'Horizons' going across country
The 2007 edition of Horizons magazine has been mailed to all NAU faculty and staff and is on its way to educational leaders and decision makers throughout the country. You can also download the pdf version here.

Dam that spam: ITS filter helps block bothersome e-mail
Information Technology Services has completed a major revamping of NAU's
e-mail spam filter, which should mean fewer of those annoying messages in your inbox.

Long-time custodian foreman dies at 87
Edna Toeckes, a past foreman in the custodial department, died Dec. 19 in Flagstaff. She was 87.

SPOTLIGHT: Kudos to these faculty, staff and students for their recent accomplishments:

• Betsey Bruner, journalism instructor
• Mary I. Dereshiwsky, associate professor of educational leadership
• Paul Keim, professor of biology and Cowden Endowed Chair in Microbiology
• James Leve, associate professor in the School of Music
• Michelle Miller, associate professor of psychology
• Donna Price, nursing instructor
• Mary Tolan, assistant professor in the School of Communication

HR helps with upcoming appraisals
The deadline for service professional performance appraisals is Jan. 31, and Human Resources is offering a training session to help supervisors create an effective evaluation.

Conflict of Interest policy: It's worth a reminder
State auditors request that Purchasing Services periodically remind faculty and staff that university employees who have—or whose relatives have—a substantial interest in any contract with the university must disclose that interest.

Image is everything during spring
film series
The adage that "image is everything" comes to the big screen during NAU's spring film series, Tuesday nights in Cline Library Assembly Hall.

Distance education benefits local learners
White Mountain Independent, 12/29/2006

Possible '08 candidates seek out exposure
Arizona Daily Star, 12/27/2006

NAU's Native American graduates honored
Navajo-Hopi Observer, 12/20/2006