FOREWORD AUTHORITY - Northern Arizona University

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FOREWORD

AUTHORITY

This institution is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education.

It is authorized by the Board of Regents of Arizona to grant the following degrees: Associate of Science, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science in Education, Bachelor of Science in Forestry, Master of Science, Master of Arts, Master of Arts in Education, Master of Music, Master of Music in Education, and Educational Specialist.

MEMBERSHIPS

The institution is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, Association of State Colleges and Universities and the American Council on Education.

Northern Arizona University at Flagstaff has been approved by the American Association of University Women. This means that all women graduates holding a baccalaureate degree from this institution are eligible for membership in the A.A.U.W.

These memberships assure the student that he is attending an institution with high standards of scholarship and student service, and that he enjoys all the advantages that are had by graduates of other colleges and universities which are members of the above associations.

CURRICULA

Two-year curricula are offered in the following fields: nursing; secretarial studies, and technology. Four-year curricula are offered in many academic areas in liberal arts and sciences, leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Science. Consult the index for information concerning specific academic areas in which curricula are offered. A four-year professional program in forestry is offered, leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Forestry.

The institution also offers a four-year curriculum in elementary and secondary education, leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education and certification to teach. The fifth-year areas lead to the degrees of Master of Science, Master of Music, Master of Music Education, Master of Arts and Master of Arts in Education. A sixth-year program of graduate study is offered, leading to the degree of Educational Specialist. Further information about all graduate programs can be secured by consulting the Graduate Bulletin.

The North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools in 1962 granted full accreditation of our sixth-year Educational Specialist degree program. In the same year the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education accredited the programs for the preparation of elementary teachers, secondary teachers, and school service personnel, with the sixth year as the highest degree level.

LOCATION

The institution is outstanding in the combination of location and educational advantages it offers. Located in Flagstaff, in Northern Arizona, which is never too

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hot and seldom ever cold, the university has within ready access national parks and monuments, forests, deserts, mountains, lakes, unique geological phenomena, ruins of the earliest Indian cultures and Indian country--all the resources necessary for invigorating activity and first-hand serious study.

Flagstaff is at the base of the San Francisco Peaks, on the main line of the Santa Fe railroad, on U. S. Highways 66 and 89 and State Highway 79, within two-hour drive of the Grand Canyon of Arizona and 2 1/2 hours drive to Phoenix. It is also served by airline and by two trans-continental bus lines. The city is situated in the Coconino National Forest at an elevation of 7,000 feet. The elevation, the protection provided by the forest, and the Arizona sunshine give Flagstaff an unsurpassed allthe-year-around climate. In the summer it is one of the coolest cities in the United States, having an average temperature of sixty-five degrees. No location in the Southwest offers more ideal conditions for study and recreation.

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

This institution is multi-purpose, with responsibility to maintain an educational and social environment which will develop men and women:

1. Who are equipped and motivated through an understanding of the physical and social worlds and their inter-relationships to participate constructively in the family, social, political, and economic life of a democratic society;

2. Who assume responsibility for self discipline and accept those ethical standards which will insure continuous improvement in choices of conduct;

3. Who have acquired a sensitivity to aesthetic values which will contribute to their own vital enjoyment of life and which will stimulate them to promote directly or indirectly the best cultural interest of their communities;

4. Who are inspired to become intellectual and civic leaders in whatever position or location they pursue their life activities;

5. Who obey the basic laws of healthful living and have developed skill in some activity which will be a lifelong source of recreation;

6. Who have mastered subject matter, methods, and personal attributes which will enable them to earn a living and serve society through teaching in the elementary or secondary schools or through other professional, business, or technical occupations;

7. Who have completed satisfactorily pre-professional study for medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, law and engineering;

8. Who are adequately prepared to proceed to continued and to more advanced study.

The institution implements these objectives by:

1. Its administrative organization; 2. A well qualified faculty; 3. A liberal studies program; 4. Various curricula under supervision of seven Administrative Colleges and

Schools; 5. An honors program to challenge the superior student to develop his abilities

to the maximum by providing for the broadening and deepening of the student's experience in the major fields of human knowledge;

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6. A graduate program for professional advancement of teachers and school service personnel;

7. Institutional, faculty and student research program;

8. A library equipped with 162,000 volumes, 1,500 regular periodicals and a trained staff;

9. A counseling and guidance service maintained to aid students in a wise choice of vocational goals, in academic problems, and in personal problems relative to health, social and financial adjustment;

10. A supervised extra-curricular program offering opportunity to develop interests, skills in group activities, and leadership through participation in student government, interest centered organizations, social groups, honor societies, and athletic, dramatic, forensic, journalistic, and music activities;

11. Supplementary and extended services such as adult education by evening and off-campus instruction, correspondence courses, workshops, institutes, conferences, and consultant services to educational, business, community and social organizations in the state;

12. A campus and physical plant planned and designed to contribute to the accomplishment of the university objectives;

13- Use of a superb physical and varied cultural setting which furnishes excellent laboratories for Anthropology, Astronomy, Geology, and Social Sciences.

