The NAU Review — ¡UnaNAU! Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, the importance of online education and a step toward carbon neutrality

Sept. 14, 2023

The NAU Review. The official news source for Northern Arizona University.

Girl in a colorful hispanic traditional costume dancing.

¡UnaNAU! Celebrate Hispanic, Latine
Heritage month

NAU strives to develop a strong, multicultural, driven community that values knowledge gained from many worldviews, combining thousands of efforts, working together to connect us all as OneNAU, or UnaNAU. Explore the events happening at NAU in the next month in celebration of these cultures and experience the richness and heritage of the Hispanic and Latine communities.

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A man using an electric edger to trim a bush.

The grounds are going green

An effort led by CSS students and funded by the Green Fund has resulted in new electric groundskeeping equipment for NAU’s Facility Services staff in an effort to reduce air and noise pollution and greenhouse gas emissions on campus.

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Online education blows my mind

For National Online Education Day on Sept. 15, Jayme Davis, faculty in Personalized Learning and herself an online student, writes about how important a global online classroom is for democracy and equity.

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From left to right: A page from Bjorn Krondorfer's German passport; the word "citizenship", the cover of a U.S. passport, a world map

Becoming American: A 40-year (and counting) process

On Aug. 8, 1983, Björn Krondorfer came to the United States from his native Germany. For Citizenship Day on Sept. 17, he writes about his experiences becoming German, becoming white and becoming American and the unique baggage that accompanied each of those identities.

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Weeks in review

As the university community settles into the rhythms of the fall semester, President Cruz Rivera has had a busy couple weeks, meeting with community partners, spending time at NAU’s Secret Garden, launching the search for NAU’s next Provost, preparing for the upcoming ABOR meeting and celebrating NAU’s recognition as a Tier 1 institution in the economic mobility index.

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