In the fall of 2004, the President and Provost created the Research and Graduate Education Task Force. Membership on the task force included all the academic deans, the Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Studies, and representatives from the University Graduate Committee, the Faculty Senate, the Academic Chairs Council, and the Regents’ Professors. The RGE Task Force was charged to study and discuss Northern Arizona University’s research and graduate education enterprises and make recommendations regarding the role of these aspects of NAU’s mission, both now and in the future.

We began our work by studying the “now,” looking at data from NAU as well as comparative data from our peer institutions. The bulk of the RGE Task Force report presents our data for graduate education (Part I) and research (Part II). Much of this data collection and comparative work was done during 2004-05 academic year, and the numbers reflect the data available at the time. During the 2005-06 academic year, the task force developed specific recommendations for research and graduate education at NAU (Part III); these were discussed extensively on campus with a variety of groups during that year.

• Report Summary
• Full Report