Campus & Community
Summer is a great time for volunteering!
Still have community engagement hours? Hear from three employees about how they've used their hours, then sign up for a service project (and volunteer your team!) during the summer months.
Campus & Community
NAU pilots first Hispanic/Latine Youth Media Workshop
The School of Communication hosted its inaugural Hispanic/Latine Youth Media Workshop last weekend, allowing 13 Flagstaff Unified School District students to participate in faculty-led media production demonstrations and learn from Hispanic and Latine visual communication professionals. In the event the school gathers enough funding, workshop leaders hope to expand the experience to an annual seminar.
Research & Academics
Psych 101 for quilters
For psychology faculty member Jason Whetten, teaching and research go hand in hand: The classroom is his laboratory, and the students are his subjects and co-investigators. In his Fall 2023 Introduction to Psychology course, Whetten researched the concept of belonging by asking 1,200 students to design a quilt square describing how they belong at NAU. Throughout Spring 2024, Whetten and his TAs discovered that interactive, hands-on projects like these can help boost students’ sense of inclusion and belonging on campus. MORE NEWS