A Plan for Arizona’s Higher Education Future



A Plan for the Future of Higher Education in Arizona

Submitted by Northern Arizona Task Force on Higher Education

Executive Summary

This proposal takes inspiration from the Herstam initiative and it further seeks to account for and overcome the constraints that will be placed on Arizona’s higher education system in the future. This proposal maintains and supports the three universities currently in the system: ASU (doctoral extensive in the Carnegie system), U of A (doctoral extensive), NAU (doctoral intensive), and acknowledges the likelihood that ASU-West (currently Masters I) might attain independence soon. Additional planned capacity will be provided incrementally through university partnerships with community colleges until such time that certain community colleges attain independent four-year baccalaureate university status (as and when they meet standard benchmarks). As demographic pressures increase on the university system, select community colleges may become baccalaureate colleges within an appropriately complex and responsive university system. Each university and college would be led by a president who would report independently to ABOR, and each institution will serve the higher education system in unique ways.

NAU’s role will focus on the delivery of quality degree programs from baccalaureate to doctoral degrees in multiple modes, including the use of branch campuses, such as NAU-Yuma. NAU provides an integrated learning environment that combines quality undergraduate and graduate instruction with strong research programs. NAU’s partnerships with community colleges statewide represent one cost-effective model to address the state’s immediate need for four-year degree programs in various locations. These types of branch campuses might attain independent institution status in direct response to specific incremental demographic and economic changes in their communities. In summary, this plan provides for a flexible university system with the ability to serve the increasing demand for higher education among growing populations of both traditional and nontraditional students throughout all Arizona’s regions.

A Plan for the Future of Higher Education in Arizona

Northern Arizona Task Force on Higher Education

President Herstam, the Arizona Board of Regents, and the Council of Presidents have taken an important first step to providing for the long-term future of higher education in Arizona. Clearly the population of 18- to 21-year-old students will grow, and, just as importantly, students from 25-55 years of age will return to the university for advanced degrees at the baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral levels, for professional development, and for workforce growth. The proposal submitted by President Herstam and the Council of Presidents is sound in its rationale and in its key assumptions. Arizona’s population is likely to experience tremendous growth, and the demand for quality higher education is likely to increase accordingly. Access is a critical component for both the present and future Arizona university system. The system of the future must respond to these needs while recognizing the real financial constraints on state resources for higher education.

Rationale

The proposal we offer here takes its inspiration from the Herstam proposal. This proposal projects a future for Arizona’s higher education system that builds on the current strengths of the system:

1. The ability to address Arizona’s growing needs in focused, strategic ways that are timely and responsive

2. The guarantee of access for all qualified potential students

3. The guarantee of a quality education for all students at all levels in the higher education system

4. The ability to meet the growing complexities of student needs and desires with an appropriately flexible system

5. Established partnerships with communities and community colleges across Arizona for economic advantage

6. Fiscally responsible practices in planning and delivering higher education

Benefits

This proposal positions the state to respond effectively and strategically to needs as demographics change. It avoids the negative implications of creating a multi-tier university system and avoids the significant fiscal and bureaucratic costs of such a system. It cements the principle of partnership between the university and community college systems, and it accounts for the rapid deployment of technology in the delivery of educational programs. It highlights the principle of adding institutions when (but not before) they can be viable independent entities. In short, it holds the promise of being a winning situation for all.

Diversity in the System

The key to this plan is recognizing the strengths and contributions of each university currently in the system, including ASU-West. An important assumption in our proposal is that any higher education system must provide a range of options and offerings to student populations. This assumption also underpins the national Carnegie classification system for U.S. universities. In order to respond effectively to the diverse needs of a growing university-bound population, a mature, responsive university system of the future must offer the range of options embodied in the Carnegie classification system, each option serving a unique purpose. This arrangement of institution types responds to the increasingly complex mix of student populations seeking the appropriate education for their needs as well as for the needs of the state. The system must have the capacity for institutions to change their Carnegie classification as their missions expand and change in response to future student populations seeking higher education in Arizona. Thus, under this proposal, an institution would be able to change from a Master’s I institution to a metropolitan research institution (doctoral intensive), depending on such factors as demand (both economic and educational) and student demographics.

