Northern Arizona University

Diné author and scholar Evangeline Parsons Yazzie has died at the age of 69. She taught at Northern Arizona University for 24 years. One of her textbooks was adopted by the New Mexico State Department of Education, the first state in the U.S. to adopt an American Indian language textbook.

It’s graduation weekend for colleges and universities across northern Arizona. Northern Arizona University has four ceremonies scheduled will hold four ceremonies over the course of the next two days,

Grammy-winning songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Dom Flemons has been awarded an Honorary Doctoral Degree from Northern Arizona University for his contributions to the arts and education. His album Black Cowboys chronicles the role African Americans played in settling the West after emancipation in the 19th century.

Northern Arizona University this week announced it will provide tuition-free education to Arizona residents with annual household incomes of $65,000 or less. That’s the current medium income for the state of Arizona.

On this Earth Day, the President of Northern Arizona University has declared a climate emergency on campus. In a letter Friday, José Luis Cruz Rivera pledged carbon neutrality at NAU by 2030.

The board that oversees Arizona’s three public universities on Thursday approved modest tuition increases for incoming freshmen students who are state residents, and larger increases for non-residents.

A senior at Page High School is among 20 students in the state to win the prestigious Flinn Scholarship. Kaya Dickson was awarded the scholarship valued at more than $130,000 last week and was among almost 1,100 Arizona students who applied.

The Arizona Board of Regents this week ordered the state’s three public universities to distance themselves financially from Russia amid the continued war in Ukraine. Northern Arizona University had a very limited number of Russian investments.

The Arizona Board of Regents this week ordered the presidents of the state’s three public universities to sell any Russian investments they hold as quickly as possible because of the unprovoked war it is waging against Ukraine. ABOR oversees Northern Arizona University, Arizona State University and the University of Arizona.

In a message Thursday afternoon from University President Jose Luis Cruz Rivera, the university said masks will not be required on the Flagstaff campus or statewide sites operating in a Low or Medium Community Level starting Monday.