The Student Services Department

NTU offers a variety of services to assist and support students in attaining their educational goals. These student-centered services supplement NTU’s academic offerings, help facilitate learning, and empower students to succeed personally as well as academically. Such services include:

• Academic Advisement
• Accommodations Services
• Bookstore
• Career Services
• Child Care Services
• First Year Experience
• Substance Abuse and Prevention Program
• Student Activities
• Student Residential Services
• Nitsáhákees Bee’anoosééł Student Success Center
• Wellness Center

The Student Services department have been working hard to accommodate your safety and well-being as you return for the Spring 2022 Semester. The Board of Regents have approved a Vaccination policy which requires all students that are attending on campus courses to be vaccinated. Those that have turned in waivers will only be allowed to take classes online for your safety as well as ours. With the Omicron variant, it is recommended everyone to double mask or use an N95 or KN95 mask. Please supplement your cloth mask because cloth masks cannot completely stop this very contagious virus. If you need any masks for the day please stop by the security office to get a mask or at the Wellness Center with George LaFrance or Michael McMillan.

If for some reason, you are not able to contact anyone of the service providers, please contact Lucille Barbone at 505-387-7443 or myself.

Career Services

Career advisement is offered to provide guidance to students in selecting a career path and a corresponding academic program at NTU. The career advisor uses a computer-based pre-assessment test to evaluate an individual’s personality, interests, skills, and aptitude in order to identify his/her career competencies.

Some programs require an internship where students have the opportunity to apply practical, job- specific skills in an actual work situation in cooperation with businesses in the private and public sector. Students enrolled in these programs must complete their internship to qualify for graduation. The student must meet with the advisor and assigned faculty advisor to begin the process of submitting documents and officially registering for the course with the Registrar’s Office. The Career Service Office aspires to provide students with an advantage in the job market by giving them an opportunity to enrich their skills in an on-the-job learning environment. The Career Service’s office can:

• Provide students with the opportunity to develop knowledge and skills necessary for success in a career or continued education opportunities.
• Offer students the opportunity to prepare for a career through on-the-job experience or a research-based learning environment.
• Provide students with guidance in selecting a specific career path and/or in choosing a college to complete educational goals.
• Strengthen student’s employability in today’s job market.

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First Year Experience

The First Year Experience Program has been developed to strengthen the retention rate, improve operational efficiencies, communication effectiveness and long term success of First Year students at Navajo Technical University.

• Strengthen retention rates at all campuses.
  • Work with student on Academic goals
  • Work with student on Career goals
• Help underprepared high school students for NTU
  • Advisement in Educational planning
    • Assist student in choosing a major
    • Assist student with academic planning for academic success at NTU
    • Assist student to adjusting/adapting to NTU student life
• Improve communication and effectiveness for services for First Year Students
  • work with faculty, staff and administration
    • Academic soft skills and tutoring needs
• Improve enrollment and graduation success Advisement for continuing education
  • Advisement for continuing education
  • Participation in Academic Resources on campus
  • Participation in Non-Academic Counseling Resources on campus

Accomodations Office

The Disability Accommodations Specialist provides careful evaluation of the special needs program and accommodating needs of students with disabilities. The specialist conducts related counseling and support for the student, and offer professional guidance for staff and faculty on the accommodations and adjustments to program design and facilities required to serve the student appropriately. The specialist coordinates with other NTU counselors to address and case staff clientele to monitor progress and/or make necessary adjustments in accommodations. The specialist also conducts referrals to appropriate agencies as deemed necessary. NTU is committed to meeting the specific needs of students with disabilities and complies with the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 (42 U.S.C.12102) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. In general, the term “individual with a disability” means an individual with any disability (as defined in Sec. 3 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12102). Students are responsible to self- identify and discuss their disability and special needs in order to receive reasonable accommodations. To receive reasonable accommodations, the student must register with the special needs’ counselor at the beginning of the semester. Documentation verifying the type of disability will be required by a medical professional or a state licensed diagnostician and must be made available to the specialist.

• Virtually monitor accommodation agreements set forth for extra time a student requires to submit homework, quizzes, and tests and the use of recorded devices to submit recorded answers.
• Establish contact information between instructors and students via laptop, phone text messages/pictures, fax, or by Zoom video platform.
• Low-tech devices available for students with special needs utilizing, i.e., hearing aid, magnifying sheet, & voice recorder. Free applications (apps) like Screen Readers, Alexicom AAC, and Livescribe are available. Contact staff for access and download the apps. Otherwise, the use of YouTube videos to show how to download apps will suffice.
• Communicate through email and/or phone calls with students at all instructional sites: Chinle, Teec Nos Pos, Zuni and Kirtland and the Crownpoint main campus.

• Disabilities Accommodation Services
• Application for Students with Disabilities

Nitsáhákees Bee’anooséél Student Success Center

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Wellness Center: Athletic Department

The wellness center is currently closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic until further notice. They will follow the CDC guidelines when the center reopens.

• Athletic programs will follow CDC guidelines: Rodeo, Cross Country, Archery and Cycling.
• Please contact the coaches for practice schedules and meets.
• The weight room will only be open for NTU students, staff and faculty.

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