedules without the assistance of faculty, administrators and professional advisors. This year, the Gateway advising staff has expanded (hallelujah), but we are now responsible for the early enrollment of approximately 3,900 first-year students and undecided students for Fall 2004, the staffing of two Spring Previews sessions (one local and one in Chicago), and the building of as many as 2,100 Priority Enrollment schedules for the Fall 2004. So, though our staff has doubled, the tasks ahead have tripled and we are likely to need even more assistance this year.
If you are available starting in March and continuing through May (with a much heavier demand in April and May), we could sure use your help. Please let me know by February 14, 2004 if you can provide support during that time, since I know how our calendars fill up.
If you have questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me.
College of Arts & Sciences - LATE WITHDRAWAL POLICY
This policy will be in effect after the drop with a “W” deadline (after the 8th week of a semester).
The College of Arts and Sciences Policy for Approval of Petitions to Withdraw From a Class After the Deadline:
The College will only allow a student to withdraw from class after the deadline for extraordinary, outstanding, or mitigating circumstances beyond the control of the student. The petition requires justification and approvals of the student’s advisor, course instructor, the chair of the department offering the course, and Dean of the College (including stamps). The student must provide specific and verifiable reason(s) why the petition should be granted. The petitions are not automatically approved and may be denied at any signature level.
The College policy requires that students must provide documentation for their mitigating circumstances. Without suitable documentation, the petition will not be approved!
A poor or failing grade is not considered sufficient reason to recommend exception to the drop policy. In addition, the consequences of a poor grade (i.e.: loss of financial aid, suspension, loss of scholarship, etc…), changes in work hours, change of major, the level of difficulty of a class, or dropping a course to “increase” available time for other courses are not sufficient reasons to approve a withdraw from a class late in the semester.
Please note, even if the withdraw petition is approved, University policy requires that students pay a $25 fee before having it processed.
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Subject: Public Planning presentation
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 10:35:13 -0700
From: Amy Burdo <Amy.Burdo@NAU.EDU>
To: alan.lew@NAU.EDU
Alan,
When I came and presented to staff, some of the professors in the Public Planning area were going to go over the PP presentation since it was combined with GGR and mark some things so I could have separate presentations. As you saw from the one I sent you, I did the GGR and you seemed pleased with it. However, I'd like to work on the PP one but never received anything and don't recall who the professors were that I needed to talk to.
Also, when I talked about our interview rooms being used by Forestry and other departments that conduct mock interviews, two of the faculty from PRM (I think) sounded like that might be an option for them. The offer still stands but again, I don't recall the names of those two so that I can email them and let them know who to contact if they're interested in using the facilities for that purpose.
If you or any of your faculty are interested in presentations this semester, please let me know asap so I can schedule them. I'd be more than happy to do a "What Can You Do with a Major In...." or job search skills, resume writing, interviewing, how to choose a major, etc.
Amy
***********CAREER DAY**************February 4, 2003**************
Amy Burdo, M.M.
Career Services
Northern Arizona University
Box 4097
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-4097
(928) 523-1719
Recreation & Tourism Emphasis in Rural Geography MA
- Core: PRM 531, GGR 525, 576, 681 and 687 (14 hours)
- GGR 699 Thesis or GGR 698 Practicum (6 hours)
- GGR Seminar Courses (9 hours) of graduate-level GGR/PL courses
- PRM Grad Courses (6 hours) slected from the following?
- additional hours of electives from geography, public
planning, and other social sciences and humanities courses to a total of at
least 36 credit hours
AZ Geographers Meeting -
The annual Arizona Geographers meeting will be held at the Grand Canyon on Saturday,
October 18, 2003 in the Thunderbird Lodge meeting room from 8:30 to 11:30. ~Hotel
reservations should be made soon, but before mid March to assure rooms. There
is a 48 hour cancellation policy, so reservations may be cancelled 48 hours
before the event for a full refund. ~Basic room rates are as follows: Thunderbird
or Kachina- two queen beds, on street side, $116 on canyon side, $126 *Tax and
an energy surcharges will be added *Room rates are subject to change ~Parking:
there is a large parking lot at the El Tovar Hotel, Parking Lot D on the Train
Depot level is usually available. Guests can drop off luggage at hotel and park
in any available spot. Feel free to make your room arrangements in any of the
hotels, rates vary and can be found by calling 888-297-2757 or on the web.
