Strategic Roadmap Goal Statements

Work Group #1: Inclusive academic excellence

NAU will offer high-quality, inclusive academic programming designed to deliver equitable postsecondary value and to promote the postgraduate success of our diverse student population, leading to upward social and economic mobility. NAU’s leading-edge academic programs and pedagogical excellence will be grounded in high-impact practices, including transformative educational opportunities that advance knowledge and develop capacities essential for professional success, and informed civic engagement, and global citizenship.

TAGS: Workgroup-1, Learning-Experience, Atmosphere-Structures, Careers

Work Group #2: Equitable student access, momentum, graduation, and post-graduation success

NAU will provide accessible and affordable higher educational experiences coupled with tailored personalized support structures that enable degree completion. While addressing the unique needs of historically underserved, underrepresented, and marginalized communities, NAU will implement pricing policies, admissions standards, locations and learning modalities, student support systems, and educational practices that result in all students’ positive academic outcomes and success in professional, personal, and communal life.

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Work Group #3 - Impactful research, scholarly, and creative activities

NAU will promote and support collaborative and impactful research, scholarly, and creative activities that engage the diverse communities we serve, advance interdisciplinary knowledge, provide transformative learning opportunities, and contribute to solving problems of global relevance.

TAGS: Workgroup-3

Work Group #4: Enhanced practices for recruiting, retaining, and developing quality, mission-driven, diverse faculty and staff

NAU will implement strategies throughout its employment practices to support the recruitment, retention, development, and promotion of a high-quality, mission-driven workforce. This workforce will reflect the demographics and integrate the identities of the local communities, Arizona, and beyond. NAU will advance postsecondary value to students and the communities they represent by committing to and fostering an institutional workforce culture that understands Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion are embedded in excellence.

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Work Group #5 - Strong stewardship of place and demonstrated engagement with our communities

NAU will engage with our local and regional communities to foster mutually beneficial relationships that enhance the value of our educational experiences and increase individual, communal, cultural, and economic vitality. NAU will work side-by-side with community leaders, governmental entities, corporations and businesses, non-profit organizations, and many other entities to offer partnership opportunities that advance our students’ success, support volunteerism for the public good, provide impactful services and research and directly benefit the wellbeing of our communities.

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Work Group #6 – Effective stewardship of financial, physical, and virtual resources

NAU will effectively and efficiently utilize and maintain our physical, technological, and financial infrastructure, with a commitment to the sustainable use of environmental and financial resources. Pursuing new and innovative approaches to generate and secure necessary funding levels, NAU will develop and implement an operational framework to sustainably beautify and modernize the functional physical and virtual spaces we collectively use to teach, learn, create, and engage.

TAGS: Workgroup-6

Work Group #7 – Commitment to Native Americans

NAU aims to become the nation's leading university serving Native Americans.

TAGS: Workgroup-7