Northern Arizona University

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Schedule of Activities
Friday, August 25^th

10:00am – 11:00 am Ashurst Auditorium
Welcome! Overview and general discussion

11:00 am – 11:30am Old Main Lawn
Field assignments and lunch (provided at no charge)

11:30am – 2:30pm  In the Field
Fieldwork

2:30pm – 3:30pm Ashurst Auditorium


Honors Reconnect

3:30pm – 5:00pm BBQ Ft. Tuthill/Pima Ramada Shuttle to BBQ
BBQ, volleyball, horseshoes, basketball, etc. No charge
 

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Office Hours
Mountain Standard Time
(year-round)
September-May:
8:00am-5:00pm
Monday-Friday

June-August
9:00am-4:00pm
Monday-Friday

Welcome First-Year Honors Students! 

The NAU Honors Program is excited to have you join us for what we hope will be an exciting and challenging first semester.  Our goal this fall is to orient you to Honors, NAU, Flagstaff, and Northern Arizona through a variety of experiences. We hope to help you build community and connections that will support and sustain you throughout your tenure at Northern Arizona University. 
 

Toward that end, the NAU Honors Program offers a day-long Program Preview on Friday, August 25^th.  In addition to answering general questions and concerns about Honors and NAU, this Program Preview will include a Flagstaff-as-Text experience, designed to introduce you to your new community.  Modeled after the National Collegiate Honors Council’s City-as-Text© projects, our Flagstaff-as-Text experience is based on active learning, a hallmark of Honors education nationally.   
 

Active learning focuses on both process and product and situates the student as the primary agent of learning.  However, active learning is also collaborative; hence, the role of community in constructing an understanding of shared experiences.  But you will learn much more about active learning and Honors education as you spend time in Honors seminars and interact with faculty, staff and your fellow Honors students.   For now, expect to be engaged in a sort of “living laboratory,” which will further engage you in (at least!) a semester-long critical dialogue about who you are as students and citizens.
 

Before you come to campus and take part in the Program Preview events (see the full schedule on this page), be sure to prepare by doing some reading.  Honors students are exempt from the NAU summer reading program, but instead take part in the Flagstaff-as-Text experiences, which begin with some materials we have provided for you at the following Cline Library webpage (note: you will need your dana account information to access this page).
 

Because the Flagstaff-as-Text materials and experiences will continue throughout the semester and will include your HON 190 classes, FYE-H, and your Honors experience as a whole, please read the “Honors-as-Text” pieces in their entirety, as well as the Paradis piece under “Flagstaff-as-Text.” Beyond that, click around and familiarize yourself with your new home.  Many of us consider this place on the Mogollon Rim to be a unique landscape & special community: what, do you suppose from the readings and webpages, makes it that way?  How is it different from where you are from?  What are you looking forward to in this new environment?  What are you somewhat anxious about?  What have you learned from your reading that you didn’t know before?  What will you contribute to your new community in Honors? NAU, Flagstaff? Northern Arizona? 

 

This is an exciting adventure you are beginning.  We look forward to joining you along the way.