The Proposal

This proposal maintains and supports the three universities currently in the system: ASU, U of A, NAU, and acknowledges the possibility that ASU-West might attain independence soon. Each university will be led by a president, and each president will report independently to ABOR. Each institution would serve the higher education system in unique ways. Figure 1 represents the immediate situation under this proposal. Figure 2 envisions one possible scenario twenty-five years into the future assuming significant growth in university enrollment demands. This second figure reflects the fact that the three current state universities occupy particular, well-defined roles in the current system, and it projects the development of different types of institutions in the system depending upon demographic changes. Figure 2 suggests that growth could lead to three new universities, perhaps via different paths. The Figure is also intended to show that a number of the universities may (or may not) continue to be involved in 2+2 partnerships with community colleges. NAU is likely to be one of the universities involved in 2+2 arrangements.

In the short term, additional enrollment demand can be handled through 2+2 partnerships. Each of the universities may decide to play a role in such partnerships with community colleges. As student enrollment pressure requires additional university capacity, select community colleges should undergo a review and development process. This process may eventually lead to two or four new baccalaureate colleges that can address new student demand with a cost-effective administrative and instructional infrastructure.

Figure 1: Proposed Plan: Initial Configuration[1]

One Administrative Layer

This plan does not envision two different levels (or tiers) of administration for the state’s public universities. Indeed it assumes that additional bureaucracy is made redundant by the already robust infrastructure of the current system−a system that has the flexible capacity for incremental growth to match the growth of communities statewide. Each existing university has an important role to play in Arizona’s educational future by blending different combinations of undergraduate and graduate education, and by developing research profiles that enhance university resources and that become engines of greater economic development in urban and rural communities. As the Governor herself recently noted, “I am working hard to ensure that our public universities have the resources they need, not only to expand on the excellence of the education they offer, but to remove the barriers their scientists encounter when they try to convert research innovations into successful high-tech business ventures” (AzMetro, Summer 04: 30). The strengths of the current system must be developed appropriately to respond to the Governor’s vision for higher education in Arizona.

The Carnegie Classification

Our proposal assumes that each institution must be able to cement and develop its mission in a strategic manner, responding effectively to the nature and needs of the communities that it serves. The four universities named in Figure 1 currently represent three of the classification levels within the Carnegie system (see Figure 3). The plan allows for further options that reflect other classification levels in the Carnegie framework. It is possible to envision a system twenty-five years from now that includes three or four doctoral universities, one or two master’s universities, and two to three baccalaureate universities (Figure 2).

Figure 3: Carnegie Classification

| | |# of Institutions | | | |

|Type |Example | |Doctorates |Master’s |Bachelor’s |

|Associate and other |Arizona Community |1,697 | | | |

| |Colleges | | | | |

|Specialized |ASU East |766 | | | |

|Baccalaureate |To be determined |606 | | |Min. 50% all |

| | | | | |degrees |

|Master’s II |To be determined |115 | |Min. 20 | |

|Master’s I |ASU West |496 | |Min. 40 | |

|Doctoral Research |NAU |110 |Min.10 in 3 | | |

|Intensive | | |disciplines | | |

| | | |or min. 20 | | |

|Doctoral Research |UA, |151 |Min. 50 | | |

|Extensive |ASU Main | |in 15 disciplines| | |

First-Generation Students, Rural Students, and Ethnic Minority Students

Planning for the future of higher education requires more than a general consideration of population growth; it requires a better understanding of which groups of future students will grow most rapidly and what their specific needs will be as they seek the advantages of higher degrees. Given current demographic patterns and predictions, it is likely that Hispanic students will be a major part of enrollment pressures.[2] Other groups of future students will also contribute to enrollment pressures. These groups of students will need much greater educational support than the student who typically enrolls in highly selective, doctoral extensive universities.

These students, unlike already skilled and well educated students, will incur greater costs if they are to be successful in earning a university degree. There is no “education on the cheap” that will serve their needs. However, an educational system that is flexibly designed and appropriately funded will meet students’ needs. In Arizona, the best option for meeting these needs rests with some combination of community college/university partnerships until such time as new baccalaureate universities emerge.

