Office Communicator to provide secure instant messaging and more Posted on July 15, 2009 (August 17, 2015) by Inside NAU Office Communicator, a more secure instant messaging, voice and video conferencing system for Windows and Macintosh computers, will be rolled out to faculty and staff computers on Tuesday, July 21. Instant messages sent via Office Communicator will be contained within NAU’s secure environment. Now that the Office Communicator instant messaging capability is available, ITS strongly…
Engineering workshop builds teaching skills Posted on July 1, 2009 (August 17, 2015) by Inside NAU Civil engineering educators from around the world will meet at NAU next week for workshops on building their teaching skills. The American Society of Civil Engineers is hosting its 11th Excellence in Civil Engineering Education Teaching Workshop at NAU from July 12-18. Debra Larson, associate dean for the College of Engineering, Forestry and Natural Sciences,…
Accessibility, affordability, accountability highlight ABOR discussions Posted on June 17, 2009 (August 17, 2015) by Inside NAU Discussion of a revised Arizona University System architecture to offer lower-cost options for baccalaureate degrees dominated much of the Arizona Board of Regents’ meeting June 18 and 19 on campus. Details of the draft plan presented by the three university presidents to double baccalaureate production by 2020 to help Arizona attain national economic competitiveness is…
New voicemail system starts Monday Posted on June 10, 2009 (August 17, 2015) by Inside NAU NAU’s new voicemail system goes into effect at 5 p.m. Monday, June 15, when unanswered calls will be forwarded to the new system. The current voicemail system is 15 years old and no longer supported by the vendor. Greetings and saved messages in the existing system cannot be transferred to the new voicemail system, so…
School of Communication honors green graduate on Earth Day Posted on April 15, 2009 (August 17, 2015) by Inside NAU Jennifer (Jenna) McKnight, a 2000 Summa Cum Laude graduate of NAU with a journalism degree with an emphasis in environmental communication, will be honored during the School of Communication’s 2009 Associated Press/Robert R. Eunson Award Ceremony beginning at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 22, in room 119 of the School of Communication. McKnight is the founder…
Northern Arizona University transition from video-conferencing to state-of-the art web-based technologies Posted on March 26, 2009 (November 5, 2012) by Inside NAU Background: The budget reductions at the university necessitate a cut of more than $1.5 million in state budgets and a 25 percent reduction in TRIF sales tax revenues require an additional $1.2 million cut in Distance Learning budgets. In order to protect instruction (programs, and full- and part-time faculty) as much as possible, other areas of…