Northern Arizona University
Cowden Learning Community
Address: Honors Program, Box 5689 NAU
City: Flagstaff
State: AZ
Zip or Postal Code: 86011-5689
Country: USA
Program Director (or best person to contact): Dr. Bruce Fox
Email: bruce.fox@nau.edu
Phone: 9285238822
Fax: 9285236558
Web Address: http://www.nau.edu/~honors
Brief Program Summary
To provide a 24-hour quiet residence hall that is substance-free and supportive of living and learning together. The hallprovides its own computer lab, study areas, tutoring center, and easy access to all of the offices of the Honors Program Three-Year Degree Program directors, faaculty, and staff.
Sources of funding
Entirely state funded.
Program Reports To:
Provost
Are students charged an additional fee: No
The number of persons in each of the following categories are teaching academic credit bearing courses
Fulltime Tenured Faculty: 25
Fulltime Probationary Faculty: 14
Fulltime Instructors: 1
Fulltime Retired Faculty: 1
Fulltime Adjunct Faculty: 2
Fulltime Graduate Students: 0
Fulltime Residence Hall Staff: 3
Parttime Tenured Faculty: 0
Parttime Probationary Faculty: 0
Parttime Instructors: 1
Parttime Retired Faculty: 0
Parttime Adjunct Faculty: 0
Parttime Graduate Students: 0
Parttime Residence Hall Staff: 0
Academic staff involved in the program that weren't included as faculty above
(Academic staff are personnel who are involved in providing academic services to students such as advising.)
Fulltime Academic Staff: 4
Parttime Academic Staff: 1
Non-academic staff involved in the program
(Non-academic staff are personnel who are involved in providing services that do not directly involve academics such as residence hall staff or staff who organize social activities that are not tied to academics.)
Fulltime Non-Academic Staff: 2
Parttime Non-Academic Staff: 1
Number of faculty offices in the residence hall: 3
The approximate percentage of students in each grade level
First Year: 50
Second Year: 30
Third Year: 15
Fourth Year and above: 5
Graduate Students: 0
Total Number of Students: 440
Year the Program Began:1997
Academic Courses Offered In The Community
Offer an average of 50 courses/semester across the usual
fields of general education.
Other Academic Offerings
Classrooms in hall
3
Summary of Facilities and Facilities Budget Recently renovated residence life facility; extremely well supported by Residence Life.
Computer Resources in the Residence Hall
24 person lab with full-time ass't; 18 PC; 6 Mac
The Role of Community Partnerships
The Role of Leadership Development
The Role of Research
Summary of Assessment Activities
Summary of Extracurricular Activities Formally Associated with the Program
Usual range of hall activities, both social, cultural,
and academic
The Role of Interdisciplinary Studies
Honors program is wholly interdisciplinary; most courses
and seminars cut across all the usual lines
How Diversity Issues are Addressed in the Program and in Courses
Membership in the Honors Program is required to live in the
Cowden Learning Community, and the Honors Program membership
has the same ethnic diversity as the campus at large.
How Diversity Issues are Addressed Among Faculty and Students
Student Demographics
Students from all states; few international students; mostly
traditional college age; 85% cauc, 9% latino/a; 1% black;
5% native american. Average SAT is 1379; average ACT 31,
average HS grad rank is upper 3%. Socio-economic level again
represents NAU average, with most students receiving some
form of financial aid.
Faculty Rewards for Participation in the Program
Release Time: yes
Salary Supplement:
Travel Funds:
Other:
Description of Other Rewards
Disciplines Represented by the Faculty
You name it.
Willing to Serve as a Consultant:
No
Greatest Challenges for this Learning Community:
Becoming in fact what we are in name. We have LOTS of central
support and the relations among academic and student life
personnel here are absolutely superb. We're on the way, though central administrative support is variable.
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