Non-Traditional Students

Arizona’s leaders should also realize that many of the “new” students who might return for baccalaureate, master’s, and doctoral degrees will not be traditional students. These students will not necessarily need the physical structure of a campus in order to be served. Many will gain access to higher education through web-based delivery of programs or on-site programs delivered at local community colleges, high schools, and commercial business centers. The numbers of these students will increase significantly as workforce needs expand throughout the state. The use of off-campus programs—when supported by a mature university institution—provides a cost effective means for addressing expanding needs strategically.

Community Colleges

It is clear that a great deal of study and deliberation must inform the ways in which each institution identified in this proposal will be responsible for serving the higher education needs of Arizona. In general, this plan presupposes that institutions with established 2+2 partnerships with Arizona’s community colleges will continue, and possibly expand, such programs depending upon the economic and workforce development needs of each community and constituency.

The 2+2 model allows the state to provide new baccalaureate degree programs in a manner that is responsive to community needs. And since these programs are offered in existing facilities, minimal initial investment in new infrastructure is required. Moreover, population growth and student enrollment pressures in Arizona may not follow uniform growth patterns across all sectors or all geographic regions. Arizona should not abandon its historically deliberate approach to college/university expansion; it should closely monitor demographic change and economic demand and be ready to respond flexibly, yet in a thoughtful, fiscally responsible, and planned manner.

As communities outgrow the currently successful model, they may apply to transform their community college into a fully functioning independent baccalaureate institution. This process can be implemented gradually as specific triggering criteria are met (see North Central Accreditation Criteria—Appendix A). For example, a community college might be considered for independent four-year status when a critical enrollment and resource mass are reached for upper-division course delivery, when adequate library resources are in place, when a funding base demonstrates self-sustaining resources beyond state appropriations, and when accreditation criteria are achievable. One plan for such growth, established in Texas, provides a good example of policies for transition from community college to four-year college (Appendix B).

Northern Arizona University as Contributor

Our plan assumes a specific set of roles for each university. As Northern Arizona’s Task Force on Higher Education, we focus here on the roles that NAU will play. NAU, as a doctoral intensive university, is already well positioned to fill the need for access to higher education in Flagstaff and in communities around the state (see Appendices C-H). In Flagstaff, NAU has been, and will continue to be, committed to providing quality education opportunities to a diverse population including Hispanic and Native American groups. NAU provides an integrated learning environment that combines quality undergraduate and graduate instruction with strong research programs. At the same time, students are served by tenured and tenure-track faculty teaching undergraduate courses, undergraduate student research opportunities, and close student-faculty contact. These latter characteristics are typical of many doctoral intensive universities.

NAU’s current operations for statewide and Distance Learning should be recognized and endorsed for their well-established and highly effective delivery of programs from baccalaureate to doctoral degrees in multiple modes, including the use of branch campuses, such as NAU-Yuma (see Appendix H). The plan proposes that the need for four-year degree programs in various locations be addressed initially through NAU partnerships and branch campuses. Each of the major higher education centers within the NAU umbrella—hereafter branch campuses—will have a campus leader reporting either to the President of NAU or to the Vice President for Extended Programs—depending on the size and maturation point of the center. Each center should build upon strong relationships with the community colleges in the region. Additional centers can be established depending on demand from currently enrolled students at community colleges seeking advanced degrees.

Key Advantages

This proposal resolves a number of outstanding questions raised in many public forums in the past month. It also incorporates a number of good ideas proposed in several other communications. Moreover, it addresses the concerns of a range of constituencies throughout the state, provides a fiscally responsible design for higher education in the state, provides an incremental yet flexible response to student demand, plans for student access to quality instruction, and provides numerous diverse pathways into higher education for minority, place-bound, and non-traditional student populations in the state. The key advantages that this proposal offers include the following:

1. The plan answers the concerns raised by the Governor and others that institutions should be assessed and valued based on their mission and how well they deliver on that mission. It also addresses the widespread concern that quality of instruction not be jeopardized or that the value of any university degree from the system not be weakened in any way. This plan preserves academic integrity in addition to adopting modern naming conventions that align with the Carnegie classification used throughout the country.

2. The plan recognizes that educational institutions and the communities that surround them are closely connected. Accordingly, the scope of the ABOR feasibility study must include an analysis of the relationships that link each university with local governments, K-12 systems, community colleges, and employers. The study should also address quality of life issues, educational choices, and social responsiveness in order to develop well-informed and appropriate plans for growth in the higher education system.

