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NAU Students and Faculty Are Back in Force This Week, Bringing Change and Traffic

<hr />No discussion of Flagstaff communities would be complete without mention of Northern Arizona University. This week we on the Westside of town were certainly aware that students were back for the Fall. Pedestrian and vehicle traffic skyrocketed, with backups at intersections on Milton Road as students crossed from the west side residential apartments to campus and on Butler as they went to and fro from downtown jobs or shops (or bars?). According to the <a title="New Freshmen Make Record Enrollment" href="http://www.azdailysun.com/articles/2007/08/21/news/20070821_front%20page_2.txt" target="_blank">Arizona Daily Sun</a>, enrollment is up and there are 200 more freshmen this year – a total of 3000. There is also a record-breaking number of new faculty members – 96. NAU brings vibrancy to Flagstaff that is rivaled only by our amazing natural features. <a title="NAU Bookstore Turns Page" href="http://www4.nau.edu/insidenau/bumps/2007/8_22_07/bookstore.htm" target="_blank">A new bookstore opened this week</a>, with much fanfare, following over $1 million in <img height="221" alt="Fireplace Sitting Area in the newly remodeled NAU bookstore" hspace="1" src="http://annheitland.smugmug.com/photos/187561656-S.jpg" width="339" align="right" vspace="1" border="3" />renovations and <a title="Follett selected to operate NAU Bookstore" href="http://www4.nau.edu/insidenau/bumps/2006/11_15_06/bookstore.htm" target="_blank">privatization of the operations under the auspices of Follett Higher Education Group</a>. The new managers have expanded the inventory and hope to make the store a campus “meeting place” as well as a supply outlet. <a title="NAU Engineering Selected By US News and World Report" href="http://www4.nau.edu/insidenau/extra/2007/8_17_07/index.htm" target="_blank">The College of Engineering is in the news this month</a>. It ranked 38th in a field of 100 colleges and universities that offer both undergraduate and masters degrees in engineering, according to the annual U.S. News and World Report survey. NAU has nearly 900 engineering students who major in six specialties, including civil, electrical, environmental and mechanical engineering, computer science and construction management. Speaking of construction, NAU is leading the charge for green buildings in the U.S. The new College of Business Administration earned the Silver rating from the Leadership for Energy and Environment. Now, the newer Applied Research and Development Building is going for the LEED® Platinum rating. The <a title="What Is LEED" href="http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CategoryID=19" target="_blank">Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™</a> is the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction, and operation of high performance green buildings. Here is a picture of the new NAU Applied Research and Development Building, and <a title="Energy and Environmental Advantages of ARD Building" href="http://www4.nau.edu/cas/Plan-Dev/Documents/ARD.pdf" target="_blank">a link to details of its design and construction</a>. <img height="264" alt="Applied Research and Development Building at NAU" hspace="2" src="http://annheitland.smugmug.com/photos/186922891-S.jpg" width="382" align="left" vspace="2" border="3" />Welcome back Northern Arizona University students and faculty! We’ll get used to your traffic – you bring Flagstaff too many good things for us not to. 9 application/xml Flagstaff communities Flagstaff events Flagstaff green real estate issues Living in Flagstaff Northern Arizona University Inside NAU Official Site of Northern Arizona University News http://www4.nau.edu/insidenau/ Buy A Condo Rather Than A Dorm Room - Invest in the Future Many parents purchase a Flagstaff home for their NAU students rather than pay rent for 3-6 years http://BestFlagstaffHomes.com false Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 aheitland false true false false true 178975 false false true false false false true 178441 blog blogsite/BestFlagstaffHomes/web