Company Profile
Company Overview
NAU, an undergraduate through doctoral, research-intensive university, serves more than 20,500 students at its main campus in Flagstaff, a branch campus in Yuma, and 34 other campuses across Arizona and online. NAU values include excellence in education, student success, educational access, diversity, integrity, and civility.
Company History
Within this rich and varied setting, the institution that is today Northern Arizona University has experienced dramatic growth and many changes since it was first established more than a century ago, before Arizona had even become a state.
It began in September 1899, as the Northern Arizona Normal School, with an enrollment of thirty-seven students. Four young women from this group made up the first graduating class in 1901, receiving diplomas that warranted them lifetime certificates to teach in the schools of Arizona Territory.
In 1925, thirteen years after Arizona became a state, the Arizona Legislature changed the status of the institution from a normal school to a four-year college that could grant the bachelor of education degree; at that time, the school’s name was changed to Northern Arizona State Teachers College.
Graduate work began in 1937, when permission was granted to offer a program leading to the master of arts in education. By 1946, the school had augmented its teacher-education programs by adding majors leading to the bachelor of arts and bachelor of science degrees. A year earlier, the name was changed again, this time to Arizona State College at Flagstaff.
In 1958, the school began its development as a multipurpose institution by adding a program in forestry. As the number of students and programs continued to grow, the Arizona Legislature granted university status in 1966, and the name was changed to Northern Arizona University. In 1973, the first doctoral students were graduated.
Today, NAU has nearly 20,000 students (with approximately 14,000 in Flagstaff) and offers comprehensive academic plans leading to approximately one hundred baccalaureate, forty-four master’s, and nine doctoral degrees as well as forty-five nondegree certificates. In addition to the range of academic plans offered in Flagstaff, we provide educational opportunities throughout Arizona and beyond through our interactive instructional television system, through web courses on the Internet, by satellite on the Universityhouse Channel, at our academic center in Yuma, and through distance-education campuses throughout Arizona.
Benefits
Supplemental and Dependent Life
Short-term Disability
Flexible Spending accounts
Retirement plans / Long Term Disability