3. The plan avoids the necessity for investing in additional bureaucratic layers, which can be costly and unwieldy to operate. University systems typically add layers of bureaucracy, and thereby lessen, not increase, responsiveness to change and to students and other stakeholders. The construction of additional administrative systems to manage the delivery of higher education in the state should be avoided in order to allow state funds to be appropriated more directly for instructional support.

4. The plan’s assumption of capacity for incremental growth recognizes that the costs of delivering quality education to Arizona’s citizens are considerable. There will be many additional costs in the future to meet the needs of the new populations of students—many of them first-generation with substantial financial need and with differing cultural and lifestyle expectations. These needs should not be placed in direct competition with costs driven by a new and unnecessary administrative level in the university governance system.

5. The plan recognizes that the type of employers (and their employees) Arizona wishes to attract in the future will require a wider range of educational options. Accordingly, a university system for the future must be responsive to the educational needs of professionals. At the same time, mature doctoral and master’s universities themselves will draw professional employers and high-skilled jobs into local economies and build positive synergies for regions and local urban centers across the state. Arizona wants to attract educated in-migrants as well as industries of the future, and to achieve this end, it must consider the array of educational programs that will attract such populations. Our plan recognizes future demographic complexities and proposes educational options that provide multiple points of entry into higher education.

6. The plan acknowledges the critical role of the community college in local communities and seeks to establish four-year degree programs in partnership with the community college system. This 2+2 model not only facilitates strategic growth but it does so in a timely response to community needs, with minimal new infrastructure costs, and it provides for the eventual transition of certain community colleges in 2+2 partnerships to independent four-year colleges.

7. The plan for the redesign of Arizona’s higher education system recognizes that it is important to identify effectiveness and efficiency criteria for the development and maturation of learning centers in various locations across the state. Currently NAU offers a wide range of educational courses and programs for place-bound students, including master’s and doctoral degrees in specific fields. The system of the future needs to maintain system flexibility and allow prospective students to earn the master’s and doctoral degrees they need, regardless of location.

NAU’s Strengths

NAU has a vital role to play in this extension of the ABOR proposal, as do the other universities. NAU’s specific strengths that would assist the state in implementing the plan include the following:

1. NAU has well-established operations in many counties and has community college partnerships with Dine College, Northland Pioneer College, Arizona Western College, Eastern Arizona College, Central Arizona College, Mohave Community College, Yavapai College, many of the Maricopa Community College District campuses, and Pima Community College as well as in location at 110 sites, including several in Phoenix and Tucson.

2. NAU operates a state-of-the-art and nationally recognized distributed learning network using web-based technologies delivering 64 degree programs on-line or a combination of on-line and on-site delivery methods.

3. NAU already has effective partnerships with communities across Arizona, local industries, and professional groups, all of which are enriched by the complex instructional and research missions of NAU.

4. NAU has had considerable success in educating ethnic minority students, place-bound students, and first-generation students. NAU has one of the highest percentages of Native American students of all doctoral universities in the nation. NAU’s distance learning sites serve thousands of place-bound students across the state. NAU-Yuma enrollments include 70% first-generation students and it is an officially designated Hispanic-serving branch campus under federal guidelines.

5. NAU, a doctoral intensive university, has the ability to offer programs from baccalaureate to doctoral levels at higher education centers and new campuses throughout the state. It is, by all nationwide measures, a robust, effective university within this classification.

NAU is looking forward to partnering with ABOR and the other universities, including ASU-West, in building a strong, strategically responsive, and financially sound system to serve Arizona’s needs in the 21st century. We envision a system that offers full access to Arizona’s students, meets the pressing demographic pressures that affect the state, expands its mission to include minority populations more effectively, offers a quality education for all citizens, enriches the local and regional communities, and challenges students to raise their educational and economic horizons. Such a plan is good for state governance, the university system, the students it will serve, and all citizens of Arizona.

