Directory Services

Department Search - Help

Basic Search allows you to search for departments at NAU by name only.

The search takes what is entered into the department name textbox and looks for it as a matching department name or an alternate/previous name or a keyword.   If you get back too many results, try being more specific in the department name.

The following is a hypothetical example of a Basic Search: 

The results are as follows (matches are highlighted):

The matches for the department name search are highlighted.  The results display the parents of matching departments.  In this example Arts & Letters, College of - Office of The Dean is the parent of Arts & Letters Information Technology Support and  BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, COLLEGE OF is the parent of Information Technology Department.

Tips while doing searches:

• Substituted names are included in the search for specific items.  For example, the substituted names for "department" are "college" and "school". 
   
• Common words, such as "the", "of", "and", "or", "a", "an", are removed from the search. 
   
• It is not necessary to use a wildcard characters like '*' at the beginning and end of words but may be used in the middle of words. 
  
• To search for an exact phrase, include it in quotes (i.e., "Information Technology Services")

The  "Browse Departments" option shows all of the top level departments as they exist in the NAU campus directory. 

The "List My Departments" option shows all of the top level departments that you own. (This option is available to department administrators only.)

Click on the "Book View" link to see a listing formatted as a page in the NAU printed Information Directory.

You will see the "Edit" link on the Department Search Results page for all of the departments you own.

Advanced Search allows you to search for departments by name (either current name only, current and alternate/previous names, or alternate/previous name only), keyword or acronym.

The following is a hypothetical example of an Advanced Search by keyword:

The result is as follows:

The Gateway Student Success Center was returned as the result because they had the keyword "advising" entered for the department.

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