HISTORY

Hon. N. O. Murphy was governor of the Territory of Arizona when the Twentieth Territorial Legislature convened on January 16, 1899. He had previously served the territory as governor and as secretary and delegate to Congress, and was cognizant of the desires and needs of the territorial residents. In his message to the legislature, Governor Murphy recommended that the territorial building, erected at Flagstaff by action of the Seventeenth Territorial Legislature in 1893 and never put to use, be used to house a territorial normal school.

Henry F. Ashurst, young Coconino County representative to the legislature and elected Speaker of the House, introduced House Bill 41 on February 6, 1899, which authorized the establishment of the Northern Arizona Normal School. This met with the approval of the entire territory and the bill was speedily passed.

In March, 1899, plans for the Northern Arizona Normal School were completed. The first school term began September 11, 1899. In charge of the school was Professor A. N. Taylor of Jamestown, N. Y., with Miss Frances Bury assisting. Twenty-three students enrolled the first day, and ten more entered the following week.

Four young women made up the first graduating class in 1901. They received diplomas which warranted them life certificates to teach in the schools of Arizona.

Growth of the institution in enrollment and in importance to the educational system of Arizona led the state legislature on March 7, 1925, to change the institution's status from a normal school to a four-year degree-conferring college, granting the Bachelor of Education. In 1929 the degree was changed in name to the Bachelor of Arts in Education. The name of the school was changed to Northern Arizona State Teachers College in 1925, and to Arizona State Teachers College at Flagstaff in 1928.

In 1937, the state legislature granted the college the right to establish and conduct courses carrying graduate credit which would permit the conferring of the degree of Master of Arts in Education upon satisfactory completion of such courses.

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In March of 1945 the name was again changed to Arizona State College at Flagstaff, and the legislature also placed all three state institutions of higher learning under the control of one Board of Regents which, is now known as the Arizona Board of Regents.

In 1947 the Board of Regents aurhorized the college at Flagstaff to grant the Bachelor of Arts, the Bachelor of Science, as well as the (change of name) Bachelor of Science in Education and the Master of Arts in Education. In 1954 the Board of Regents authorized the granting of the Educational Specialist degree following a year of specialized study and research beyond the master's degree. In 1957 further authority was given the college to grant the Master of Arts and the Master of Science, in addition to the Master of Arrs in Education.

On May 12, 1958, the Board of Regents approved the establishment of a four-year forestry curriculum at Arizona State College at Flagstaff, and authority was given to grant the Bachelor of Science in Forestry.

During the academic year 1959-60 the college, with the approval of the Board of Regents, reorganized into seven divisions of curricular areas, General Studies, Technology and Applied Arts, Science and Mathematics, Liberal Arts, Teacher Education, Business Administration, and Forestry.

Two years later these administrative divisions were changed to School of Business Administration, School of Education, School of Forestry, School of Liberal Arts, School of Natural Sciences, School of Technology and Applied Arts.

Beginning in the /all of 1962, a two-calendar-year nursing program leading to the Associate of Science Degree was initiated. This program is accredited by the Arizona State Board of Nurse Registration and Nursing Education. Graduates are eligible to write the State Board Examination to become a licensed registered nurse.

In a general meeting, on November 28, 1964, the Board of Regents, presided over by Regent President John G. Babbitt, Flagstaff, unanimously approved the changing of Arizona State College to university status, effective in May, 1966. In the following spring, 1965, the 27th Arizona State Legislature passed Senate Bill 98 which authorized the change of the institution to a university and the change of its name to Northern Arizona University. The bill had been introduced by Srate Senator Fred Udine of Williams, an alumnus of the institution. The change became effective May 1, 1966. S. B. 98 was signed by Governor Sam Goddard on April 6, 1965.

The university academic structure involved the establishment of five colleges and two schools. They are College of Graduate Study, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Education, College of Business Administration, College of Creative Arts, School of Forestry, and School of Applied Science and Technology.

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