Appendices

Appendix A: North Central Accreditation Criteria

Appendix B: Supply-Demand Pathway Model for New Universities in Texas

Appendix C: FY 2003 Graduate Degrees Granted

Appendix D: NAU Annual Research Awards

Appendix E: NAU’s Status as Doctoral Intensive Institution

Appendix F: Peer Institutions and Benchmark Statistics

Appendix G: 2000 Carnegie Classification: Category Definitions

Appendix H: Current NAU Statewide Delivery Network

Appendix I: Members of the Northern Arizona Task Force on Higher Education

Appendix A. North Central Accreditation Criteria

An applying institution must demonstrate that it meets the General Institutional Requirements. In addition, it will be measured against the Criteria for Accreditation. An institution seeking candidacy will document, through its self-study, the degree to which it meets each of the five Criteria, and, through a carefully articulated plan and timetable, will show how it intends to meet fully each of them within the four-year period of candidacy.

To achieve candidacy, an institution will be expected to provide an emerging pattern of evidence for each criterion. Throughout the candidacy period, Evaluation Teams evaluate and address in their reports whether the institution is progressively demonstrating the patterns of evidence needed to achieve accreditation before the end of the candidacy period.

General Institutional Requirements

• It has a mission statement, formally adopted by the governing board and made public, declaring that it is an institution of higher education.

• It is a degree-granting institution.

• It has legal authorization to grant its degrees, and it meets all the legal requirements to operate as an institution of higher education wherever it conducts its activities.

• It has legal documents to confirm its status: not-for-profit, for-profit, or public.

• It has a governing board that possesses and exercises necessary legal power to establish and review basic policies that govern the institution.

• Its governing board includes public members and is sufficiently autonomous from the administration and ownership to assure the integrity of the institution.

• It has an executive officer designated by the governing board to provide administrative leadership for the institution.

• Its governing board authorizes the institution’s affiliation with the Commission.

• It employs a faculty that has earned from accredited institutions the degrees appropriate to the level of instruction offered by the institution.

• A sufficient number of the faculty members are full-time employees of the institution.

• Its faculty has a significant role in developing and evaluating all the institution’s educational programs.

• It confers degrees.

• It has degree programs in operation, with students enrolled in them.

• Its degree programs are compatible with the institution’s mission and are based on recognized fields of study at the higher education level.

• Its degrees are appropriately named, following practices common to institutions of higher education in terms of both length and content of the programs.

• Its undergraduate degree programs include a coherent general education requirement consistent with the institution’s mission and designed to ensure breadth of knowledge and to promote intellectual inquiry.

• It has admission policies and practices that are consistent with the institution’s mission and appropriate to its educational programs.

• It provides its students access to those learning resources and support services requisite for its degree programs.

• It has an external financial audit by a certified public accountant or a public audit agency at least every two years.

• Its financial documents demonstrate the appropriate allocation and use of resources to support its educational programs.

• Its financial practices, records, and reports demonstrate fiscal viability.

• Its catalog or other official documents include its mission statement along with accurate descriptions of 1) its educational programs and degree requirements; 2) its learning resources; 3) its admissions policies and practices; 4) its academic and non-academic policies and procedures directly affecting students; 5) its charges and refund policies; 6) the academic credentials of its faculty and administrators.

• It accurately discloses its standing with accrediting bodies with which it is affiliated.

• It makes available upon request information that accurately describes its financial condition.

The Criteria for Accreditation

In addition to the General Institutional Requirements, an institution accredited by The Higher Learning Commission demonstrates that it satisfies five Criteria for Accreditation.

The five Criteria for Accreditation are:

Criterion 1. The institution has clear and publicly stated purposes consistent with its mission and appropriate to an institution of higher education.

Criterion 2. The institution has effectively organized the human, financial, and physical resources necessary to accomplish its purposes.

Criterion 3. The institution is accomplishing its educational and other purposes.

Criterion 4. The institution can continue to accomplish its purposes and strengthen its educational effectiveness.

Criterion 5. The institution demonstrates integrity in its practices and relationships.

Appendix B. The State of Texas Supply/Demand

Pathway for Off-Campus Educational Units to Achieve University Status

The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board developed the Supply/Demand Pathway as a way to address anticipated large-scale enrollment demand in a specified region. The Supply/Demand Pathway is used as the model to address higher education needs in areas without ready geographic access to existing public higher education institutions.

An off-campus educational unit is on the "Pathway" when it is awarded that designation by the Texas Higher Educational Coordinating Board.

