NAU had much to celebrate this commencement season. Our graduating class included more than 5,600 students – students who trained at our programs in Flagstaff, online and around the state. The diversity of their heritage, perspective and experience enhanced the classrooms where they learned and the topics they studied, and we are proud to welcome them to our Lumberjack alumni family. These graduates now enter the next stage of their life armed with confidence in their accomplishments and … [Read more...] about The Promise of Things to Come
NAU President Rita Cheng
NAU and the Knowledge Economy
There’s a lot of talk about the “knowledge economy,” much of which is presented as if it’s something new; as if knowledge hasn’t always been the differentiator between the average and the exceptional, the special sauce that makes one enterprise succeed while others falter. The railroad was a knowledge economy breakthrough, providing a far superior mode of transportation for people and freight than an ox team, and railroad development was based on what we now call STEM professions: science, … [Read more...] about NAU and the Knowledge Economy