~various locations offer breakfast including El Tovar, Bright Angel Lodge, Maswik
Lodge, the general store is located in the same general area. ~If you think
you may be attending the meeting, make your reservations as soon as possible
for Friday evening and Saturday if you prefer to stay longer. ~Please email
JoyceH.Diaz@asu.edu when you know if
you may attend or will attend for our head count.
5.85% Budget Holdback/Cut - We are being told to give back 20% of our non-full/time faculty budget. For us, this amounts to $50,000 -- which is 5.85% of our total dept budget. (We will be giving back another 1.5% next year.)
NAU Strategic Planning Questions - How are we addressing the following (provide this to Terry Crites/Laura Hunneke):
NAU Mentors - NAU is introducing a mentoring program for all first year undergraduate Mountain Campus students in an effort to connect first year students with faculty, staff and administrators and to assist in establishing meaningful relationships and community with our first year students. One thousand faculty, staff and administrators are needed to volunteer to mentor between one and three new first year students in fall 2003. So far (7/14/03) we only have 230 volunteers. A time commitment of approximately one hour per week is needed. Volunteers will be provided with the training and resouces necessary to assist students. To volunteer, go to this website to complete the volunteer MentorWorks! form. (Students who leave NAU after their first year all too often share that they didn't think anyone on campus cared about them or would even notice their departure.) For more information, contact Cindy Payne at 523.6019.
Gateway Advisement Center - Eilenn Mahoney (523-6958): Could you let me know the appropriate contact person in your academic unit for each request?
Priority Enrollment - ALAN & PAM - Gateway advisors will be building fall schedules during April and May for first-year students who will be attending summer previews. We have representatives from most of the colleges scheduled to provide training during March related to suggested courses for first year students in their majors. (If you have questions about who is doing your training, please contact me.)
* Does your department want to have final review of schedules before they are given to students at previews? If so, who would be the appropriate person for me to contact in order to make those arrangements?
Gateway Presence
I am eager for academic units to have a presence in the Gateway center and envision
it occurring in one of three ways:
1) Information Sessions - ALAN, PAM, TINA (Aug03-04). Held in our classroom
and conducted by college or department representatives throughout the semester.
2) Information Representative - DO WE NEED THIS? - A person from your
college or department who is regularly scheduled in the Gateway (for example,
every Tuesday from 10 - 12) and acts as an information resource for students
and advisors.
3) Advising Presence - PAM & ALAN/TINA (Aug03-04) - An academic advisor
from your college or department who works a minimum of four hours, one day a
week providing advising assistance to your majors as well as to undecided students.
Connecting with First-Year Students through Mentors - DO WE NEED THIS?- In terms of building relationships with first-year students, some departments are assigning "college mentors" to their first-year students. These mentors might be faculty members, professional advisors, or student ambassadors. Another approach is to host an event such as an open house for all first-year students in your major that allows faculty and students to mingle in an informal setting.
Department Liaisons - ALAN, PAM, TOM (Summer), TINA (Aug03-04) - The Gateway will assign a member of our advising staff to act as a liaison with each academic unit. These liaisons will ensure that the Gateway has current curriculum check sheets and department information. They will also act as a resource related to policies and procedures for faculty and professional advisors in your unit.
Department Presentations - PAM ? DO WE WANT TO DO THIS? - I am eager to get the word out about the Gateway and the services we will provide. We will not be moving in to our building until May and our Grand Opening celebration is likely to be held during Lumberjack Welcome Week next fall. In the meantime, I would like to introduce myself, talk to people, and dispense any fears that might exist regarding the changes in advising.
PAST NOTES
Course Equivalency Issues - New NAU policy to NOT automatically accept CC courses as equivalent to upper division (300 & 400) level NAU classes. This affects GGR 370 which used to be directly equivalent to Intro Human Geography courses; GGR 361 which used to be directly equivalent to Intro Meterology courses. In New Louie, these these CC courses will be listed as GGR Electives. Faculty advisors can manually substitute them for GGR 370 and GGR 361, if they wish.
Clery Crime Reporting - This applies to faculty advisors to student clubs and to any administrator-types. NAU is required by Federal Law to annual report the frequency of certain crimes on campus and adjacent public property (you can view this here). Failure to do this can result in a $25,000 fine per violation (e.g., for an unreported crime). Not all faculty need to do this, but student club advisors and anyone in with administrative responsibility is required to do so. There is an online form at NAU PD to do this. (The law is named after a student who was murdered in her dorm room in 1986.)