The supply/demand pathway consists of three categories:

(1) Category A. Institutions temporarily test the market both in terms of demand and staying power by providing off-campus courses and/or programs by one or more institutions. Should demand decrease or not materialize, courses and programs can be discontinued and resources moved to areas of greater demand.

(2) Category B. As demand increases, offerings may be organized through a multi-institution teaching center (MITCH) or as a university system center as a Pathway Education Center. A group of institutions may request that the Board authorize the establishment of a MITC. Alternatively, a university system may request that the Board authorize the establishment of a university system center. In either case, a lead institution should be designated to provide leadership for the center and facilitate the provision of programs and resources from other institutions.

(3) Category C. After an entity in Category B has attained a full-time equivalent upper-level and graduate enrollment of 3,500 for four fall semesters, the parent institution(s) and Board(s) of Regents may request that the Board review the status of the center and recommend that the Legislature reclassify the unit as an upper-level general academic institution--a university. Reclassification may be considered sooner if the center attains a fall semester full-time equivalent enrollment of 3,500 followed the next fall semester by a full-time equivalent enrollment of 4,000. The 3,500 FTSE standard approximates the headcount enrollment included in the current university funding formula as the minimum size needed to achieve economies of scale.

Institutions will report enrollments at centers on the pathway and all off-campus educational units according to guidelines set up by the Commissioner. For the purpose of establishing the need for a new institution of higher education and meeting the enrollment threshold of 3,500 FTE students established in paragraph (3) of this section, internet-based courses and other courses offered in non-traditional formats that do not require the physical presence of the student at the center for a normal number of contact hours will not generally be counted.

Appendix C: FY 2003 Graduate Degrees Granted

University of Arizona System Universities and NAU Peer Universities

Appendix D: NAU Annual Research Awards

Appendix E: NAU Ranks High for Many Characteristics

Among the Public Doctoral Research Intensive Universities (2002 IPEDS Reports)

■ 3rd in number of graduate degrees awarded

■ 5th in graduate enrollment

■ 14th largest in total enrollment

■ 12th in federal operating grants and contracts

■ 11th in number full-time faculty

■ 21st in six-year graduation rate

|Fiscal Year 2002 Federal IPEDS Data |All Public Doctoral Research |Northern Arizona University |

| |Intensive Averages (N=64) | |

|Total Enrollment |Average 14,221 |Ranks 14th out of 64 (19,907) |

|Graduate Enrollment |Average 3,190 |Ranks 5th |

| | |(6,330 ) |

|Graduate Degrees (MA and PhD) |Average 799 |Ranks 3rd |

| | |(1,896) |

|Federal operating grants and |Average $32 Million |Ranks 12th out of 64 |

|contracts |Median $25 Million |($38 Million) |

| | |Plus an additional $9-10 million in |

| | |state/private/local |

|Number of Faculty (AAUP) |Average 505 |Ranks 11th |

| |Median 490 |(681) |

|Graduation Rate |Average 45% |Ranks 21st (47%) -- increased to |

| |Median 43% |51% for current year |

Appendix F: Peer Institutions and Benchmark Statistics

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| |Enrollment^ |Enrollment |Enrollment |Master's |Doctorates |Total |UG % |

| | | | | | |Grad*** | |

|School |Total |UG |Grad |Awarded |Awarded |Degrees |Diversity |

|UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | | | | | | |26% |

| |41,102 |34,170 |6,932 |431 |151 |582 | |

|*2002-2003 Common Data Set | | | | | | | |

|**IPEDS 2002 | | | | | | | |

|^Includes Fall 2003 Numbers | | | | | | | |

|***Includes FY03 Numbers and PostBacc | | | | | | | |

|Certificates | | | | | | | |

Appendix G: 2000 Carnegie Classification –

Category Definitions

Doctorate-granting Institutions

Doctoral/Research Universities—Extensive: These institutions typically offer a wide range of baccalaureate programs, and they are committed to graduate education through the doctorate. During the period studied, they awarded 50 or more doctoral degrees per year across at least 15 disciplines.

Doctoral/Research Universities—Intensive: These institutions typically offer a wide range of baccalaureate programs, and they are committed to graduate education through the doctorate. During the period studied, they awarded at least ten doctoral degrees per year across three or more disciplines, or at least 20 doctoral degrees per year overall.

