NAU state-wide updates
Katelyn Seabury - April 24th, 2008SCHOLARSHIPS
NAU has awarded 74 students with $1,500 scholarships from the Raymond Educational Foundation. The majority of the scholarships were awarded to Coconino County high school students who are attending NAU in the fall. The remainder of the scholarships were presented to 16 NAU freshman who will be continuing their education at NAU in the fall.
The Raymond Educational Foundation has given more than $3.4 million to support Coconino County high school students attending NAU since 1963.
ABOR
The Arizona Board of Regents meets today in Tucson to decide NAU’s FY08 budget cut. ABOR will likely decide the planned $14.7 million cut to state universities 2008 budgets.
The cut NAU will have taken to its budget is not currently reported. This year U of A and ASU both took an additional one-time cut of $5.25 million each for schematic design money for the new biomedical campus in Phoenix.
According to Inside NAU, the projected shortfall for the state’s ‘09 budget, which begins July 1, is expected to be close to $2 billion.
NAUPD
NAUPD is asking for people to participate in their 2008 citizen survey to measure the public’s input about safety on campus.
The survey is available on the Web through the department’s home page. The survey closes April 28. Results will be released after calculated.
NAU-Yuma leader
Associate vice president and campus executive officer Krista Rodin annouced her resignation. Rodin will take a roll at NAU as a professor in the fall.
Rodin has worked in her current position since January 2007.
In a statement on Inside NAU, President John D. Haeger said he thanks Rodin for her part in NAU Yuma.