Master's Colleges and Universities

Master's Colleges and Universities I: These institutions typically offer a wide range of baccalaureate programs, and they are committed to graduate education through the master's degree. During the period studied, they awarded 40 or more master's degrees per year across three or more disciplines.

Master's Colleges and Universities II: These institutions typically offer a wide range of baccalaureate programs, and they are committed to graduate education through the master's degree. During the period studied, they awarded 20 or more master's degrees per year.

Baccalaureate Colleges

Baccalaureate Colleges—Liberal Arts: These institutions are primarily undergraduate colleges with major emphasis on baccalaureate programs. During the period studied, they awarded at least half of their baccalaureate degrees in liberal arts fields.

Baccalaureate Colleges—General: These institutions are primarily undergraduate colleges with major emphasis on baccalaureate programs. During the period studied, they awarded less than half of their baccalaureate degrees in liberal arts fields.

Baccalaureate/Associate's Colleges: These institutions are undergraduate colleges where the majority of conferrals are below the baccalaureate level (associate's degrees and certificates). During the period studied, bachelor's degrees accounted for at least ten percent of undergraduate awards.

Associate's Colleges

These institutions offer associate's degree and certificate programs but, with few exceptions, award no baccalaureate degrees.1 This group includes institutions where, during the period studied, bachelor's degrees represented less than 10 percent of all undergraduate awards.

Specialized Institutions

These institutions offer degrees ranging from the bachelor's to the doctorate, and typically award a majority of degrees in a single field. The list includes only institutions that are listed as separate campuses in the 2000 Higher Education Directory.

Tribal Colleges and Universities

These colleges are, with few exceptions, tribally controlled and located on reservations. They are all members of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium.

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Appendix H: NAU Statewide Delivery Network

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Appendix I: Members of the Northern Arizona Task Force on Higher Education

• Susan Fitzmaurice, co-chair, dean of the College of Arts and Letters

• Bill Grabe, co-chair, executive director of the Academic Chairs Council

• Josh Allen, director of Alumni and Constituent Relations

• Diane Bellock, president of CSAC

• Geeta Chowhdry, director, ethnic studies program,

• Laura Huenneke, dean of the College of Engineering and Natural Science

• Hari Kowtha, president of ASNAU

• Hannah Ledbury, NAU student

• Nick Lund, Executive Director, NAU Yuma

• Barry Lutz, professor, Physics and Astronomy

• Larry Mohrweis, president of the Faculty Senate

• Lisa Nelson, director of Public Affairs, SPAC representative

• Karen Pugliesi, vice provost for Undergraduate Studies

• Zachary Smith, Regents professor, Political Sciences

Community Members

• Steve Carlson, president of Flagstaff Medical Center

• Joseph “Joe” C. Donaldson, mayor, city of Flagstaff

• Jeri Dustir, deputy city manager, city of Flagstaff

• David Maurer, president and CEO, Flagstaff Chamber of Commerce board of directors

• Kay McKay, executive director of Big Brothers/Big Sister of Flagstaff and former member of the Arizona Board of Regents

• Nathaniel White, astronomer and program manager at Lowell Observatory and member of the Coconino Community College District Governing Board

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[1] The initial configuration does not prescribe a particular classification for ASU-West or any other institution under the Carnegie system, but reflects the current classification. The proposal also acknowledges that ASU-West may well opt for independence from ASU, but again, does not prescribe such a status.

[2] Melnick, R., & Taylor, S. (2004). The Latino Education Dilemma. Presentation at Jobs for American Graduate Board Meeting. Morrison Institute for Public Policy, Arizona State University.

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Arizona State University

Doctoral Extensive

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President

Northern Arizona University

Doctoral Intensive

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President

Arizona State University -West

Master’s I (Currently)

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President

NAU-Yuma

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Executive Director

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Baccalaureate

President

Other Centers as Appropriate

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Arizona Board of Regents

University of Arizona

Doctoral Extensive

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President

Baccalaureate

President

Master's II

President

Master’s I

ASU-West

(Currently)

President

Doctoral Intensive NAU

President

Doctoral Extensive

ASU

President

Doctoral Extensive

UofA President

NAU 2+2

Executive Director

Other Centers as Appropriate

Other Centers as Appropriate

Other Centers as Appropriate

Arizona Board of Regents

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